Anatomy & Cell Biology at Washington University in St. Louis

Leads a grant in this department

17 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. Colin G Nichols

   Leads 3 awards · $1,766,001

   • 5R35HL171542-03Department: NIH department code

     Cardiovascular potassium channels: From molecular basis to disease therapeutics
     $1,034,314

     award amount
   • 5R01DK133838-04Department: NIH department code

     KATP deficiency in hyperinsulinism and diabetes

     Principal investigators: Colin G Nichols (contact PI), Maria Sara Remedi

     $505,994

     award amount
   • 5T32NS126120-04Department: NIH department code

     TriMED: Measuring, Modeling and Manipulating Excitability and Disease

     Principal investigators: Colin G Nichols (contact PI), Baron Chanda

     $225,693

     award amount

2. Sheila A Stewart

   Leads 3 awards · $1,553,952

   • 5R01AG088264-02Department: NIH department code

     Senescent CAFs in Breast Cancer Progression
     $593,410

     award amount
   • 5R01AG093010-02Department: NIH department code

     Senescent stromal cells drive chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
     $491,422

     award amount
   • 5R01CA282810-03Department: NIH department code

     Leveraging the metastatic tumor stroma to limit breast cancer progression
     $469,120

     award amount

3. Heather L True-Krob

   Leads 2 awards · $1,400,251

   • 2T32GM139774-06Department: NIH department code

     Training Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology
     $1,078,342

     award amount
   • 5R25GM152365-04Department: NIH department code

     Washington University Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program

     Principal investigators: Heather L True-Krob (contact PI), David J Kast, Gregory A Grant

     $321,909

     award amount

4. David J Pagliarini

   Leads 3 awards · $1,316,220

   • 5R35GM131795-09Department: NIH department code

     Systems-to-structure approaches for defining mitochondrial protein function
     $464,681

     award amount
   • 5R01DK098672-12Department: NIH department code

     Regulation of Mitochondrial Function by Orphan Protein Phosphatases
     $451,295

     award amount
   • 5R01DK137976-03Department: NIH department code

     Defining the roles of ACAD10/11 in hydroxy lipid catabolism and metabolic disease
     $400,244

     award amount

5. Michael Benjamin Major

   Leads 2 awards · $1,292,830

   • 1R01CA298329-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Targeting NRF2 to sensitize head and neck cancer to immune checkpoint inhibitors

     Principal investigators: Michael Benjamin Major (contact PI), Bernard E. Weissman

     $659,087

     award amount
   • 5R01CA290809-02Department: NIH department code

     Drugging NRF2 to improve radiation therapy in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

     Principal investigators: Michael Benjamin Major (contact PI), Bernard E. Weissman

     $633,743

     award amount

6. Vitaly A Klyachko

   Leads 1 award · $972,416

   • 5R35NS111596-08Department: NIH department code

     Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission in Healthy and Disease States
     $972,416

     award amount

7. Kendall J Blumer

   Leads 1 award · $646,785

   • 1R01CA308205-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Mechanisms appropriated for growth and survival of tumors driven by constitutively active GNAQ/11
     $646,785

     award amount

8. Polina V Lishko

   Leads 1 award · $619,913

   • 1R01HD119961-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Temperature and Polyamines: Their Roles in CatSper Regulation and Sperm Fertility

     Principal investigators: Polina V Lishko (contact PI), Celia M Santi

     $619,913

     award amount

9. David W Piston

   Leads 1 award · $578,846

   • 1R01DK143569-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Brown adipose tissue derived nidogen-2 as a diabetes therapeutic
     $578,846

     award amount

10. Amber Nicole Stratman

    Leads 1 award · $483,175

    • 1R35GM161656-01Department: NIH department code

      Mechanosensitive mechanisms regulating cellular coordination during tissue morphogenesis and patterning
      $483,175

      award amount

11. Clair Crewe

    Leads 1 award · $464,985

    • 5R01DK137791-02Department: NIH department code

      Extracellular vesicles from adipocytes in cardiometabolic disease
      $464,985

      award amount

12. Chun-Kan Chen

    Leads 1 award · $427,625

    • 1R35GM165632-01Department: NIH department code

      Revealing the Regulation of Circular RNA Translation Remodeling Under Stress Conditions
      $427,625

      award amount

13. David J Kast

    Leads 1 award · $427,625

    • 5R35GM158363-02Department: NIH department code

      Spatiotemporal Regulation of Organelle Interactions and Metabolism
      $427,625

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R25GM152365-04, led by Heather L True-Krob.

14. Ghazaleh Ashrafi

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5R35GM147222-05Department: NIH department code

      Cellular mechanisms of bioenergetic plasticity
      $388,750

      award amount

15. Ziao Fu

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 1R01DK146938-01Department: NIH department code

      Structural and Functional Mechanisms of Podocin in Glomerular Membrane Organization and Kidney Disease
      $388,750

      award amount

16. Nathaniel Walter York

    Leads 1 award · $158,554

    • 1K01DK146239-01Department: NIH department code

      Loss of KATP in Type 2 Diabetes: Providing insight into the cause and restoration of impaired insulin secretion
      $158,554

      award amount

17. Isaac Banaszak Plutzer

    Leads 1 award · $36,962

    • 5F31CA290947-02Department: NIH department code

      Illuminating Dark Kinase Activity in HNSCC, LUSC, and LUAD through Integrative Kinase Proximity and Phosphoproteomics Analysis
      $36,962

      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.

• Bernard E. Weissman

  Co-investigator on 1R01CA298329-01A1, led by Michael Benjamin Major; 5R01CA290809-02, led by Michael Benjamin Major

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Otolaryngology (NIH department code, 1 award)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Pediatrics (NIH department code, 1 award)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Pathology (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Celia M Santi

  Co-investigator on 1R01HD119961-01A1, led by Polina V Lishko

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Washington University in St. Louis · Obstetrics & Gynecology (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Maria Sara Remedi

  Co-investigator on 5R01DK133838-04, led by Colin G Nichols

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Washington University in St. Louis · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Gregory A Grant

  Co-investigator on 5R25GM152365-04, led by Heather L True-Krob

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

• Baron Chanda

  Co-investigator on 5T32NS126120-04, led by Colin G Nichols

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Washington University in St. Louis · Anesthesiology (NIH department code, 1 award)