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FY2019 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Anatomy & Cell Biology at University of Massachusetts Medical School

Worcester, MA

Funding
$37.9M
$37,875,890
Awards
85
FY2019 NIH awards in Anatomy & Cell Biology
Principal investigators
55
55 lead a grant here, 0 co-investigators
Department rank
#1
of 91 · 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

55 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. Greer, Paul Lieberman

    Leads 1 award · $2,512,500

    • 1DP2AG067490-01Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Role of a Novel Family of Chemoreceptor in Alzheimer's Disease
      $2,512,500
      award amount
  2. Brehm, Michael Allen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,905,269

    • 2U01DK104218-02Department: NIH department code
      Humanized Mouse Avatars for T1D
      $1,064,644
      award amount
    • 1R24OD026440-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Immunogenicity of Human Stem Cell-Derived Beta Cells and Muscle Cells in Humanized Mice
      $840,625
      award amount
  3. Theurkauf, William Edward

    Leads 2 awards · $1,782,182

    • 5P01HD078253-05Department: NIH department code
      Small Silencing RNA Function in Genome Maintenance and Gamete Development
      $1,269,952
      award amount
    • 5R01HD049116-15Department: NIH department code
      piRNA Biogenesis and Function in Germline Development
      $512,230
      award amount
  4. Luban, Jeremy

    Leads 2 awards · $1,737,907

    • 5R01AI117839-05Department: NIH department code
      Next generation hybrid nucleases for precise excision of latent HIV-1 provirus
      $937,745
      award amount
    • 1R37AI147868-01Department: NIH department code
      The HUSH complex in HIV-1 latency
      $800,162
      award amount
  5. Richter, Joel D

    Leads 3 awards · $1,455,353

    • 3U54HD082013-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Rescuing the Fragile X Syndrome by Resetting Translational Homeostasis
      $999,998
      award amount
    • 2R01GM046779-26A1Department: NIH department code
      Polyadenylation and Translational Control
      $374,580
      award amount
    • 3R01GM046779-26A1S1Department: NIH department code
      Polyadenylation and Translational Control
      $80,775
      award amount
  6. Davis, Roger J.

    Leads 3 awards · $1,446,513

    • 1R01DK121545-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Promotion of fatty liver disease by the ASK1 pathway
      $548,418
      award amount
    • 5R01DK112698-03Department: NIH department code
      Adipose Tissue Metabolic Stress Responses
      $521,220
      award amount
    • 5R01DK107220-04Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic stress signaling
      $376,875
      award amount
  7. Green, Michael R.

    Leads 3 awards · $1,350,546

    • 5R01CA218008-02Department: NIH department code
      A Novel Druggable Epigenetic Vulnerability Pathway in HCC
      $565,390
      award amount
    • 5R01MH113874-03Department: NIH department code
      Reactivation of Epigenetically Silenced FMR1 as a Therapeutic Approach for Fragile X Syndrome
      $418,750
      award amount
    • 1R01NS114052-01Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional Upregulation of the Epigenetically Repressed FXN Gene as a Therapeutic Approach for Friedreich Ataxia
      $366,406
      award amount
  8. Lawson, Nathan D

    Leads 2 awards · $1,214,375

    • 5R35HL140017-02Department: NIH department code
      Embryonic origins of endothelial heterogeneity
      $1,005,000
      award amount
    • 5R21NS105654-02Department: NIH department code
      Identification of blood-brain-barrier pericyte-specific cis regulatory elements
      $209,375
      award amount
  9. Brehm, Michael Allen

    Leads 1 award · $1,212,059

    • 5R01AI132963-03Department: NIH department code
      Novel humanized mouse model developed from cord blood CD34 positive HSC and autologous iPS cell derived thymus
      $1,212,059
      award amount
  10. Aroian, Raffi V

    Leads 2 awards · $1,179,960

    • 2R01AI056189-16Department: NIH department code
      B. thuringiensis crystal proteins as powerful next-generation anthelmintics
      $653,009
      award amount
    • 1R01HD099072-01Department: NIH department code
      A dual-purpose vaccine targeting blood-feeding nematode parasites of sheep and humans
      $526,951
      award amount
  11. Czech, Michael P

