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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at UT Health Science Center Houston

San Antonio, TX

Funding
$19.6M
$19,598,504
Awards
48
FY2025 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
46
37 lead a grant here, 9 co-investigators
Department rank
#10
of 135 · 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

37 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. Patrick Sung

    Leads 4 awards · $1,982,078

    • 5R35CA241801-07Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of DNA Homology-directed Genome Repair and Tumor Suppression
      $930,000
      award amount
    • 5R01ES007061-31Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of DNA Double-strand Break End Resection and Repair Pathway Choice
      $505,540
      award amount
    • 5R01CA168635-14Department: 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
    • 3R01ES007061-31S1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of DNA Double-strand Break End Resection and Repair Pathway Choice
      $51,484
      award amount
  2. Harry Karmouty-Quintana

    Leads 3 awards · $1,394,729

    • 1R01HL178085-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Ribosome Dysfunction in Lung Fibrosis
      $722,667
      award amount
    • 5R01HL157100-05Department: NIH department code
      Sineoculis Homeobox Homolog 1 (Six1) in Pulmonary Fibrosis
      $516,062
      award amount
    • 1R03TR005085-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Sine Oculis Homeobox Homolog 1 and clusterin in Pulmonary Hypertension associated with Systemic Sclerosis
      $156,000
      award amount
  3. Jean X Jiang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,036,030

    • 1R01CA293672-01A1Department: 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

      $616,071
      award amount
    • 5R01EY012085-27Department: NIH department code
      Intercellular Communication in the Eye Lens
      $419,959
      award amount
  4. Shaun Olsen

    Leads 2 awards · $959,710

    • 5R01CA293655-02Department: 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

      $640,408
      award amount
    • 5R01GM128731-08Department: NIH department code
      Structure and Function of the Essential Cell Cycle Regulator Cdc34
      $319,302
      award amount
  5. Seung-Hee Yoo

    Leads 2 awards · $825,355

    • 5R01NS136677-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of headache pain responses by the Trigeminal ganglion clock

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

      $437,472
      award amount
    • 5R35GM145232-04Department: NIH department code
      Mammalian circadian rhythms: from genes to mechanisms
      $387,883
      award amount
  6. Julio Francisco Cordero-Morales

    Leads 2 awards · $823,338

    • 5R01NS131184-03Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Sensory Receptors in Angelman Syndrome

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

      $433,338
      award amount
    • 5R35GM149218-04Department: NIH department code
      Sensory Ion Channel Modulation by Bioactive Lipids
      $390,000
      award amount
  7. Wenbo Li

    Leads 1 award · $721,789

    • 5R01AG082132-03Department: NIH department code
      Enhancer RNAs in brain gene regulation and Alzheimer's disease
      $721,789
      award amount
  8. Bernard Fongang

    Leads 2 awards · $707,865

    • 1UG3AG090675-01Department: 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

      $487,386
      award amount
    • 5K01NS126489-03Department: NIH department code
      Delineating the role of the gut microbiota and its derived metabolites in the development of dementia in multi-ethnic populations
      $220,479
      award amount
  9. Vasanthi Jayaraman

    Leads 1 award · $677,822

    • 5R35GM122528-09Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics Of Ligand Gated Ion Channels
      $677,822
      award amount
  10. Anna L Malkova

    Leads 2 awards · $631,025

    • 5R35GM127006-08Department: NIH department code
      Double strand break repair maelstrom: causes, mechanisms and genome destabilizing consequences
      $458,325
      award amount
    • 5T32CA279363-02Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetics, DNA repair and Genomics (EDGe) Training Program in Cancer

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

      $172,700
      award amount
  11. John Lee Spudich

    Leads 1 award · $627,370

    • 5R35GM140838-05Department: NIH department code
      Structure/Function of Channelrhodopsins and Related Retinylidene Proteins
      $627,370
      award amount
  12. Yogesh K Gupta

    Leads 1 award · $584,674

    • 5R01AI161363-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism-based Targeting of the RNA Processing Machinery of SARS-CoV-2
      $584,674
      award amount
  13. Dmitri N Ivanov

    Leads 1 award · $556,253

    • 5R37AI136697-06Department: NIH department code
      Biochemistry of SAMHD1-mediated innate immunity responses
      $556,253
      award amount
  14. Tingting Weng Mills

    Leads 1 award · $531,933

    • 5R01HL168128-02Department: NIH department code
      Macrophage NUDT21-mediated alternative polyadenylation in lung injury
      $531,933
      award amount
  15. Peng Zhao

    Leads 1 award · $519,180

    • 5R01DK133304-04Department: NIH department code
      A novel pathway controls liver injury in NASH
      $519,180
      award amount
  16. Irina I Serysheva

    Leads 1 award · $515,736

    • 5R35GM153178-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of inositol trisphosphate receptor-mediated calcium signaling
      $515,736
      award amount
  17. Zheng Chen

    Leads 1 award · $497,179

    • 5R01AG089967-02Department: NIH department code
      Circadian regulation of mitochondrial function by muscle RORs to promote healthy aging
      $497,179
      award amount
  18. Xiaotian Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $455,845

