FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Genetics at University of Washington
Seattle, WA
- 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.
Douglas M Fowler
Leads 2 awards · $2,714,818
- 5RM1HG010461-08Department: NIH department codeTechnology to understand genetic variant effects in context
Principal investigators: Douglas M Fowler (contact PI), Bruce Colston Trapnell
$2,128,294award amount - 5R35GM152106-03Department: NIH department codeNew approaches for investigating the causes and consequences of cellular heterogeneity$586,524award amount
Also a principal investigator on 3UM1HG011969-05S1, led by Lea Starita.
Lea Starita
Leads 2 awards · $2,401,131
- 3UM1HG011969-05S1Department: NIH department codeThe Center for Actionable Variant Analysis; measuring variant function at scale
Principal investigators: Lea Starita (contact PI), Douglas M Fowler
$1,604,911award amount - 5R01HG013025-04Department: NIH department codeAdvancing the implementation of variant-level functional data into clinical databases and clinical practice
Principal investigators: Lea Starita (contact PI), Andrew Ben Stergachis
$796,220award amount
Chia-Lin Wei
Leads 1 award · $2,389,483
- 3U01HG011744-05S1Department: NIH department codeUniversity of Washington Mendelian Genomics Research Center (UW-MGRC)
Principal investigators: Chia-Lin Wei (contact PI), Evan Eichler, Michael Joseph Bamshad
$2,389,483award amount
Jay Ashok Shendure
Leads 2 awards · $2,239,283
- 3UM1HG011966-05S1Department: NIH department codeMassively parallel characterization of variants and elements impacting transcriptional regulation in dynamic cellular systems
Principal investigators: Jay Ashok Shendure (contact PI), Nadav Ahituv
$1,584,050award amount - 5R01HG010632-07Department: NIH department codeVersatile, exponentially scalable methods for single cell molecular profiling
Principal investigators: Jay Ashok Shendure (contact PI), Bruce Colston Trapnell
$655,233award amount
Bruce Colston Trapnell
Leads 2 awards · $1,557,272
- 5T32HG000035-32Department: NIH department codeInterdisciplinary Training in Genome Sciences$978,201award amount
- 5R01HG012761-04Department: NIH department codeNew software tools for differential analysis of single-cell genomics perturbation experiments
Principal investigators: Bruce Colston Trapnell (contact PI), David Kimelman
$579,071award amount
Also a principal investigator on 5RM1HG010461-08, led by Douglas M Fowler; 5R01HG010632-07, led by Jay Ashok Shendure.
Michael MacCoss
Leads 1 award · $1,094,360
- 2R24GM141156-06Department: NIH department codeSeattle Quant: A Resource for the Skyline Software Ecosystem$1,094,360award amount
Evan Eichler
Leads 2 awards · $1,040,567
- 5R01HG002385-25Department: NIH department codeLong-read sequence and assembly of segmental duplications$541,255award amount
- 5R01HG010169-08Department: NIH department codeSequence resolution of complex human genome structural variation$499,312award amount
Also a principal investigator on 3U01HG011744-05S1, led by Chia-Lin Wei.
