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FY2018 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Anatomy & Cell Biology at University of Massachusetts Medical School

Worcester, MA

Funding
$33.7M
$33,698,247
Awards
77
FY2018 NIH awards in Anatomy & Cell Biology
Principal investigators
54
54 lead a grant here, 0 co-investigators
Department rank
#1
of 90 · 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

54 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 1 award · $1,788,279

    • 5U54HD082013-05Department: NIH department code
      Rescuing the Fragile X Syndrome by Resetting Translational Homeostasis
      $1,788,279
      award amount
  2. Theurkauf, William Edward

    Leads 2 awards · $1,782,182

    • 5P01HD078253-04Department: NIH department code
      Small Silencing RNA Function in Genome Maintenance and Gamete Development
      $1,269,952
      award amount
    • 5R01HD049116-14Department: NIH department code
      piRNA Biogenesis and Function in Germline Development
      $512,230
      award amount
  3. Gottlinger, Heinrich

    Leads 3 awards · $1,629,848

    • 5DP1DA038034-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of HIV Cell-Cell Transmission of Relevance to Substance Users
      $837,500
      award amount
    • 5R01AI127263-03Department: NIH department code
      SERINCs and Nef Function
      $418,750
      award amount
    • 5R01AI029873-30Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Biology of HIV-Gag Proteins
      $373,598
      award amount
  4. Mercurio, Arthur M

    Leads 4 awards · $1,493,257

    • 5R01CA168464-07Department: NIH department code
      VEGF signaling in Mammary Tumorigenesis
      $397,813
      award amount
    • 1R01CA218085-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Integrin Regulation of Non-apoptotic Death in Breast Cancer
      $383,156
      award amount
    • 5R01CA203439-03Department: NIH department code
      Integrin splicing and cancer stem cell fate
      $383,156
      award amount
    • 5T32CA130807-10Department: NIH department code
      Translational Cancer Biology Training Grant
      $329,132
      award amount
  5. Lawson, Nathan D

    Leads 2 awards · $1,256,250

    • 1R35HL140017-01Department: NIH department code
      Embryonic origins of endothelial heterogeneity
      $1,005,000
      award amount
    • 1R21NS105654-01Department: NIH department code
      Identification of blood-brain-barrier pericyte-specific cis regulatory elements
      $251,250
      award amount
  6. Czech, Michael P

    Leads 2 awards · $1,146,819

    • 5R01DK103047-04Department: NIH department code
      Paracrine Signaling by Kupffer Cells in Hepatic Insulin Resistance
      $575,644
      award amount
    • 5R37DK030898-35Department: NIH department code
      Insulin Signaling and Metabolic Regulation in Adipocytes
      $571,175
      award amount
  7. Luzuriaga, Katherine F

    Leads 2 awards · $1,071,600

    • 1R01NS107022-01Department: NIH department code
      Measurement and characterization of CNS and immune tissue myeloid HIV-1 reservoirs
      $652,850
      award amount
    • 5R01NS095749-03Department: NIH department code
      HIV-1 Env conformation and tropism in brain colonization and neuroAIDS
      $418,750
      award amount
  8. Green, Michael R.

    Leads 2 awards · $1,018,502

    • 1R01CA218008-01A1Department: NIH department code
      A Novel Druggable Epigenetic Vulnerability Pathway in HCC
      $599,752
      award amount
    • 5R01MH113874-02Department: NIH department code
      Reactivation of Epigenetically Silenced FMR1 as a Therapeutic Approach for Fragile X Syndrome
      $418,750
      award amount
  9. Peterson, Craig L

    Leads 1 award · $944,593

    • 5R35GM122519-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of chromatin dynamics
      $944,593
      award amount
  10. Luban, Jeremy

    Leads 1 award · $937,745

    • 5R01AI117839-04Department: NIH department code
      Next generation hybrid nucleases for precise excision of latent HIV-1 provirus
      $937,745
      award amount
  11. Davis, Roger J.

    Leads 2 awards · $898,095

    • 5R01DK112698-02Department: NIH department code
      Adipose Tissue Metabolic Stress Responses
      $521,220
      award amount
    • 5R01DK107220-03Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic stress signaling
      $376,875
      award amount
  12. Kim, Jason K

    Leads 1 award · $836,663

    • 5U2CDK093000-08Department: NIH department code
      UMass Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center
      $836,663
      award amount
  13. Pazour, Gregory J

    Leads 2 awards · $832,676

    • 5R01GM060992-17Department: NIH department code
      Intraflagellar Transport Proteins in Mice
      $455,801
      award amount
    • 5R01DK103632-04Department: NIH department code
      Trafficking of Cystoproteins to the Primary Cilium
      $376,875
      award amount
  14. Guertin, David A

    Leads 2 awards · $801,906

    • 2R56DK094004-06Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Pathways in Metabolism and Energy Expenditure
      $418,750
      award amount
    • 5R01CA196986-04Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the AKT-dependent and AKT-independent mechanisms of metabolic control by mTORC2
      $383,156
      award amount
  15. Brehm, Michael Allen

