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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Funding
$10.6M
$10,618,934
Awards
25
FY2026 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
22
17 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
#31
of 136 · 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 Biochemistry row of the University of Pennsylvania page.

Leads a grant in this department

17 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. Ronen Marmorstein

    Leads 3 awards · $1,650,742

    • 5R01CA262055-05Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic regulation and inhibition of ATP-citrate lyase

      Principal investigators: Ronen Marmorstein (contact PI), George Burslem, Kathryn Elaine Wellen

      $634,732
      award amount
    • 2R35GM118090-11Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Macromolecular Acetylation and Acetyl-Transfer Reactions
      $584,673
      award amount
    • 5T32GM133398-07Department: NIH department code
      Predoctoral Training at the Chemistry-Biology Interface

      Principal investigators: Ronen Marmorstein (contact PI), Ernest James Petersson

      $431,337
      award amount

  2. Ben E. Black

    Leads 4 awards · $1,638,209

    • 5R35GM130302-07Department: NIH department code
      Centromere identity, strength, and regulation
      $632,821
      award amount
    • 5R01CA259037-05Department: NIH department code
      Tuning PARP-1 retention and release on DNA breaks

      Principal investigators: Ben E. Black (contact PI), John M Pascal

      $450,488
      award amount
    • 5T32GM132039-08Department: NIH department code
      Structural biology and molecular biophysics training program

      Principal investigators: Ben E. Black (contact PI), Elizabeth Rhoades

      $431,337
      award amount
    • 3R01CA259037-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Tuning PARP-1 retention and release on DNA breaks

      Principal investigators: Ben E. Black (contact PI), John M Pascal

      $123,563
      award amount

  3. Gregory Bowman

    Leads 2 awards · $1,008,189

    • 5R01AG067194-04Department: NIH department code
      Structural basis for ApoE4-induced Alzheimer's disease
      $606,541
      award amount
    • 5R35GM152085-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding and controlling protein energy landscapes by combining simulations and experiments
      $401,648
      award amount

  4. James Shorter

    Leads 2 awards · $1,002,303

    • 1R35GM164097-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining mechansims of AAA+ disaggregases
      $555,428
      award amount
    • 1R21AG091143-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining short RNAs that antagonize deleterious phase transitions of TAF15 in ADRDs.
      $446,875
      award amount

  5. Kristen W Lynch

    Leads 1 award · $629,732

    • 2R35GM118048-11Department: NIH department code
      Signal-Induced Regulation of Alternative RNA Processing
      $629,732
      award amount

  6. Kara A Bernstein

    Leads 1 award · $602,698

    • 5R01ES030335-08Department: NIH department code
      Replication fork dynamics and repair by Rad51 paralogs after DNA alkylation
      $602,698
      award amount

  7. Nicolai Doliba

    Leads 1 award · $544,201

    • 5R01DK136564-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of Alpha Cells in Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes

      Principal investigators: Nicolai Doliba (contact PI), Doris A Stoffers

      $544,201
      award amount

  8. Cornelius Taabazuing

    Leads 2 awards · $528,551

    • 5R35GM155239-03Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the molecular mechanism of cytokine activation and spatiotemporal regulation of innate immunity
      $400,000
      award amount
    • 3R35GM155239-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the molecular mechanism of cytokine activation and spatiotemporal regulation of innate immunity
      $128,551
      award amount

  9. George Burslem

    Leads 1 award · $446,875

    • 2R35GM142505-06Department: NIH department code
      Editing Acetylation and Protein Homeostasis
      $446,875
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA262055-05, led by Ronen Marmorstein.

  10. Fange Liu

    Leads 1 award · $443,806

    • 5R35GM156342-02Department: NIH department code
      Coordination of modifications across RNA species
      $443,806
      award amount

  11. Kenji Murakami

    Leads 1 award · $441,826

    • 1R35GM164244-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Transcription Initiation by Promoter Nucleosomes
      $441,826
      award amount

  12. Lijun Zhou

    Leads 1 award · $406,250

    • 1R35GM161752-01Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing XNAs to Expand the Genetic Toolkit for RNA Silencing and RNA editing
      $406,250
      award amount

  13. Kushol Gupta

    Leads 1 award · $405,787

    • 1S10OD040235-01Department: NIH department code
      Acquisition of an asymmetric field flow fractionation-multiangle light scattering (AF4-MALS) system
      $405,787
      award amount

  14. Yi-Wei Chang

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 5R35GM156396-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms and Evolution of the Rhoptry Secretion System
      $400,000
      award amount

  15. Aimin Liu

    Leads 1 award · $369,537

    • 7R01GM152982-03Department: NIH department code
      Protein-Derived Cofactor in Bifunctional Enzyme KatG from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
      $369,537
      award amount

  16. Emma Maley Welter

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31AI194735-02Department: NIH department code
      Influence of DNA methylation changes on gene expression from the inactive X chromosome in B cells
      $50,114
      award amount

  17. Tristan Wrong

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31HD123407-01Department: NIH department code
      Long-Lived Cardiac Myosins as Regulators of Oocyte Cytoskeletal Integrity and Reproductive Lifespan
      $50,114
      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.