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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Funding
$11.5M
$11,526,392
Awards
24
FY2024 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
18
16 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#8
of 99 · 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 Physiology row of the University of Pennsylvania page.

Leads a grant in this department

16 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. E. Michael Ostap

    Leads 4 awards · $2,881,699

    • 5RM1GM136511-05Department: NIH department code
      Integrative mechanisms of organelle dynamics from the atomic-to-cellular level

      Principal investigators: E. Michael Ostap (contact PI), Erika L Holzbaur, Melike Lakadamyali, Roberto Dominguez

      $1,569,580
      award amount
    • 5R01HL157997-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanochemistry of myosin mutations that cause cardiomyopathy

      Principal investigators: E. Michael Ostap (contact PI), Yale E Goldman

      $521,912
      award amount
    • 5R37GM057247-26Department: NIH department code
      Molecular function of Myosin-l
      $514,773
      award amount
    • 5T32AR053461-19Department: NIH department code
      Training in Muscle Biology and Muscle Disease
      $275,434
      award amount
  2. James Kevin Foskett

    Leads 3 awards · $1,520,823

    • 5R01DC018278-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular physiology of CALHM ion channels

      Principal investigators: James Kevin Foskett (contact PI), Zhongming Ma

      $573,679
      award amount
    • 5R01CA250173-04Department: NIH department code
      Endoplasmic Reticulum-to-Mitochondria Calcium Transfer in Pancreatic Cancer Development, Metastasis, and Treatment
      $500,269
      award amount
    • 5R35GM140975-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular physiology of intracellular InsP3R and MCU ion channels
      $446,875
      award amount
  3. Erika L Holzbaur

    Leads 2 awards · $1,122,181

    • 5R35GM126950-07Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Axonal Transport and Organelle Dynamics
      $704,950
      award amount
    • 5R01NS060698-16Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics of Axonal Autophagy in Neurons
      $417,231
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5RM1GM136511-05, led by E. Michael Ostap.

  4. Paul Michael Titchenell

    Leads 2 awards · $793,456

    • 5R01DK125497-04Department: NIH department code
      Hepatic mTORC1 Signaling and the Regulation of Lipid Homeostasis
      $409,950
      award amount
    • 5R01DK123252-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Metabolism by Insulin Signaling
      $383,506
      award amount
  5. Roberto Dominguez

    Leads 2 awards · $736,695

    • 5R01GM073791-19Department: NIH department code
      Structural-Functional Basis of Actin Cytoskeleton Dynamics
      $411,695
      award amount
    • 1R01GM152412-01Department: NIH department code
      Structural-Functional Mechanisms Controlling Actin Filament Barbed and Pointed End Dynamics
      $325,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5RM1GM136511-05, led by E. Michael Ostap.

  6. Joseph A. Baur

    Leads 1 award · $644,038

    • 5R01HL165792-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the roles of cardiac NAD pools and therapeutic effects of precursor supplements in heart failure
      $644,038
      award amount
  7. Ekaterina L Grishchuk

    Leads 1 award · $643,500

    • 5R35GM141747-04Department: NIH department code
      Biomechanics of molecular machines and multiscale non-linear systems
      $643,500
      award amount
  8. Benjamin Lears Prosser

    Leads 1 award · $640,488

    • 5R01HL133080-09Department: NIH department code
      Detyrosinated microtubules in cardiomyocyte mechanics
      $640,488
      award amount
  9. Paul A Janmey

    Leads 1 award · $626,644

    • 5R35GM136259-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of cell function by mechanical properties of biopolymer networks and lipid bilayers
      $626,644
      award amount
  10. Melike Lakadamyali

    Leads 1 award · $426,363

    • 1R35GM152111-01Department: NIH department code
      Quantitative super-resolution imaging to map the multi-scale functional organization of cells
      $426,363
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5RM1GM136511-05, led by E. Michael Ostap; 5R01AR079224-03, led by Su Chin Heo.

  11. Zhe Lu

    Leads 1 award · $425,802

    • 5R01GM055560-25Department: NIH department code
      Angstrom-scale structural dynamics of a potassium channel
      $425,802
      award amount
  12. Carol J Deutsch

    Leads 1 award · $422,160

    • 5R01GM052302-28Department: NIH department code
      Biogenesis of voltage-gated K+ channels
      $422,160
      award amount
  13. Su Chin Heo

    Leads 1 award · $403,708

    • 5R01AR079224-03Department: NIH department code
      Preserving chromatin nano-structure to enhance chondrocyte therapeutic potential for cartilage repair

      Principal investigators: Su Chin Heo (contact PI), Melike Lakadamyali

      $403,708
      award amount
  14. Juliet Goldsmith

    Leads 1 award · $87,267

    • 5K99NS133611-02Department: NIH department code
      Inflammation and plaque formation downstream of disrupted autophagy in Alzheimer's disease
      $87,267
      award amount
  15. Sierra Danielle Palumbos

    Leads 1 award · $77,284

    • 5F32NS129586-02Department: NIH department code
      Interplay between macroautophagy and secretory autophagy in neurons.
      $77,284
      award amount
  16. Jennifer Morgan Petrosino

    Leads 1 award · $74,284

    • 5F32HL170583-02Department: NIH department code
      Microtubule-mediated tRNA localization in cardiac homeostasis and hypertrophy
      $74,284
      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.

  • Zhongming Ma

    Co-investigator on 5R01DC018278-05, led by James Kevin Foskett

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Yale E Goldman

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL157997-04, led by E. Michael Ostap

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

Also counted toward University of Pennsylvania in the Physiology ranking

Department rankings count awards at these organizations toward University of Pennsylvania. With University of Pennsylvania's own 24 awards (R&D contracts left out), they make up its ranking row: #8, $16,360,485, 34 awards. Each organization's page lists its investigators.