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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at Yale University

New Haven, CT

Funding
$37.4M
$37,353,895
Awards
69
FY2026 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
63
55 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#2
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 Yale University page.

Leads a grant in this department

55 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. Julien Berro

    Leads 3 awards · $6,042,194

    • 4R01EB037112-03Department: NIH department code
      Programming cellular behavior by mechanical forces

      Principal investigators: Julien Berro (contact PI), Alexander Arthur Green, Xiaolei Su

      $4,258,506
      award amount
    • 2R01GM115636-10A1Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of force production and force sensing during clathrin-mediated endocytosis
      $1,548,476
      award amount
    • 5R21CA294038-02Department: NIH department code
      Synthetic Mechano-Transduction For Improved Cell Therapies In Immuno-Oncology

      Principal investigators: Julien Berro (contact PI), Xiaolei Su

      $235,212
      award amount

  2. Angus C. Nairn

    Leads 1 award · $1,862,322

  3. Kenneth Robert Williams

    Leads 1 award · $1,862,322

  4. Marina R Picciotto

    Leads 1 award · $1,862,322

  5. Tukiet T Lam

    Leads 1 award · $1,862,322

  6. Craig M Crews

    Leads 2 awards · $1,717,569

    • 5R35CA197589-12Department: NIH department code
      Inducing Proximity: An Emerging Paradigm for New Therapeutic Modalities
      $987,631
      award amount
    • 5R01HL176850-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeted protein degraders for the treatment of b-hemoglobinopathies

      Principal investigators: Craig M Crews (contact PI), Gerd A Blobel

      $729,938
      award amount

  7. Yong Xiong

    Leads 2 awards · $1,498,816

    • 5R01AI192025-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular investigations of HIV-1 maturation pathways and inhibitor actions in situ
      $844,711
      award amount
    • 4R37AI116313-11Department: NIH department code
      Multifaceted interactions between lentiviral Vif and host molecules for viral infectivity enhancement
      $654,105
      award amount

  8. Anthony J Koleske

    Leads 2 awards · $1,434,907

    • 5R01MH133562-04Department: NIH department code
      Dysregulation of TRIO GEF1 activity in neurodevelopmental disorders
      $822,933
      award amount
    • 5R01MH132685-03Department: NIH department code
      Identification and characterization of chemical probes of TRIO GEF1 activity
      $611,974
      award amount

  9. Christian Dirk Schlieker

    Leads 1 award · $1,420,575

    • 1R01GM160648-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Comprehensive Strategies to Elucidate Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Cellular Force Buffering and Compartmental Integrity
      $1,420,575
      award amount

  10. Susan J Baserga

    Leads 2 awards · $1,227,582

    • 5R35GM131687-08Department: NIH department code
      Novel regulatory networks driving human ribosome biogenesis
      $686,911
      award amount
    • 5T32GM145469-04Department: NIH department code
      Predoctoral Program in Cellular, Molecular and Quantitative Biology (CMQBTP)

      Principal investigators: Susan J Baserga (contact PI), Charles Patrick Lusk

      $540,671
      award amount

  11. Stavroula Hatzios

    Leads 2 awards · $1,130,760

    • 5R01AI182086-03Department: NIH department code
      Chemoproteomic discovery and functional characterization of infection-induced oxidation sites
      $685,670
      award amount
    • 5R35GM137952-07Department: NIH department code
      Understanding redox-regulated mechanisms of environmental adaptation in gastrointestinal symbionts
      $445,090
      award amount

  12. Karla M Neugebauer

    Leads 3 awards · $1,128,569

    • 5R01GM112766-12Department: NIH department code
      Cross-regulation between transcription and pre-mRNA splicing
      $450,444
      award amount
    • 5R01NS128358-05Department: NIH department code
      DMA-Tudor interaction modules: a novel approach to Survival Motor Neuron protein (SMN) and Cajal body function
      $435,167
      award amount
    • 1R21AI202885-01Department: NIH department code
      RNA Structure Probing Approaches to Investigating Pro-Inflammatory RNA Helicases
      $242,958
      award amount

  13. Binyam Mogessie

    Leads 2 awards · $1,116,782

    • 1R01HD121559-01Department: NIH department code
      Centromere Integrity and Cytoskeletal Function in Oocyte Aneuploidy and Reproductive Aging
      $698,032
      award amount
    • 5R35GM146725-05Department: NIH department code
      Actin-based mechanisms of chromosome segregation in mammalian oocytes and embryos
      $418,750
      award amount

  14. Scott A Holley

    Leads 2 awards · $1,100,275

    • 5R35GM148348-04Department: NIH department code
      The systems developmental biology of zebrafish body elongation
      $632,313
      award amount
    • 5R01HD115298-03Department: NIH department code
      A Cross-scale analysis of cell-ECM adhesion in early spinal column development
      $467,962
      award amount

