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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at UT Health Science Center Houston

San Antonio, TX

Funding
$6.1M
$6,064,235
Awards
13
FY2026 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
9
8 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
#37
of 89 · 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 Physiology row of the UT Health Science Center Houston page.

Leads a grant in this department

8 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. Chu Chen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,475,770

    • 4R01AG081362-02Department: NIH department code
      Silencing of astrocytic MAGL as a therapy for Alzheimer’s disease
      $771,678
      award amount
    • 4R01NS076815-13Department: NIH department code
      Endocannabinoids in neurodegenerative diseases
      $704,092
      award amount

  2. Yi Zhu

    Leads 3 awards · $1,074,785

    • 5R01AG087387-04Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Role of Adipose Senescent Cells in Cognitive Function and Alzheimer's Disease Progression
      $490,775
      award amount
    • 7R01AG087387-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Role of Adipose Senescent Cells in Cognitive Function and Alzheimer's Disease Progression
      $418,175
      award amount
    • 7R21AG087361-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Impact of Novel Senescent Microglia in Alzheimer's Disease Progression
      $165,835
      award amount

  3. Jason Richard Pugh

    Leads 2 awards · $847,010

    • 5R01NS134868-03Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Dystrophin in Synapse Development
      $456,558
      award amount
    • 5R01NS131652-03Department: NIH department code
      CB1 receptors mediate metaplasticity in the cerebellar circuit
      $390,452
      award amount

  4. Lynette C Daws

    Leads 1 award · $656,400

    • 5R01DA055703-04Department: NIH department code
      Uptake2 transporters: Novel sex-dependent molecular targets to treat stimulant use disorder
      $656,400
      award amount

  5. Hye Young Lee

    Leads 1 award · $565,436

    • 1R56NS146956-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Gene editing therapeutics that prevent epileptic seizures

      Principal investigators: Hye Young Lee (contact PI), Niren Murthy

      $565,436
      award amount

  6. Noboru Hiroi

    Leads 1 award · $551,281

    • 5R01MH099660-14Department: NIH department code
      Postnatal mechanisms of cognitive development in mice
      $551,281
      award amount

  7. Swati Banerjee

    Leads 2 awards · $532,839

    • 5R01NS134867-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Tubulin Polymerization Promoting Protein in Mitochondrial Function and Neuronal Survival
      $397,839
      award amount
    • 2R25NS115552-06Department: NIH department code
      Summer Physiology Undergraduate Researcher (SPUR) Program
      $135,000
      award amount

  8. Jean Chrisostome Bopassa

    Leads 1 award · $360,714

    • 5T32HL007446-45Department: NIH department code
      Pathobiology of Occlusive Vascular Disease
      $360,714
      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.