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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Dentistry at University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

Funding
$6.1M
$6,142,935
Awards
12
FY2026 NIH awards in Dentistry
Principal investigators
12
11 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
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 Dentistry row of the University of Iowa page.

Leads a grant in this department

11 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. Azeez Butali

    Leads 1 award · $1,260,295

    • 2R56DE028300-06Department: NIH department code
      Bench to the Community: Multi-Omics Approach to Discovery and Community-led Implementation Science
      $1,260,295
      award amount
  2. Karin Weber-Gasparoni

    Leads 1 award · $792,650

    • 5UH3DE029443-07Department: NIH department code
      Birth to Three – Cavity Free: Effectiveness of a Psychoeducational Intervention for ECC Prevention
      $792,650
      award amount
  3. Steven M. Levy

    Leads 2 awards · $765,324

    • 5T90DE023520-14Department: NIH department code
      University of Iowa Institutional Training Program in Oral Health Research
      $528,778
      award amount
    • 5R90DE024296-14Department: NIH department code
      University of Iowa Institutional Training Program in Oral Health Research
      $236,546
      award amount
  4. Sukirth Murthy Ganesan

    Leads 1 award · $699,184

    • 1R01DE034679-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Determining the Impact of Metabolic Syndrome on the Oral Microbiome and Periodontal Health Using a Longitudinal Systems Biology Approach
      $699,184
      award amount
  5. Hongli Sun

    Leads 1 award · $540,583

    • 1R01DE036166-01Department: NIH department code
      Mitochondria-Targeted Immunometabolic Regeneration of Alveolar Bone in Periodontitis
      $540,583
      award amount
  6. Eric Van Otterloo

    Leads 1 award · $507,863

    • 5R01DE034668-02Department: NIH department code
      Identifying transcriptional interplay between skin and oral ectoderm during mandibular patterning

      Principal investigators: Eric Van Otterloo (contact PI), Huojun Cao

      $507,863
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DE033009-04, led by Huojun Cao.

  7. Huojun Cao

    Leads 1 award · $446,175

    • 5R01DE033009-04Department: NIH department code
      Identifying the core transcriptional regulatory network initiating a tooth program

      Principal investigators: Huojun Cao (contact PI), Eric Van Otterloo

      $446,175
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DE034668-02, led by Eric Van Otterloo.

  8. Erliang Zeng

    Leads 1 award · $407,719

    • 1R01DE033955-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Impact of a Longitudinal Psychoeducational Intervention for Early Childhood Caries Prevention on the Oral Microbiome

      Principal investigators: Erliang Zeng (contact PI), Jeffrey A Banas

      $407,719
      award amount
  9. Shaoping Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5R01DE032307-04Department: NIH department code
      Assessing the role of Type I Interferon (IFN-I) in Periodontal Disease
      $388,750
      award amount
  10. Aline L Petrin

    Leads 1 award · $311,000

    • 1R03DE035519-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Functional analysis of genetic-epigenetic interplay in orofacial clefts
      $311,000
      award amount
  11. Samantha Wuebker

    Leads 1 award · $23,392

    • 5F31DE034609-02Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering the role of MEMO1 during amelogenesis
      $23,392
      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.

  • Jeffrey A Banas

    Co-investigator on 1R01DE033955-01A1, led by Erliang Zeng

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.