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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, WI

Funding
$22M
$21,961,740
Awards
38
FY2026 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
37
31 lead a grant here, 6 co-investigators
Department rank
#7
of 136 · 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 Biochemistry row of the University of Wisconsin-Madison page.

Leads a grant in this department

31 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. Joshua J Coon

    Leads 1 award · $3,654,310

    • 1RM1GM161677-01Department: NIH department code
      National Center for Quantitative Biology of Complex Systems
      $3,654,310
      award amount

  2. Katherine Anne Henzler-Wildman

    Leads 3 awards · $1,927,044

    • 2R24GM141526-06Department: NIH department code
      NMR User Program at NMRFAM
      $1,028,203
      award amount
    • 2R35GM141748-06Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Channels and Transporters
      $484,536
      award amount
    • 1R21AI196308-01Department: NIH department code
      Multipronged approach to characterize the promiscuity and mechanism of PACE transporters
      $414,305
      award amount

  3. Anjon Audhya

    Leads 4 awards · $1,791,989

    • 5R35GM134865-07Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms that regulate vesicle formation and transport
      $625,888
      award amount
    • 2T32GM141013-06Department: NIH department code
      Graduate Training in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

      Principal investigators: Anjon Audhya (contact PI), Aaron Matthew Lebeau

      $540,671
      award amount
    • 5R01NS124165-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms Underlying Axonopathy in Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
      $375,430
      award amount
    • 3R35GM134865-07S1Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms that regulate vesicle formation and transport
      $250,000
      award amount

  4. Feyza Engin

    Leads 2 awards · $1,563,629

    • 2R01DK130919-06Department: NIH department code
      The role of beta cell ATF6 in type 1 diabetes
      $805,683
      award amount
    • 1U01DK143458-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining heterogeneity of stress-induced beta cell senescence programs in type 1 diabetes

      Principal investigators: Feyza Engin (contact PI), Matthew Wortham, Sangeeta Dhawan

      $757,946
      award amount

  5. Michael M. Cox

    Leads 1 award · $1,386,331

    • 5RM1GM130450-08Department: NIH department code
      Creation and Repair of Postreplicative DNA Gaps

      Principal investigators: Michael M. Cox (contact PI), James L Keck, Myron Goodman

      $1,386,331
      award amount

  6. Srivatsan Raman

    Leads 1 award · $972,008

  7. Scott M. Coyle

    Leads 1 award · $896,204

    • 4DP2GM154329-02Department: NIH department code
      Cellular FM-radios: seeing, probing, and perturbing single-cell protein activity dynamics in biological systems with frequency-barcoded spatiotemporal signaling circuits
      $896,204
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM135066-07, led by Srivatsan Raman.

  8. Robert Landick

    Leads 2 awards · $817,002

    • 5R01GM038660-40Department: NIH department code
      Structure/Function of Transcription Complex Regulation
      $756,764
      award amount
    • 3R01GM038660-39S1Department: NIH department code
      Administrative Supplement: Structure/Function of Transcription Complex Regulation
      $60,238
      award amount

  9. Alan D Attie

    Leads 1 award · $777,498

    • 2R01DK101573-10A1Department: NIH department code
      The Diversity Outbred Diabetes Project
      $777,498
      award amount

  10. Monica Neugebauer

    Leads 1 award · $714,809

    • 1DP2GM170824-01Department: NIH department code
      Discovery and Engineering of Nickel Biocatalysts for the Precise Tailoring of Therapeutics
      $714,809
      award amount

  11. Christina M Hull

    Leads 1 award · $709,862

    • 5R01AI179964-03Department: NIH department code
      Maturation, Germination, and Pathogenesis of Cryptococcus Spores
      $709,862
      award amount

  12. John M Denu

    Leads 1 award · $698,211

    • 5R35GM149279-04Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics and molecular mechanisms linking metabolism and the epigenome
      $698,211
      award amount

