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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at Yale University

New Haven, CT

Funding
$10.3M
$10,282,838
Awards
18
FY2026 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
13
11 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#21
of 89 · 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 Physiology row of the Yale University page.

Leads a grant in this department

11 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. Jesse Rinehart

    Leads 1 award · $2,014,434

    • 1R01GM163196-01Department: NIH department code
      Development of a synthetic biology tool to engineer proteins with multiple modifications and elucidate their binding function
      $2,014,434
      award amount

  2. Jean-Ju Lucia Chung

    Leads 4 awards · $2,010,696

    • 4R33HD114344-03Department: NIH department code
      Engineering and targeting the sperm-specific calcium channel CatSper for contraception
      $786,763
      award amount
    • 5R01HD113280-02Department: NIH department code
      Genetic, Cellular, and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Reduced Sperm Motility

      Principal investigators: Jean-Ju Lucia Chung (contact PI), Jun Liu

      $562,447
      award amount
    • 5R01HD096745-08Department: NIH department code
      CatSper regulation of sperm physiology and fertility
      $509,336
      award amount
    • 3R01HD096745-08S1Department: NIH department code
      CatSper regulation of sperm physiology and fertility
      $152,150
      award amount

  3. Sviatoslav Bagriantsev

    Leads 3 awards · $1,496,664

    • 5R01NS132868-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of somatosensory adaptation to prolonged hypothermia

      Principal investigators: Sviatoslav Bagriantsev (contact PI), Elena Gracheva

      $545,256
      award amount
    • 5R01NS126277-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of Meissner corpuscle function
      $489,511
      award amount
    • 5R01NS097547-10Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of touch sensitivity in rapidly-adapting mechanosensory corpuscles
      $461,897
      award amount

  4. Matthew J. Merrins

    Leads 2 awards · $1,379,094

    • 5R01DK139640-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of islet compensation for β-cell mass deficiency in diabetes

      Principal investigators: Matthew J. Merrins (contact PI), Seung K Kim

      $795,179
      award amount
    • 7R01DK113103-08Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Functions of Pyruvate Kinase M2 in Pancreatic Beta-cells
      $583,915
      award amount

  5. Rachel Jamison Perry

    Leads 2 awards · $887,738

    • 5R37CA258261-05Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Role of Renal Gluconeogenesis in Renal Cell Carcinoma
      $444,681
      award amount
    • 1R01AA032776-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Revealing the Mechanisms of the Compensatory Response to Altered Liver Metabolism in Alcohol Intoxication
      $443,057
      award amount

  6. Michael J. Caplan

    Leads 1 award · $640,797

    • 5R01DK139319-02Department: NIH department code
      Polycystin-1 C terminal tail cleavage: Mechanisms and meaning
      $640,797
      award amount

  7. Elena Gracheva

    Leads 1 award · $517,817

    • 5R01NS126271-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and cellular basis of reversible hypothermia
      $517,817
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS132868-03, led by Sviatoslav Bagriantsev.

  8. Carson Cornell Thoreen

    Leads 1 award · $418,750

    • 5R35GM152167-03Department: NIH department code
      Post-transcriptional control of gene expression by the mTORC1 signaling pathway
      $418,750
      award amount

  9. Hongying Shen

    Leads 1 award · $418,750

    • 5R35GM150619-04Department: NIH department code
      A systems approach to decode mitochondrial metabolite transport
      $418,750
      award amount

  10. Michael Nitabach

    Leads 1 award · $418,750

    • 5R35GM145251-05Department: NIH department code
      Biological Mechanisms of Food-Related Decision Making
      $418,750
      award amount

  11. Cameron Cooper Gardner

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 1F32HD123515-01Department: NIH department code
      High Resolution Analyses of FAM205C and FAM227A in Sperm Perinuclear Theca and Mitochondrial Formation and Function
      $79,348
      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.