FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Otolaryngology at Mass General Brigham
Boston, MA · 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 Mass General Brigham's member hospitals under the department-ranking rules: awards with a department, R&D contracts left out. They match Mass General Brigham's Otolaryngology 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
30 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Zheng-Yi Chen
Leads 2 awards · $5,761,633
- 5U01TR005352-03Department: investigator's affiliationAAV-mediated editing to treat human autosomal dominant hearing loss DFNA41 and DFNA2$4,610,714award amount
- 1R01DC022562-01A1Department: investigator's affiliationIND-enabling study of AAV-mediated TMPRSS3 gene therapy to treat human autosomal recessive hearing loss DFNB8
Principal investigators: Zheng-Yi Chen (contact PI), Mustafa Tekin
$1,150,919award amount
M. Charles Liberman
Leads 2 awards · $3,356,106
- 5P50DC015857-10Department: investigator's affiliationCochlear Synaptopathy: Prevalence, Diagnosis and Functional Consequences
Principal investigators: Daniel B. Polley (contact PI), M. Charles Liberman (contact PI), Sharon G Kujawa (contact PI), Stéphane F. Maison (contact PI)
$2,684,343award amount - 5R01DC000188-45Department: investigator's affiliationCochlear synaptopathy in noise-induced and age-related hearing loss: mechanisms and treatments
Principal investigators: M. Charles Liberman (contact PI), Gabriel Corfas
$671,763award amount
Also a principal investigator on 5U24DC020849-05, led by Alicia M Quesnel.
Daniel B. Polley
Leads 2 awards · $3,350,994
- 5P50DC015857-10Department: investigator's affiliationCochlear Synaptopathy: Prevalence, Diagnosis and Functional Consequences
Principal investigators: Daniel B. Polley (contact PI), M. Charles Liberman (contact PI), Sharon G Kujawa (contact PI), Stéphane F. Maison (contact PI)
$2,684,343award amount - 5R01DC017078-10Department: investigator's affiliationCorticofugal Circuits for Active Listening$666,651award amount
Also a principal investigator on 1R01DC023999-01, led by Kameron Clayton.
Kristina Simonyan
Leads 3 awards · $2,944,913
- 5P50DC019900-06Department: investigator's affiliationNext-generation clinical phenotyping and pathophysiology of laryngeal dystonia and voice tremor$1,676,200award amount
- 5R01NS124228-04Department: investigator's affiliationClinical Validation of DystoniaNet Deep Learning Platform for Diagnosis of Isolated Dystonia$674,349award amount
- 5R01DC011805-16Department: investigator's affiliationImaging genetics of laryngeal dystonia$594,364award amount
Sharon G Kujawa
Leads 1 award · $2,684,343
- 5P50DC015857-10Department: investigator's affiliationCochlear Synaptopathy: Prevalence, Diagnosis and Functional Consequences
Principal investigators: Daniel B. Polley (contact PI), M. Charles Liberman (contact PI), Sharon G Kujawa (contact PI), Stéphane F. Maison (contact PI)
$2,684,343award amount
Stéphane F. Maison
Leads 1 award · $2,684,343
- 5P50DC015857-10Department: investigator's affiliationCochlear Synaptopathy: Prevalence, Diagnosis and Functional Consequences
Principal investigators: Daniel B. Polley (contact PI), M. Charles Liberman (contact PI), Sharon G Kujawa (contact PI), Stéphane F. Maison (contact PI)
$2,684,343award amount
Anand T.n. Kumar
Leads 4 awards · $2,255,511
- 1R01DE035199-01A1Department: investigator's affiliationIntraoperative fluorescence lifetime navigation system with deformation compensation and MRI/CT co-registration for precision imaging of oral cancer
Principal investigators: Anand T.n. Kumar (contact PI), Jayender Jagadeesan
$701,969award amount - 5R01EB036978-02Department: investigator's affiliationFluorescence lifetime-based intraoperative imaging system for sarcoma surgeries$600,050award amount
- 2R01CA260857-07A1Department: investigator's affiliationFluorescence lifetime tomography for the longitudinal quantification of B cell dynamics during immunotherapy treatment.