  15. Thierry Emonet

    Leads 2 awards · $1,093,936

    • 4R01NS132840-02Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing odor motion detection in flies

      Principal investigators: Thierry Emonet (contact PI), Damon Alistair Clark

      $568,263
      award amount
    • 5R35GM158058-02Department: NIH department code
      Variation in chemotactic strategies within and across bacterial species
      $525,673
      award amount

  16. Michael Patrick Odonnell

    Leads 1 award · $1,009,750

    • 4DP2GM154014-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular determinants of host-feeding manipulation and microbial colonization
      $1,009,750
      award amount

  17. Mark W Hochstrasser

    Leads 1 award · $990,761

    • 5R35GM136325-07Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Cell Regulation and Manipulation by the Ubiquitin System
      $990,761
      award amount

  18. Wendy Victoria Gilbert

    Leads 2 awards · $927,112

    • 1U01DE035620-01Department: NIH department code
      Function-based annotation and classification of uncharacterized eukaryotic viruses in the human virome

      Principal investigators: Wendy Victoria Gilbert (contact PI), Carson Cornell Thoreen

      $582,838
      award amount
    • 5R01GM101316-12Department: NIH department code
      Functions of mRNA Pseudouridylation
      $344,274
      award amount

  19. Jonathon Howard

    Leads 2 awards · $907,370

    • 1R21NS150836-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of full-length spastin and the etiology of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
      $462,750
      award amount
    • 1R35GM161634-01Department: NIH department code
      Microtubule severing and the regulation of dynamics by molecular motors
      $444,620
      award amount

  20. Josephina C Van Wolfswinkel

    Leads 2 awards · $904,958

    • 5R35GM158281-02Department: NIH department code
      Non-coding RNA in stem cell biology
      $505,429
      award amount
    • 5R01AG078926-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of transposon regulation in the negligible senescence of S. mediterranea
      $399,529
      award amount

  21. John R Carlson

    Leads 2 awards · $877,555

    • 2R01DC004729-26A1Department: NIH department code
      Analysis of Chemosensory Receptor Genes
      $461,066
      award amount
    • 5R01DC011697-23Department: NIH department code
      Analysis of a Large Family of Candidate Taste Receptors
      $416,489
      award amount

  22. Shaogeng Tang

    Leads 2 awards · $771,158

    • 1R01HD121569-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Investigation of the Sperm-Immune Synapse
      $543,572
      award amount
    • 5R00HD104924-05Department: NIH department code
      Cell Surface Receptor Recognition and Membrane Fusion in Mammalian Fertilization
      $227,586
      award amount

  23. Ailong Ke

    Leads 1 award · $695,900

    • 2R35GM118174-11Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Investigation of RNA-Mediated Gene Regulation and Immunity
      $695,900
      award amount

  24. Joan A. Steitz

    Leads 1 award · $631,557

    • 5R01CA259386-05Department: NIH department code
      Viral Noncoding RNAs and Cell Transformation
      $631,557
      award amount

  25. Michael R Koelle

    Leads 1 award · $603,519

    • 5R01NS086932-11Department: NIH department code
      Neuromodulator signaling and activity in the C. elegans egg-laying circuit

      Principal investigators: Michael R Koelle (contact PI), Kevin Michael Collins

      $603,519
      award amount

  26. Enrique M De La Cruz

    Leads 1 award · $557,065

    • 5R35GM136656-07Department: NIH department code
      Actin filament mechanics and branched network turnover
      $557,065
      award amount

  27. Farren J. Isaacs

    Leads 1 award · $517,141

    • 5R01GM140481-06Department: NIH department code
      Engineering a recoded organism to discover PTM-mediated protein binders
      $517,141
      award amount

  28. Allison Louise Didychuk

    Leads 1 award · $481,268

    • 5DP2AI171113-05Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the mechanism of herpesvirus genome packaging
      $481,268
      award amount

  29. David King Breslow

    Leads 1 award · $475,860

    • 5R35GM137956-07Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Primary Cilium Assembly and Disassembly
      $475,860
      award amount

  30. Valerie Horsley

    Leads 1 award · $466,398

    • 5R01AR084558-02Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic regulation of inflammation during tissue repair

      Principal investigators: Valerie Horsley (contact PI), Kathryn Miller-Jensen

      $466,398
      award amount

  31. Yannick Jacob

    Leads 1 award · $464,603

    • 5R35GM128661-09Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the roles of the H3.1-TSK/TONSL pathway during chromatin replication
      $464,603
      award amount

  32. Franziska Bleichert

    Leads 1 award · $463,795

    • 5R35GM158287-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and structural mechanisms of metazoan origin licensing
      $463,795
      award amount