    Leads 2 awards · $1,154,075

    • 1R01DK116056-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Adipocyte to neuron signaling in thermogenic programming of white adipose tissue
      $582,900
      award amount
    • 5R37DK030898-36Department: NIH department code
      Insulin Signaling and Metabolic Regulation in Adipocytes
      $571,175
      award amount
  12. Mercurio, Arthur M

    Leads 3 awards · $1,129,198

    • 5R01CA168464-08Department: NIH department code
      VEGF signaling in Mammary Tumorigenesis
      $385,878
      award amount
    • 5R01CA203439-04Department: NIH department code
      Integrin splicing and cancer stem cell fate
      $371,660
      award amount
    • 5R01CA218085-02Department: NIH department code
      Integrin Regulation of Non-apoptotic Death in Breast Cancer
      $371,660
      award amount
  13. Baehrecke, Eric H

    Leads 3 awards · $1,065,924

    • 5R01GM079431-13Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Regulation of Autophagic Cell Death
      $385,313
      award amount
    • 1R01AG064892-01Department: NIH department code
      Transporters, nutrient sensing and autophagy
      $368,500
      award amount
    • 1R35GM131689-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of autophagy during animal development
      $312,111
      award amount
  14. Kaufman, Paul D.

    Leads 3 awards · $995,008

    • 3U01DA040588-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Nucleolar Genomics During Early Mammalian Development
      $363,257
      award amount
    • 5R35GM127035-02Department: NIH department code
      Eukaryotic Nuclear Functions: from Nucleosomes to Chromosomes
      $335,000
      award amount
    • 5U01DA040588-05Department: NIH department code
      Nucleolar Genomics During Early Mammalian Development
      $296,751
      award amount
  15. Corvera, Silvia

    Leads 2 awards · $959,175

    • 1R01DK123028-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of human adipose depot development and impact of Diabetes
      $494,125
      award amount
    • 5R01DK089101-09Department: NIH department code
      Adipose Tissue Angiogenesis and Metabolic Disease
      $465,050
      award amount
  16. Peterson, Craig L

    Leads 1 award · $944,593

    • 5R35GM122519-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of chromatin dynamics
      $944,593
      award amount
  17. Shaw, Leslie M

    Leads 3 awards · $934,859

    • 1R01CA229910-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Adaptor protein function in breast cancer
      $384,203
      award amount
    • 1R01CA227993-01A1Department: NIH department code
      IRS function in breast cancer progression
      $383,156
      award amount
    • 1R01CA240655-01Department: NIH department code
      Insulin regulation of breast cancer stem cells
      $167,500
      award amount
  18. Guertin, David A

    Leads 2 awards · $869,135

    • 2R01DK094004-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Pathways in Metabolism and Energy Expenditure
      $497,475
      award amount
    • 5R01CA196986-05Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the AKT-dependent and AKT-independent mechanisms of metabolic control by mTORC2
      $371,660
      award amount
  19. Ambros, Victor

    Leads 1 award · $857,178

    • 1R35GM131741-01Department: NIH department code
      Genetic control of developmental timing
      $857,178
      award amount
  20. Wang, Yong-Xu

    Leads 2 awards · $837,500

    • 1R01DK116872-01A1Department: NIH department code
      A novel adipokine suppresses leptin signaling and promotes obesity
      $418,750
      award amount
    • 5R01DK115918-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of white fat browning by a novel, brown fat-secreted adipokine
      $418,750
      award amount
  21. Kim, Jason K

    Leads 1 award · $836,663

    • 5U2CDK093000-09Department: NIH department code
      UMass Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center
      $836,663
      award amount
  22. Pazour, Gregory J

    Leads 2 awards · $799,402

    • 2R01GM060992-18Department: NIH department code
      Intraflagellar Transport Proteins in Mice
      $422,527
      award amount
    • 5R01DK103632-05Department: NIH department code
      Trafficking of Cystoproteins to the Primary Cilium
      $376,875
      award amount
  23. Haynes, Cole M

