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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at UT Medical Branch Galveston

Galveston, TX

Funding
$2.3M
$2,322,871
Awards
5
FY2026 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
7
3 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
#40
of 69 · 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 Ophthalmology row of the UT Medical Branch Galveston page.

Leads a grant in this department

3 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. Wenbo Zhang

    Leads 3 awards · $1,590,149

    • 1R01AG091781-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Epac1 Signaling Promotes Retinal Neuronal Injury During Tauopathy

      Principal investigators: Wenbo Zhang (contact PI), Xiaodong Cheng

      $617,349
      award amount
    • 5R01EY034616-04Department: NIH department code
      Anti-Aging Molecule Sirt6 in Neuroprotection in Diabetic Retina
      $541,883
      award amount
    • 5R01EY034376-05Department: NIH department code
      CXCR3-Mediated Cell-Cell Communication in Glaucoma

      Principal investigators: Wenbo Zhang (contact PI), Fan Xia, Gracie Vargas

      $430,917
      award amount

  2. Hua Liu

    Leads 1 award · $571,222

  3. Bartosz Rafal Szczesny

    Leads 1 award · $161,500

    • 1R03NS144710-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Development of a Mouse Model to Investigate the Role of ZBP1 in Neuroinflammation
      $161,500
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01EY037126-02, led by Hua Liu.

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.