Sudarshan Pinglay
Leads 1 award · $777,500
- 4DP5OD036167-04Department: NIH department codeDissecting the logic of mammalian gene regulation using synthetic biology and single-cell sequencing$777,500award amount
Saori Sakaue
Leads 1 award · $738,625
- 1DP2CA325380-01Department: NIH department codeIlluminating the Hidden Genome: Population-Scale Inference of Human Centromeric Variation and Its Clinical Sequelae$738,625award amount
Christine Queitsch
Leads 1 award · $598,376
- 2R35GM139532-06Department: NIH department codeUnderstanding gene regulation in context$598,376award amount
Bonita J Brewer
Leads 1 award · $571,840
- 5R35GM122497-10Department: NIH department codeChoreography of Eukaryotic DNA Replication$571,840award amount
James Edward Bruce
Leads 1 award · $485,375
- 5R35GM136255-07Department: NIH department codeDynamics of the cellular interactome$485,375award amount
Brian Joseph Beliveau
Leads 1 award · $470,386
- 5R35GM137916-07Department: NIH department codeDeveloping and democratizing technologies to study 3D genome organization$470,386award amount
Kelley Harris
Leads 1 award · $465,348
- 5R35GM133428-07Department: NIH department codeInvestigating the landscape and genetic architecture of germline mutagenesis$465,348award amount
Judit Villen
Leads 1 award · $419,850
- 5R35GM152061-03Department: NIH department codeThe role of phosphorylation in the cellular organization of the proteome$419,850award amount
Benjamin Solomon Freedman
Leads 1 award · $389,267
- 5U54DK144864-02Department: NIH department codePolycystic Kidney Disease In Vitro Center (PKD-InVent)
Principal investigators: Benjamin Solomon Freedman (contact PI), Ramila Gulieva (contact PI)
$389,267award amount
Ramila Gulieva
Leads 1 award · $389,267
- 5U54DK144864-02Department: NIH department codePolycystic Kidney Disease In Vitro Center (PKD-InVent)
Principal investigators: Benjamin Solomon Freedman (contact PI), Ramila Gulieva (contact PI)
$389,267award amount
Devin Karl Schweppe
Leads 1 award · $388,750
- 5R35GM150919-04Department: NIH department codeTechnology for evaluating drug-binding responses to small-molecule perturbation$388,750award amount
Leo J Pallanck
Leads 1 award · $388,750
- 5R01AG075100-05Department: NIH department codeMechanism of innate immune activation in a Drosophila model of Alzheimer's disease related dementia$388,750award amount
William Stafford Noble
Leads 1 award · $252,145
- 5R25HG012337-05Department: NIH department codeUniversity of Washington Genomics Research Training for Data Scientists
Principal investigators: William Stafford Noble (contact PI), Adrian Dobra
$252,145award amount
Riddhiman Kannan Garge
Leads 1 award · $128,169
- 1K99HD120632-01Department: NIH department codeMulti-omic dissection of early embryogenesis and neural tube defects using human gastruloids$128,169award amount
Curran Oy
Leads 1 award · $80,224
- 5F32HG013282-03Department: NIH department codeMutational scanning of seizure-related gene para in fruit flies$80,224award amount
Doudou Yu
Leads 1 award · $72,571
- 5K00AG083292-04Department: NIH department codeSelective vulnerability of cell types in brain aging and Alzheimer's disease$72,571award amount
Caleb Robert Carr
Leads 1 award · $51,967
- 5F30AI188777-02Department: NIH department codeComprehensively mapping the functional and antigenic effects of mutations to the Lassa virus glycoprotein complex$51,967award amount
Yong-Han Hank Cheng
Leads 1 award · $46,560
- 1F30HD119917-01A1Department: NIH department codeIdentifying pathogenic variants that cause Mendelian conditions using long-read multi-ome sequencing$46,560award amount
Caroline Sakura Kikawa
Leads 1 award · $46,198
- 5F30AI186284-02Department: NIH department codeNext-generation sequencing-based neutralization assays to forecast influenza virus clade growth.$46,198award amount
Jenny Nathans
Leads 1 award · $42,456
- 5F31AR084852-02Department: NIH department codeSpatially resolved mapping of lineage and signaling history in human skin organoids$42,456award amount
Andrew Carter Mullen
Leads 1 award · $31,261
- 5F30HD113217-04Department: NIH department codeUncovering Nodal signaling and transcription factor interactions in somitic mesoderm development using single-cell deep learning methods$31,261award 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.
Michael Joseph Bamshad
Co-investigator on 3U01HG011744-05S1, led by Chia-Lin Wei
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Nadav Ahituv
Co-investigator on 3UM1HG011966-05S1, led by Jay Ashok Shendure
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- UT Southwestern Medical Center · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 1 award)
- University of California, San Francisco · Pharmacology (NIH department code, 1 award)
Andrew Ben Stergachis
Co-investigator on 5R01HG013025-04, led by Lea Starita
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Washington · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 1 award)
David Kimelman
Co-investigator on 5R01HG012761-04, led by Bruce Colston Trapnell
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Adrian Dobra
Co-investigator on 5R25HG012337-05, led by William Stafford Noble
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
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.