    • 5R01HL170115-03Department: NIH department code
      The dissection of non-canonical cis-regulatory elements downstream of beta-globin locus in the fetal hemoglobin gene regulation
      $455,845
      award amount
  19. William Dowhan

    Leads 1 award · $455,548

    • 5R01GM121493-08Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic Lipid and Protein Organization in Cell Membranes

      Principal investigators: William Dowhan (contact PI), Mikhail V. Bogdanov

      $455,548
      award amount
  20. Bruce J Nicholson

    Leads 1 award · $427,800

    • 5R01HD109027-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of gap junction promotion of lesion formation in Endometriosis
      $427,800
      award amount
  21. Minkyu Kim

    Leads 1 award · $408,179

    • 1R35GM156189-01Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the DNA Damage Response with Functional Proteomics
      $408,179
      award amount
  22. Kevin B Koronowski

    Leads 1 award · $387,500

    • 5R35GM150618-03Department: NIH department code
      Fundamental Mechanisms of Higher-Order Circadian Rhythms
      $387,500
      award amount
  23. Valeria Vasquez

    Leads 1 award · $386,961

    • 5R35GM153208-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanosensitive Ion Channels Modulation by Membrane Composition
      $386,961
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS131184-03, led by Julio Francisco Cordero-Morales.

  24. Oleg V. Klykov

    Leads 1 award · $385,639

    • 1R35GM160303-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Architecture and Function of synaptic AMPA receptor complexes
      $385,639
      award amount
  25. Nami McCarty

    Leads 1 award · $370,500

    • 5R01CA181319-10Department: NIH department code
      Analyzing protein homeostasis pathways in multiple myeloma stem-like cells
      $370,500
      award amount
  26. Yuzuru Shiio

    Leads 1 award · $354,563

    • 5U01CA283414-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of the receptor complex and the cofactors in IGSF10 signaling
      $354,563
      award amount
  27. Kristin Erica Cano

    Leads 1 award · $346,350

    • 1S15OD039797-01Department: NIH department code
      Helium Recycling for the NMR Facility at UT Health San Antonio
      $346,350
      award amount
  28. Kuang-Lei Tsai

    Leads 1 award · $337,116

    • 5R01GM143587-05Department: NIH department code
      Structural insights into the Argonaute-containing CDK8 complex
      $337,116
      award amount
  29. David Steven Libich

    Leads 1 award · $325,500

    • 5R01GM140127-05Department: NIH department code
      An Integrated Biochemical and Structural Approach to Delineating the Biology of EWSR1
      $325,500
      award amount
  30. Weixing Wilson Zhao

    Leads 1 award · $325,500

    • 5R01GM141091-05Department: NIH department code
      Genome Maintenance via the BRCA-RAD54 Axis
      $325,500
      award amount
  31. Lu Wang

    Leads 1 award · $243,875

    • 5R00AG065500-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of enhancer regulation in aging and age-related diseases
      $243,875
      award amount
  32. Zhichao Xu

    Leads 1 award · $194,914

    • 1K22CA293300-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Modeling Enhancer Hijacking in Cancer via Genome Engineering and Single-Cell Sequencing
      $194,914
      award amount
  33. Eloise Dray

    Leads 1 award · $193,750

    • 5R21ES035997-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding post translational modifiers in DNA damage repair
      $193,750
      award amount
  34. Dongwen Lyu

    Leads 1 award · $166,792

    • 5R21CA286307-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of Caspase Cleavage Targeting Chimeras (CACTACs) for Targeted Protein Cleavage
      $166,792
      award amount
  35. Youngho Kwon

    Leads 1 award · $162,505

    • 5R50CA265315-04Department: NIH department code
      BRCA-dependent Mechanisms of Genome Maintenance and Repair
      $162,505
      award amount
  36. Erich Sohn

    Leads 1 award · $38,927

    • 5F31CA295030-02Department: NIH department code
      Structural and mechanistic investigation into EWS::FLI1 disruption of EWS function in transcription and DNA repair
      $38,927
      award amount
  37. Renee Delgado

    Leads 1 award · $38,674

    • 1F31AI189116-01Department: NIH department code
      Studies on the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Dimerization Mechanism
      $38,674
      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.

  • Eric C Greene

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA293655-02, led by Shaun Olsen

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Yashpal Rawal

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA293655-02, led by Shaun Olsen

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Manuel Riquelme

    Co-investigator on 1R01CA293672-01A1, led by Jean X Jiang

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Yaxia Yuan

    Co-investigator on 1R01CA293672-01A1, led by Jean X Jiang

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Gary M Kupfer

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA168635-14, led by Patrick Sung

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Alfred Kongnyu Njamnshi

    Co-investigator on 1UG3AG090675-01, led by Bernard Fongang

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Mikhail V. Bogdanov

    Co-investigator on 5R01GM121493-08, led by William Dowhan

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Mark J Burish

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS136677-02, led by Seung-Hee Yoo

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Robin Jean Leach

    Co-investigator on 5T32CA279363-02, led by Anna L Malkova

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads