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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biomedical Engineering at University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI

Funding
$21.2M
$21,209,384
Awards
39
FY2026 NIH awards in Biomedical Engineering
Principal investigators
40
22 lead a grant here, 18 co-investigators
Department rank
#4
of 80 · 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 Biomedical Engineering row of the University of Michigan page.

Leads a grant in this department

22 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. Lonnie D Shea

    Leads 6 awards · $3,018,527

    • 2R01AI155678-06Department: NIH department code
      NPs disguised as apoptotic debris for immune tolerance

      Principal investigators: Lonnie D Shea (contact PI), Stephen D Miller

      $768,716
      award amount
    • 5R01DK142799-02Department: NIH department code
      Promoting metabolic maturity of islet organoids pre- and post-transplantation

      Principal investigators: Lonnie D Shea (contact PI), Scott Soleimanpour, Sriram Chandrasekaran

      $681,562
      award amount
    • 5U01EB036955-02Department: NIH department code
      Injectable scaffolds for early detection of immune dysregulation and monitoring response to immunotherapies

      Principal investigators: Lonnie D Shea (contact PI), Jacqueline Sara Jeruss

      $529,866
      award amount
    • 5R01CA272940-04Department: NIH department code
      Tissue engineering tools for monitoring the cellular and molecular response to therapy

      Principal investigators: Lonnie D Shea (contact PI), Jacqueline Sara Jeruss

      $520,169
      award amount
    • 5R01EB036030-03Department: NIH department code
      Nanoparticles to reprogram innate immune cells and disrupt the metastatic niche

      Principal investigators: Lonnie D Shea (contact PI), Jacqueline Sara Jeruss

      $505,214
      award amount
    • 5R13EB036353-02Department: NIH department code
      2025 Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society – Americas Chapter (TERMIS-AM) Annual Meeting

      Principal investigators: Lonnie D Shea (contact PI), David H. Kohn, Lisa M Larkin

      $13,000
      award amount

  2. Jiahe Li

    Leads 4 awards · $2,755,106

    • 4DP2GM154019-02Department: NIH department code
      Enzymatic and genetic strategies for targeting disease-associated microbial metabolites
      $911,394
      award amount
    • 1R01CA299949-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Microbial-based cancer therapy armored with membrane-bound cytokines for targeted immune modulation and safety-controlled delivery

      Principal investigators: Jiahe Li (contact PI), Rizwan Romee

      $669,278
      award amount
    • 5R01CA299955-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting a human gut bacterial genotoxin via engineered commensal bacteria

      Principal investigators: Jiahe Li (contact PI), Omer Yilmaz

      $590,814
      award amount
    • 1R01DE035476-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting and Developing Chemically Modified Host-Derived Small RNAs to Target Oral Pathobionts

      Principal investigators: Jiahe Li (contact PI), Xuesong He

      $583,620
      award amount

  3. Xudong Fan

    Leads 3 awards · $2,611,254

    • 5U01TR004066-05Department: NIH department code
      High performance wearable body odor sensor arrays for disease detection and monitoring

      Principal investigators: Xudong Fan (contact PI), Johann Eli Gudjonsson, Kyle Jerome Gunnerson, Prashant Mahajan, Wassim W Labaki

      $1,154,765
      award amount
    • 5R01HL171517-03Department: NIH department code
      Point-of-care micro-gas chromatography device for diagnosis and monitoring of acute respiratory distress syndrome using exhaled breath signatures

      Principal investigators: Xudong Fan (contact PI), Kevin Ward, Michael William Sjoding

      $1,027,489
      award amount
    • 1R21EB038389-01Department: NIH department code
      Ultrasensitive bioassay platform with an ultra-large dynamic range using microlaser ensemble quenching
      $429,000
      award amount

  4. James D Weiland

    Leads 3 awards · $1,273,123

    • 5R01EY035008-03Department: NIH department code
      Intraretinal stimulation for high acuity artificial vision
      $581,853
      award amount
    • 5R61EY037514-02Department: NIH department code
      Multi-modal interface for non-visual navigation
      $502,353
      award amount
    • 2T32NS115724-06Department: NIH department code
      Neural Engineering Training Program (NETP)
      $188,917
      award amount

  5. Ariella Shikanov

    Leads 2 awards · $1,239,866

    • 5R01HD105018-05Department: NIH department code
      Immuno-Isolating capsule for delivery of cell-based therapy for restoration of ovarian endocrine function in an animal model
      $636,709
      award amount
    • 1R01HD122991-01Department: NIH department code
      Engineered Modular Porous Scaffolds for Enhanced Vascular Integration and Long-term Tissue Grafting

