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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at UT Health Science Center Houston

San Antonio, TX

Funding
$27.8M
$27,752,540
Awards
51
FY2026 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
58
46 lead a grant here, 12 co-investigators
Department rank
#5
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 UT Health Science Center Houston page.

Leads a grant in this department

46 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. Zheng Chen

    Leads 2 awards · $4,068,123

    • 1R01DK149231-01Department: NIH department code
      Tissue-specific circadian function and mechanism of RORs

      Principal investigators: Zheng Chen (contact PI), Seung-Hee Yoo

      $2,546,148
      award amount
    • 4R01AG089967-03Department: NIH department code
      Circadian regulation of mitochondrial function by muscle RORs to promote healthy aging
      $1,521,975
      award amount

  2. Patrick Sung

    Leads 4 awards · $3,569,795

    • 5P01CA275717-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of BRCA-dependent Genome Repair via the 53BP1 Axis

      Principal investigators: Alexander V Mazin (contact PI), David Steven Libich (contact PI), Dipanjan Chowdhury (contact PI), Patrick Sung (contact PI), Robert A Hromas (contact PI), Sandeep Burma (contact PI), Youngho Kwon (contact PI)

      $2,517,717
      award amount
    • 5R01ES007061-32Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of DNA Double-strand Break End Resection and Repair Pathway Choice
      $505,540
      award amount
    • 5R01CA168635-15Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Dissection of the BRCA1-SETX-dependent Pathway of R-loop Avoidance and Genome Maintenance

      Principal investigators: Patrick Sung (contact PI), Gary M Kupfer

      $495,054
      award amount
    • 3R01ES007061-32S1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of DNA Double-strand Break End Resection and Repair Pathway Choice
      $51,484
      award amount

  3. David Steven Libich

    Leads 2 awards · $2,895,717

  4. Youngho Kwon

    Leads 2 awards · $2,680,222

  5. Alexander V Mazin

    Leads 1 award · $2,517,717

  6. Dipanjan Chowdhury

    Leads 1 award · $2,517,717

  7. Robert A Hromas

    Leads 1 award · $2,517,717

  8. Sandeep Burma

    Leads 1 award · $2,517,717

  9. Daniel A Harki

    Leads 1 award · $1,902,068

  10. Hideki Aihara

    Leads 1 award · $1,902,068

  11. Michael Allen Carpenter

    Leads 1 award · $1,902,068

  12. Reuben S Harris

    Leads 1 award · $1,902,068

  13. Rommie E Amaro

    Leads 1 award · $1,902,068

  14. Jean X Jiang

    Leads 3 awards · $1,518,510

    • 5R01CA293672-02Department: NIH department code
      Developing purinergic receptor inverse agonists for treating triple negative breast cancer

      Principal investigators: Jean X Jiang (contact PI), Manuel Riquelme, Yaxia Yuan

      $567,600
      award amount
    • 1R01AR086310-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Osteocyte Interactome in mechanotransduction and bone osteogenesis
      $496,963
      award amount
    • 5R01EY012085-28Department: NIH department code
      Intercellular Communication in the Eye Lens
      $453,947
      award amount

  15. Tingting Weng Mills

    Leads 2 awards · $1,138,993

    • 1R01AR087804-01Department: NIH department code
      Hypoxia-Driven NUDT21-Mediated APA Promotes Lung and Skin Fibrosis in Systemic Sclerosis

      Principal investigators: Tingting Weng Mills (contact PI), Shervin Assassi

      $623,286
      award amount
    • 5R01HL168128-03Department: NIH department code
      Macrophage NUDT21-mediated alternative polyadenylation in lung injury
      $515,707
      award amount

  16. Elizabeth Victorina Wasmuth

    Leads 1 award · $1,035,946

    • 1S10OD040148-01Department: NIH department code
      C-Trap Optical Tweezers System for Single-Molecule Studies
      $1,035,946
      award amount

  17. Shaun Olsen

    Leads 2 awards · $959,543

    • 5R01CA293655-03Department: NIH department code
      Structure and function of RAD51 paralog tumor suppressor complexes in genome maintenance

