FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
- 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 Dermatology row of the Massachusetts General Hospital page. Department rankings count Massachusetts General Hospital's awards toward Harvard Medical School. It is part of Mass General Brigham's Dermatology.
Leads a grant in this department
31 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
David E Fisher
Leads 3 awards · $3,734,470
- 5P01CA163222-13Department: investigator's affiliationTargetable epigenetic and transcriptional mechanisms in melanoma thatshape the microenvironment
Principal investigators: David E Fisher (contact PI), David Liu (contact PI), Kai W Wucherpfennig (contact PI), Leonard Ira Zon (contact PI)
$2,734,241award amount - 5R01AR043369-30Department: investigator's affiliationMITF from control of pigmentation to melanoma risk$511,332award amount
- 5R01AR072304-09Department: investigator's affiliationTherapeutic strategies for treatment of giant congenital melanocytic nevi$488,897award amount
David Liu
Leads 1 award · $2,734,241
- 5P01CA163222-13Department: investigator's affiliationTargetable epigenetic and transcriptional mechanisms in melanoma thatshape the microenvironment
Principal investigators: David E Fisher (contact PI), David Liu (contact PI), Kai W Wucherpfennig (contact PI), Leonard Ira Zon (contact PI)
$2,734,241award amount
Kai W Wucherpfennig
Leads 1 award · $2,734,241
- 5P01CA163222-13Department: investigator's affiliationTargetable epigenetic and transcriptional mechanisms in melanoma thatshape the microenvironment
Principal investigators: David E Fisher (contact PI), David Liu (contact PI), Kai W Wucherpfennig (contact PI), Leonard Ira Zon (contact PI)
$2,734,241award amount
Leonard Ira Zon
Leads 1 award · $2,734,241
- 5P01CA163222-13Department: investigator's affiliationTargetable epigenetic and transcriptional mechanisms in melanoma thatshape the microenvironment
Principal investigators: David E Fisher (contact PI), David Liu (contact PI), Kai W Wucherpfennig (contact PI), Leonard Ira Zon (contact PI)
$2,734,241award amount
John E Harris
Leads 2 awards · $2,423,266
- 7P50AR080593-05Department: investigator's affiliationDissecting Functional Autoimmunity through High-Resolution Multiomics in a Vitiligo Center of Research Translation (V-CoRT)
Principal investigators: John E Harris (contact PI), Long Cai (contact PI), Sally Choate Kent (contact PI)
$1,368,931award amount - 7U01AI176310-04Department: investigator's affiliationPredictive drivers of new onset, relapse, and progression of human autoimmunity in skin
Principal investigators: John E Harris (contact PI), Manuel Garber, Mehdi Rashighi
$1,054,335award amount
Tayyaba Hasan
Leads 2 awards · $2,268,134
- 5P01CA084203-20Department: investigator's affiliationPhotodynamic Priming of Cancer and Image-guidance for Optimal Immune Response
Principal investigators: Brian William Pogue (contact PI), Bryan Quilty Spring (contact PI), Edward V Maytin (contact PI), Tayyaba Hasan (contact PI), Vinay Chandrasekhara (contact PI)
$1,206,614award amount - 1S10OD040131-01Department: investigator's affiliationVisualSonics Vevo F2 LAZR-X20 Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging System$1,061,520award amount
Benjamin James Vakoc
Leads 3 awards · $2,213,308
- 5P41EB015903-15Department: investigator's affiliationCenter for Biomedical OCT Research and Translation
Principal investigators: Benjamin James Vakoc (contact PI), Brett E Bouma (contact PI), Jacqueline Namati (contact PI), Martin Villiger (contact PI)
$1,259,558award amount - 1R01EY038797-01Department: investigator's affiliationLow-Cost Ultra-Widefield Retinal OCT Technology Based on Photonic-Electronic Integration$753,787award amount
- 5R21EY037019-02Department: investigator's affiliationAuto-sensing, instantaneous adaptive ranging OCT$199,963award amount
Shadmehr Demehri
Leads 3 awards · $2,157,842
- 4UH3CA290300-03Department: investigator's affiliationImmunosurveillance of breast glands with oncogenic germline mutations$892,792award amount
