FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences

San Juan, PR

Funding

$8.2M

$8,219,751

Awards

FY2026 NIH awards in Biochemistry

Principal investigators

8 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators

Department rank

#47

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 Puerto Rico Medical Sciences page.

Leads a grant in this department

8 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.

Carmen Lydia Cadilla
Leads 2 awards · $5,973,891
- 2P20GM103475-24Department: NIH department code
  PR INBRE: Advancing Competitive Biomedical Research in Puerto Rico
  Principal investigators: Carmen Lydia Cadilla (contact PI), Humberto Guillermo Ortiz-Zuazaga (contact PI), Jose R. Rodriguez-Medina (contact PI), Suranganie Dharmawardhane (contact PI)
  $4,367,777
  award amount
- 1T32GM164035-01Department: NIH department code
  UPR MSC Transdisciplinary Basic Biomedical Sciences Training Program
  Principal investigators: Carmen Lydia Cadilla (contact PI), Jennifer Luz Barreto Estrada, Jorge David Miranda, Ricardo Ramon Gonzalez-Mendez
  $1,606,114
  award amount
Suranganie Dharmawardhane
Leads 2 awards · $4,419,927
- 2P20GM103475-24Department: NIH department code
  PR INBRE: Advancing Competitive Biomedical Research in Puerto Rico
  Principal investigators: Carmen Lydia Cadilla (contact PI), Humberto Guillermo Ortiz-Zuazaga (contact PI), Jose R. Rodriguez-Medina (contact PI), Suranganie Dharmawardhane (contact PI)
  $4,367,777
  award amount
- 5R16GM149427-04Department: NIH department code
  MBQ-167 derivatives as antimetastatic cancer agents.
  $52,150
  award amount
Humberto Guillermo Ortiz-Zuazaga
Leads 1 award · $4,367,777
- 2P20GM103475-24Department: NIH department code
  PR INBRE: Advancing Competitive Biomedical Research in Puerto Rico
  Principal investigators: Carmen Lydia Cadilla (contact PI), Humberto Guillermo Ortiz-Zuazaga (contact PI), Jose R. Rodriguez-Medina (contact PI), Suranganie Dharmawardhane (contact PI)
  $4,367,777
  award amount
Jose R. Rodriguez-Medina
Leads 1 award · $4,367,777
- 2P20GM103475-24Department: NIH department code
  PR INBRE: Advancing Competitive Biomedical Research in Puerto Rico
  Principal investigators: Carmen Lydia Cadilla (contact PI), Humberto Guillermo Ortiz-Zuazaga (contact PI), Jose R. Rodriguez-Medina (contact PI), Suranganie Dharmawardhane (contact PI)
  $4,367,777
  award amount
Abel J Baerga-Ortiz
Leads 2 awards · $2,193,710
- 5P20GM148324-04Department: NIH department code
  COBRE Center for the Promotion of Cancer Health Research (CePCHe)
  Principal investigators: Abel J Baerga-Ortiz (contact PI), Jose Lugo-Martinez (contact PI), Karen J Ortiz (contact PI), Vivian Colon (contact PI)
  $2,043,379
  award amount
- 5R16GM153691-03Department: NIH department code
  Genotoxicity and immunogenicity of the uropathogenic specific protein (USP) in the gut
  $150,331
  award amount
Jose Lugo-Martinez
Leads 1 award · $2,043,379
- 5P20GM148324-04Department: NIH department code
  COBRE Center for the Promotion of Cancer Health Research (CePCHe)
  Principal investigators: Abel J Baerga-Ortiz (contact PI), Jose Lugo-Martinez (contact PI), Karen J Ortiz (contact PI), Vivian Colon (contact PI)
  $2,043,379
  award amount
Karen J Ortiz
Leads 1 award · $2,043,379
- 5P20GM148324-04Department: NIH department code
  COBRE Center for the Promotion of Cancer Health Research (CePCHe)
  Principal investigators: Abel J Baerga-Ortiz (contact PI), Jose Lugo-Martinez (contact PI), Karen J Ortiz (contact PI), Vivian Colon (contact PI)
  $2,043,379
  award amount
Vivian Colon
Leads 1 award · $2,043,379
- 5P20GM148324-04Department: NIH department code
  COBRE Center for the Promotion of Cancer Health Research (CePCHe)
  Principal investigators: Abel J Baerga-Ortiz (contact PI), Jose Lugo-Martinez (contact PI), Karen J Ortiz (contact PI), Vivian Colon (contact PI)
  $2,043,379
  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.

Jennifer Luz Barreto Estrada
Co-investigator on 1T32GM164035-01, led by Carmen Lydia Cadilla
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences · Anatomy & Cell Biology (NIH department code, 1 award)
Jorge David Miranda
Co-investigator on 1T32GM164035-01, led by Carmen Lydia Cadilla
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences (no department on record, 1 award)
Ricardo Ramon Gonzalez-Mendez
Co-investigator on 1T32GM164035-01, led by Carmen Lydia Cadilla
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.