FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Ophthalmology at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
- 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 Pennsylvania page.
Leads a grant in this department
12 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Joshua L Dunaief
Leads 3 awards · $1,613,424
- 2K12EY015398-21Department: NIH department codePENN Vision Clinical Scientist Program$585,282award amount
- 5R01EY015240-21Department: NIH department codeRetinal Iron Health in Transport and Disease$584,800award amount
- 5R01EY036292-03Department: NIH department codeDevelopment of Two Novel AMD Models for Evaluation of RPE Protection by the Novel Antioxidant D-DHA$443,342award amount
Jessica I.w. Morgan
Leads 2 awards · $1,160,483
- 2R01EY030227-04A1Department: NIH department codeImaging Photoreceptor Function
Principal investigators: Jessica I.w. Morgan (contact PI), David H. Brainard
$639,158award amount - 5R01EY028601-08Department: NIH department codeRetinal structure, function and response to gene therapy$521,325award amount
Dwight Edward Stambolian
Leads 1 award · $764,025
- 5R01AI180047-03Department: NIH department codeFunctional Analysis of Complement Variants in a Genotyped iPSC Epithelial Cell Model System
Principal investigators: Dwight Edward Stambolian (contact PI), Alfred Hyoungju Kim, Baerbel Rohrer
$764,025award amount
Yuyan Cheng
Leads 1 award · $719,199
- 1R01EY037802-01A1Department: NIH department codeTargeting Intrinsic and Extrinsic Barriers to RGC and Optic Nerve Regeneration$719,199award amount
Benjamin J. Kim
Leads 1 award · $668,261
- 4R01AG083774-02Department: NIH department codeHuman Retinal Imaging Biomarkers for FTLD-Tau in Relation to FTLD-TDP and Nonamnestic AD$668,261award amount
Ahmara G. Ross
Leads 1 award · $662,682
- 1R01EY037749-01A1Department: NIH department codeThe Impact of WDR36 Variants and p53 in Glaucoma$662,682award amount
Katherine E. Uyhazi
Leads 1 award · $591,623
- 5R01EY036824-02Department: NIH department codeCharacterizing photoreceptor precursor cells for retinal transplantation$591,623award amount
Artur V Cideciyan
Leads 1 award · $572,025
- 5R01EY035675-03Department: NIH department codePhotoreceptor Disease in Inherited Retinal Degenerations$572,025award amount
Vivian Lee
Leads 1 award · $505,273
- 5R01EY033291-05Department: NIH department codeNew models, new approaches, new horizons in corneal nerve regeneration$505,273award amount
Qi N Cui
Leads 1 award · $497,143
- 5R01EY034115-04Department: NIH department codeEvaluating Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential of (GLP-1R) Agonists for Glaucoma Treatment$497,143award amount
Lucie Yueqi Guo
Leads 1 award · $406,250
- 7DP5OD039444-02Department: NIH department codeBuilding precision disease-responsive gene therapy$406,250award amount
Peter Martin John Quinn
Leads 1 award · $406,250
- 5R01EY034952-05Department: NIH department codePrime editing for Crumbs homologue 1 (CRB1) Inherited Retinal Dystrophies$406,250award 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.
Alfred Hyoungju Kim
Co-investigator on 5R01AI180047-03, led by Dwight Edward Stambolian
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- Washington University in St. Louis (no department on record, 1 award)
Baerbel Rohrer
Co-investigator on 5R01AI180047-03, led by Dwight Edward Stambolian
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Medical University of South Carolina · Ophthalmology (NIH department code, 1 award)
David H. Brainard
Co-investigator on 2R01EY030227-04A1, led by Jessica I.w. Morgan
From the FY2024 awards this person leads
- University of Pennsylvania (no department on record, 1 award)
Also counted toward University of Pennsylvania in the Ophthalmology ranking
Department rankings count awards at these organizations toward University of Pennsylvania. With University of Pennsylvania's own 15 awards (R&D contracts left out), they make up its ranking row: #16, $9,066,117, 17 awards. Each organization's page lists its investigators.