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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Internal Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Health System

West Hollywood, CA · Sum of member hospitals

Funding
$68.6M
$68,613,198
Awards
91
FY2026 NIH awards in Internal Medicine
Principal investigators
107
77 lead a grant here, 30 co-investigators
Department rank
#27
of 147 with hospitals and health systems listed separately · 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.
  • NIH gives hospital awards no department code. Each counts under its contact PI's own department, from their PubMed affiliations, or under a department inferred from the award's topic when no affiliation names one. Each award below says which. How departments are assigned
  • Awards at Cedars-Sinai Health System's member hospitals under the department-ranking rules: awards with a department, R&D contracts left out. They match Cedars-Sinai Health System's Internal Medicine row on the system page.

By member hospital

Where NIH made these awards. Each hospital's page lists its own investigators.

Leads a grant in this department

77 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. Peter Scott Heeger

    Leads 3 awards · $7,086,008

  2. Susan Cheng

    Leads 4 awards · $4,607,652

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HL165840-04, led by Christine M Albert.

  3. Peter Chen

    Leads 3 awards · $3,683,989

  4. Christine M Albert

    Leads 2 awards · $3,466,326

  5. Ekihiro Seki

    Leads 4 awards · $3,240,004

  6. Xue Sean Li

    Leads 2 awards · $2,673,287

  7. Cory M Hogaboam

    Leads 1 award · $2,604,104

  8. Jie Sun

    Leads 1 award · $2,604,104

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01HL179266-01A1, led by Peter Chen.

  9. Kyoung Jae Won

    Leads 1 award · $2,604,104

  10. Paul Wesley Noble

    Leads 1 award · $2,604,104

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AG078655-05, led by Carol Jiurong Liang.

  11. Tanyalak Parimon

    Leads 1 award · $2,604,104

  12. Shelly Chi-Loo Lu

    Leads 3 awards · $2,385,356

  13. Debiao Li

    Leads 2 awards · $2,207,661

  14. Anil V Parwani

    Leads 1 award · $2,092,602

  15. Hany Abdel-Malek Abdel-Hafiz

    Leads 1 award · $2,092,602

  16. Sungyong You

    Leads 1 award · $2,092,602

  17. Zihai Li

    Leads 1 award · $2,092,602

  18. Sara Elyse Espinoza

    Leads 2 awards · $1,979,595

  19. David M. Underhill

    Leads 2 awards · $1,970,617

  20. James L. Kirkland

    Leads 2 awards · $1,969,523

  21. David E. Cohen

    Leads 3 awards · $1,952,104

  22. Nicolas Musi

    Leads 2 awards · $1,952,019

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AG089711-03, led by Sara Elyse Espinoza.

  23. Stephen J. Pandol

    Leads 2 awards · $1,837,692

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01DK127403-07, led by Mark Goodarzi.

  24. Neil A. Bhowmick

    Leads 1 award · $1,813,962

    • 4R01CA292654-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      A translational study of a synthetic lethality interaction of CD105 and androgen receptor signaling axis for castration-resistant prostate cancer patients
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

      Principal investigators: Neil A. Bhowmick (contact PI), Edwin Melencio Posadas

      $1,813,962
      award amount

  25. Sumeet S. Chugh

    Leads 1 award · $1,696,670

    • 1R01HL181473-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Dynamic Predictors of Sudden Cardiac Death
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $1,696,670
      award amount

  26. Eduardo Marban

    Leads 3 awards · $1,644,531

  27. Sarah-Jeanne Salvy

    Leads 2 awards · $1,624,281

    • 1R01DK149684-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Prospective relationships between 24h time allocation and health in mothers and their young children
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

      Principal investigators: Sarah-Jeanne Salvy (contact PI), Kayla De La Haye

      $913,737
      award amount
    • 5R01DK130851-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      Evaluating environmental control (AVOID) and inhibitory control (RESIST) strategies to improve weight management outcomes
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $710,544
      award amount

  28. Nunzio Bottini

    Leads 2 awards · $1,566,493

  29. Cathleen Noel Bairey Merz

    Leads 1 award · $1,497,984

  30. Chi-Hong Tseng

    Leads 1 award · $1,497,984

  31. Michael Douglas Nelson

    Leads 1 award · $1,497,984

  32. Pascal Sati

    Leads 1 award · $1,497,984

  33. Sergei I Grivennikov

    Leads 2 awards · $1,390,527

    • 1R01CA300696-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Microenvironmental and hepatocyte cell type specific regulation of colorectal cancer metastasis by IL17
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $708,990
      award amount
    • 5R01CA287786-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Cytokine-mediated regulation of immunity and microenvironment in colorectal cancer metastasis
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $681,537
      award amount