      Principal investigators: Shaun Olsen (contact PI), Eric C Greene, Yashpal Rawal

      $640,241
      award amount
    • 5R01GM128731-09Department: NIH department code
      Structure and Function of the Essential Cell Cycle Regulator Cdc34
      $319,302
      award amount

  18. Seung-Hee Yoo

    Leads 2 awards · $873,575

    • 5R01NS136677-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of headache pain responses by the Trigeminal ganglion clock

      Principal investigators: Seung-Hee Yoo (contact PI), Mark J Burish

      $485,692
      award amount
    • 5R35GM145232-05Department: NIH department code
      Mammalian circadian rhythms: from genes to mechanisms
      $387,883
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01DK149231-01, led by Zheng Chen.

  19. Julio Francisco Cordero-Morales

    Leads 2 awards · $871,486

    • 5R01NS131184-04Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Sensory Receptors in Angelman Syndrome

      Principal investigators: Julio Francisco Cordero-Morales (contact PI), Valeria Vasquez

      $481,486
      award amount
    • 5R35GM149218-05Department: NIH department code
      Sensory Ion Channel Modulation by Bioactive Lipids
      $390,000
      award amount

  20. Wenbo Li

    Leads 1 award · $734,228

    • 5R01AG082132-04Department: NIH department code
      Enhancer RNAs in brain gene regulation and Alzheimer's disease
      $734,228
      award amount

  21. Bernard Fongang

    Leads 3 awards · $725,109

    • 3UG3AG090675-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Building Unique Infrastructure for Large-scale Dementia research in French-Speaking Africa (BUILD-FSA) Project

      Principal investigators: Bernard Fongang (contact PI), Alfred Kongnyu Njamnshi

      $274,600
      award amount
    • 5UG3AG090675-02Department: NIH department code
      Building Unique Infrastructure for Large-scale Dementia research in French-Speaking Africa (BUILD-FSA) Project

      Principal investigators: Bernard Fongang (contact PI), Alfred Kongnyu Njamnshi

      $229,542
      award amount
    • 5K01NS126489-04Department: NIH department code
      Delineating the role of the gut microbiota and its derived metabolites in the development of dementia in multi-ethnic populations
      $220,967
      award amount

  22. Vasanthi Jayaraman

    Leads 1 award · $677,822

    • 5R35GM122528-10Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics Of Ligand Gated Ion Channels
      $677,822
      award amount

  23. Harry Karmouty-Quintana

    Leads 1 award · $667,053

    • 5R01HL178085-02Department: NIH department code
      Ribosome Dysfunction in Lung Fibrosis
      $667,053
      award amount

  24. Weixing Wilson Zhao

    Leads 1 award · $659,409

    • 1R01CA305915-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Genome Maintenance by HELZ, a Novel R-loop Resolvase

      Principal investigators: Weixing Wilson Zhao (contact PI), David Sung-Wen Yu

      $659,409
      award amount

  25. Daohong Zhou

    Leads 1 award · $649,628

    • 1R01CA299072-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Discovering PSPC1 targeted degraders as novel AML therapeutics

      Principal investigators: Daohong Zhou (contact PI), Mingjiang Xu, Sajid Khan

      $649,628
      award amount

  26. Anna L Malkova

    Leads 2 awards · $599,256

    • 5R35GM127006-09Department: NIH department code
      Double strand break repair maelstrom: causes, mechanisms and genome destabilizing consequences
      $458,325
      award amount
    • 5T32CA279363-03Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetics, DNA repair and Genomics (EDGe) Training Program in Cancer

      Principal investigators: Anna L Malkova (contact PI), Robin Jean Leach

      $140,931
      award amount

  27. Dmitri N Ivanov

    Leads 1 award · $555,306

    • 5R37AI136697-07Department: NIH department code
      Biochemistry of SAMHD1-mediated innate immunity responses
      $555,306
      award amount

