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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Ophthalmology at Wayne State University

Detroit, MI

Funding
$9.1M
$9,142,991
Awards
19
FY2026 NIH awards in Ophthalmology
Principal investigators
13
13 lead a grant here, 0 co-investigators
Department rank
#14
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 Wayne State University page.

Leads a grant in this department

13 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. Bruce A. Berkowitz

    Leads 2 awards · $1,582,356

    • 5R01AG081981-04Department: NIH department code
      Novel Early Retinal Imaging Biomarkers for Treating Later Spatial Memory Loss in Experimental Alzheimer's Disease
      $1,086,201
      award amount
    • 5R01EY034309-04Department: NIH department code
      Mitigating retinitis pigmentosa based on a non-invasive rod energy-landscape biomarker
      $496,155
      award amount
  2. Ashok Kumar

    Leads 4 awards · $1,451,819

    • 5R01EY027381-08Department: NIH department code
      Ferroptosis in bacterial endophthalmitis: Mechanisms and Therapeutic targeting
      $453,470
      award amount
    • 5R01EY035499-03Department: NIH department code
      Vitreous metabolic perturbations during bacterial and fungal endophthalmitis
      $447,076
      award amount
    • 5R01EY026964-10Department: NIH department code
      Targeting NAD metabolism to ameliorate bacterial endophthalmitis
      $320,273
      award amount
    • 5R21EY037082-02Department: NIH department code
      Differential impact of acute and chronic opioids on ocular innate immunity and infections
      $231,000
      award amount
  3. Elizabeth Berger

    Leads 2 awards · $1,158,893

    • 5R01EY036697-02Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Eosinophils in Modulating the Corneal Response to Infection
      $586,258
      award amount
    • 5R01EY035494-02Department: NIH department code
      Restoration of Structure and Function in the Diabetic Cornea
      $572,635
      award amount
  4. Linda D Hazlett

    Leads 2 awards · $1,118,644

    • 5P30EY004068-43Department: NIH department code
      Core Grant for Vision Research
      $724,268
      award amount
    • 5R01EY035231-04Department: NIH department code
      Airborne Particulates, Corneal Oxidative Stress and Infection
      $394,376
      award amount
  5. Michael Landowski

    Leads 1 award · $626,683

    • 1R01EY036795-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Role of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Retinal Pigmented Epithelium Pathology
      $626,683
      award amount
  6. Tomomi Ichinose

    Leads 1 award · $477,262

    • 5R01EY028915-08Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Motion Detection in Retinal Neural Network
      $477,262
      award amount
  7. Fu-Shin X Yu

    Leads 1 award · $433,576

    • 5R01EY035785-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of Programmed Cell Death Pathways in Bacterial Keratitis
      $433,576
      award amount
  8. Shunbin Xu

    Leads 1 award · $419,129

    • 5R01EY026059-09Department: NIH department code
      The miR-183/96/182 Cluster in Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced Keratitis
      $419,129
      award amount
  9. Ahmed S Ibrahim

    Leads 1 award · $385,000

    • 5R01EY034964-04Department: NIH department code
      The Warburg Effect and Diabetic Retinopathy
      $385,000
      award amount
  10. Ryan Thummel

    Leads 1 award · $385,000

    • 5R01EY036575-02Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and glial support mechanisms in acute and chronic models of photoreceptor degeneration
      $385,000
      award amount
  11. Susmit Suvas

    Leads 1 award · $385,000

    • 5R01EY035540-04Department: NIH department code
      CXCR4: A potential therapeutic target in HSK
      $385,000
      award amount
  12. Ryan Insolera

    Leads 1 award · $373,129

    • 5R35GM156765-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of mitophagy in tissue health and homeostasis
      $373,129
      award amount
  13. Renu A. Kowluru

    Leads 1 award · $346,500

    • 5R01EY033516-05Department: NIH department code
      Diabetic Retinopathy, Mitochondria Damage and Long Non-coding RNAs
      $346,500
      award amount