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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at UT Health Science Center Houston

San Antonio, TX

Funding
$8.4M
$8,429,693
Awards
22
FY2025 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
21
16 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • 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 Biology row of the UT Health Science Center Houston page.

Leads a grant in this department

16 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. Kartik Venkatachalam

    Leads 3 awards · $1,190,438

    • 1R21AG087381-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Metal responsive transcription factors in neurodegeneration
      $429,000
      award amount
    • 4R01AG069076-02Department: NIH department code
      Neuropathology in tauopathies stem from depolarization-induced alterations in the planar distribution of phosphoinositides
      $382,528
      award amount
    • 4R01AG072176-02Department: NIH department code
      Alterations in somatodendritic bioenergetics in Drosophila models of tauopathy
      $378,910
      award amount

  2. Carmen W. Dessauer

    Leads 3 awards · $1,136,791

    • 2R01NS091759-11Department: NIH department code
      Cellular signaling mechanisms that drive persistent hyperexcitability in nociceptors

      Principal investigators: Carmen W. Dessauer (contact PI), Edgar T. Walters

      $482,266
      award amount
    • 5R35GM145291-04Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Adenylyl Cyclase Signaling Pathways
      $413,400
      award amount
    • 5T32GM139801-05Department: NIH department code
      Training Interdisciplinary Pharmacology Scientists (TIPS)
      $241,125
      award amount

  3. Catherine Denicourt

    Leads 1 award · $868,584

    • 1R01GM158926-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating how RNA modifications regulate adaptive mRNA translation.
      $868,584
      award amount

  4. Oleh Pochynyuk

    Leads 1 award · $678,566

    • 5R01DK136462-02Department: NIH department code
      Significance of Epac signaling in renal Na+handling and hypertension

      Principal investigators: Oleh Pochynyuk (contact PI), Xiaodong Cheng

      $678,566
      award amount

  5. Xiaodong Cheng

    Leads 2 awards · $546,710

    • 5R01EY033319-04Department: NIH department code
      Epac1 as a novel therapeutic target for diabetic retinopathy

      Principal investigators: Xiaodong Cheng (contact PI), Hua Liu

      $506,223
      award amount
    • 3R01EY033319-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Epac1 as a novel therapeutic target for diabetic retinopathy

      Principal investigators: Xiaodong Cheng (contact PI), Hua Liu

      $40,487
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DK136462-02, led by Oleh Pochynyuk.

  6. Jeffrey A. Frost

    Leads 2 awards · $533,575

    • 5T32TR004904-02Department: NIH department code
      CTSA Postdoctoral T32 at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

      Principal investigators: Jeffrey A. Frost (contact PI), Joya Chandra

      $267,040
      award amount
    • 5T32TR004905-02Department: NIH department code
      CTSA Predoctoral T32 at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

      Principal investigators: Jeffrey A. Frost (contact PI), Joya Chandra

      $266,535
      award amount

  7. Pamela Lynn Wenzel

    Leads 1 award · $450,018

    • 5R01DK111599-08Department: NIH department code
      Biomechanical Determinants of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Potential
      $450,018
      award amount

  8. Yi-Ping Li

    Leads 1 award · $429,791

    • 5R01CA249896-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of chemotherapy potentiation of muscle wasting in cancer cachexia
      $429,791
      award amount

  9. Dung-Fang Lee

    Leads 1 award · $404,705

    • 5R01CA246130-05Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting and Targeting RB1-Mutant Osteosarcoma
      $404,705
      award amount

  10. John F Hancock

    Leads 1 award · $398,862

    • 5R01GM151280-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of KRAS plasma membrane targeting by defined glycosphingolipids.

      Principal investigators: John F Hancock (contact PI), Alemayehu A. Gorfe, Junchen Liu

      $398,862
      award amount

  11. Alexis Guillaume Bavencoffe

    Leads 1 award · $341,958

    • 1R01NS140665-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of nociceptor excitability by macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) as a therapeutic strategy for chronic pain treatment after spinal cord injury
      $341,958
      award amount

  12. Hongyuan Yang

    Leads 1 award · $335,400

    • 1R01GM158922-01Department: NIH department code
      The synthesis and trafficking of phosphatidylserine in cellular cholesterol homeostasis.
      $335,400
      award amount

  13. Cherilynn R Shadding

    Leads 1 award · $319,297

    • 5T32GM152796-02Department: NIH department code
      The Academy at MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School - Maximizing Opportunities for Training, Development, and Community

      Principal investigators: Cherilynn R Shadding (contact PI), Francesca Cole

      $319,297
      award amount

  14. Alemayehu A. Gorfe

    Leads 1 award · $311,999

    • 5R01GM144836-04Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics of lipid-anchored proteins
      $311,999
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01GM151280-03, led by John F Hancock.

  15. Xiaoqin Wu

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 5R00AA029146-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of MLKL in Alcohol-associated Liver Disease
      $248,999
      award amount

  16. Travis I Moore

    Leads 1 award · $234,000

    • 1R03HL180981-01Department: NIH department code
      Decoding Force Transduction Mechanisms of Leukocyte Specific Integrin LFA-1 in Immune Responses
      $234,000
      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.

  • Hua Liu

    Co-investigator on 5R01EY033319-04, led by Xiaodong Cheng; 3R01EY033319-03S1, led by Xiaodong Cheng

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Joya Chandra

    Co-investigator on 5T32TR004904-02, led by Jeffrey A. Frost; 5T32TR004905-02, led by Jeffrey A. Frost

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Edgar T. Walters

    Co-investigator on 2R01NS091759-11, led by Carmen W. Dessauer

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

  • Junchen Liu

    Co-investigator on 5R01GM151280-03, led by John F Hancock

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

  • Francesca Cole

    Co-investigator on 5T32GM152796-02, led by Cherilynn R Shadding

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