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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at Emory University

Atlanta, GA

Funding
$5.5M
$5,477,414
Awards
16
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
16
11 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
#35
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 Emory University page.

Leads a grant in this department

11 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. Craig M Coopersmith

    Leads 4 awards · $1,286,173

    • 5R35GM148217-04Department: NIH department code
      The Gut as a Target to Improve Outcomes in Sepsis
      $532,100
      award amount
    • 2T32GM095442-16Department: NIH department code
      Critical Care Training Program
      $398,948
      award amount
    • 5R01AA027396-12Department: NIH department code
      The Impact of Chronic Alcohol Abuse on the Pathophysiology of Sepsis

      Principal investigators: Craig M Coopersmith (contact PI), Mandy L Ford

      $352,125
      award amount
    • 3T32GM095442-15S1Department: NIH department code
      Critical Care Training Program
      $3,000
      award amount

  2. Chrystal M Paulos

    Leads 2 awards · $1,282,372

    • 5R01CA300792-02Department: NIH department code
      Neoadjuvant SEMA4D/ICB therapy for melanoma

      Principal investigators: Chrystal M Paulos (contact PI), Gregory B. Lesinski

      $652,931
      award amount
    • 5R01CA275199-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Durable Antitumor Immunity Mediated by PI3K-targeted T cells
      $629,441
      award amount

  3. Mandy L Ford

    Leads 2 awards · $907,904

    • 5R01AI164716-05Department: NIH department code
      Determinants of T Cell Fate in Transplantation Tolerance
      $714,964
      award amount
    • 5T32AI070081-20Department: NIH department code
      Advanced Research Training in Transplantation Science
      $192,940
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AA027396-12, led by Craig M Coopersmith.

  4. John Daniel Puskas

    Leads 1 award · $651,762

    • 1R01HL181504-01A1Department: NIH department code
      RECHARGE: IMAGING Ancillary Study (Non-invasive Coronary Imaging in Women and Minorities Referred for Multivessel Coronary Revascularization)

      Principal investigators: John Daniel Puskas (contact PI), Gregg Stone, Leslee J Shaw, Mario Fl Gaudino

      $651,762
      award amount

  5. Lily Yang

    Leads 1 award · $602,170

    • 1R01CA315249-01Department: NIH department code
      Biomimetic Migrating Nanoparticles Targeting Tumor Stroma and Neural Invasion to Improve Pancreatic Cancer Therapy and Pain Control
      $602,170
      award amount

  6. John Daniel Lyons

    Leads 1 award · $391,250

    • 5R35GM151220-04Department: NIH department code
      Cell death proteins as inflammatory mediators in sepsis
      $391,250
      award amount

  7. Kerry-Ann Stewart Mitchell

    Leads 1 award · $163,620

    • 7K08DE033142-03Department: NIH department code
      Nanotransfection-based Cell Reprogramming to Drive Bone Revascularization in a Novel Mouse Model of Autogenous Cranioplasty
      $163,620
      award amount

  8. Michael Lowe

    Leads 1 award · $83,925

    • 5R50CA292121-02Department: NIH department code
      Expanding access to perioperative and repurposed drug trials in melanoma and other solid tumors
      $83,925
      award amount

  9. Megen Claire Wittling

    Leads 1 award · $58,114

    • 5F30CA291027-02Department: NIH department code
      ICOS is an important mediator of both resident memory cell formation, and improved durability and persistence of anti-tumor T cells
      $58,114
      award amount

  10. Catherine Diane Martinez

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI197674-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of alloreactive CD8+ memory T cells by TIGIT
      $50,114
      award amount

  11. Stephen Pastan

    Leads 1 award · $10

    • 5U01DK116099-09Department: NIH department code
      8/14 APOL1 Long-term Kidney Transplantation Outcomes Network (APOLLO) Clinical Center

      Principal investigators: Stephen Pastan (contact PI), Kenneth A. Newell

      $10
      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.