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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$15.4M
$15,448,184
Awards
20
FY2026 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
16
14 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#7
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 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. Cecilia Sungmin Lee

    Leads 1 award · $7,265,875

    • 5R01AG060942-08Department: NIH department code
      Aging eyes and aging brains in studying alzheimer''s disease: Modern ophthalmic data collection in the adult changes in thought (ACT) study
      $7,265,875
      award amount

  2. Daniel Kerschensteiner

    Leads 6 awards · $2,602,324

    • 2P30EY002687-47Department: NIH department code
      Core Grant for Vision Research

      Principal investigators: Daniel Kerschensteiner (contact PI), Philip Andrew Ruzycki (contact PI), Philip Raymond Williams (contact PI), Shiming Chen (contact PI), Steven Bassnett (contact PI)

      $621,995
      award amount
    • 2T32NS121881-06Department: NIH department code
      Neuroscience Training Program at Washington University

      Principal investigators: Daniel Kerschensteiner (contact PI), Martha W Bagnall

      $488,654
      award amount
    • 2R01EY034001-05Department: NIH department code
      Multiplexed retinal coding to align perception and action with the saccade-fixation cycle
      $476,174
      award amount
    • 2R01EY026978-10Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic Organization and Function of Retinal Interneurons and Downstream Visual Pathways
      $461,953
      award amount
    • 5R01EY027411-09Department: NIH department code
      Synapse rescue and neuroprotection in the retina
      $387,881
      award amount
    • 5T32EY013360-25Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary Training in Vision Science

      Principal investigators: Daniel Kerschensteiner (contact PI), Shiming Chen

      $165,667
      award amount

  3. Philip Raymond Williams

    Leads 3 awards · $1,613,295

    • 2P30EY002687-47Department: NIH department code
      Core Grant for Vision Research

      Principal investigators: Daniel Kerschensteiner (contact PI), Philip Andrew Ruzycki (contact PI), Philip Raymond Williams (contact PI), Shiming Chen (contact PI), Steven Bassnett (contact PI)

      $621,995
      award amount
    • 1S10OD040221-01Department: NIH department code
      Dual laser scanning ophthalmoscope and optical coherence tomography scanner with adaptive optics
      $606,434
      award amount
    • 5R01EY032908-05Department: NIH department code
      Identifying and leveraging strategies of inherently resilient retinal neurons to treat degeneration
      $384,866
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01EY012543-25, led by Shiming Chen.

  4. Shiming Chen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,197,012

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32EY013360-25, led by Daniel Kerschensteiner.

  5. Steven Bassnett

    Leads 2 awards · $1,096,839

  6. Philip Andrew Ruzycki

    Leads 2 awards · $1,010,745

  7. Andrew J.w. Huang

    Leads 1 award · $604,788

    • 5R01EY036481-03Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanism underlying corneal injuries by ammonia

      Principal investigators: Andrew J.w. Huang (contact PI), Qin Liu

      $604,788
      award amount

  8. Carla J Siegfried

    Leads 1 award · $545,166

    • 5R01EY034529-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding glaucoma risk and assessment of precision therapies: A study of mitochondria and oxidative stress in human trabecular meshwork
      $545,166
      award amount

  9. Takeshi Yoshimatsu

    Leads 1 award · $483,409

    • 5R01EY036090-02Department: NIH department code
      Visual feature competition between central and peripheral retinal pathways’
      $483,409
      award amount

  10. Brian S Clark

    Leads 1 award · $470,700

    • 5R01EY035381-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Retinal Development by RNA molecules
      $470,700
      award amount

  11. Rithwick Rajagopal

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5R01EY034172-05Department: NIH department code
      Modulating retinal lipid biogenesis in diabetes for therapeutic effects
      $388,750
      award amount

  12. Qian Wang

    Leads 1 award · $248,946

    • 5R00EY032171-04Department: NIH department code
      Signaling networks and transcriptional programs in lens vesicle formation
      $248,946
      award amount

  13. James Walsh

    Leads 1 award · $240,262

    • 5K08EY034601-04Department: NIH department code
      Antigen presentation to the adaptive immune system in the choroid contributes to ocular autoimmune disease
      $240,262
      award amount

  14. Margaret Reynolds

    Leads 1 award · $168,053

    • 5K23HD114877-02Department: NIH department code
      Refractive surgery for ASD
      $168,053
      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.