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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Genetics at University of Washington

Seattle, WA

Funding
$19.9M
$19,882,532
Awards
32
FY2026 NIH awards in Genetics
Principal investigators
33
28 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
#13
of 59 · 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 Genetics row of the University of Washington page.

Leads a grant in this department

28 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. Douglas M Fowler

    Leads 2 awards · $2,714,818

    • 5RM1HG010461-08Department: NIH department code
      Technology to understand genetic variant effects in context

      Principal investigators: Douglas M Fowler (contact PI), Bruce Colston Trapnell

      $2,128,294
      award amount
    • 5R35GM152106-03Department: NIH department code
      New approaches for investigating the causes and consequences of cellular heterogeneity
      $586,524
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 3UM1HG011969-05S1, led by Lea Starita.

  2. Lea Starita

    Leads 2 awards · $2,401,131

    • 3UM1HG011969-05S1Department: NIH department code
      The Center for Actionable Variant Analysis; measuring variant function at scale

      Principal investigators: Lea Starita (contact PI), Douglas M Fowler

      $1,604,911
      award amount
    • 5R01HG013025-04Department: NIH department code
      Advancing the implementation of variant-level functional data into clinical databases and clinical practice

      Principal investigators: Lea Starita (contact PI), Andrew Ben Stergachis

      $796,220
      award amount
  3. Chia-Lin Wei

    Leads 1 award · $2,389,483

  4. Jay Ashok Shendure

    Leads 2 awards · $2,239,283

    • 3UM1HG011966-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Massively parallel characterization of variants and elements impacting transcriptional regulation in dynamic cellular systems

      Principal investigators: Jay Ashok Shendure (contact PI), Nadav Ahituv

      $1,584,050
      award amount
    • 5R01HG010632-07Department: NIH department code
      Versatile, exponentially scalable methods for single cell molecular profiling

      Principal investigators: Jay Ashok Shendure (contact PI), Bruce Colston Trapnell

      $655,233
      award amount
  5. Bruce Colston Trapnell

    Leads 2 awards · $1,557,272

    • 5T32HG000035-32Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary Training in Genome Sciences
      $978,201
      award amount
    • 5R01HG012761-04Department: NIH department code
      New software tools for differential analysis of single-cell genomics perturbation experiments

      Principal investigators: Bruce Colston Trapnell (contact PI), David Kimelman

      $579,071
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5RM1HG010461-08, led by Douglas M Fowler; 5R01HG010632-07, led by Jay Ashok Shendure.

  6. Michael MacCoss

    Leads 1 award · $1,094,360

    • 2R24GM141156-06Department: NIH department code
      Seattle Quant: A Resource for the Skyline Software Ecosystem
      $1,094,360
      award amount
  7. Evan Eichler

    Leads 2 awards · $1,040,567

    • 5R01HG002385-25Department: NIH department code
      Long-read sequence and assembly of segmental duplications
      $541,255
      award amount
    • 5R01HG010169-08Department: NIH department code
      Sequence resolution of complex human genome structural variation
      $499,312
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 3U01HG011744-05S1, led by Chia-Lin Wei.

  8. Sudarshan Pinglay

    Leads 1 award · $777,500

    • 4DP5OD036167-04Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the logic of mammalian gene regulation using synthetic biology and single-cell sequencing
      $777,500
      award amount
  9. Saori Sakaue

    Leads 1 award · $738,625

    • 1DP2CA325380-01Department: NIH department code
      Illuminating the Hidden Genome: Population-Scale Inference of Human Centromeric Variation and Its Clinical Sequelae
      $738,625
      award amount
  10. Christine Queitsch

    Leads 1 award · $598,376

    • 2R35GM139532-06Department: NIH department code
      Understanding gene regulation in context
      $598,376
      award amount
  11. Bonita J Brewer

    Leads 1 award · $571,840

    • 5R35GM122497-10Department: NIH department code
      Choreography of Eukaryotic DNA Replication
      $571,840
      award amount
  12. James Edward Bruce