  34. Ekaterina Koltsova

    Leads 2 awards · $1,383,463

    • 1R01CA310095-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Cytokines and B cells controlling immune tumor microenvironment in hepatocellular carcinoma
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $695,634
      award amount
    • 5R01HL173975-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      IL17RC signaling as a regulator of host- microbiota interactions and aortic neuroinflammation in atherosclerosis
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $687,829
      award amount

  35. Ju Dong Yang

    Leads 1 award · $1,283,250

  36. Jason H. Moore

    Leads 1 award · $1,267,322

  37. Jonathan Wanagat

    Leads 1 award · $1,267,322

  38. Changfu Yao

    Leads 2 awards · $1,222,985

    • 1R01AG097434-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      p53 acetylation drives alveolar progenitor cells senescence in progressive pulmonary fibrosis
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

      Principal investigators: Changfu Yao (contact PI), Barry R Stripp

      $671,107
      award amount
    • 5R01HL174973-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      PRC2 independent role of Ezh2 in regulation of basal cell dynamics post-influenza virus infection
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $551,878
      award amount

  39. Fayyaz S. Sutterwala

    Leads 2 awards · $1,221,272

  40. Caroline Jefferies

    Leads 2 awards · $1,163,850

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01DK146456-01A1, led by Nunzio Bottini.

  41. Christopher V Almario

    Leads 2 awards · $1,103,950

    • 1R34AT013453-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Assessing the Feasibility of an AI-Enhanced VR Program Delivering Personalized Mind-Body Therapy for Depression
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

      Principal investigators: Christopher V Almario (contact PI), Itai Danovitch

      $769,950
      award amount
    • 5R01DK140676-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Clinical Impact and Feasibility of Virtual Reality (VR) for Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing VR Cognitive Behavioral Therapy vs. Sham VR
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $334,000
      award amount

  42. Jun Gong

    Leads 2 awards · $1,002,889

    • 1R37CA300232-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Universal methylated ctDNA markers for minimal residual disease detection and therapy response prediction in colorectal cancer
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $662,610
      award amount
    • 1R21CA313077-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      A phase I trial of S-Adenosylmethionine (SAMe) for chemoprevention of colorectal adenomas
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $340,279
      award amount

  43. Piotr J Slomka

    Leads 1 award · $989,022

    • 5R35HL161195-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      Patient-specific Outcome Prediction from Cardiovascular Multimodality Imaging by Artificial Intelligence
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $989,022
      award amount

  44. Maria Lauda Tomasi

    Leads 2 awards · $842,059

    • 5R01AA030576-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Role of StAR-related lipid transfer protein 10 in alcohol-induced breast cancer progression
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $425,297
      award amount
    • 5R01AA029723-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      Role of phospho UBC9 in alcohol-associated liver disease
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $416,762
      award amount

  45. David Ouyang

    Leads 1 award · $817,105

    • 5R01HL173526-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Deep Learning Based Phenotyping and Outcomes Prediction for Valvular Heart Disease
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $817,105
      award amount

  46. Hiroshi Gotanda

    Leads 1 award · $791,622

    • 5R01AG089411-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Impact of physician, hospital, and skilled-nursing facility factors related to geriatric care on days spent at home among persons with AD/ADRD
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $791,622
      award amount

  47. Dianhua Jiang

    Leads 1 award · $771,522

    • 5R01HL172990-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Targeting WNT7A Signaling in Pulmonary Fibrosis
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $771,522
      award amount

  48. Sanjeev Kumar

    Leads 1 award · $757,885

    • 1R01DK146024-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Switching OFF the Maladaptive Repair Cell State to Halt AKI-to-CKD Progression
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $757,885
      award amount

  49. Jennifer E Van Eyk

    Leads 1 award · $740,500

  50. James F. Dawkins

    Leads 1 award · $724,148

    • 5R01HL164896-05Department: topic-inferred
      Biological substrate modification to suppress ventricular arrhythmias in a porcine model of chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $724,148
      award amount

  51. James K Turkson

    Leads 1 award · $686,846

    • 5R01CA283313-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Mechanistic studies of hirsutinolides and azetidine-based small molecule inhibitors of STAT3
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $686,846
      award amount