- 5R01CA276115-03Department: investigator's affiliationInterplay of natural killer cells and extracellular matrix proteins in solid cancers$660,987award amount
- 5R01CA283214-03Department: investigator's affiliationInterleukin 33 Regulation for Cancer Prevention in Chronic Inflammation$604,063award amount
Seok-Hyun Andy Yun
Leads 3 awards · $1,676,949
- 1R01EY038655-01Department: investigator's affiliationHigh-resolution corneal hydration mapping using Brillouin microscopy$643,357award amount
- 5R01EY034857-04Department: investigator's affiliationIn vivo high-resolution mapping of the elastic moduli and tensile stress in the human cornea$554,898award amount
- 5R01EB034687-04Department: investigator's affiliationMulti-color laser particles for high-throughput pooled analysis$478,694award amount
Long Cai
Leads 1 award · $1,368,931
- 7P50AR080593-05Department: investigator's affiliationDissecting Functional Autoimmunity through High-Resolution Multiomics in a Vitiligo Center of Research Translation (V-CoRT)
Principal investigators: John E Harris (contact PI), Long Cai (contact PI), Sally Choate Kent (contact PI)
$1,368,931award amount
Sally Choate Kent
Leads 1 award · $1,368,931
- 7P50AR080593-05Department: investigator's affiliationDissecting Functional Autoimmunity through High-Resolution Multiomics in a Vitiligo Center of Research Translation (V-CoRT)
Principal investigators: John E Harris (contact PI), Long Cai (contact PI), Sally Choate Kent (contact PI)
$1,368,931award amount
Brett E Bouma
Leads 1 award · $1,259,558
- 5P41EB015903-15Department: investigator's affiliationCenter for Biomedical OCT Research and Translation
Principal investigators: Benjamin James Vakoc (contact PI), Brett E Bouma (contact PI), Jacqueline Namati (contact PI), Martin Villiger (contact PI)
$1,259,558award amount
Jacqueline Namati
Leads 1 award · $1,259,558
- 5P41EB015903-15Department: investigator's affiliationCenter for Biomedical OCT Research and Translation
Principal investigators: Benjamin James Vakoc (contact PI), Brett E Bouma (contact PI), Jacqueline Namati (contact PI), Martin Villiger (contact PI)
$1,259,558award amount
Martin Villiger
Leads 1 award · $1,259,558
- 5P41EB015903-15Department: investigator's affiliationCenter for Biomedical OCT Research and Translation
Principal investigators: Benjamin James Vakoc (contact PI), Brett E Bouma (contact PI), Jacqueline Namati (contact PI), Martin Villiger (contact PI)
$1,259,558award amount
Brian William Pogue
Leads 1 award · $1,206,614
- 5P01CA084203-20Department: investigator's affiliationPhotodynamic Priming of Cancer and Image-guidance for Optimal Immune Response
Principal investigators: Brian William Pogue (contact PI), Bryan Quilty Spring (contact PI), Edward V Maytin (contact PI), Tayyaba Hasan (contact PI), Vinay Chandrasekhara (contact PI)
$1,206,614award amount
Bryan Quilty Spring
Leads 1 award · $1,206,614
- 5P01CA084203-20Department: investigator's affiliationPhotodynamic Priming of Cancer and Image-guidance for Optimal Immune Response
Principal investigators: Brian William Pogue (contact PI), Bryan Quilty Spring (contact PI), Edward V Maytin (contact PI), Tayyaba Hasan (contact PI), Vinay Chandrasekhara (contact PI)
$1,206,614award amount
Edward V Maytin
Leads 1 award · $1,206,614
- 5P01CA084203-20Department: investigator's affiliationPhotodynamic Priming of Cancer and Image-guidance for Optimal Immune Response
Principal investigators: Brian William Pogue (contact PI), Bryan Quilty Spring (contact PI), Edward V Maytin (contact PI), Tayyaba Hasan (contact PI), Vinay Chandrasekhara (contact PI)
$1,206,614award amount
Vinay Chandrasekhara
Leads 1 award · $1,206,614
- 5P01CA084203-20Department: investigator's affiliationPhotodynamic Priming of Cancer and Image-guidance for Optimal Immune Response
Principal investigators: Brian William Pogue (contact PI), Bryan Quilty Spring (contact PI), Edward V Maytin (contact PI), Tayyaba Hasan (contact PI), Vinay Chandrasekhara (contact PI)
$1,206,614award amount
Mei X Wu
Leads 2 awards · $1,112,346
