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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Other Basic Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$15.8M
$15,783,810
Awards
27
FY2026 NIH awards in Other Basic Sciences
Principal investigators
27
19 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • 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 Other Basic Sciences row of the Washington University in St. Louis page.

Leads a grant in this department

19 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. Aaron Diantonio

    Leads 2 awards · $3,857,887

    • 1RF1AG097611-01A1Department: NIH department code
      NAD subcellular compartmentalization drives resilience to aging-associated neurodegeneration

      Principal investigators: Aaron Diantonio (contact PI), Adam Joseph Bloom, Jeffrey D Milbrandt

      $3,210,431
      award amount
    • 5R37NS065053-14Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of axonal degeneration by the DLK kinase
      $647,456
      award amount

  2. Lilianna Solnicakrezel

    Leads 2 awards · $1,289,013

    • 2R35GM118179-11Department: NIH department code
      Inductive and morphogenetic processes shaping the zebrafish embryonic axes
      $677,978
      award amount
    • 5R01HD110556-04Department: NIH department code
      Multi-organism platform for functional assessment of human birth defect associated genomic variants

      Principal investigators: Lilianna Solnicakrezel (contact PI), Aaron N Johnson, David M Ornitz, Kristen L Kroll, Stephen C Pak

      $611,035
      award amount

  3. Andrew K Groves

    Leads 2 awards · $1,221,802

    • 5R01DC014832-10Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing Atoh1 function in hair cell regeneration

      Principal investigators: Andrew K Groves (contact PI), Gabriel Corfas

      $648,034
      award amount
    • 7R01DE032244-04Department: NIH department code
      The role of the Foxi3 transcription factor in craniofacial microsomia
      $573,768
      award amount

  4. David M Ornitz

    Leads 2 awards · $1,217,789

    • 5R01HL176901-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of primary and secondary alveologenesis by FGF signaling pathways
      $730,080
      award amount
    • 5R01AR079246-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Osteocyte Survival by Fibroblast Growth Factor Signaling Pathways
      $487,709
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HD110556-04, led by Lilianna Solnicakrezel.

  5. Mayssa H. Mokalled

    Leads 3 awards · $1,183,621

    • 5R01NS113915-07Department: NIH department code
      Potency and contribution of zebrafish progenitors during innate spinal cord repair
      $531,298
      award amount
    • 5R01NS123708-05Department: NIH department code
      Glial cell responses promote spinal cord repair in zebrafish
      $406,449
      award amount
    • 1R21NS149726-01Department: NIH department code
      Reprogramming astrocytes to promote neural repair
      $245,874
      award amount

  6. Thorold Theunissen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,094,532

    • 5R01HD119277-02Department: NIH department code
      Modeling Human Trophoblast Differentiation and Function Using Pluripotent Stem Cells

      Principal investigators: Thorold Theunissen (contact PI), Kristen L Kroll, Sabine M Dietmann

      $645,137
      award amount
    • 5R35GM153439-03Department: NIH department code
      Resolving epigenetic instability during pluripotent state transitions: a roadmap for exploiting the biomedical potential of dynamic human stem cell states
      $449,395
      award amount

  7. Helen McNeill

    Leads 2 awards · $1,029,825

    • 5R01HD108639-04Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the function of Nemp1, a nuclear envelope protein critical for mammalian fertility
      $563,325
      award amount
    • 1R35GM163857-01Department: NIH department code
      Fat cadherin function in planar polarity
      $466,500
      award amount

  8. Megan T Baldridge

    Leads 1 award · $821,816

    • 1R01DK145882-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Microbial contributors to steady state hematopoiesis

      Principal investigators: Megan T Baldridge (contact PI), Katherine Yudeh King

      $821,816
      award amount

  9. Kristen L Kroll

    Leads 1 award · $763,894

    • 1R01MH138528-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Requirements for ZNF292 in cortical development and mechanisms of pathogenesis in neurodevelopmental disorders

      Principal investigators: Kristen L Kroll (contact PI), Joel Richard Garbow

      $763,894
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HD119277-02, led by Thorold Theunissen; 5R01HD110556-04, led by Lilianna Solnicakrezel.

  10. Elizabeth A Pollina

    Leads 1 award · $706,126

    • 1R01AG098482-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Activity-Dependent Transcription and DNA Repair in Neuronal Longevity
      $706,126
      award amount

  11. Shin-Ichiro Imai

    Leads 1 award · $609,383

    • 5U01AG086196-03Department: NIH department code
      The intertissue communication between the hypothalamus and adipose tissue for mammalian aging and longevity control
      $609,383
      award amount

  12. Kerry Kornfeld

    Leads 1 award · $427,625

    • 1R35GM161735-01Department: NIH department code
      Zinc Signaling and Homeostasis
      $427,625
      award amount

  13. Aaron N Johnson

    Leads 1 award · $390,080

    • 5R01AR070299-10Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Myotube Guidance
      $390,080
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HD110556-04, led by Lilianna Solnicakrezel.

  14. Tony Yu-Chen Tsai

    Leads 1 award · $372,100

    • 5R35GM150759-04Department: NIH department code
      Principles of Mechanochemical Signal Integration Underlying Developmental Robustness
      $372,100
      award amount

  15. Scott A. Handley

    Leads 1 award · $311,000

    • 1R03DE036237-01Department: NIH department code
      An Integrated Analytical Framework for Human Virome Studies: Validation, Standardization, and Statistical Innovation
      $311,000
      award amount

  16. Geoffrey J Goodhill

    Leads 1 award · $235,342

    • 5R21MH136592-02Department: NIH department code
      Identifying autism motor deficits in infants using computer vision

      Principal investigators: Geoffrey J Goodhill (contact PI), Natasha Marrus

      $235,342
      award amount

  17. Kali Meredith Pruss

    Leads 1 award · $135,378

    • 1K99HD122916-01Department: NIH department code
      Small intestinal bacteria impair fetal and placental development
      $135,378
      award amount

  18. James T O'Connor

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32AG086044-03Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting neuroinflammatory mechanisms in a model of progressive TDP-43 pathology
      $79,348
      award amount

  19. Ramiz Ali Somjee

    Leads 1 award · $37,249

    • 1F30EY038618-01Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the role of SAMD7 in photoreceptor transcriptional regulation.
      $37,249
      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.