FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Ophthalmology 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 Ophthalmology row of the University of Washington page.
Leads a grant in this department
9 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Jay Neitz
Leads 2 awards · $1,440,177
- 2P30EY001730-51Department: NIH department codeVision Research Core
Principal investigators: James Bryant Hurley (contact PI), Jay Neitz (contact PI), Maureen E Neitz (contact PI)
$880,507award amount - 5R01EY027859-09Department: NIH department codeLinking retinal circuits to perception$559,670award amount
Ramkumar Sabesan
Leads 2 awards · $1,378,910
- 2R01EY029710-06Department: NIH department codePhotoreceptor mosaic in health and disease$756,106award amount
- 1R01EY037726-01A1Department: NIH department codeMechanisms of the Cone Optoretinogram$622,804award amount
James Bryant Hurley
Leads 1 award · $880,507
- 2P30EY001730-51Department: NIH department codeVision Research Core
Principal investigators: James Bryant Hurley (contact PI), Jay Neitz (contact PI), Maureen E Neitz (contact PI)
$880,507award amount
Maureen E Neitz
Leads 1 award · $880,507
- 2P30EY001730-51Department: NIH department codeVision Research Core
Principal investigators: James Bryant Hurley (contact PI), Jay Neitz (contact PI), Maureen E Neitz (contact PI)
$880,507award amount
Ethan D Buhr
Leads 2 awards · $850,965
- 5R01EY035319-03Department: NIH department codePhotoreceptor induction in wounded corneas$441,250award amount
- 5R01GM152641-03Department: NIH department codeThe mechanism of extra-visual circadian photoentrainment in mammals$409,715award amount
Yuzuru Sasamoto
Leads 1 award · $745,716
- 5R01EY036399-03Department: NIH department codeThe role of BCAM-positive cells in central cornea, limbus and conjunctiva$745,716award amount
Jennifer Rayming Chao
Leads 1 award · $540,137
- 5R01EY034364-05Department: NIH department codeMetabolic dysfunction from ECM remodeling in diseases of human RPE
Principal investigators: Jennifer Rayming Chao (contact PI), Jianhai Du
$540,137award amount
Michael B Manookin
Leads 1 award · $441,776
- 5R01EY027323-09Department: NIH department codeFunction, diversity, and circuitry of parallel retinal ganglion cell pathways$441,776award amount
Debarshi Mustafi
Leads 1 award · $230,277
- 5K08EY033789-04Department: NIH department codeThe role of non-coding variants in Usher disease$230,277award 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.
Jianhai Du
Co-investigator on 5R01EY034364-05, led by Jennifer Rayming Chao
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- West Virginia University · Ophthalmology (NIH department code, 1 award)
Also counted toward University of Washington in the Ophthalmology ranking
Department rankings count awards at these organizations toward University of Washington. With University of Washington's own 10 awards (R&D contracts left out), they make up its ranking row: #20, $6,191,223, 12 awards. Each organization's page lists its investigators.