    Leads 1 award · $782,684

    • 5R01AI132963-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel humanized mouse model developed from cord blood CD34 positive HSC and autologous iPS cell derived thymus
      $782,684
      award amount
  16. Kelliher, Michelle Alice

    Leads 2 awards · $776,781

    • 5R01AI075118-10Department: NIH department code
      Rip Proteins in Innate Immune Signaling
      $418,750
      award amount
    • 5R01CA096899-13Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism(s) of TAL1-and NOTCH1-mediated Leukemogenesis
      $358,031
      award amount
  17. Cantor, Sharon B

    Leads 2 awards · $752,427

    • 1R01CA225018-01A1Department: NIH department code
      FANCJ dependent pathways in replication stress
      $404,864
      award amount
    • 5R01CA176166-05Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Biomarkers of Cisplatin Resistance Mechanisms in Ovarian Cancer
      $347,563
      award amount
  18. Haynes, Cole M

    Leads 2 awards · $747,370

    • 5R01AG047182-04Department: NIH department code
      Coordinated Repair and Regeneration of Defective Mitochondria
      $411,990
      award amount
    • 5R01AG040061-09Department: NIH department code
      MAINTENANCE OF MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN FOLDING AS AN AGING EFFECTOR
      $335,380
      award amount
  19. Kaufman, Paul D.

    Leads 2 awards · $730,014

    • 5U01DA040588-04Department: NIH department code
      Nucleolar Genomics During Early Mammalian Development
      $395,014
      award amount
    • 1R35GM127035-01Department: NIH department code
      Eukaryotic Nuclear Functions: from Nucleosomes to Chromosomes
      $335,000
      award amount
  20. Benanti, Jennifer A

    Leads 2 awards · $715,897

    • 5R01GM117152-03Department: NIH department code
      Rewiring cell cycle-regulated transcription in response to stress
      $359,959
      award amount
    • 5R01GM115708-03Department: NIH department code
      Cell cycle regulation of chromosome structure
      $355,938
      award amount
  21. Ip, Y. Tony

    Leads 2 awards · $707,688

    • 5R01DK083450-09Department: NIH department code
      Epithelial niche regulation of intestinal stem cell division in Drosophila
      $376,875
      award amount
    • 5R01GM107457-04Department: NIH department code
      Homeostatic signaling in the Drosophila intestine
      $330,813
      award amount
  22. Baehrecke, Eric H

    Leads 2 awards · $703,563

    • 5R01GM079431-12Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Regulation of Autophagic Cell Death
      $385,313
      award amount
    • 5R01GM111658-04Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of a novel autophagy pathway
      $318,250
      award amount
  23. Bergmann, Andreas

    Leads 1 award · $700,152

    • 5R35GM118330-03Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Control of Programmed Cell Death (Apoptosis) and Compensatory Proliferation in Drosophila
      $700,152
      award amount
  24. Klein, Allon Moshe

    Leads 1 award · $657,879

    • 1R01HL141402-01Department: NIH department code
      Novel Growth Factor Regulators of Early Erythropoieisis
      $657,879
      award amount
  25. Aroian, Raffi V

    Leads 1 award · $624,809

    • 5R01AI056189-15Department: NIH department code
      B. thuringiensis Crystal Proteins as Powerful Next-Generation Anthelmintics
      $624,809
      award amount
  26. Walker, Amy Karol

    Leads 2 awards · $624,216

    • 5R01AG053355-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of methylation-dependent pathways in aging and stress
      $414,841
      award amount
    • 5R21DK110396-02Department: NIH department code
      Bacterial modulators of metazoan lipogenesis
      $209,375
      award amount
  27. Hendricks, Gregory

    Leads 1 award · $600,000

    • 1S10OD025113-01Department: NIH department code
      Transmission Electron Microscope for Core EM Facility
      $600,000
      award amount
  28. Lapane, Kate L

    Leads 2 awards · $562,004

    • 5R25GM113686-04Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing the success of underrepresented students in the biomedical sciences
      $329,594
      award amount
    • 1R25GM121220-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Pathway to graduate study post-baccalaureate training program
      $232,410
      award amount
  29. Moormann, Ann M

    Leads 1 award · $501,464

    • 5R01CA189806-05Department: NIH department code
      Impact of malaria on shaping immunity to EBV in the etiology of Burkitt lymphoma
      $501,464
      award amount
  30. Corvera, Silvia

    Leads 1 award · $465,050

    • 5R01DK089101-08Department: NIH department code
      Adipose Tissue Angiogenesis and Metabolic Disease
      $465,050
      award amount
  31. Craig, Roger W

    Leads 1 award · $456,880

    • 5R01AR067279-04Department: NIH department code
      Skeletal Myosin-Binding Protein C (MyBP-C): Molecular Structure and Function
      $456,880
      award amount
  32. Sontheimer, Erik J

    Leads 2 awards · $448,079

    • 5R01GM115911-03Department: NIH department code
      Engineered Cas9 Nucleases with Single-Genomic-Site Precision for CYBB Correction
      $398,059
      award amount
    • 3R01GM115911-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Engineered Cas9 Nucleases with Single-Genomic-Site Precision for CYBB Correction
      $50,020
      award amount
  33. Castilla, Lucio H.