- 5R01AI194296-02Department: investigator's affiliationSpatial and Temporal Adjuvant Delivery for Skin mRNA Vaccination$709,833award amount
- 5R01AI153528-05Department: investigator's affiliationA new mucosal adjuvant for augmenting influenza vaccines in elderly$402,513award amount
Tianhong Dai
Leads 2 awards · $978,754
- 5R01AI177563-03Department: investigator's affiliationCombination of Antimicrobial Blue Light and Antibiotics to Combat Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria
Principal investigators: Tianhong Dai (contact PI), David C Hooper
$773,082award amount - 1R21AI199075-01Department: investigator's affiliationA Novel Photonic Central Venous Catheter for Mitigation of Catheter-Associated Infections$205,672award amount
Conor Lee Evans
Leads 1 award · $727,589
- 5R01HL175892-03Department: investigator's affiliationBlood Gas Analysis Without the Laboratory
Principal investigators: Conor Lee Evans (contact PI), Aaron D Aguirre
$727,589award amount
Seemantini K Nadkarni
Leads 1 award · $720,506
- 5R01HL142272-06Department: investigator's affiliationIntegrated Coagulation Sensing to Predict Hemorrhage and Guide Transfusions
Principal investigators: Seemantini K Nadkarni (contact PI), Christoph Gunther Stanislaw Nabzdyk
$720,506award amount
Charles P. Lin
Leads 1 award · $698,565
- 5R01HL166266-03Department: investigator's affiliationHeterogeneity of bone marrow cavities shaping the hematopoietic microenvironment$698,565award amount
Ethan A Lerner
Leads 1 award · $578,533
- 5R01AR082401-03Department: investigator's affiliationNeuronal MRGPR signaling in itch and allergic skin inflammation$578,533award amount
Alexander Georg Marneros
Leads 2 awards · $563,259
- 5R01EY033709-04Department: investigator's affiliationCellular and molecular mechanisms of AIM2 and NLRP3 inflammasome activation in age-related macular degeneration$496,689award amount
- 3R01EY033360-04S1Department: investigator's affiliationProangiogenic M2-type macrophages and choroidal neovascularization$66,570award amount
Nichaluk Leartprapun
Leads 1 award · $206,250
- 1R21EB038494-01Department: investigator's affiliationIntegrated mechano-arthroscope for minimally invasive assessment of joint pathologies$206,250award amount
Yevgeniy R Semenov
Leads 1 award · $176,040
- 5K23AR080791-04Department: investigator's affiliationPredictive modeling of cutaneous immune checkpoint inhibitor toxicities$176,040award amount
Yongli Li
Leads 1 award · $156,276
- 5K01DK140529-03Department: investigator's affiliationDiagnosis, Treatment, and Monitoring of Polymicrobial Infections in Diabetic Wounds$156,276award amount
Peng Xia
Leads 1 award · $129,330
- 5K01AG080077-04Department: investigator's affiliationThe role of endothelial ActRII signaling in age-related Heart Failure with preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)$129,330award amount
Charles Hank Adelmann
Leads 1 award · $107,784
- 1K99AR084551-01A1Department: investigator's affiliationNon-canonical transcriptional activation of MITF in pigment cells.$107,784award amount
Po-Yi Lee
Leads 1 award · $82,480
- 1F32EY037508-01A1Department: investigator's affiliationMultifunctional Imaging of the Optic Nerve Head in Glaucoma$82,480award 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.
Manuel Garber
Co-investigator on 7U01AI176310-04, led by John E Harris
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester (no department on record, 1 award)
Mehdi Rashighi
Co-investigator on 7U01AI176310-04, led by John E Harris
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
David C Hooper
Co-investigator on 5R01AI177563-03, led by Tianhong Dai
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary · Ophthalmology (investigator's affiliation, 1 award)
Aaron D Aguirre
Co-investigator on 5R01HL175892-03, led by Conor Lee Evans
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Massachusetts General Hospital · Anesthesiology (topic-inferred, 1 award)
Christoph Gunther Stanislaw Nabzdyk
Co-investigator on 5R01HL142272-06, led by Seemantini K Nadkarni
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.