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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, IL

Funding
$18M
$18,030,305
Awards
28
FY2026 NIH awards in Engineering
Principal investigators
48
27 lead a grant here, 21 co-investigators
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • NIH names only the principal investigators on an award, so this page lists only them. The department is the award's: it is where ScienceDex counts the award, not a list of the department's members.
  • These are the awards in the Engineering row of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign page.

Leads a grant in this department

27 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.

  1. Hua Wang

    Leads 2 awards · $3,288,847

  2. Brendan A. Harley

    Leads 3 awards · $3,131,957

  3. Brian T. Cunningham

    Leads 2 awards · $2,633,776

  4. Barry Schatz

    Leads 1 award · $1,903,195

  5. Bruce Fouke

    Leads 1 award · $1,903,195

  6. Glenn A Fried

    Leads 1 award · $1,903,195

  7. Joseph Mk Irudayaraj

    Leads 1 award · $1,903,195

  8. Paul Hergenrother

    Leads 1 award · $1,903,195

  9. Rohit Bhargava

    Leads 1 award · $1,903,195

  10. Zeynep Madak Erdogan

    Leads 1 award · $1,903,195

  11. Andrew Michael Smith

    Leads 3 awards · $1,689,908

    • 5R01DK139924-03Department: NIH department code
      Macrophage-Targeted Drug Delivery Depot for Obesity and Comorbid Type 2 Diabetes
      $631,704
      award amount
    • 5R01CA288207-03Department: NIH department code
      Translational Combinations of Nanocarriers and Blockers for Metastatic Breast Cancer

      Principal investigators: Andrew Michael Smith (contact PI), Erik Russell Nelson

      $570,816
      award amount
    • 5R01DK131782-05Department: NIH department code
      Nanomedicine-Based Targeting of Inflammatory Macrophages in Diabetic Wound Repair

      Principal investigators: Andrew Michael Smith (contact PI), Katherine Ann Gallagher

      $487,388
      award amount

  12. Ling-Jian Meng

    Leads 2 awards · $1,634,957

    • 1U01EB038438-01Department: NIH department code
      Development of Perovskite CsPbBr3 Sensors for SPECT Imaging of Higher-Energy Gamma Ray Emitters

      Principal investigators: Ling-Jian Meng (contact PI), Michael A King, Sergei Dolinsky

      $874,500
      award amount
    • 5UH3EB034715-04Department: NIH department code
      1 mm resolution single-photon spectral imaging of the brain

      Principal investigators: Ling-Jian Meng (contact PI), Scott Dean Metzler

      $760,457
      award amount

  13. Zhi-Pei Liang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,266,235

    • 5U01EB036001-02Department: NIH department code
      Fast high-resolution simultaneous metabolic and multiparametric imaging of the whole brain

      Principal investigators: Zhi-Pei Liang (contact PI), Chao Ma, Hui Mao, Peter B Barker

      $649,356
      award amount
    • 1R01EB039205-01A1Department: NIH department code
      High-Resolution Multiplexed MRI at Ultrahigh Field
      $616,879
      award amount

  14. Thomas Gaj

    Leads 2 awards · $1,225,784

    • 5U01NS122102-05Department: NIH department code
      Optimization of an in vivo base editing strategy to treat SOD1-linked ALS

      Principal investigators: Thomas Gaj (contact PI), Pablo Perez-Pinera

      $859,980
      award amount
    • 5R01NS123556-05Department: NIH department code
      Development of a CRISPR-Cas13 Gene Therapy for SOD1-Linked ALS
      $365,804
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01GM165051-01, led by Pablo Perez-Pinera.

  15. Fan Lam

    Leads 2 awards · $1,187,959

    • 5R01AG078797-05Department: NIH department code
      High-Throughput 3D Multiscale Mass Spectrometry Imaging for Understanding Neurochemical Heterogeneity in Alzheimer's Disease

      Principal investigators: Fan Lam (contact PI), Jonathan V. Sweedler, Orly Lazarov

      $694,255
      award amount
    • 2R35GM142969-06Department: NIH department code
      High-throughput, Multiscale Imaging Spatial Metabolomics
      $493,704
      award amount

  16. Bumsoo Han

    Leads 1 award · $932,455

    • 5U01CA274304-06Department: NIH department code
      Reprogramming PDAC Stroma by Targeting Coagulation in the Tumor Microenvironment

      Principal investigators: Bumsoo Han (contact PI), Matthew J. Flick, Melissa L. Fishel

      $932,455
      award amount

  17. Yang Liu

    Leads 1 award · $629,808

    • 1R01EB037445-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Development of multimodal multiscale imaging platform for high-content molecular profiling of mucosal healing to predict the risk of relapse in ulcerative colitis

      Principal investigators: Yang Liu (contact PI), Hongqiang Ma

      $629,808
      award amount

  18. Michael L. Oelze

    Leads 1 award · $570,474

    • 5R01EB036800-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of low cost, high channel count research platform for democratizing 3D volumetric ultrasound
      $570,474
      award amount

  19. Cunjiang Yu

    Leads 1 award · $541,093

    • 5R01DE033515-03Department: NIH department code
      Optoelectroactive citrate biocomposites for bone regeneration
      $541,093
      award amount

  20. Pablo Perez-Pinera

    Leads 1 award · $526,483

    • 1R01GM165051-01Department: NIH department code
      Enhanced Epigenome Editing Technologies for Controlling Mammalian Gene Expression

      Principal investigators: Pablo Perez-Pinera (contact PI), Jun S Song, Thomas Gaj

      $526,483
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01NS122102-05, led by Thomas Gaj.

  21. Stephen A Boppart

    Leads 1 award · $445,624

  22. Yun-Sheng Chen

    Leads 1 award · $417,663

    • 5R01DK138939-03Department: NIH department code
      Brain Vascular Signatures in Drug-induced Recurrent Hypoglycemia and Associated Cognitive Dysfunction
      $417,663
      award amount

  23. Yang Zhao

    Leads 1 award · $396,500

    • 5R35GM157121-02Department: NIH department code
      Probing and controlling chirality across scales using nanophotonic platforms
      $396,500
      award amount

  24. Na Wei

    Leads 1 award · $396,448

    • 1R21AI191169-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Intelligent biosensing system for automated real-time monitoring of airborne pathogens for safe indoor environments

      Principal investigators: Na Wei (contact PI), Vishal Verma

      $396,448
      award amount

  25. Jun S Song

    Leads 1 award · $383,162

    • 5R01CA163336-13Department: NIH department code
      Predicting Transcriptional and Epigenetic Networks in Cancer from Sequencing Data
      $383,162
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01GM165051-01, led by Pablo Perez-Pinera.

  26. Yuan Yang

    Leads 1 award · $311,402

    • 5R01HD109157-06Department: NIH department code
      Shift from Unilateral to Bilateral Sensory-Motor Connectivity in Chronic Hemiparetic Stroke
      $311,402
      award amount

  27. Min Jee Jang

    Leads 1 award · $226,160

    • 1R21EB039265-01Department: NIH department code
      Engineering virus-like particles for systemic and targeted RNA delivery to the brain
      $226,160
      award amount

Co-investigators

Named as principal investigators on these awards, which someone else leads. They may belong to another department or institution: their own, below, comes from the awards they lead.