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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biomedical Engineering at University of Texas Dallas

Richardson, TX

Funding
$7.5M
$7,482,128
Awards
15
FY2026 NIH awards in Biomedical Engineering
Principal investigators
16
12 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
#24
of 80 · 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 Biomedical Engineering row of the University of Texas Dallas 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. Chen Cao

    Leads 2 awards · $2,176,944

    • 1R35GM166438-01Department: NIH department code
      Orthogonal molecular measurements of metabolic regulation in early embryo development
      $1,928,500
      award amount
    • 5R00HD102584-05Department: NIH department code
      Decoding the dynamics and regulation of parental allelic expression at single-cell resolution
      $248,444
      award amount
  2. Leonidas Bleris

    Leads 3 awards · $815,671

    • 5R01CA283330-03Department: NIH department code
      Bromodomain and extra-terminal motif (BET) inhibitors in Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT)

      Principal investigators: Leonidas Bleris (contact PI), Javier Martin-Broto

      $399,996
      award amount
    • 5R01GM157608-03Department: NIH department code
      DMS/NIGMS 2: The mathematics of epigenetic regulation in human cells
      $274,153
      award amount
    • 3R01CA283330-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Bromodomain and extra-terminal motif (BET) inhibitors in Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT)

      Principal investigators: Leonidas Bleris (contact PI), Heather Naomi Hayenga, Javier Martin-Broto

      $141,522
      award amount
  3. Kristin Suzanne Miller

    Leads 1 award · $729,915

    • 5R01AG086472-02Department: NIH department code
      Identification of Age and Injury Dependent Mechanisms of Elastic Fiber Dynamics in the Murine Vagina
      $729,915
      award amount
  4. David W Schmidtke

    Leads 1 award · $546,514

    • 5R01HL173332-02Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering links between Leukocyte Activation and Infections in VAD patients
      $546,514
      award amount
  5. Shashank Ramesh Sirsi

    Leads 1 award · $499,156

  6. Baowei Fei

    Leads 1 award · $498,992

    • 5R01CA288379-03Department: NIH department code
      A Real-Time Hyperspectral Laparoscopic Stereo Imaging System for Robot-Assisted Surgery
      $498,992
      award amount
  7. Girgis Obaid

    Leads 1 award · $496,006

    • 5R01EB034360-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Imaging Guidance for Potentiating Chemoimmunotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer using Photodynamic Priming
      $496,006
      award amount
  8. Yongsheng Gao

    Leads 1 award · $395,625

    • 5R35GM160143-02Department: NIH department code
      Engineering platelets for therapeutic applications
      $395,625
      award amount
  9. Polimyr Caesar Dave Pelisco Dingal

    Leads 1 award · $390,000

    • 5R35GM150967-04Department: NIH department code
      Natural and synthetic mechanisms of ligand formation
      $390,000
      award amount
  10. Yichen Ding

    Leads 1 award · $376,131

    • 5R01HL162635-04Department: NIH department code
      Volumetric imaging and computation to characterize cardiac electromechanical coupling
      $376,131
      award amount
  11. Danieli Rodrigues

    Leads 1 award · $370,500

    • 5R01DE026736-10Department: NIH department code
      Multifunctional Ionic Liquid Application for Treatment of Peri-implant Diseases
      $370,500
      award amount
  12. You Li

    Leads 1 award · $186,674

    • 1R21EB039965-01Department: NIH department code
      Fullwave Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Rapid Ultrasound Simulation, Quantitative Imaging, and Adaptive Focusing
      $186,674
      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.

  • Javier Martin-Broto

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA283330-03, led by Leonidas Bleris; 3R01CA283330-03S1, led by Leonidas Bleris

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

  • Katherine Gengler Brown

    Co-investigator on 1R01EB039167-01, led by Shashank Ramesh Sirsi

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Misun Hwang

    Co-investigator on 1R01EB039167-01, led by Shashank Ramesh Sirsi

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Heather Naomi Hayenga

    Co-investigator on 3R01CA283330-03S1, led by Leonidas Bleris

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