    Leads 2 awards · $755,365

    • 5R01AG047182-05Department: NIH department code
      Coordinated Repair and Regeneration of Defective Mitochondria
      $411,990
      award amount
    • 5R01AG040061-10Department: NIH department code
      MAINTENANCE OF MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN FOLDING AS AN AGING EFFECTOR
      $343,375
      award amount
  24. Benanti, Jennifer A

    Leads 2 awards · $715,897

    • 5R01GM117152-04Department: NIH department code
      Rewiring cell cycle-regulated transcription in response to stress
      $359,959
      award amount
    • 5R01GM115708-04Department: NIH department code
      Cell cycle regulation of chromosome structure
      $355,938
      award amount
  25. Bergmann, Andreas

    Leads 1 award · $700,152

    • 5R35GM118330-04Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Control of Programmed Cell Death (Apoptosis) and Compensatory Proliferation in Drosophila
      $700,152
      award amount
  26. Luzuriaga, Katherine F

    Leads 1 award · $658,712

    • 5R01NS107022-02Department: NIH department code
      Measurement and characterization of CNS and immune tissue myeloid HIV-1 reservoirs
      $658,712
      award amount
  27. Klein, Allon Moshe

    Leads 1 award · $641,004

    • 5R01HL141402-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel Growth Factor Regulators of Early Erythropoieisis
      $641,004
      award amount
  28. Lapane, Kate L

    Leads 2 awards · $558,764

    • 5R25GM113686-05Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing the success of underrepresented students in the biomedical sciences
      $329,594
      award amount
    • 5R25GM121220-02Department: NIH department code
      Pathway to graduate study post-baccalaureate training program
      $229,170
      award amount
  29. Craig, Roger W

    Leads 1 award · $456,880

    • 5R01AR067279-05Department: NIH department code
      Skeletal Myosin-Binding Protein C (MyBP-C): Molecular Structure and Function
      $456,880
      award amount
  30. Socolovsky, Merav

    Leads 1 award · $436,009

    • 1R01DK120639-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Specialized cell cycles in early erythropoiesis
      $436,009
      award amount
  31. Watanabe, Shinya

    Leads 2 awards · $435,500

    • 1R01GM134130-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanism of histone variant H2A.Z deposition by chromatin remodeling enzymes
      $351,750
      award amount
    • 1R03HD095088-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Floating-Harbor syndrome mutations on chromatin remodeling by the SRCAP complex
      $83,750
      award amount
  32. Duenas-Decamp, Maria Jose

    Leads 1 award · $418,750

    • 5R01MH115773-02Department: NIH department code
      Identify New Determinants to Target Macrophage-Tropic Viruses and Prevent HIV-1 Brain Infection in NeuroAIDS
      $418,750
      award amount
  33. Gottlinger, Heinrich

    Leads 1 award · $418,750

    • 5R01AI127263-04Department: NIH department code
      SERINCs and Nef Function
      $418,750
      award amount
  34. Walker, Amy Karol

    Leads 1 award · $414,841

    • 5R01AG053355-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of methylation-dependent pathways in aging and stress
      $414,841
      award amount
  35. Castilla, Lucio H.

    Leads 1 award · $413,998

    • 5R01CA204979-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of inv(16) acute myeloid leukemia
      $413,998
      award amount
  36. Cantor, Sharon B

    Leads 2 awards · $413,198

    • 5R01CA225018-02Department: NIH department code
      FANCJ dependent pathways in replication stress
      $376,348
      award amount
    • 3R01CA225018-02S1Department: NIH department code
      FANCJ dependent pathways in replication stress
      $36,850
      award amount
  37. Sontheimer, Erik J

    Leads 1 award · $398,059

    • 5R01GM115911-04Department: NIH department code
      Engineered Cas9 Nucleases with Single-Genomic-Site Precision for CYBB Correction
      $398,059
      award amount
  38. Greiner, Dale Leslie