  13. Alessandro Senes

    Leads 1 award · $647,005

    • 5T32GM158463-02Department: NIH department code
      Predoctoral Training in Molecular Biophysics

      Principal investigators: Alessandro Senes (contact PI), Silvia Cavagnero

      $647,005
      award amount

  14. Michael D Sheets

    Leads 1 award · $523,438

    • 5R01GM152615-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of mRNA-selective control by Bicaudal-C
      $523,438
      award amount

  15. Samuel E Butcher

    Leads 1 award · $509,017

    • 2R35GM118131-11Department: NIH department code
      Biophysical investigations of RNA complexes essential for gene expression
      $509,017
      award amount

  16. Melissa Harrison

    Leads 1 award · $502,161

    • 5R35GM136298-07Department: NIH department code
      Genomic reprogramming in the early embryo
      $502,161
      award amount

  17. Aaron Andrew Hoskins

    Leads 1 award · $455,997

    • 5R35GM136261-07Department: NIH department code
      Biochemical Mechanisms of Eukaryotic RNA Processing
      $455,997
      award amount

  18. Elizabeth R Wright

    Leads 1 award · $449,375

    • 1R01AI198368-01Department: NIH department code
      Structural mechanisms of respiratory syncytial virus and human metapneumovirus assembly
      $449,375
      award amount

  19. Gaelen T Hess

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5R35GM150462-04Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating factors that modulate mammalian DNA repair to improve genome editing
      $388,750
      award amount

  20. Andrea Arlton Putnam

    Leads 1 award · $375,430

    • 5R35GM157010-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of RNA condensates by RNA helicases in development
      $375,430
      award amount

  21. Peter W Lewis

    Leads 1 award · $337,425

    • 5R01CA266861-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the regulation of PRC2 activity by EZHIP and the K27M oncohistone in pediatric gliomas
      $337,425
      award amount

  22. James L Keck

    Leads 1 award · $312,491

    • 5R01GM098885-13Department: NIH department code
      Structure and Function of the Bacterial Primosome
      $312,491
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5RM1GM130450-08, led by Michael M. Cox.

  23. Ci Ji Lim

    Leads 1 award · $311,000

    • 5R01GM153806-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of the Human Telomere C-Strand Fill-In Machinery Assembly and Activation at Chromosome Ends
      $311,000
      award amount

  24. Judith Anne Simcox

    Leads 1 award · $311,000

    • 5R01DK133479-05Department: NIH department code
      Discovery and characterization of a novel acylcarnitine transporter in brown adipocytes
      $311,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM135066-07, led by Srivatsan Raman.

  25. Bryce Lafoya

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 5R00GM147601-04Department: NIH department code
      Proliferative asymmetry in the neural stem cell lineage established by asymmetric cell division
      $248,999
      award amount

  26. Christopher Gisriel

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 5R00GM140174-05Department: NIH department code
      Photosystem II as a model protein for understanding metalloenzyme active site assembly
      $248,999
      award amount

  27. Snehal N. Chaudhari

    Leads 1 award · $235,721

    • 5R00DK128503-05Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the role of the microbiome in inducing gut permeability and inflammation
      $235,721
      award amount

  28. Haley E Brown

    Leads 1 award · $76,300

    • 1F32GM163363-01Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging genetic divergence to uncover mechanisms of genomic organization
      $76,300
      award amount

  29. Jacqueline Spieles

    Leads 1 award · $44,819

    • 1F31AI197683-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The role of cellular respiration in the survival of infectious spores of the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus
      $44,819
      award amount

  30. Audrey MacDonald

    Leads 1 award · $37,472

    • 1F31AI200121-01Department: NIH department code
      Exploring the interplay of viral genomic RNA structure and protein biochemistry in coronavirus replication
      $37,472
      award amount

  31. Silas Miller

    Leads 1 award · $37,444

    • 5F31AI186356-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the Molecular Rules of a Bacterial Multidrug Efflux Transporter
      $37,444
      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.