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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

Funding
$8M
$8,031,457
Awards
18
FY2026 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
18
15 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • 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 Biology row of the University of Southern California 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. Emily R. Liman

    Leads 2 awards · $1,078,968

    • 5R01DC013741-12Department: NIH department code
      Role of the proton channel OTOP1 in taste transduction

      Principal investigators: Emily R. Liman (contact PI), Sue C. Kinnamon

      $666,468
      award amount
    • 5R35GM152051-03Department: NIH department code
      Cellular physiology of Otopetrin Proton Channels
      $412,500
      award amount

  2. Scott Edward Kanoski

    Leads 2 awards · $1,060,606

    • 5R01DK123423-07Department: NIH department code
      Interactions between diet and cognition
      $537,628
      award amount
    • 5R01DK118402-07Department: NIH department code
      Control of feeding behavior by melanin-concentrating hormone
      $522,978
      award amount

  3. Xiaojiang S Chen

    Leads 1 award · $712,853

    • 5R01AI150524-15Department: NIH department code
      Structural Basis of APOBEC Functions and HIV Restriction
      $712,853
      award amount

  4. David Raichlen

    Leads 1 award · $664,412

  5. Carolyn Marie Phillips

    Leads 1 award · $645,278

    • 2R35GM119656-11Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of gene expression and genome organization by small RNAs
      $645,278
      award amount

  6. Remo Rohs

    Leads 1 award · $610,303

    • 2R35GM130376-06Department: NIH department code
      Quantitative Modeling of Protein-Nucleic Acid Binding
      $610,303
      award amount

  7. Irene E Chiolo

    Leads 1 award · $525,740

    • 5R01ES037530-02Department: NIH department code
      Nuclear actin filaments and phase separation: new drivers of heterochromatin repair
      $525,740
      award amount

  8. Dion Kai Dickman

    Leads 2 awards · $457,917

    • 5R01NS126654-04Department: NIH department code
      Generating functional diversity from molecular homogeneity at glutamatergic synapses
      $384,877
      award amount
    • 3R01NS126654-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Generating functional diversity from molecular homogeneity at glutamatergic synapses
      $73,040
      award amount

  9. Michael Donald Edge

    Leads 1 award · $456,500

    • 2R35GM137758-06Department: NIH department code
      Traits on trees: Population genomics for understanding complex phenotypes
      $456,500
      award amount

  10. Bruce Herring

    Leads 1 award · $448,168

    • 5R01NS130185-04Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the role of SAP97 in synaptic function and schizophrenia.
      $448,168
      award amount

  11. Ian Michael Ehrenreich

    Leads 1 award · $445,705

    • 5R35GM130381-08Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing epistasis in yeast using CRISPR and chromosome synthesis
      $445,705
      award amount

  12. Judith A Hirsch

    Leads 1 award · $415,000

    • 5R01EY009593-31Department: NIH department code
      Neural Circuits that Process Visual Information
      $415,000
      award amount

  13. Mark Chaisson

    Leads 1 award · $409,779

    • 2R01HG011649-06Department: NIH department code
      Computational methods to discover, annotate, and genotype complex variation using long-read and biobank data
      $409,779
      award amount

  14. Alexander Grimke Bashaw

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31DK142526-02Department: NIH department code
      Hippocampal dopamine signaling and food-related memory: implications for obesity
      $50,114
      award amount

  15. Logan Tierno Lauer

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31AG092136-02Department: NIH department code
      Vagus nerve modulation of hippocampus function.
      $50,114
      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.