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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

Funding
$15.5M
$15,501,516
Awards
34
FY2025 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
30
24 lead a grant here, 6 co-investigators
Department rank
#17
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 Vanderbilt University page.

Leads a grant in this department

24 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. David K Cortez

    Leads 4 awards · $1,930,316

    • 5R01ES030575-07Department: NIH department code
      Function of HMCES in abasic site repair and tolerance
      $529,884
      award amount
    • 2R01CA239161-06Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and Functions of ATR signaling
      $515,443
      award amount
    • 5R01GM116616-11Department: NIH department code
      Analysis of the Replication Stress Response
      $462,758
      award amount
    • 5T32CA009582-38Department: NIH department code
      Biochemical and Chemical Training for Cancer Research
      $422,231
      award amount

  2. Charles R Sanders

    Leads 2 awards · $1,843,583

    • 7R01HL122010-12Department: NIH department code
      Decrypting Variants of Uncertain Significance in Long-QT Syndrome

      Principal investigators: Charles R Sanders (contact PI), Alfred L. George

      $1,297,448
      award amount
    • 5R01NS095989-08Department: NIH department code
      Folding, Misfolding, and Function of PMP22

      Principal investigators: Charles R Sanders (contact PI), Bruce D Carter

      $546,135
      award amount

  3. Walter J. Chazin

    Leads 3 awards · $1,426,856

    • 5T32GM152286-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Biophysics Training Grant at Vanderbilt

      Principal investigators: Walter J. Chazin (contact PI), Dana Borden Lacy, Lauren Parker Jackson

      $534,450
      award amount
    • 5R01CA218315-08Department: NIH department code
      The XPA scaffold protein in Nucleotide Excision Repair
      $456,531
      award amount
    • 5R35GM118089-09Department: NIH department code
      Integrative Structural Biology in DNA Replication and Damage Response
      $435,875
      award amount

  4. Yi Ren

    Leads 2 awards · $1,323,083

    • 5R01AI184975-02Department: NIH department code
      mRNA Nuclear Export Machinery as Target of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp1 Protein

      Principal investigators: Yi Ren (contact PI), Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Beatriz Ma Fontoura

      $807,958
      award amount
    • 5R35GM133743-07Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and Regulation of Nuclear mRNA Export
      $515,125
      award amount

  5. Neil Osheroff

    Leads 2 awards · $1,024,698

    • 5R01AI170546-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Studies of Gyrase/Topoisomerase IV-Targeted Antibacterials
      $668,942
      award amount
    • 5R01GM126363-08Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Studies of Type II Topoisomerases and Topoisomerase-Targeted Agents
      $355,756
      award amount

  6. James M Dewar

    Leads 2 awards · $943,187

    • 5R01ES034847-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of replication fork degradation in vertebrates
      $475,612
      award amount
    • 5R35GM128696-08Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms that ensure the completion of DNA synthesis
      $467,575
      award amount

  7. Emily Hodges

    Leads 2 awards · $807,443

    • 5R01CA255446-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of PRC1 in RUNX1-ETO-mediated transcriptional control
      $431,847
      award amount
    • 5R01GM147078-04Department: NIH department code
      Decoding genome function with DNA methylation and human phenome data
      $375,596
      award amount

  8. Katrin Karbstein

    Leads 1 award · $804,521

    • 2R35GM136323-08Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the Mechanisms of Regulation and Quality Control in Ribosome Assembly and the Consequences of their Failure
      $804,521
      award amount

  9. Douglas Alan Mitchell

    Leads 1 award · $558,651

    • 1R35GM158411-01Department: NIH department code
      Discovery and Engineering of RiPP Natural Products
      $558,651
      award amount

  10. Douglas Kojetin

    Leads 1 award · $558,167

    • 5R01AG070719-06Department: NIH department code
      Molecular basis of activation of the orphan nuclear receptor Nurr1
      $558,167
      award amount

  11. Bruce D Carter

    Leads 1 award · $543,337

    • 1R01NS136342-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Long distance regressive signaling underlies sculpting of the nervous system during development.

      Principal investigators: Bruce D Carter (contact PI), Christopher D Deppmann

      $543,337
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS095989-08, led by Charles R Sanders.

  12. Kevin L Schey

    Leads 1 award · $423,753

    • 5R01EY013462-23Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Aquaporins in Lens Structure and Function
      $423,753
      award amount

  13. F Peter Guengerich

    Leads 1 award · $412,100

    • 5R35GM151905-02Department: NIH department code
      Functional Roles of Human Cytochrome P450 Enzymes
      $412,100
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32ES007028-51, led by Fiona Edith Harrison.

  14. Andrew William Folkmann

    Leads 1 award · $396,250

    • 5R35GM155303-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation and Function of Biomolecular Condensate
      $396,250
      award amount

  15. Manuel Ascano

    Leads 1 award · $396,250

    • 5R35GM119569-10Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering Post-transcriptional Gene Regulatory Networks During Periods of Host-Pathogen Interaction and Innate Immune Activation
      $396,250
      award amount

  16. Rahul Bhowmick

    Leads 1 award · $396,250

    • 5R35GM155237-02Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing the effect of transcription-replication conflicts on transcription and co-transcriptional processes
      $396,250
      award amount

  17. Galina I Lepesheva

    Leads 1 award · $364,550

    • 5R35GM151876-02Department: NIH department code
      Structural requirements for sterol 14α-demethylases
      $364,550
      award amount

  18. Fiona Edith Harrison

    Leads 1 award · $325,274

  19. John Kuriyan

    Leads 1 award · $322,500

    • 5R01GM144512-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism and Evolutionary Design of DNA Polymerase Clamp Loaders.
      $322,500
      award amount

  20. Fatma Sezen Meydan Marks

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00GM144688-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of ribosome collisions during health, development and disease
      $249,000
      award amount

  21. Joshua A. Bauer

    Leads 1 award · $218,965

    • 5R50CA211206-10Department: NIH department code
      Cancer Pharmacologist and HTS Scientist
      $218,965
      award amount

  22. Juan Carvajal Garcia

    Leads 1 award · $122,850

    • 1K99ES037493-01Department: NIH department code
      The role of error-prone polymerases in mutagenesis and evolution
      $122,850
      award amount

  23. Hannah Daniels

    Leads 1 award · $75,052

    • 1F32CA301815-01Department: NIH department code
      Fragment-based discovery: Small molecule inhibitors of XPA-RPA
      $75,052
      award amount

  24. Lauren Emmerson

    Leads 1 award · $34,880

    • 1F31AI194801-01Department: NIH department code
      Revealing the Role of Lipid-Laden Macrophages in Staphylococcus aureus Osteomyelitis Abscess Formation
      $34,880
      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.