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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

Funding
$13M
$12,975,509
Awards
30
FY2024 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
33
21 lead a grant here, 12 co-investigators
Department rank
#5
of 73 · 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 Pittsburgh page.

Leads a grant in this department

21 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. Anthony J St Leger

    Leads 4 awards · $3,406,185

    • 5U01EY034711-03Department: NIH department code
      Assessing how ocular surface nerves, immune cells, and epithelial cells communicate to encourage neuro-immune homeostasis

      Principal investigators: Anthony J St Leger (contact PI), Daniel H Kaplan, Harinder Singh

      $1,502,420
      award amount
    • 5U24EY035102-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining bacterial members of the ocular surface microbiome and assessing stability over time

      Principal investigators: Anthony J St Leger (contact PI), Anat Galor

      $1,096,264
      award amount
    • 5R01EY026891-07Department: NIH department code
      Contribution of sympathetic nerves to herpes stromal keratitis
      $410,001
      award amount
    • 5R01EY032482-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the microbial requirements for colonization and immunogenicity of commensal bacteria at the ocular surface
      $397,500
      award amount

  2. Paul R. Kinchington

    Leads 3 awards · $1,555,924

    • 5R01AI151290-04Department: NIH department code
      Role of VZV Latency Transcript (VLT) and ORF63 in latency and reactivation

      Principal investigators: Paul R. Kinchington (contact PI), Georges Michel Verjans

      $709,789
      award amount
    • 5R01AI158510-03Department: NIH department code
      VZV vaccine attenuation and the DNA damage response
      $634,966
      award amount
    • 2T32EY017271-16Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary Visual Sciences (IVS) Training Program

      Principal investigators: Paul R. Kinchington (contact PI), Marlene Behrmann

      $211,169
      award amount

  3. Xing Chen

    Leads 1 award · $1,177,273

    • 1DP2EY037405-01Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the principles of phosphene fusion via high-channel-count visual prostheses
      $1,177,273
      award amount

  4. Robert M Shanks

    Leads 2 awards · $886,793

    • 1R01EY036686-01Department: NIH department code
      Extensively drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa keratitis outbreak strain:  virulence mechanisms and mitigation
      $488,639
      award amount
    • 5R01EY032517-04Department: NIH department code
      Rise of lasR mutant Pseudomonas aeruginosa keratitis
      $398,154
      award amount

  5. John D Ash

    Leads 3 awards · $837,609

    • 5R01EY031720-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulators of retinal metabolism in healthy and degenerating retinas

      Principal investigators: John D Ash (contact PI), Jianhai Du

      $453,941
      award amount
    • 5R01EY032051-04Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional control of stress-induced resistance to retinal degeneration

      Principal investigators: John D Ash (contact PI), Michael H Elliott

      $383,667
      award amount
    • 5R13EY022574-10Department: NIH department code
      Retinal Degeneration Conference
      $1
      award amount

  6. Issam Al Diri

    Leads 2 awards · $804,991

    • 1R01EY035619-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Wiring and rewiring of the chromatin landscape during retinogenesis
      $413,741
      award amount
    • 5R01EY030861-05Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic basis of retinal cell fate determination
      $391,250
      award amount

  7. Jose-Alain Sahel

    Leads 1 award · $722,637

  8. Hin Fai Yam

    Leads 1 award · $507,420

    • 5U01EY035252-02Department: NIH department code
      Cell Therapy Program with Scale-up cGMP Manufacturing of Human Corneal Stromal Stem Cells

      Principal investigators: Hin Fai Yam (contact PI), Devanjan Sikder

      $507,420
      award amount

  9. Joseph Patrick Mayo

    Leads 1 award · $465,343

    • 1R01EY035673-01Department: NIH department code
      Multi-scale Dissection of Frontal Lobe Circuits for Interacting Eye Movements
      $465,343
      award amount

  10. Ethan A Rossi

    Leads 1 award · $421,719

    • 5R01EY030517-05Department: NIH department code
      Distinguishing normal aging from age-related macular degeneration at the level of single cells in the living human eye
      $421,719
      award amount

  11. Kevin K. Fuller

    Leads 1 award · $402,321

    • 7R01EY033866-03Department: NIH department code
      The unfolded protein response as a therapeutic target for fungal keratitis
      $402,321
      award amount

  12. Susana Isabel M M A Da Silva

    Leads 1 award · $395,258

    • 5R01EY033385-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of retinoic acid signaling in fovea development
      $395,258
      award amount

  13. Yuanyuan Chen

    Leads 1 award · $352,125

    • 5R01EY030991-05Department: NIH department code
      Pharmacological studies of rhodopsin metabolism
      $352,125
      award amount

  14. Marlene Behrmann

    Leads 1 award · $328,437

    • 5R01EY027018-08Department: NIH department code
      Reorganization of visual function in patients with posterior cortical research: Selectivity and plasticity
      $328,437
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32EY017271-16, led by Paul R. Kinchington.

  15. Liyun Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $291,964

    • 7R01EY032533-05Department: NIH department code
      Drug Screening for Neuroprotectants in Novel Zebrafish Models of Retinitis Pigmentosa
      $291,964
      award amount

  16. Or Shemesh

    Leads 1 award · $198,750

    • 5R21EB033121-02Department: NIH department code
      Glia Exclusive Gene Therapy
      $198,750
      award amount

  17. Shawn Willett

    Leads 1 award · $76,756

    • 1F32EY035134-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The cortical and subcortical control of coordinated eye movements
      $76,756
      award amount

  18. Kelly C Martin

    Leads 1 award · $74,284

    • 1F32DC022192-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Language plasticity after childhood hemispherectomy: Neuroimaging and computational modeling
      $74,284
      award amount

  19. Alessandra Larimer-Picciani

    Leads 1 award · $51,930

    • 1F30EY036249-01Department: NIH department code
      Advancing treatment and molecular understanding of oculocutaneous albinism through gene therapy
      $51,930
      award amount

  20. Debasish Sinha

    Leads 1 award · $17,789

    • 5R01EY031594-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting lysosome/RPE heterogeneity in AMD pathobiology as a novel therapy

      Principal investigators: Debasish Sinha (contact PI), James T Handa

      $17,789
      award amount

  21. Roxana Fu

    Leads 1 award · $1

    • 1R01EY033973-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Automation of the radiographic surgical indicators for pediatric orbital abscess

      Principal investigators: Roxana Fu (contact PI), Jiantao Pu

      $1
      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.