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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

Funding
$4.6M
$4,609,057
Awards
14
FY2026 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
13
12 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
#74
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 Southern California 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.

  1. Irene E Chiolo

    Leads 2 awards · $903,807

    • 1R21ES038781-01Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the impact of NUP98-HOXA9 on DNA damage responses
      $452,547
      award amount
    • 5R01GM157834-02Department: NIH department code
      Heterochromatin Repair Mechanisms: a Chromatin Perspective
      $451,260
      award amount
  2. Donald B Arnold

    Leads 1 award · $668,587

    • 5R01MH139680-02Department: NIH department code
      Methods for anterograde tracing of active circuits
      $668,587
      award amount
  3. Sheng Li

    Leads 1 award · $589,500

    • 1R35GM162228-01Department: NIH department code
      Computational interrogation of Epigenetic Regulation in Cellular Plasticity and Heterogeneity
      $589,500
      award amount
  4. Xiaojiang S Chen

    Leads 1 award · $506,018

    • 1R01GM164504-01Department: NIH department code
      Structural and Molecular Basis of Polq Functions in DNA repair
      $506,018
      award amount
  5. Derrick Morton

    Leads 2 awards · $463,300

    • 5R01NS131620-04Department: NIH department code
      Investigating RNA dysregulation in Neurological Disease through study of Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia Type 1b
      $413,500
      award amount
    • 3R01NS131620-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating RNA dysregulation in Neurological Disease through study of Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia Type 1b
      $49,800
      award amount
  6. Lin Chen

    Leads 1 award · $456,500

    • 1R21AI191142-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Identification of Immune Activation DNA inside Cells
      $456,500
      award amount
  7. Oliver Bell

    Leads 1 award · $451,485

    • 5R01CA293188-03Department: NIH department code
      Discovery of small molecules targeting Polycomb repressive complexes 1 and 2

      Principal investigators: Oliver Bell (contact PI), Thomas D Y Chung

      $451,485
      award amount
  8. Carolyn Marie Phillips

    Leads 1 award · $347,919

    • 1R01HD119022-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering the role of RG motifs in piRNA-mediated silencing and transgenerational fertility
      $347,919
      award amount
  9. Matthew Gregory Lowe

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32GM156052-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding How Distinct Heterochromatin States Control Pioneer Factor Binding
      $79,348
      award amount
  10. Maria Bustos

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31HD120042-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Argonaute Nuclear Import in Mediating Transgenerational Fertility
      $50,114
      award amount
  11. Nadejda Butova

    Leads 1 award · $46,311

    • 5F31ES036878-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the Role of Ulp1 as a clock for heterochromatin repair
      $46,311
      award amount
  12. Emily Arnold

    Leads 1 award · $46,168

    • 5F31NS143348-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the RNA-Regulatory Activities of the RNA Exosome during Human Motor Neuron Differentiation
      $46,168
      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.

  • Thomas D Y Chung

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA293188-03, led by Oliver Bell

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