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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$9.4M
$9,434,696
Awards
18
FY2026 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
18
14 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
#39
of 136 · 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 Washington University in St. Louis page.

Leads a grant in this department

14 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. Michael J Greenberg

    Leads 2 awards · $1,406,856

    • 5R01HL179124-02Department: NIH department code
      Impact of sequence changes on key intrinsically disordered regions of cardiac troponin

      Principal investigators: Michael J Greenberg (contact PI), Alex S Holehouse, Andrea Soranno

      $760,297
      award amount
    • 5R01HL174866-02Department: NIH department code
      Connecting Molecular and Cellular Contractile Dysfunction in Cardiomyopathy
      $646,559
      award amount

  2. Benjamin A Garcia

    Leads 2 awards · $1,113,980

    • 5R01HL177113-02Department: NIH department code
      Development and Application of Chemical Biology Approaches for Understanding Protein Arginylation

      Principal investigators: Benjamin A Garcia (contact PI), Dongwen Lyu, Zongtao Lin

      $597,424
      award amount
    • 5R01HD106051-05Department: NIH department code
      Quantitative mass spectrometry for comprehending epigenetic mechanisms in a new underlying neurological developmental disorder
      $516,556
      award amount

  3. Weikai Li

    Leads 2 awards · $989,298

    • 5R01HL121718-12Department: NIH department code
      Structural and Functional Basis of the Vitamin K Cycle
      $572,334
      award amount
    • 5R01GM131008-08Department: NIH department code
      NEW CHEMICAL PROBES ENABLE MASS SPECTROMETRY-BASED FOOTPRINTING OF HUMAN PROTEIN STRUCTURE IN LIPID MEMBRANES AND CELLS

      Principal investigators: Weikai Li (contact PI), Michael L Gross

      $416,964
      award amount

  4. Alex S Holehouse

    Leads 1 award · $933,000

    • 4DP2CA290639-02Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the regulatory logic of gene expression encoded by disordered regions
      $933,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HL179124-02, led by Michael J Greenberg.

  5. Timothy M Lohman

    Leads 1 award · $823,074

    • 5R35GM136632-07Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Helicases, Translocases and SSB Proteins involved in Genome Maintenance
      $823,074
      award amount

  6. Yuriy Kirichok

    Leads 1 award · $738,625

    • 5R35GM136415-08Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Biophysics of Mitochondrial Membranes
      $738,625
      award amount

  7. Rui Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $708,984

    • 5R01AI179885-03Department: NIH department code
      Structure and Function of the Conoid in Toxoplasma

      Principal investigators: Rui Zhang (contact PI), L. David Sibley

      $708,984
      award amount

  8. Andrea Soranno

    Leads 1 award · $623,888

    • 5R01AI163142-05Department: NIH department code
      A multipronged investigation of SARS-CoV-2 genome packaging
      $623,888
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HL179124-02, led by Michael J Greenberg.

  9. John A Cooper

    Leads 1 award · $545,421

    • 5R35GM144082-05Department: NIH department code
      Allosteric Regulation of Actin Capping Protein: Mechanism and Significance
      $545,421
      award amount

  10. Natalie Niemi

    Leads 2 awards · $544,250

    • 5R35GM151130-04Department: NIH department code
      Delineating phosphorylation-mediated regulation of mitochondrial function
      $388,750
      award amount
    • 1R03NS149107-01Department: NIH department code
      Mapping mitochondrial NADPH utilization by exploiting hypomorphic variants of NADK2
      $155,500
      award amount

  11. Eric A Galburt

    Leads 1 award · $466,500

    • 5R35GM144282-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Transcription Initiation and DNA Repair
      $466,500
      award amount

  12. Alireza Ghanbarpour

    Leads 1 award · $424,850

    • 5R35GM160328-02Department: NIH department code
      Decoding Mitochondrial AAA Protease Specificity
      $424,850
      award amount

  13. Drake Jensen

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32AI186575-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of sigma-factor-dependent transcriptional control in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
      $79,348
      award amount

  14. Madison Stringer

    Leads 1 award · $36,622

    • 5F31AI186526-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining a role and functional consequences of the disordered N-terminal domain from the Borna Disease Virus Phosphoprotein
      $36,622
      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.