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FY2017 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Anatomy & Cell Biology at University of Massachusetts Medical School

Worcester, MA

Funding
$37.6M
$37,642,577
Awards
81
FY2017 NIH awards in Anatomy & Cell Biology
Principal investigators
57
57 lead a grant here, 0 co-investigators
Department rank
#1
of 89 · Ranking
  • 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 Anatomy & Cell Biology row of the University of Massachusetts Medical School page.

Leads a grant in this department

57 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. Richter, Joel D

    Leads 2 awards · $2,182,075

    • 5U54HD082013-04Department: NIH department code
      Rescuing the Fragile X Syndrome by Resetting Translational Homeostasis
      $1,815,669
      award amount
    • 5R01NS079415-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Translation in the CNS
      $366,406
      award amount
  2. Lawrence, Jeanne Bentley

    Leads 1 award · $2,093,750

    • 1RF1AG056302-01Department: NIH department code
      Introducing Cellular Aging in Human iPS Cells to Investigate Alzheimer Pathogenesis
      $2,093,750
      award amount
  3. Garber, Manuel

    Leads 1 award · $2,012,312

    • 5U01HG007910-03Department: NIH department code
      Rules of gene expression modeled on human dendritic cell response to pathogens
      $2,012,312
      award amount
  4. Theurkauf, William Edward

    Leads 2 awards · $1,782,182

    • 5P01HD078253-03Department: NIH department code
      Small Silencing RNA Function in Genome Maintenance and Gamete Development
      $1,269,952
      award amount
    • 5R01HD049116-13Department: NIH department code
      piRNA Biogenesis and Function in Germline Development
      $512,230
      award amount
  5. Gottlinger, Heinrich

    Leads 3 awards · $1,626,009

    • 5DP1DA038034-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of HIV Cell-Cell Transmission of Relevance to Substance Users
      $837,500
      award amount
    • 5R01AI127263-02Department: NIH department code
      SERINCs and Nef Function
      $414,911
      award amount
    • 5R01AI029873-29Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Biology of HIV-Gag Proteins
      $373,598
      award amount
  6. Luban, Jeremy

    Leads 2 awards · $1,500,670

    • 5R01AI117839-03Department: NIH department code
      Next generation hybrid nucleases for precise excision of latent HIV-1 provirus
      $914,295
      award amount
    • 5R01AI111809-04Department: NIH department code
      Boosting cell-intrinsic innate immune recognition of HIV-1 by dendritic cells
      $586,375
      award amount
  7. Czech, Michael P

    Leads 2 awards · $1,159,426

    • 4R37DK030898-34Department: NIH department code
      Insulin Signaling and Metabolic Regulation in Adipocytes
      $583,782
      award amount
    • 5R01DK103047-03Department: NIH department code
      Paracrine Signaling by Kupffer Cells in Hepatic Insulin Resistance
      $575,644
      award amount
  8. Mercurio, Arthur M

    Leads 3 awards · $1,096,325

    • 2R01CA168464-06Department: NIH department code
      VEGF signaling in Mammary Tumorigenesis
      $397,813
      award amount
    • 5R01CA203439-02Department: NIH department code
      Integrin splicing and cancer stem cell fate
      $383,156
      award amount
    • 5T32CA130807-09Department: NIH department code
      Translational Cancer Biology Training Grant
      $315,356
      award amount
  9. Peterson, Craig L

    Leads 2 awards · $1,033,798

    • 1R35GM122519-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of chromatin dynamics
      $597,876
      award amount
    • 5R01GM054096-19Department: NIH department code
      Yeast chromatin structure and function
      $435,922
      award amount
  10. Ambros, Victor

    Leads 2 awards · $1,003,662

    • 5R01GM104904-04Department: NIH department code
      microRNA gene networks regulating responses to environment
      $603,726
      award amount
    • 5R01GM034028-31Department: NIH department code
      Genetic control of animal development
      $399,936
      award amount
  11. Davis, Roger J.

