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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Funding
$1M
$1,031,744
Awards
2
FY2026 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
2
1 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
#57
of 69 · 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 Ophthalmology row of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill page.

Leads a grant in this department

1 contact PI of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.

  1. Benjamin J Frankfort

    Leads 2 awards · $1,031,744

    • 1R01EY038474-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Detection and noninvasive monitoring of early stage RGC gene expression changes in glaucoma

      Principal investigators: Benjamin J Frankfort (contact PI), Nicholas Minh Abell Tran

      $580,321
      award amount
    • 7R01EY035646-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of serotonin and serotonin receptor biology in normal and glaucomatous retinas
      $451,423
      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.