    Leads 1 award · $376,875

    • 5R01DK105837-04Department: NIH department code
      Stage-specific Beta Cell Response and Biomarker Profile During Virus-induced T1D
      $376,875
      award amount
  39. Kelliher, Michelle Alice

    Leads 1 award · $347,289

    • 5R01CA096899-14Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism(s) of TAL1-and NOTCH1-mediated Leukemogenesis
      $347,289
      award amount
  40. Jones, Stephen

    Leads 1 award · $341,069

    • 5R01CA077735-19Department: NIH department code
      Mdm2-p53 signaling in the DNA damage response and in tumorigenesis
      $341,069
      award amount
  41. Torres, Eduardo Martin

    Leads 1 award · $330,813

    • 5R01GM118481-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of de Novo Synthesis of Sphingolipids in Aneuploid Cells
      $330,813
      award amount
  42. Chu, Feixia

    Leads 1 award · $326,267

    • 5R01HD093783-02Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic barriers to trophoblast differentiation from pluripotent stem cells
      $326,267
      award amount
  43. Goel, Hira

    Leads 1 award · $213,356

    • 5R50CA221780-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Carcinoma Initiation and Differentiation
      $213,356
      award amount
  44. Gao, Fen-Biao

    Leads 1 award · $209,375

    • 5R21NS109847-02Department: NIH department code
      Inhibiting Translation of Endogenous G4C2-Containing RNA As a Novel Therapy for C9ORF72-ALS
      $209,375
      award amount
  45. Ceol, Craig Joseph

    Leads 2 awards · $201,690

    • 5R21CA228120-02Department: NIH department code
      Blocking ligand-dependent BMP signaling as an anti-melanoma strategy
      $176,690
      award amount
    • 1R13AR076230-01Department: NIH department code
      PASPCR 2019 Annual Meeting
      $25,000
      award amount
  46. Lawrence, Jeanne Bentley

    Leads 1 award · $154,934

    • 3RF1AG056302-01S1Department: NIH department code
      Introducing Cellular Aging in Human iPS Cells to Investigate Alzheimer Pathogenesis
      $154,934
      award amount
  47. Lewis, Brian C

    Leads 1 award · $144,719

    • 5R25HL092610-12Department: NIH department code
      NIH Summer Research Program to Increase Diversity Among Biomedical Researchers
      $144,719
      award amount
  48. Gramann, Alec Kragie

    Leads 1 award · $32,329

    • 1F31CA239478-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting BMP signaling to treat advanced melanoma and suppress therapeutic resistance
      $32,329
      award amount
  49. Luk, Kevin

    Leads 1 award · $32,329

    • 1F31HL147482-01Department: NIH department code
      Amelioration of Beta-hemoglobinopathies by efficient precise deletion of the +58 BCL11A enhancer using orthogonal Cas9-Cas9 chimeras
      $32,329
      award amount
  50. Shen, James L

    Leads 1 award · $32,329

    • 1F30CA239374-01Department: NIH department code
      Discovery of a novel role of VPS13D in Autophagy
      $32,329
      award amount
  51. Lee, Peter Lin

    Leads 1 award · $31,910

    • 5F30AA024385-05Department: NIH department code
      Ethanol's Effects on Brown Adipose Development and Function
      $31,910
      award amount
  52. Silverstein, Noah Jacob

    Leads 1 award · $29,770

    • 1F30HD100110-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of epigenetic inheritance in a mouse model of acute paternal stress
      $29,770
      award amount
  53. Elaimy, Ameer

    Leads 1 award · $29,659

    • 5F30CA206271-04Department: NIH department code
      Integrin Function in Breast Cancer Initiation
      $29,659
      award amount
  54. McFleder, Rhonda

    Leads 1 award · $17,183

    • 5F31NS092415-05Department: NIH department code
      The Role of 3' End Formation in Synaptic Function
      $17,183
      award amount
  55. Matthew, Asia

    Leads 1 award · $8,741

    • 5F31CA206378-04Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Beclin 1 Loss on Breast Cancer Progression
      $8,741
      award amount