Principal investigators: Anand T.n. Kumar (contact PI), Dan Gabriel Duda
$502,577award amount - 5R01DE033427-05Department: investigator's affiliationFluorescence lifetime-based tumor contrast enhancement using exogenous probes$450,915award amount
Anne E Takesian
Leads 3 awards · $1,672,801
- 1R01MH143880-01Department: investigator's affiliationCo-transmission of GABA and Glutamate in Cortical Circuits.$666,010award amount
- 2R01DC018353-06A1Department: investigator's affiliationDiverse Cortical Layer 1 Circuits forAuditory Processing and Plasticity$554,078award amount
- 1R01NS148386-01Department: investigator's affiliationVIP Signaling Mechanisms in Thalamocortical Circuit Plasticity and Learning$452,713award amount
Hideko Heidi Nakajima
Leads 2 awards · $1,328,051
- 1R01DC022842-01A1Department: investigator's affiliationIntegrating histology and translational imaging of the human cochlea$692,124award amount
- 5R01DC021996-02Department: investigator's affiliationAdvancement of an Implantable Microphone
Principal investigators: Hideko Heidi Nakajima (contact PI), Elizabeth S. Olson, Jeffrey H Lang
$635,927award amount
Also a principal investigator on 1R25DC023180-01A1, led by David H Jung.
Richard F Lewis
Leads 3 awards · $1,201,960
- 5R01DC021434-02Department: investigator's affiliationVestibular dysfunction in patients with sporadic vestibular schwannomas and NF2-related schwannomatosis.$580,591award amount
- 5R01DC021981-03Department: investigator's affiliationVestibular implant tested in patients with peripheral vestibular damage: effects on spatial orientation, navigation, and neuropsychologic function$509,361award amount
- 3R01DC021981-03S1Department: investigator's affiliationVestibular implant tested in patients with peripheral vestibular damage: effects on spatial orientation, navigation, and neuropsychologic function$112,008award amount
Julie G Arenberg
Leads 2 awards · $1,154,870
- 5R01DC012142-16Department: investigator's affiliationPerceptual implications of cochlear implant electrode-neuron interfaces$586,285award amount
- 5R01DC021606-04Department: investigator's affiliationImproving Cochlear Implant Outcomes Through Modeling and Programming Strategies Based on Human Inner Ear Pathology
Principal investigators: Julie G Arenberg (contact PI), Alicia M Quesnel
$568,585award amount
Daniel Vena
Leads 1 award · $894,690
- 1R01HL180582-01A1Department: topic-inferredRecognizing and resolving laterally directed pharyngeal collapse for successful hypoglossal nerve stimulation therapy in OSA$894,690award amount
Sunil Puria
Leads 2 awards · $741,863
- 5R01DC007910-18Department: investigator's affiliationMeasuring and Modeling the Cochlear Organ-of-Corti Motions Responsible for Inner-and Outer-Hair-Cell Drives and Amplification$694,113award amount
- 5R13DC013748-10Department: investigator's affiliationInternational Hearing Aid Conference (IHCON) 2024$47,750award amount
Kameron Clayton
Leads 1 award · $701,848
- 1R01DC023999-01Department: topic-inferredAuditory encoding, perception, and plasticity in the deaf adult brain following inner ear gene therapy
Principal investigators: Kameron Clayton (contact PI), Artur Indzhykulian, Daniel B. Polley
$701,848award amount
Cynthia Casson Morton
Leads 1 award · $693,926
- 5R01DC021104-04Department: topic-inferredGenetic Approach to Therapy for DFNA9$693,926award amount
Guillermo J Tearney
Leads 1 award · $676,345
- 1R01DC023937-01Department: topic-inferredEndoscopic µOCT/DµOCT for Identification and Characterization of Human Olfactory Epithelium In Vivo
Principal investigators: Guillermo J Tearney (contact PI), Brian Lin, Eric H Holbrook
$676,345award amount
Aaron Kyle Remenschneider
Leads 1 award · $655,214
- 1R01DC023531-01Department: investigator's affiliationMeasurements and Mechanisms of High Frequency Bone Conduction in Humans.$655,214award amount
Artur Indzhykulian
Leads 1 award · $652,112
- 5R01DC020190-05Department: investigator's affiliationDevelopment of Gene Therapy for Hereditary Deafness using Rational Protein Engineering
Principal investigators: Artur Indzhykulian (contact PI), David P Corey, Marcos Sotomayor
$652,112award amount
Also a principal investigator on 1R01DC023999-01, led by Kameron Clayton.