    Leads 2 awards · $898,095

    • 1R01DK112698-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Adipose Tissue Metabolic Stress Responses
      $521,220
      award amount
    • 5R01DK107220-02Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic stress signaling
      $376,875
      award amount
  12. Pazour, Gregory J

    Leads 2 awards · $875,747

    • 5R01GM060992-16Department: NIH department code
      Intraflagellar Transport Proteins in Mice
      $498,872
      award amount
    • 5R01DK103632-03Department: NIH department code
      Trafficking of Cystoproteins to the Primary Cilium
      $376,875
      award amount
  13. Lawson, Nathan D

    Leads 2 awards · $837,500

    • 5R01HL093467-09Department: NIH department code
      Role of Notch in Artery Development
      $418,750
      award amount
    • 5R01HL122599-03Department: NIH department code
      Flt4 signaling in vascular and lymphatic development
      $418,750
      award amount
  14. Kim, Jason K

    Leads 1 award · $836,663

    • 5U2CDK093000-07Department: NIH department code
      UMass Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center
      $836,663
      award amount
  15. Clapham, Paul R

    Leads 2 awards · $824,514

    • 5R01NS095749-02Department: NIH department code
      HIV-1 Env conformation and tropism in brain colonization and neuroAIDS
      $418,750
      award amount
    • 5R01NS084910-05Department: NIH department code
      Neurotropic HIV-1 Reservoirs Inside and Outside the Brain
      $405,764
      award amount
  16. Brehm, Michael Allen

    Leads 1 award · $799,559

    • 1R01AI132963-01Department: NIH department code
      Novel humanized mouse model developed from cord blood CD34 positive HSC and autologous iPS cell derived thymus
      $799,559
      award amount
  17. Guertin, David A

    Leads 2 awards · $782,191

    • 5R01DK094004-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Pathways in Metabolism and Energy Expenditure
      $410,375
      award amount
    • 5R01CA196986-03Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the AKT-dependent and AKT-independent mechanisms of metabolic control by mTORC2
      $371,816
      award amount
  18. Kelliher, Michelle Alice

    Leads 2 awards · $776,781

    • 5R01AI075118-09Department: NIH department code
      Rip Proteins in Innate Immune Signaling
      $418,750
      award amount
    • 5R01CA096899-12Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism(s) of TAL1-and NOTCH1-mediated Leukemogenesis
      $358,031
      award amount
  19. Green, Michael R.

    Leads 2 awards · $766,313

    • 1R01MH113874-01Department: NIH department code
      Reactivation of Epigenetically Silenced FMR1 as a Therapeutic Approach for Fragile X Syndrome
      $418,750
      award amount
    • 5R01CA163926-05Department: NIH department code
      Identification and Characterization of Genes that Suppress BCR-ABL+ Leukemia
      $347,563
      award amount
  20. Haynes, Cole M

    Leads 2 awards · $755,365

    • 7R01AG047182-03Department: NIH department code
      Coordinated Repair and Regeneration of Defective Mitochondria
      $411,990
      award amount
    • 5R01AG040061-08Department: NIH department code
      MAINTENANCE OF MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN FOLDING AS AN AGING EFFECTOR
      $343,375
      award amount
  21. Brehm, Michael Allen

    Leads 1 award · $725,922

    • 5R24OD018259-04Department: NIH department code
      Development and Validation of Novel NSG Mouse Models for Human Stem Cell Therapy
      $725,922
      award amount
  22. Benanti, Jennifer A

    Leads 2 awards · $715,897

    • 5R01GM117152-02Department: NIH department code
      Rewiring cell cycle-regulated transcription in response to stress
      $359,959
      award amount
    • 5R01GM115708-02Department: NIH department code
      Cell cycle regulation of chromosome structure
      $355,938
      award amount
  23. Kaufman, Paul D.