  52. Ahmed Ibrahim

    Leads 1 award · $685,656

    • 5R01HL175335-02Department: topic-inferred
      Mechanisms of cardioprotective Y RNA signaling in macrophages
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $685,656
      award amount

  53. Jane C. Figueiredo

    Leads 1 award · $660,223

  54. Bin Zheng

    Leads 1 award · $604,174

  55. Marilyn Ader

    Leads 1 award · $584,500

    • 5R01DK029867-38Department: topic-inferred
      Quantitation of Factors Regulating Glucose Tolerance
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $584,500
      award amount

  56. Alessandra Ciullo

    Leads 1 award · $581,138

    • 1R01HL185055-01Department: topic-inferred
      Therapeutic preclinical development of novel RNA drug for scleroderma heart disease
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $581,138
      award amount

  57. Anjaparavanda P Naren

    Leads 1 award · $576,228

    • 5R01DK080834-19Department: investigator's affiliation
      Inhibition of an Apical cAMP/cGMP Transporter (MRP4) in the Gut Induces Diarrhea
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $576,228
      award amount

  58. Dermot Patrick McGovern

    Leads 1 award · $569,075

    • 5U01DK062413-25Department: investigator's affiliation
      Determining genomic and host-environment contributions to IBD phenotypes
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $569,075
      award amount

  59. Ivan Vujkovic-Cvijin

    Leads 1 award · $551,000

    • 5DP1HL174182-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Gut microbiota-mediated fiber fermentation in HIV-associated cardiovascular disease
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $551,000
      award amount

  60. Peng-Sheng Chen

    Leads 1 award · $550,083

    • 5R01HL139829-08Department: investigator's affiliation
      SK Current, beta-3 adrenoceptor activation and Sex Differences in Ventricular Arrhythmogenesis
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

      Principal investigators: Peng-Sheng Chen (contact PI), Zhilin Qu

      $550,083
      award amount

  61. Carol Jiurong Liang

    Leads 1 award · $544,545

  62. Anja Karlstaedt

    Leads 1 award · $538,800

    • 5R01HL177461-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Regulation of cardiac metabolism during Leukemia
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $538,800
      award amount

  63. Maria Teresa Abreu

    Leads 1 award · $517,163

    • 5R01DK099076-17Department: topic-inferred
      Role of innate immunity and the microbiome in colitis associated dysplasia
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $517,163
      award amount

  64. Mark Goodarzi

    Leads 1 award · $511,000

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01DK108314-12, led by Stephen J. Pandol.

  65. Akil Merchant

    Leads 1 award · $509,732

    • 5R01CA266544-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      Spatially resolved, single cell biomarkers of B cell lymphoma
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $509,732
      award amount

  66. Jon T Giles

    Leads 1 award · $462,310

    • 5R01AR077187-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      Neuroimaging Measures of Psychosocial Stress as Predictors of Articular and Arterial Inflammation and Treatment Response in Rheumatoid Arthritis
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

      Principal investigators: Jon T Giles (contact PI), Ahmed A Tawakol

      $462,310
      award amount

  67. S. Ananth Karumanchi

    Leads 1 award · $417,500

    • 5R01HL167268-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Placental Organoids to Model Preeclampsia
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $417,500
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1K12AR086523-01A1, led by Caroline Jefferies.

  68. Shlomo Melmed

    Leads 1 award · $367,400

    • 5R01DK113998-08Department: investigator's affiliation
      Mechanisms for GH action on epithelial cells
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $367,400
      award amount

  69. Komal Ramani

    Leads 1 award · $334,000

    • 5R01AA029988-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      A-Kinase Anchoring Protein Dysregulation during Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $334,000
      award amount

  70. Brennan Spiegel

    Leads 1 award · $332,410

    • 5R01DK144719-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      AI-Enhanced Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Improve Quality of Life in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Multicenter Pilot and Feasibility Study
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

      Principal investigators: Brennan Spiegel (contact PI), David Todd Rubin

      $332,410
      award amount

  71. Yelba Castellon-Lopez

    Leads 2 awards · $316,939

    • 5K23DK129828-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      Understanding Barriers to Engagement in the Diabetes Prevention Program among Low-Income Latino Patients: Design and Implementation of an Intervention in Community Health Centers
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $191,689
      award amount
    • 1R03DK145960-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Leveraging Technology to Promote Physical Activity in Patients with Prediabetes: Movement over Virtual Reality (MoVR)
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $125,250
      award amount