Daniel Faden
Leads 1 award · $642,406
- 1R01CA311332-01Department: investigator's affiliationBlood-based early detection of viral precancers$642,406award amount
Albert Edge
Leads 1 award · $617,363
- 5R01DC020322-05Department: investigator's affiliationDetermination of Hair Cell Fate from Postnatal Cochlear Supporting Cells$617,363award amount
Rahul Pal
Leads 2 awards · $606,673
- 1R21CA317034-01Department: investigator's affiliationFluorescence lifetime imaging for quantitative assessment of in vivo PD-L1 target engagement.$437,113award amount
- 5K01EB037630-02Department: investigator's affiliationDeveloping a library of near-infrared fluorophores for multiplexed in vivo fluorescence lifetime imaging of disease biomarkers.$169,560award amount
Alicia M Quesnel
Leads 1 award · $595,000
- 5U24DC020849-05Department: investigator's affiliationMassachusetts Eye and Ear/ Harvard Initiative for the NIDCD National Human Ear Resource Network
Principal investigators: Alicia M Quesnel (contact PI), Felipe Santos, M. Charles Liberman
$595,000award amount
Also a principal investigator on 5R01DC021606-04, led by Julie G Arenberg.
Faisal Karmali
Leads 1 award · $581,711
- 5R01AG075532-03Department: investigator's affiliationContribution of vestibular dysfunction and its central multisensory integration to imbalance in aging$581,711award amount
Anna R Chambers
Leads 1 award · $467,323
- 1R01DC023339-01A1Department: topic-inferredAuditory-Arousal Circuits in Normal and Disordered Hearing$467,323award amount
Jeffrey Tao Cheng
Leads 1 award · $402,788
- 5R01DC016079-10Department: investigator's affiliationMiddle Ear Nonlinearity in High Intensity Sound: Impact on Hearing Damage and Protection$402,788award amount
David H Jung
Leads 1 award · $334,444
- 1R25DC023180-01A1Department: investigator's affiliationResearch Training in Otolaryngology
Principal investigators: David H Jung (contact PI), Hideko Heidi Nakajima
$334,444award amount
Divya A. Chari
Leads 1 award · $194,400
- 5K08DC022696-02Department: investigator's affiliationThe Phex Pathway: Mechanisms Underlying a Meniere's Disease Subtype$194,400award amount
Judith Kempfle
Leads 1 award · $194,400
- 5K08DC022004-03Department: investigator's affiliationPlasticity of auditory cortex microglia and perineuronal nets after hearing loss$194,400award amount
Bishara Awwad
Leads 1 award · $131,552
- 5K99DC022957-02Department: topic-inferredMaladaptive cortico-amygdalar plasticity after noise-induced hearing loss$131,552award amount
Frank Yeh
Leads 1 award · $79,348
- 5F32DC022491-03Department: investigator's affiliationInvestigating the role of tip link biophysics on MET function$79,348award 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.
Mustafa Tekin
Co-investigator on 1R01DC022562-01A1, led by Zheng-Yi Chen
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Miami School of Medicine · Genetics (NIH department code, 2 awards)
Jayender Jagadeesan
Co-investigator on 1R01DE035199-01A1, led by Anand T.n. Kumar
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Brigham and Women's Hospital · Radiology (investigator's affiliation, 1 award)
- Navigation Sciences, Inc. (no department on record, 1 award)
Brian Lin
Co-investigator on 1R01DC023937-01, led by Guillermo J Tearney
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Tufts University · Biochemistry (NIH department code, 1 award)
Eric H Holbrook
Co-investigator on 1R01DC023937-01, led by Guillermo J Tearney
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Gabriel Corfas
Co-investigator on 5R01DC000188-45, led by M. Charles Liberman
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Michigan · Otolaryngology (NIH department code, 2 awards)
David P Corey
Co-investigator on 5R01DC020190-05, led by Artur Indzhykulian
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Harvard Medical School · Biology (NIH department code, 2 awards)
Marcos Sotomayor
Co-investigator on 5R01DC020190-05, led by Artur Indzhykulian
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Chicago · Biochemistry (NIH department code, 1 award)
Elizabeth S. Olson
Co-investigator on 5R01DC021996-02, led by Hideko Heidi Nakajima
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Columbia University · Otolaryngology (NIH department code, 1 award)
Jeffrey H Lang
Co-investigator on 5R01DC021996-02, led by Hideko Heidi Nakajima
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Felipe Santos
Co-investigator on 5U24DC020849-05, led by Alicia M Quesnel
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (no department on record, 1 award)
Dan Gabriel Duda
Co-investigator on 2R01CA260857-07A1, led by Anand T.n. Kumar
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.