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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

Funding
$13.1M
$13,140,744
Awards
22
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
29
16 lead a grant here, 13 co-investigators
Department rank
#17
of 79 · 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 Surgery row of the Baylor College of Medicine page.

Leads a grant in this department

16 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. Tamer M A Mohamed

    Leads 3 awards · $1,995,941

    • 5R01HL178610-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining the major signaling mechanism which controls spontaneous cardiomyocyte proliferation in the Neonatal Stage
      $731,864
      award amount
    • 5R01HL147921-08Department: NIH department code
      Induction of Cardiomyocyte Proliferation via Transient Expression of Cell Cycle Factors as a Promising Therapy for Heart Failure

      Principal investigators: Tamer M A Mohamed (contact PI), Jonathan Satin, Lior Zangi

      $704,480
      award amount
    • 4R33HL177472-02Department: NIH department code
      Triple Gene Therapy for Ischemic Heart Failure

      Principal investigators: Tamer M A Mohamed (contact PI), Todd K Rosengart

      $559,597
      award amount

  2. Ravi K Ghanta

    Leads 3 awards · $1,943,256

    • 5R01HL163258-04Department: NIH department code
      Cell Based Immunomodulation to Promote Post-Infarct Myocardial Repair
      $685,983
      award amount
    • 5R01HL174616-03Department: NIH department code
      Cell Based Immunomodulation to Suppress Lung Inflammation and Promote Repair

      Principal investigators: Ravi K Ghanta (contact PI), Omid Veiseh

      $670,842
      award amount
    • 5R01HL176883-02Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging Machine Learning for Dynamic Prediction and Mitigation of Acute Kidney Injury after Cardiac Surgery
      $586,431
      award amount

  3. Sarah Elizabeth Woodfield

    Leads 1 award · $1,504,767

    • 4R01CA282467-03Department: NIH department code
      High-risk hepatoblastoma dissemination control by oncogenic NRF2
      $1,504,767
      award amount

  4. Ying H. Shen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,489,715

    • 1R01HL189401-01Department: NIH department code
      Promoting the Aortic Healing Response: A Novel Strategy to Stabilize the Aortic Wall and Prevent Dissection and Rupture

      Principal investigators: Ying H. Shen (contact PI), Scott A Lemaire

      $816,315
      award amount
    • 5R01HL179883-02Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic Regulation of Trained Immunity in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections

      Principal investigators: Ying H. Shen (contact PI), Liwu Li, Scott A Lemaire

      $673,400
      award amount

  5. Livia Schiavinato Eberlin

    Leads 2 awards · $1,270,798

    • 5R01CA306089-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of the MasSpec Pen Technology to Guide Surgical Decisions in the Care for Patients with Ovarian Cancer

      Principal investigators: Livia Schiavinato Eberlin (contact PI), Amir A Jazaeri, Anil K Sood

      $667,315
      award amount
    • 5R01CA284742-04Department: NIH department code
      Validation and Translation of MasSpec Pen Technology for Intraoperative Evaluation of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

      Principal investigators: Livia Schiavinato Eberlin (contact PI), Bryan Michael Burt, Justin Wiseman

      $603,483
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5UH3CA267829-05, led by James Suliburk.

  6. Hee-Jin Jang

    Leads 1 award · $663,998

    • 1R01CA308295-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting PD-1-Expressing Tumor-Associated Macrophages To Overcome Immunoresistant Lung Adenocarcinoma
      $663,998
      award amount

  7. Hyun-Sung Lee

    Leads 1 award · $663,998

    • 1R01CA314931-01Department: NIH department code
      Liquid multiomics for personalized systemic treatment in malignant pleural mesothelioma
      $663,998
      award amount

  8. Robert Taylor Ripley

    Leads 1 award · $660,954

    • 5R37CA289419-03Department: NIH department code
      Targeting the Mitochondria to Overcome Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Inhibition in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
      $660,954
      award amount

  9. O. H. Frazier

    Leads 1 award · $638,005

  10. Crystal S Shin

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 5R35GM157100-02Department: NIH department code
      Design of tunable biopolymers to understand the dynamic wound microenvironment
      $400,000
      award amount

  11. Camila Hochman-Mendez

    Leads 1 award · $383,123

    • 7R01HL169632-04Department: NIH department code
      Coordinated Heart Stimulation Testbed: A Platform for Contractile Ventricle Engineering
      $383,123
      award amount

  12. Todd K Rosengart

    Leads 1 award · $360,039

    • 5T32HL139430-09Department: NIH department code
      Research Training Program in Cardiovascular Surgery
      $360,039
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 4R33HL177472-02, led by Tamer M A Mohamed.

  13. Sundeep G Keswani

    Leads 1 award · $325,534

    • 2R01GM111808-10Department: NIH department code
      Novel Mechanisms of Regenerative Tissue Repair
      $325,534
      award amount

  14. Swathi Balaji

    Leads 1 award · $320,800

    • 5R01GM141366-04Department: NIH department code
      Differential changes in energy metabolism in response to mechanical tension give rise to human scaring heterogeneity
      $320,800
      award amount

  15. James Suliburk

    Leads 1 award · $270,823

    • 5UH3CA267829-05Department: NIH department code
      Clinical Validation of Metabolic Markers Detected by Mass Spectrometry Imaging for Diagnosis of Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsies

      Principal investigators: James Suliburk (contact PI), Livia Schiavinato Eberlin, Rongrong Huang

      $270,823
      award amount

  16. Nitesh Katta

    Leads 1 award · $248,993

    • 4R00HL173631-03Department: NIH department code
      Metasurface Optical Guidewire for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)
      $248,993
      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.