  72. Youn Jung Choi

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00HL153688-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      MCEMP1 is an adaptor for KIT receptor for mast cell proliferation
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $249,000
      award amount

  73. Larissa Gutman Paranhos Langhi Prata

    Leads 2 awards · $199,949

    • 5K01AG090692-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Senescent Cells Effects in Response to Pathogens
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $124,875
      award amount
    • 3K01AG090692-02S1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Research Continuity Supplement K01AG090692
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $75,074
      award amount

  74. Hyunseok Kim

    Leads 1 award · $196,626

    • 1K23AA032572-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Enhancing Risk Stratification in Alcoholic Hepatitis: Integrating AI-Based Radiomics with Clinical Predictors
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $196,626
      award amount

  75. Matthew Modes

    Leads 1 award · $191,700

    • 1K23AG091847-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Enhancing ICU teams emotional support for families of critically ill patients a randomized trial
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $191,700
      award amount

  76. John P Chute

    Leads 1 award · $167,000

    • 5R21AI193964-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Vascular niche restoration to prevent delayed effects of acute radiation exposure (DEARE) in the hematopoietic system
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $167,000
      award amount

  77. Bridget Ratitong

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32AI183661-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Defining the role of PSTPIP2 in neutrophil biology
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $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.

  • Peter W Nickerson

    Co-investigator on 5U01AI170424-05, led by Peter Scott Heeger; 3U01AI170424-05S1, led by Peter Scott Heeger

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Stanley Clark Jordan

    Co-investigator on 5U01AI184203-03, led by Peter Scott Heeger

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Natalie A Bello

    Co-investigator on 4R01MD019502-07, led by Christine M Albert

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Edwin Melencio Posadas

    Co-investigator on 4R01CA292654-03, led by Neil A. Bhowmick

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Brian Claggett

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL165840-04, led by Christine M Albert

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Pinchas Cohen

    Co-investigator on 5P30AG094848-02, led by James L. Kirkland and Jason H. Moore and Jonathan Wanagat and Nicolas Musi and Sara Elyse Espinoza and Susan Cheng

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Kayla De La Haye

    Co-investigator on 1R01DK149684-01, led by Sarah-Jeanne Salvy

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Sarah J. Kilpatrick

    Co-investigator on 1K12AR086523-01A1, led by Caroline Jefferies

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Franck Barrat

    Co-investigator on 1R01DK146456-01A1, led by Nunzio Bottini

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Itai Danovitch

    Co-investigator on 1R34AT013453-01A1, led by Christopher V Almario

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Michael Regnier

    Co-investigator on 1R01HL180748-01A1, led by Jennifer E Van Eyk

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Mitzi Michelle Gonzales

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG089711-03, led by Sara Elyse Espinoza

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Hyung L Kim

    Co-investigator on 1R01CA305424-01A1, led by Debiao Li

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • George A Kuchel

    Co-investigator on 5R33AG061456-08, led by James L. Kirkland

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Stephen B. Kritchevsky

    Co-investigator on 5R33AG061456-08, led by James L. Kirkland

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Tamar Tchkonia

    Co-investigator on 5R33AG061456-08, led by James L. Kirkland

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Zaldy Tan

    Co-investigator on 1R01AG099094-01, led by Susan Cheng

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Eric A Ortlund

    Co-investigator on 7R01DK103046-13, led by David E. Cohen

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Susan J Hagen

    Co-investigator on 7R01DK103046-13, led by David E. Cohen

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Barry R Stripp

    Co-investigator on 1R01AG097434-01A1, led by Changfu Yao

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Jennifer Ann Freedman

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA284732-03, led by Jane C. Figueiredo

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Stephanie L. Schmit

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA284732-03, led by Jane C. Figueiredo

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Suzanne Cassel

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI177233-04, led by Fayyaz S. Sutterwala

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Vashisht G Yennu Nanda

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA276448-05, led by Bin Zheng

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Jargalsaikhan Dagvadorj

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI175101-03, led by Fayyaz S. Sutterwala

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Joshua I Goldhaber

    Co-investigator on 5T32HL116273-14, led by Eduardo Marban

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Zhilin Qu

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL139829-08, led by Peng-Sheng Chen

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Ahmed A Tawakol

    Co-investigator on 5R01AR077187-05, led by Jon T Giles

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • David Todd Rubin

    Co-investigator on 5R01DK144719-02, led by Brennan Spiegel

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Richard Ainsworth

    Co-investigator on 1R21AI200424-01, led by Caroline Jefferies

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.