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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Health System

West Hollywood, CA · Sum of member hospitals

Funding
$4.7M
$4,710,721
Awards
10
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
7
6 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
#44
of 89 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 Surgery 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

6 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. Homayon Ghiasi

    Leads 4 awards · $1,817,877

    • 2R01EY013615-20Department: investigator's affiliation
      The Role of gK in HSV-1 Induced Corneal Scarring
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $594,328
      award amount
    • 5R01EY033574-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Role of type 1 IFN in eye infection
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $470,543
      award amount
    • 5R01EY029160-08Department: investigator's affiliation
      Ocular HSV: Mechanism of virus reactivation
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $417,500
      award amount
    • 5R01EY024649-10Department: investigator's affiliation
      Role of Macrophages in control of Ocular HSV
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $335,506
      award amount

  2. Zeev A. Ronai

    Leads 2 awards · $1,411,130

  3. David Joseph Lefer

    Leads 1 award · $727,607

    • 5R01HL181016-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Hydrogen Sulfide and GLP-1 Combination Therapy to Treat HFpEF
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $727,607
      award amount

  4. Yong Jun Lee

    Leads 1 award · $485,388

    • 5R01CA265827-04Department: topic-inferred
      Assessment of hyperthermia-based multimodal approach for hepatic colorectal metastases
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $485,388
      award amount

  5. Abirami Kumaresan

    Leads 1 award · $191,700

    • 1K23GM163057-01A1Department: topic-inferred
      Molecular Correlates and Outcomes Associated with Striated Muscle Atrophy in Post Surgical Critical Illness A Longitudinal Study
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $191,700
      award amount

  6. Carter Prentice

    Leads 1 award · $77,019

    • 1F32EB038816-01Department: topic-inferred
      Validating Artificial Intelligence Based Surgical Skill Assessment for Robotic Hiatal Hernia Repair Using A Deep Learning Vision Transformer Model
      Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      $77,019
      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.