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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$14.8M
$14,811,943
Awards
20
FY2025 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
17
15 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#4
of 67 · 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

15 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 · $7,155,353

    • 7R01AG060942-07Department: 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
      $7,155,353
      award amount
  2. Daniel Kerschensteiner

    Leads 5 awards · $1,946,003

    • 5T32NS121881-05Department: NIH department code
      Neuroscience Training Program at Washington University

      Principal investigators: Daniel Kerschensteiner (contact PI), Timothy Holy

      $592,341
      award amount
    • 5R01EY026978-09Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic Organization and Function of Retinal Interneurons and Downstream Visual Pathways
      $393,750
      award amount
    • 5R01EY034001-04Department: NIH department code
      Visual pathway cooperation to align viewing strategies and processing specializations for predation
      $388,750
      award amount
    • 5R01EY027411-08Department: NIH department code
      Synapse rescue and neuroprotection in the retina
      $387,881
      award amount
    • 5T32EY013360-24Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary Training in Vision Science

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

      $183,281
      award amount
  3. Shiming Chen

    Leads 2 awards · $963,767

    • 5R01EY012543-24Department: NIH department code
      Vulnerable and Resilient Cells in Retinal Degeneration

      Principal investigators: Shiming Chen (contact PI), Philip Raymond Williams

      $575,017
      award amount
    • 5R01EY032136-05Department: NIH department code
      Understanding and treating CRX-linked retinopathies
      $388,750
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32EY013360-24, led by Daniel Kerschensteiner.

  4. Carla J Siegfried

    Leads 1 award · $541,880

    • 5R01EY034529-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding glaucoma risk and assessment of precision therapies: A study of mitochondria and oxidative stress in human trabecular meshwork
      $541,880
      award amount
  5. Takeshi Yoshimatsu

    Leads 1 award · $517,600

    • 1R01EY036090-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Visual feature competition between central and peripheral retinal pathways’
      $517,600
      award amount
  6. Andrew J.w. Huang

    Leads 1 award · $514,851

    • 5R01EY036481-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanism underlying corneal injuries by ammonia

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

      $514,851
      award amount
  7. Steven Bassnett

    Leads 1 award · $474,844

    • 5R01EY029130-07Department: NIH department code
      Structural, mechanical, and cell biological properties of the ciliary zonule
      $474,844
      award amount
  8. Brian S Clark

    Leads 1 award · $466,501

    • 5R01EY035381-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Retinal Development by RNA molecules
      $466,501
      award amount
  9. Thomas Almon Ferguson

    Leads 1 award · $411,102

    • 5R01EY034160-04Department: NIH department code
      Immune Privilege, Müller cells, and Autophagy
      $411,102
      award amount
  10. Philip Andrew Ruzycki

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5R01EY036368-02Department: NIH department code
      Homeostasis of the Retinal Epigenome
      $388,750
      award amount
  11. Rithwick Rajagopal

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5R01EY034172-04Department: NIH department code
      Modulating retinal lipid biogenesis in diabetes for therapeutic effects
      $388,750
      award amount
  12. Philip Raymond Williams

    Leads 1 award · $385,227

    • 5R01EY032908-04Department: NIH department code
      Identifying and leveraging strategies of inherently resilient retinal neurons to treat degeneration
      $385,227
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01EY012543-24, led by Shiming Chen.

  13. Qian Wang

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00EY032171-03Department: NIH department code
      Signaling networks and transcriptional programs in lens vesicle formation
      $249,000
      award amount
  14. James Walsh

    Leads 1 award · $240,262

    • 5K08EY034601-03Department: NIH department code
      Antigen presentation to the adaptive immune system in the choroid contributes to ocular autoimmune disease
      $240,262
      award amount
  15. Margaret Reynolds

    Leads 1 award · $168,053

    • 1K23HD114877-01A1Department: 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.