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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

Funding
$9M
$8,967,063
Awards
22
FY2025 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
23
15 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#10
of 67 · 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

15 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 · $3,176,984

    • 5U01EY034711-04Department: 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

      $1,277,057
      award amount
    • 5U24EY035102-03Department: 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

      $1,092,426
      award amount
    • 5R01EY026891-08Department: NIH department code
      Contribution of sympathetic nerves to herpes stromal keratitis
      $410,001
      award amount
    • 5R01EY032482-05Department: 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 · $1,545,318

    • 5R01AI151290-05Department: 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

      $673,220
      award amount
    • 5R01AI158510-04Department: NIH department code
      VZV vaccine attenuation and the DNA damage response
      $634,966
      award amount
    • 5T32EY017271-17Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary Visual Sciences (IVS) Training Program

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

      $237,132
      award amount

  3. Jose-Alain Sahel

    Leads 1 award · $614,243

  4. Joseph Patrick Mayo

    Leads 1 award · $472,843

    • 5R01EY035673-02Department: NIH department code
      Multi-scale Dissection of Frontal Lobe Circuits for Interacting Eye Movements
      $472,843
      award amount

  5. Robert M Shanks

    Leads 1 award · $420,591

    • 5R01EY036686-02Department: NIH department code
      Extensively drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa keratitis outbreak strain:  virulence mechanisms and mitigation
      $420,591
      award amount

  6. Issam Al Diri

    Leads 1 award · $413,741

    • 5R01EY035619-02Department: NIH department code
      Wiring and rewiring of the chromatin landscape during retinogenesis
      $413,741
      award amount

  7. Liyun Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $409,375

    • 5R01EY032533-06Department: NIH department code
      Drug Screening for Neuroprotectants in Novel Zebrafish Models of Retinitis Pigmentosa
      $409,375
      award amount

  8. Susana Isabel M M A Da Silva

    Leads 1 award · $395,258

    • 5R01EY033385-04Department: NIH department code
      Role of retinoic acid signaling in fovea development
      $395,258
      award amount

  9. John D Ash

    Leads 2 awards · $380,877

    • 5R01EY032051-05Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional control of stress-induced resistance to retinal degeneration

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

      $325,877
      award amount
    • 5R13EY022574-11Department: NIH department code
      Retinal Degeneration Conference
      $55,000
      award amount

  10. Kevin K. Fuller

    Leads 1 award · $375,852

    • 5R01EY033866-04Department: NIH department code
      The unfolded protein response as a therapeutic target for fungal keratitis
      $375,852
      award amount

  11. Marlene Behrmann

    Leads 1 award · $326,868

    • 5R01EY027018-09Department: NIH department code
      Reorganization of visual function in patients with posterior cortical research: Selectivity and plasticity
      $326,868
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32EY017271-17, led by Paul R. Kinchington.

  12. Or Shemesh

    Leads 1 award · $198,750

    • 5R21EB033121-03Department: NIH department code
      Glia Exclusive Gene Therapy
      $198,750
      award amount

  13. Shawn Willett

    Leads 2 awards · $158,869

    • 1K99EY037819-01Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the neural basis of visual continuity using blinks
      $121,771
      award amount
    • 5F32EY035134-02Department: NIH department code
      The cortical and subcortical control of coordinated eye movements
      $37,098
      award amount

  14. Alessandra Larimer-Picciani

    Leads 1 award · $52,494

    • 5F30EY036249-02Department: NIH department code
      Advancing treatment and molecular understanding of oculocutaneous albinism through gene therapy
      $52,494
      award amount

  15. James Paul Herman

    Leads 1 award · $25,000

    • 1R13NS141590-01A1Department: NIH department code
      10 Open Problems in Nonhuman Primate Systems Neuroscience
      $25,000
      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.