    Leads 2 awards · $708,894

    • 5U01DA040588-03Department: NIH department code
      Nucleolar Genomics During Early Mammalian Development
      $395,014
      award amount
    • 5R01GM100164-04Department: NIH department code
      Breaking Nucleosomal Symmetry
      $313,880
      award amount
  24. Ip, Y. Tony

    Leads 2 awards · $707,688

    • 5R01DK083450-08Department: NIH department code
      Epithelial niche regulation of intestinal stem cell division in Drosophila
      $376,875
      award amount
    • 5R01GM107457-03Department: NIH department code
      Homeostatic signaling in the Drosophila intestine
      $330,813
      award amount
  25. Baehrecke, Eric H

    Leads 2 awards · $703,563

    • 5R01GM079431-11Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Regulation of Autophagic Cell Death
      $385,313
      award amount
    • 5R01GM111658-03Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of a novel autophagy pathway
      $318,250
      award amount
  26. Bergmann, Andreas

    Leads 1 award · $700,152

    • 5R35GM118330-02Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Control of Programmed Cell Death (Apoptosis) and Compensatory Proliferation in Drosophila
      $700,152
      award amount
  27. Walker, Amy Karol

    Leads 2 awards · $666,091

    • 1R01AG053355-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Role of methylation-dependent pathways in aging and stress
      $414,841
      award amount
    • 1R21DK110396-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Bacterial modulators of metazoan lipogenesis
      $251,250
      award amount
  28. Aroian, Raffi V

    Leads 1 award · $547,283

    • 5R01AI056189-14Department: NIH department code
      B. thuringiensis Crystal Proteins as Powerful Next-Generation Anthelmintics
      $547,283
      award amount
  29. Moormann, Ann M

    Leads 1 award · $541,564

    • 5R01CA189806-04Department: NIH department code
      Impact of malaria on shaping immunity to EBV in the etiology of Burkitt lymphoma
      $541,564
      award amount
  30. Corvera, Silvia

    Leads 1 award · $465,050

    • 5R01DK089101-07Department: NIH department code
      Adipose Tissue Angiogenesis and Metabolic Disease
      $465,050
      award amount
  31. Craig, Roger W

    Leads 1 award · $456,881

    • 5R01AR067279-03Department: NIH department code
      Skeletal myosin-binding protein C (MyBP-C): molecular structure and function
      $456,881
      award amount
  32. Castilla, Lucio H.

    Leads 1 award · $426,803

    • 1R01CA204979-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of inv(16) acute myeloid leukemia
      $426,803
      award amount
  33. Lawson, Nathan D

    Leads 1 award · $418,750

    • 5R01HL093766-10Department: NIH department code
      Using site-specific nucleases to manipulate the zebrafish genome
      $418,750
      award amount
  34. Sontheimer, Erik J

    Leads 1 award · $388,765

    • 5R01GM115911-02Department: NIH department code
      Engineered Cas9 Nucleases with Single-Genomic-Site Precision for CYBB Correction
      $388,765
      award amount
  35. Greiner, Dale Leslie

    Leads 1 award · $376,875

    • 5R01DK105837-02Department: NIH department code
      Stage-specific Beta Cell Response and Biomarker Profile During Virus-induced T1D
      $376,875
      award amount
  36. Lambright, David G

    Leads 1 award · $368,500

    • 5R01GM056324-20Department: NIH department code
      Structural Basis for Rab and Arf GTPase Regulated Membrane Trafficking
      $368,500
      award amount
  37. Wang, Yong-Xu

    Leads 1 award · $364,313

    • 5R01DK098594-04Department: NIH department code
      MicroRNAs in brown fat development and metabolism
      $364,313
      award amount
  38. Mao, Junhao

    Leads 1 award · $361,812

    • 5R01DK099510-04Department: NIH department code
      Growth and patterning in the gut mesenchyme
      $361,812
      award amount
  39. Socolovsky, Merav

    Leads 1 award · $361,812

    • 5R01DK100915-04Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic and Cell Cycle Functions of Glucocorticoids in Erythropoietic Stress
      $361,812
      award amount
  40. Ceol, Craig Joseph

