FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA · Sum of member hospitals
- 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 Children's Hospital Los Angeles's member hospitals under the department-ranking rules: awards with a department, R&D contracts left out. They match Children's Hospital Los Angeles's Pediatrics 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
21 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Pat Levitt
Leads 2 awards · $2,521,253
- 4U01DA055362-06Department: investigator's affiliation2/24 Healthy Brain and Child Development National Consortium
Principal investigators: Pat Levitt (contact PI), Beth A Smith, Jessica L Wisnowski
$1,788,258award amount - 1R01HD118103-01A1Department: investigator's affiliationIdentification of Child Risk and Resilience to Early Life Stress$732,995award amount
Elizabeth R Sowell
Leads 3 awards · $2,317,476
- 5U01DA041048-12Department: investigator's affiliation8/21 ABCD-USA CONSORTIUM: RESEARCH PROJECT SITE AT CHLA
Principal investigators: Elizabeth R Sowell (contact PI), Megan Marie Herting
$1,772,534award amount - 5R01AA025653-09Department: investigator's affiliationBrain and Cognitive Development in the PASS Cohort: The Impact of PrenatalAlcohol Exposure$366,340award amount
- 3R01AA025653-09S1Department: investigator's affiliationBrain and Cognitive Development in the PASS Cohort: The Impact of PrenatalAlcohol Exposure$178,602award amount
Yves A Declerck
Leads 1 award · $2,055,468
- 4R01CA207983-08Department: investigator's affiliationTumor-derived extracellular vesicles in the pre-metastatic niche.$2,055,468award amount
John C Wood
Leads 2 awards · $1,373,830
- 5R01HD115284-02Department: investigator's affiliationImproved Fetal Screening using 0.55T MRI
Principal investigators: John C Wood (contact PI), Krishna Shrinivas Nayak
$693,025award amount - 5R01NS117430-04Department: investigator's affiliationBrain Blood Flow, Oxygenation, and Cognition in Adult Onset Iron Deficiency Anemia$680,805award amount
Alaina P Vidmar
Leads 2 awards · $1,052,218
- 1R01DK144100-01A1Department: investigator's affiliationEarly Re-Initiation of Semaglutide After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in Youth: A Randomized Clinical Trial$884,146award amount
- 5K23DK134801-04Department: investigator's affiliationImpact of Meal Timing on Glycemic Profiles in Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes$168,072award amount
Etan Orgel
Leads 1 award · $934,614
- 5R37CA252236-05Department: investigator's affiliationTargeting obesity to improve survival from childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia$934,614award amount
Michael Isaac Goran
Leads 1 award · $773,143
- 5U01DK134984-04Department: investigator's affiliationUnderstanding and Targeting the Pathophysiology of Youth-onset Type2 Diabetes$773,143award amount
Brian George Dias
Leads 1 award · $746,047
- 5R01MH134873-03Department: investigator's affiliationMolecular mechanisms underlying sub-thalamic influences on extinction learning$746,047award amount
Ravi Bansal
Leads 1 award · $702,424
- 5R01CA274137-04Department: investigator's affiliationBrain-Imaging Markers of Neurotoxicity and Long-Term Outcomes after CAR-T Cell Therapy
Principal investigators: Ravi Bansal (contact PI), Bradley S Peterson, Deepa Bhojwani
$702,424award amount
Jonathan Douglas Santoro
Leads 1 award · $676,953
- 5R01HD119010-02Department: investigator's affiliationNeurodiagnostic, Proteomic, and Metabolomic Investigations into Down Syndrome Regression Disorder$676,953award amount
Yong-Mi Kim
Leads 1 award · $609,010
- 1R01CA305140-01A1Department: investigator's affiliationThe role of TBL-1 in acute lymphoblastic leukemia$609,010award amount
Miller Huang
Leads 1 award · $558,719
- 5R01CA289964-02Department: investigator's affiliationDefine the role of chromosome 17q gain in neuroblastoma malignancy$558,719award amount
Senta K Georgia
Leads 2 awards · $534,413
- 1R56DK145077-01A1Department: investigator's affiliationNGN3 as a mediator of human pancreatic progenitor cell competence$435,907award amount
- 5K26DK138380-04Department: investigator's affiliationMentoring Emerging Researchers at CHLA (MERCH-LA)$98,506award amount
Pradip Chaudhari
Leads 1 award · $527,485
- 1R56NS151828-01Department: investigator's affiliationPoint-of-Care Brain MRI in Children with Head Trauma (BRAINCHILD): Protocol Optimization and Clinical Validation
Principal investigators: Pradip Chaudhari (contact PI), Marius George Linguraru, Natasha Lepore
$527,485award amount
Alexandre Bonnin
Leads 1 award · $408,852
- 5R01NS126981-04Department: topic-inferredPrenatal inflammation disrupts blood-brain barrier development and long-term function$408,852award amount
Jessica Whei Tsai
Leads 1 award · $262,863
- 5K08CA279908-03Department: investigator's affiliationDissecting the cooperation of FOXR2 and ETS transcription factors in FOXR2-expressing diffuse midline gliomas$262,863award amount
Elizabeth Bendig Burgener
Leads 1 award · $199,044
- 5K23HL169902-04Department: investigator's affiliationBacteriophage as a predictive biomarker in chronic Pseudomonas airway disease$199,044award amount
Abbey Masonbrink
Leads 1 award · $196,236
- 5K23DA055736-05Department: investigator's affiliationDevelopment and Implementation of a Tobacco and ENDS Use Intervention for Adolescents and Young Adults in the Pediatric Hospital$196,236award amount
Ashaunta Tumblin Anderson
Leads 1 award · $171,876
- 5K23MD016944-03Department: investigator's affiliationSelf-Concept Reinforcement for Early School Readiness: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Clinic-Based Intervention for Young African American Children$171,876award amount
Andrew L Cheng
Leads 1 award · $169,797
- 5K23HL161310-05Department: investigator's affiliationImpact of Blood Viscosity and Vascular Compliance on Fontan Circulation Dysfunction in Children$169,797award amount
Caitlin Smith Sayegh
Leads 1 award · $162,578
- 5K23HD119369-02Department: investigator's affiliationAdaptive Cell Phone Support to Promote Medication Adherence among Adolescents and Young Adults with Chronic Health Conditions$162,578award 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.
Beth A Smith
Co-investigator on 4U01DA055362-06, led by Pat Levitt
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (no department on record, 3 awards)
Jessica L Wisnowski
Co-investigator on 4U01DA055362-06, led by Pat Levitt
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Megan Marie Herting
Co-investigator on 5U01DA041048-12, led by Elizabeth R Sowell
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Southern California · Public Health (NIH department code, 1 award)
Bradley S Peterson
Co-investigator on 5R01CA274137-04, led by Ravi Bansal
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (no department on record, 1 award)
Deepa Bhojwani
Co-investigator on 5R01CA274137-04, led by Ravi Bansal
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Krishna Shrinivas Nayak
Co-investigator on 5R01HD115284-02, led by John C Wood
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Southern California · Engineering (NIH department code, 2 awards)
Marius George Linguraru
Co-investigator on 1R56NS151828-01, led by Pradip Chaudhari
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Natasha Lepore
Co-investigator on 1R56NS151828-01, led by Pradip Chaudhari
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (no department on record, 1 award)