      Principal investigators: Ariella Shikanov (contact PI), Brendon M Baker

      $603,157
      award amount

  6. Zhen Xu

    Leads 2 awards · $1,152,679

    • 5R01EB037129-02Department: NIH department code
      Transcranial MRI- and Ultrasound- guided histotripsy (tcMR-USgHt) system
      $611,682
      award amount
    • 5R01EB034399-04Department: NIH department code
      Ultrasound-guided Ultra-steerable Histotripsy Array System for Non-invasive treatment of Soft Tissue Sarcoma
      $540,997
      award amount

  7. Cynthia Anne Chestek

    Leads 2 awards · $1,144,308

    • 5R01NS134834-03Department: NIH department code
      Improving hand kinematic predictions from implanted EMG in humans and monkeys
      $574,863
      award amount
    • 5R01HD116916-02Department: NIH department code
      Regenerative Peripheral Nerve Interfaces for Restoring Individual Finger Movement in Transhumeral Amputees
      $569,445
      award amount

  8. Anne Watson Draelos

    Leads 2 awards · $1,062,697

    • 5R01AG092459-02Department: NIH department code
      Multimodal Probabilistic Machine Learning for Uncovering Latent Factors of Resilience in Alzheimer’s Disease

      Principal investigators: Anne Watson Draelos (contact PI), Catherine Cook Kaczorowski

      $736,793
      award amount
    • 1R01DA063389-01Department: NIH department code
      Real-time modeling and perturbation of stimulus-shaped neural manifolds
      $325,904
      award amount

  9. Allen Po-Chih Liu

    Leads 1 award · $995,204

    • 1R01GM163198-01Department: NIH department code
      Engineering liposomal DNA-driven membrane fusion for efficient protein, nucleic acid, and lipid delivery
      $995,204
      award amount

  10. Aaron Harvey Morris

    Leads 2 awards · $926,351

    • 1R01AI198663-01Department: NIH department code
      Precision Biomaterials to Monitor Antigen-Specific Cells
      $516,410
      award amount
    • 1R35GM162195-01Department: NIH department code
      Reprogramming cells for repair of chronic wounds
      $409,941
      award amount

  11. Brendon M Baker

    Leads 1 award · $724,200

    • 1R01HL183648-01Department: NIH department code
      Endothelial fate switches and function via matrix control of adherens junctions

      Principal investigators: Brendon M Baker (contact PI), Matthew L Kutys

      $724,200
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01HD122991-01, led by Ariella Shikanov.

  12. Carlos A Aguilar

    Leads 1 award · $630,434

    • 1R01AR087567-01Department: NIH department code
      Deconstructing nuclear speckles contribution to muscle stem cell activation across lifespan
      $630,434
      award amount

  13. Janggun Jo

    Leads 1 award · $595,172

    • 5R01CA292946-02Department: NIH department code
      Detecting prostate cancer aggressiveness using photoacoustic chemical imaging with photoacoustic spectral analysis
      $595,172
      award amount

  14. Geeta Mehta

    Leads 1 award · $589,816

    • 5R37CA282790-04Department: NIH department code
      Profiling the Fluid Assisted Dissemination of Pre-malignant cells in Fallopian Tubes
      $589,816
      award amount

  15. Deepak Nagrath

    Leads 1 award · $565,643

  16. Timothy L Hall

    Leads 1 award · $545,818

    • 5R01CA282200-03Department: NIH department code
      Aberration Correction for Histotripsy Ablation of Liver
      $545,818
      award amount

  17. Paul Anthony Jensen

    Leads 1 award · $426,539

    • 1R35GM161796-01Department: NIH department code
      Context-specific cellular networks in bacterial pathogens
      $426,539
      award amount

  18. Maria Margarita Coronel

    Leads 1 award · $411,475

    • 1R35GM165480-01Department: NIH department code
      Engineering a Multiplexed Biomaterial-Based Bioluminescent Platform for Real-Time Sepsis Diagnosis and Precision Immunotherapy
      $411,475
      award amount

  19. Sriram Chandrasekaran

    Leads 1 award · $365,724

    • 5R35GM137795-07Department: NIH department code
      Linking metabolic activity with drug sensitivity using metabolic influence networks
      $365,724
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DK142799-02, led by Lonnie D Shea.

  20. Noah Thomas Hutchinson

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32AI194752-02Department: NIH department code
      Engineering commensal bacteria and probiotics for lactate conversion and treatment of sepsis
      $79,348
      award amount

  21. Gabriela Garza

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI197803-01Department: NIH department code
      Engineered Cell Sensors for Autoimmune Monitoring
      $50,114
      award amount

  22. Anna Kay

    Leads 1 award · $45,986

    • 1F30EY038544-01Department: NIH department code
      Utilizing intrinsic data structure with self-supervised computer vision methods to segment key pathologic features in clinical images from patients with age-related macular degeneration
      $45,986
      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.