    Leads 1 award · $355,938

    • 5R01AR063850-05Department: NIH department code
      Use of comparative genomics to identify novel regulators of melanoma progression
      $355,938
      award amount
  41. Jones, Stephen

    Leads 1 award · $351,619

    • 5R01CA077735-17Department: NIH department code
      Mdm2-p53 signaling in the DNA damage response and in tumorigenesis
      $351,619
      award amount
  42. Cantor, Sharon B

    Leads 1 award · $347,563

    • 5R01CA176166-04Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Biomarkers of Cisplatin Resistance Mechanisms in Ovarian Cancer
      $347,563
      award amount
  43. Fazzio, Thomas G

    Leads 1 award · $347,563

    • 5R01HD072122-06Department: NIH department code
      Roles of Chromatin Regulation in Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal
      $347,563
      award amount
  44. Shaw, Leslie M

    Leads 1 award · $347,563

    • 5R01CA177167-05Department: NIH department code
      Autophagy-independent function of Beclin 1 in Breast Cancer
      $347,563
      award amount
  45. Acharya, Usha R

    Leads 1 award · $339,471

    • 5R01GM110288-03Department: NIH department code
      Adaptation to ceramide involves AKT/FOXO regulated novel triglyceride lipases
      $339,471
      award amount
  46. Bach, Ingolf M

    Leads 1 award · $337,136

    • 5R01CA131158-10Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of mammary gland biology by RLIM/Rnf12 and the paternal X chromosome
      $337,136
      award amount
  47. Torres, Eduardo Martin

    Leads 1 award · $330,813

    • 1R01GM118481-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Role of de Novo Synthesis of Sphingolipids in Aneuploid Cells
      $330,813
      award amount
  48. Lapane, Kate L

    Leads 1 award · $329,594

    • 5R25GM113686-03Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing the success of underrepresented students in the biomedical sciences
      $329,594
      award amount
  49. Zhang, Hong

    Leads 1 award · $251,250

    • 1R21AG054894-01A1Department: NIH department code
      CRISPR screen of microRNAs that regulate the regenertive potential of hematopoietic stem cells
      $251,250
      award amount
  50. Clapham, Paul R

    Leads 1 award · $209,375

    • 5R21NS097145-02Department: NIH department code
      HIV-1 infection of hematopoietic progenitor cells, their differentiation and seeding of virus into brain tissue
      $209,375
      award amount
  51. Duenas-Decamp, Maria Jose

    Leads 1 award · $209,375

    • 5R21AI127231-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of the trimer association domain (TAD) in controlling the conformation of the HIV-1 envelope trimer and protection of the CD4 binding site
      $209,375
      award amount
  52. Valledor Ceballos, Melvys

    Leads 1 award · $59,166

    • 1F32AG056131-01Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and epigenetic engineering for Down Syndrome and associated Alzheimer cell pathology
      $59,166
      award amount
  53. Feldman, Jessica

    Leads 2 awards · $57,866

    • 5F32GM119229-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of Histone H3 lysine 56 acetylation in noncoding transcription and chromatin architecture
      $57,066
      award amount
    • 3F32GM119229-01S1Department: NIH department code
      The role of Histone H3 lysine 56 acetylation in noncoding transcription and chromatin architecture
      $800
      award amount
  54. McFleder, Rhonda

    Leads 1 award · $30,719

    • 5F31NS092415-03Department: NIH department code
      The Role of 3' End Formation in Synaptic Function
      $30,719
      award amount
  55. Elaimy, Ameer

    Leads 1 award · $30,640

    • 5F30CA206271-02Department: NIH department code
      Integrin Function in Breast Cancer Initiation
      $30,640
      award amount
  56. Lee, Peter Lin

    Leads 1 award · $28,687

    • 5F30AA024385-03Department: NIH department code
      Ethanol's Effects on Brown Adipose Development and Function
      $28,687
      award amount
  57. Matthew, Asia

    Leads 1 award · $28,687

    • 5F31CA206378-02Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Beclin 1 Loss on Breast Cancer Progression
      $28,687
      award amount