    Leads 1 award · $485,375

    • 5R35GM136255-07Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics of the cellular interactome
      $485,375
      award amount
  13. Brian Joseph Beliveau

    Leads 1 award · $470,386

    • 5R35GM137916-07Department: NIH department code
      Developing and democratizing technologies to study 3D genome organization
      $470,386
      award amount
  14. Kelley Harris

    Leads 1 award · $465,348

    • 5R35GM133428-07Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the landscape and genetic architecture of germline mutagenesis
      $465,348
      award amount
  15. Judit Villen

    Leads 1 award · $419,850

    • 5R35GM152061-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of phosphorylation in the cellular organization of the proteome
      $419,850
      award amount
  16. Benjamin Solomon Freedman

    Leads 1 award · $389,267

    • 5U54DK144864-02Department: NIH department code
      Polycystic Kidney Disease In Vitro Center (PKD-InVent)

      Principal investigators: Benjamin Solomon Freedman (contact PI), Ramila Gulieva (contact PI)

      $389,267
      award amount
  17. Ramila Gulieva

    Leads 1 award · $389,267

    • 5U54DK144864-02Department: NIH department code
      Polycystic Kidney Disease In Vitro Center (PKD-InVent)

      Principal investigators: Benjamin Solomon Freedman (contact PI), Ramila Gulieva (contact PI)

      $389,267
      award amount
  18. Devin Karl Schweppe

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5R35GM150919-04Department: NIH department code
      Technology for evaluating drug-binding responses to small-molecule perturbation
      $388,750
      award amount
  19. Leo J Pallanck

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5R01AG075100-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of innate immune activation in a Drosophila model of Alzheimer's disease related dementia
      $388,750
      award amount
  20. William Stafford Noble

    Leads 1 award · $252,145

    • 5R25HG012337-05Department: NIH department code
      University of Washington Genomics Research Training for Data Scientists

      Principal investigators: William Stafford Noble (contact PI), Adrian Dobra

      $252,145
      award amount
  21. Riddhiman Kannan Garge

    Leads 1 award · $128,169

    • 1K99HD120632-01Department: NIH department code
      Multi-omic dissection of early embryogenesis and neural tube defects using human gastruloids
      $128,169
      award amount
  22. Curran Oy

    Leads 1 award · $80,224

    • 5F32HG013282-03Department: NIH department code
      Mutational scanning of seizure-related gene para in fruit flies
      $80,224
      award amount
  23. Doudou Yu

    Leads 1 award · $72,571

    • 5K00AG083292-04Department: NIH department code
      Selective vulnerability of cell types in brain aging and Alzheimer's disease
      $72,571
      award amount
  24. Caleb Robert Carr

    Leads 1 award · $51,967

    • 5F30AI188777-02Department: NIH department code
      Comprehensively mapping the functional and antigenic effects of mutations to the Lassa virus glycoprotein complex
      $51,967
      award amount
  25. Yong-Han Hank Cheng

    Leads 1 award · $46,560

    • 1F30HD119917-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Identifying pathogenic variants that cause Mendelian conditions using long-read multi-ome sequencing
      $46,560
      award amount
  26. Caroline Sakura Kikawa

    Leads 1 award · $46,198

    • 5F30AI186284-02Department: NIH department code
      Next-generation sequencing-based neutralization assays to forecast influenza virus clade growth.
      $46,198
      award amount
  27. Jenny Nathans

    Leads 1 award · $42,456

    • 5F31AR084852-02Department: NIH department code
      Spatially resolved mapping of lineage and signaling history in human skin organoids
      $42,456
      award amount
  28. Andrew Carter Mullen

    Leads 1 award · $31,261

    • 5F30HD113217-04Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering Nodal signaling and transcription factor interactions in somitic mesoderm development using single-cell deep learning methods
      $31,261
      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.

Also counted toward University of Washington in the Genetics ranking

Department rankings count awards at these organizations toward University of Washington. With University of Washington's own 32 awards (R&D contracts left out), they make up its ranking row: #13, $22,705,325, 36 awards. Each organization's page lists its investigators.