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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA

Funding
$9.6M
$9,561,992
Awards
15
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
13
10 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators
Department rank
#3
University of Pennsylvania, 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.
  • 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
  • These are the awards in the Surgery row of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia page. Department rankings count Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's awards toward University of Pennsylvania. It is part of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Surgery.

Leads a grant in this department

10 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. Eric Chien-Wei Liao

    Leads 3 awards · $2,932,366

    • 5U54DE035976-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Advancing Craniosynostosis Treatment (ACT)Rare Diseases Consortium

      Principal investigators: Eric Chien-Wei Liao (contact PI), Gregory Edward Tasian (contact PI), Jesse Taylor (contact PI), Yang Chai (contact PI), Jing Huang, Mark M Urata

      $1,562,624
      award amount
    • 5R01HD114705-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Comprehensive identification and functional study of Esrp-regulated isoforms during epithelial-mesenchymal transition.

      Principal investigators: Eric Chien-Wei Liao (contact PI), Yi Xing

      $756,436
      award amount
    • 5R01DE032332-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Functional analysis of ESRP1/2 and CTNND1 gene variants in orofacial cleft
      $613,306
      award amount

  2. Gregory Edward Tasian

    Leads 2 awards · $1,948,531

  3. Veronique M Lefebvre

    Leads 3 awards · $1,640,662

    • 5R01AR083245-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      FGFR3 Activities in the Control of Skeletal Growth
      $665,870
      award amount
    • 5R01AR080062-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      Transcriptional control of growth plate chondrocytes
      $558,717
      award amount
    • 1R21AR088192-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Regulation of SOX9 protein in skeletogenesis
      $416,075
      award amount

  4. Jesse Taylor

    Leads 1 award · $1,562,624

  5. Yang Chai

    Leads 1 award · $1,562,624

  6. Maurizio Pacifici

    Leads 3 awards · $1,399,475

    • 1R01AR086160-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Regulation of Heterotopic Ossification and Possible Treatments
      $672,297
      award amount
    • 5R01AR061758-15Department: investigator's affiliation
      Pathogenic Mechanisms in Hereditary Multiple Exostoses Syndrome
      $367,840
      award amount
    • 5R01AR083903-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Regulation of Skeletal Growth and Regeneration
      $359,338
      award amount

  7. Stephen Anthony Zderic

    Leads 2 awards · $1,360,375

    • 1R01DK141778-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Urinary peptidomics for neurogenic bladder risk stratification in patients with spina bifida
      $796,742
      award amount
    • 5R01DK135871-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Early life bladder inflammatory events in female mice lead to subsequent LUTS in adulthood
      $563,633
      award amount

  8. Riccardo Gottardi

    Leads 2 awards · $1,315,985

    • 5R01HL164536-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Decellularized cartilage and progenitor cells for laryngotracheal reconstruction
      $715,378
      award amount
    • 5R01HL161583-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Laryngotracheal Reconstruction with Engineered Cartilage
      $600,607
      award amount

  9. Leyuan Ma

    Leads 1 award · $527,222

    • 5DP2AI164319-05Department: topic-inferred
      Engineering synthetic cellular crosstalk for transplantation tolerance
      $527,222
      award amount

  10. David Chu

    Leads 1 award · $385,907

    • 5P20DK140504-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Personalizing Outcomes of Nephrolithiasis in Youth (PONY)

      Principal investigators: David Chu (contact PI), Gregory Edward Tasian (contact PI)

      $385,907
      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.

  • Jing Huang

    Co-investigator on 5U54DE035976-02, led by Eric Chien-Wei Liao and Gregory Edward Tasian and Jesse Taylor and Yang Chai

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Mark M Urata

    Co-investigator on 5U54DE035976-02, led by Eric Chien-Wei Liao and Gregory Edward Tasian and Jesse Taylor and Yang Chai

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

  • Yi Xing

    Co-investigator on 5R01HD114705-02, led by Eric Chien-Wei Liao

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