  33. Alex Canto-Pastor

    Leads 1 award · $462,000

    • 1R35GM166420-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Tissue Barriers During Host Microbe Interactions
      $462,000
      award amount

  34. Joshua Martin Gendron

    Leads 1 award · $452,250

    • 5R35GM128670-09Department: NIH department code
      Protein degradation mechanisms that regulate daily and seasonal timing
      $452,250
      award amount

  35. Jacob Musser

    Leads 1 award · $425,904

    • 1R35GM166441-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining the conserved ancestral regulatory logic of animal cells and tissues
      $425,904
      award amount

  36. Nadya M Dimitrova

    Leads 1 award · $424,112

    • 2R01CA230580-08Department: NIH department code
      Roles and mechanisms of cis-regulatory IncRNAs in the p53 tumor suppressor pathway
      $424,112
      award amount

  37. Lilian Carolina Kabeche

    Leads 1 award · $418,750

    • 5R35GM150648-04Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating how ATR promotes genome stability independent of the DNA damage response pathway
      $418,750
      award amount

  38. Sigrid H Nachtergaele

    Leads 1 award · $418,750

    • 5R35GM146919-05Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the regulatory principles of dynamic mRNA methylation
      $418,750
      award amount

  39. Candice Elaine Paulsen

    Leads 1 award · $409,928

    • 2R35GM142825-06Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of TRPA1 regulation
      $409,928
      award amount

  40. Matthew David Simon

    Leads 1 award · $375,087

    • 5R01GM137117-07Department: NIH department code
      Revealing the dynamics of RNA metabolism with nucleotide recoding chemistry
      $375,087
      award amount

  41. Shirin Bahmanyar

    Leads 1 award · $346,515

    • 5R01GM131004-08Department: NIH department code
      Defining the role of lipid metabolism in nuclear envelope identity and dynamics
      $346,515
      award amount

  42. Rebeccah Warmack

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 4R00GM152765-03Department: NIH department code
      In situ mechanisms of biological nitrogen fixation
      $248,999
      award amount

  43. Megan Meuser

    Leads 1 award · $152,380

    • 1K99AI203602-01Department: NIH department code
      Conserved Structural Intermediates in Viral Maturation: Mechanisms and Vulnerabilities of the HIV-1 Hybrid Capsid Lattice
      $152,380
      award amount

  44. Shimaa Abdelsalam Mohamed Ebrahim

    Leads 1 award · $131,995

    • 5K01AI187677-02Department: NIH department code
      Response of tsetse flies to trypanosome-induced odors
      $131,995
      award amount

  45. Heajin Hong

    Leads 1 award · $76,780

    • 5F32CA306485-02Department: NIH department code
      The impact of aberrant m5C mRNA modification on translation initiation and cancer
      $76,780
      award amount

  46. Abigail Mayying Benvie

    Leads 1 award · $76,300

    • 1F32AR087195-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining the role of catecholaminergic neurons in wound healing
      $76,300
      award amount

  47. Michael Vetick

    Leads 1 award · $58,114

    • 5F30AI179078-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Ribosomal Dependent Virulence Pathways Employed by Non-Structural Protein 1 in Emerging Human Beta-Coronaviruses
      $58,114
      award amount

  48. Emily Dangelmaier

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31CA306101-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of N6-methyladenosine in the development of drug resistance in glioblastoma
      $50,114
      award amount

  49. Jamie Shiah

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI202971-01Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the structure and mechanism of the human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) viral genome packaging motor
      $50,114
      award amount

  50. Madison Q Gowett

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31HD117507-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining the function of tubulin post-translational modifications in female meiosis
      $50,114
      award amount

  51. Ryan Stanton

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31CA301987-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of protein synthesis by PUS1-mediated mRNA modification in hepatocellular carcinoma
      $50,114
      award amount

  52. Sofia Jacobson

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31CA310394-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of membrane-chromatin interactions in mitotic nuclear formation and cancer cell survival
      $50,114
      award amount

  53. Ricardo Ramirez Padilla

    Leads 1 award · $35,150

    • 1F31AI203604-01Department: NIH department code
      Structural and Functional Characterization of HIV-1 Capsid Maturation Inhibitors
      $35,150
      award amount

  54. Emily Jessica Siff

    Leads 1 award · $35,134

    • 5F31DC021886-03Department: NIH department code
      Drosophila Chemosensory Responses to Dead Conspecifics
      $35,134
      award amount

  55. Morgan Ashleigh Shine

    Leads 1 award · $35,120

    • 5F31ES037182-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of co- and post-transcriptional pre-mRNA processing in response to environmental stress in green algae
      $35,120
      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.