    Leads 1 award · $436,263

    • 5R01CA204979-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of inv(16) acute myeloid leukemia
      $436,263
      award amount
  34. Duenas-Decamp, Maria Jose

    Leads 1 award · $418,750

    • 1R01MH115773-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Identify New Determinants to Target Macrophage-Tropic Viruses and Prevent HIV-1 Brain Infection in NeuroAIDS
      $418,750
      award amount
  35. Wang, Yong-Xu

    Leads 1 award · $418,750

    • 1R01DK115918-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of white fat browning by a novel, brown fat-secreted adipokine
      $418,750
      award amount
  36. Ambros, Victor

    Leads 1 award · $399,936

    • 5R01GM034028-32Department: NIH department code
      Genetic control of animal development
      $399,936
      award amount
  37. Greiner, Dale Leslie

    Leads 1 award · $376,875

    • 5R01DK105837-03Department: NIH department code
      Stage-specific Beta Cell Response and Biomarker Profile During Virus-induced T1D
      $376,875
      award amount
  38. Lambright, David G

    Leads 1 award · $368,500

    • 5R01GM056324-21Department: NIH department code
      Structural Basis for Rab and Arf GTPase Regulated Membrane Trafficking
      $368,500
      award amount
  39. Mao, Junhao

    Leads 1 award · $361,812

    • 5R01DK099510-05Department: NIH department code
      Growth and patterning in the gut mesenchyme
      $361,812
      award amount
  40. Socolovsky, Merav

    Leads 1 award · $361,812

    • 5R01DK100915-05Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic and Cell Cycle Functions of Glucocorticoids in Erythropoietic Stress
      $361,812
      award amount
  41. Jones, Stephen

    Leads 1 award · $351,619

    • 5R01CA077735-18Department: NIH department code
      Mdm2-p53 signaling in the DNA damage response and in tumorigenesis
      $351,619
      award amount
  42. Acharya, Usha R

    Leads 1 award · $339,471

    • 5R01GM110288-04Department: NIH department code
      Adaptation to ceramide involves AKT/FOXO regulated novel triglyceride lipases
      $339,471
      award amount
  43. Chu, Feixia

    Leads 1 award · $338,082

    • 1R01HD093783-01Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic barriers to trophoblast differentiation from pluripotent stem cells
      $338,082
      award amount
  44. Torres, Eduardo Martin

    Leads 1 award · $330,813

    • 5R01GM118481-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of de Novo Synthesis of Sphingolipids in Aneuploid Cells
      $330,813
      award amount
  45. Gao, Fen-Biao

    Leads 1 award · $251,250

    • 1R21NS109847-01Department: NIH department code
      Inhibiting Translation of Endogenous G4C2-Containing RNA As a Novel Therapy for C9ORF72-ALS
      $251,250
      award amount
  46. Ceol, Craig Joseph

    Leads 1 award · $218,588

    • 1R21CA228120-01Department: NIH department code
      Blocking ligand-dependent BMP signaling as an anti-melanoma strategy
      $218,588
      award amount
  47. Goel, Hira

    Leads 1 award · $213,356

    • 1R50CA221780-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Carcinoma Initiation and Differentiation
      $213,356
      award amount
  48. Zhang, Hong

    Leads 1 award · $209,375

    • 5R21AG054894-02Department: NIH department code
      CRISPR screen of microRNAs that regulate the regenertive potential of hematopoietic stem cells
      $209,375
      award amount
  49. Lewis, Brian C

    Leads 1 award · $144,719

    • 2R25HL092610-11Department: NIH department code
      NIH Summer Research Program to Increase Diversity Among Biomedical Researchers
      $144,719
      award amount
  50. Feldman, Jessica

    Leads 1 award · $44,204

    • 5F32GM119229-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of Histone H3 lysine 56 acetylation in noncoding transcription and chromatin architecture
      $44,204
      award amount
  51. McFleder, Rhonda

    Leads 1 award · $31,199

    • 5F31NS092415-04Department: NIH department code
      The Role of 3' End Formation in Synaptic Function
      $31,199
      award amount
  52. Elaimy, Ameer

    Leads 1 award · $29,167

    • 5F30CA206271-03Department: NIH department code
      Integrin Function in Breast Cancer Initiation
      $29,167
      award amount
  53. Lee, Peter Lin

    Leads 1 award · $29,167

    • 5F30AA024385-04Department: NIH department code
      Ethanol's Effects on Brown Adipose Development and Function
      $29,167
      award amount
  54. Matthew, Asia

    Leads 1 award · $29,167

    • 5F31CA206378-03Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Beclin 1 Loss on Breast Cancer Progression
      $29,167
      award amount