  28. Peng Zhao

    Leads 1 award · $521,908

    • 5R01DK133304-05Department: NIH department code
      A novel pathway controls liver injury in NASH
      $521,908
      award amount

  29. Irina I Serysheva

    Leads 1 award · $515,736

    • 5R35GM153178-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of inositol trisphosphate receptor-mediated calcium signaling
      $515,736
      award amount

  30. Xiaotian Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $446,729

    • 5R01HL170115-04Department: NIH department code
      The dissection of non-canonical cis-regulatory elements downstream of beta-globin locus in the fetal hemoglobin gene regulation
      $446,729
      award amount

  31. Eloise Dray

    Leads 1 award · $433,125

    • 1R35GM163544-01Department: NIH department code
      Spatiotemporal regulation of DNA metabolism pathways
      $433,125
      award amount

  32. Oleg V. Klykov

    Leads 1 award · $433,125

    • 5R35GM160303-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Architecture and Function of synaptic AMPA receptor complexes
      $433,125
      award amount

  33. Elisa Carrillo Flores

    Leads 1 award · $429,000

    • 1R35GM166414-01Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic Regulation of Proton-activated Chloride Channel in Physiology and Pathology
      $429,000
      award amount

  34. Lei Zheng

    Leads 1 award · $429,000

    • 1R35GM163868-01Department: NIH department code
      Structure and Function of a Metabolic Network Coordinating Membrane Phospholipid Homeostasis in Microorganisms
      $429,000
      award amount

  35. Matthew Lowell Baker

    Leads 1 award · $423,576

    • 1R35GM164115-01Department: NIH department code
      From Ions to Cells: Integrating Machine Learning and CryoEM to Resolve Macromolecular Complexity
      $423,576
      award amount

  36. Kuang-Lei Tsai

    Leads 1 award · $420,476

    • 1R35GM163872-01Department: NIH department code
      Structural and Mechanistic Studies of Eukaryotic Gene Transcription Regulation
      $420,476
      award amount

  37. Minkyu Kim

    Leads 1 award · $393,750

    • 5R35GM156189-02Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the DNA Damage Response with Functional Proteomics
      $393,750
      award amount

  38. Kevin B Koronowski

    Leads 1 award · $387,500

    • 5R35GM150618-04Department: NIH department code
      Fundamental Mechanisms of Higher-Order Circadian Rhythms
      $387,500
      award amount

  39. Valeria Vasquez

    Leads 1 award · $386,961

    • 5R35GM153208-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanosensitive Ion Channels Modulation by Membrane Composition
      $386,961
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS131184-04, led by Julio Francisco Cordero-Morales.

  40. Yuzuru Shiio

    Leads 1 award · $354,563

    • 5U01CA283414-04Department: NIH department code
      The role of the receptor complex and the cofactors in IGSF10 signaling
      $354,563
      award amount

  41. Zhichao Xu

    Leads 1 award · $194,914

    • 5K22CA293300-02Department: NIH department code
      Modeling Enhancer Hijacking in Cancer via Genome Engineering and Single-Cell Sequencing
      $194,914
      award amount

  42. Alejandro Casco

    Leads 1 award · $76,780

    • 1F32AI197576-01Department: NIH department code
      Unleashing Natural Immunity Against Epstein-Barr Virus
      $76,780
      award amount

  43. Christopher Mullally

    Leads 1 award · $40,367

    • 1F30CA301788-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Regulatory Mechanisms of APOBEC3B Mutagenic Activity in Cancer
      $40,367
      award amount

  44. Pirouz Ebadi

    Leads 1 award · $39,874

    • 1F31AI197805-01Department: NIH department code
      Structure and Function of E3 Ligases
      $39,874
      award amount

  45. Erich Sohn

    Leads 1 award · $39,503

    • 5F31CA295030-03Department: NIH department code
      Structural and mechanistic investigation into EWS::FLI1 disruption of EWS function in transcription and DNA repair
      $39,503
      award amount

  46. Christopher Litwin

    Leads 1 award · $39,298

    • 1F31DK143733-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Circadian Regulation of Liver-derived Endostatin
      $39,298
      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.