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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at Northwestern University

Chicago, IL

Funding
$24.8M
$24,802,792
Awards
27
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
30
20 lead a grant here, 10 co-investigators
Department rank
#6
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 Northwestern University page.

Leads a grant in this department

20 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. Ankit Bharat

    Leads 5 awards · $5,591,805

    • 5P01HL169188-03Department: NIH department code
      Integrated mechanisms of primary and chronic graft dysfunction following lung transplantation

      Principal investigators: Alexander Misharin (contact PI), Ankit Bharat (contact PI), Benjamin David Singer (contact PI), Harris R Perlman (contact PI), Karen M Ridge (contact PI), Seunghye Han (contact PI)

      $2,747,882
      award amount
    • 5R01HL173940-03Department: NIH department code
      Complementary pathways of necroptosis in recipient and donor lung tissue that drive primary lung allograft dysfunction

      Principal investigators: Ankit Bharat (contact PI), Gr Scott Budinger

      $769,254
      award amount
    • 5R01HL147575-08Department: NIH department code
      Role of spleen educated monocytes in mediating ischemia-reperfusion injury following lung transplant surgery

      Principal investigators: Ankit Bharat (contact PI), Gr Scott Budinger

      $751,662
      award amount
    • 5R01HL145478-08Department: NIH department code
      Donor nonclassical monocytes mediate primary graft dysfunction and remote organ injury following lung transplant surgery

      Principal investigators: Ankit Bharat (contact PI), Gr Scott Budinger

      $664,186
      award amount
    • 5R01HL147290-08Department: NIH department code
      Pathogenesis of lung injury mediated by lung-restricted antibodies

      Principal investigators: Ankit Bharat (contact PI), Gr Scott Budinger

      $658,821
      award amount

  2. Carl Atkinson

    Leads 3 awards · $4,496,373

    • 1R01AI196453-01Department: NIH department code
      Complement convertase imaging techniques for optimization of complement therapeutic amelioration of antibody mediated rejection

      Principal investigators: Carl Atkinson (contact PI), Jason R. McCarthy

      $3,267,712
      award amount
    • 1R01HL189279-01Department: NIH department code
      BMP-Cx40 Signaling as a Regulator of Endothelial Quiescence in Lung Transplantation

      Principal investigators: Carl Atkinson (contact PI), Satish N Nadig

      $793,976
      award amount
    • 5U01AI170075-05Department: NIH department code
      Targeted delivery of immunosuppressive agents to the graft endothelium forthe prevention of rejection in lung transplantation

      Principal investigators: Carl Atkinson (contact PI), Jason R. McCarthy

      $434,685
      award amount

  3. Satish N Nadig

    Leads 3 awards · $3,036,883

    • 1R01HL179850-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Modulating mitochondrial quality control in endothelial and smooth muscle cells of donor hearts to improve cardiac allograft survival

      Principal investigators: Satish N Nadig (contact PI), Bowen Wang, Shaoqin - Gong

      $1,597,024
      award amount
    • 5U01GM152522-04Department: NIH department code
      A Chicago Biomedical Consortium Hub of Innovative Technologies for Entrepreneurship and Science (CBC - HITES)

      Principal investigators: Satish N Nadig (contact PI), Paul R Carlier

      $999,859
      award amount
    • 1R21AI194484-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Reengineering Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 to Address Allograft Vasculopathy

      Principal investigators: Satish N Nadig (contact PI), Samuel I Stupp

      $440,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01HL189279-01, led by Carl Atkinson.

  4. Alexander Misharin

    Leads 1 award · $2,747,882

  5. Benjamin David Singer

    Leads 1 award · $2,747,882

  6. Harris R Perlman

    Leads 1 award · $2,747,882

  7. Karen M Ridge

    Leads 1 award · $2,747,882

  8. Seunghye Han

    Leads 1 award · $2,747,882

  9. Rod S Passman

    Leads 1 award · $2,315,289

    • 5UH3HL165065-05Department: NIH department code
      The Rhythm Evaluation for Anticoagulation with Continuous Monitoring of Atrial Fibrillation Trial (REACT-AF)
      $2,315,289
      award amount

  10. Seema Ahsan Khan

    Leads 1 award · $1,870,000

    • 5UG1CA242643-08Department: NIH department code
      Northwestern Cancer Prevention Consortium
      $1,870,000
      award amount

  11. Steven J Schwulst

    Leads 2 awards · $1,322,591

    • 4R01NS135652-02Department: NIH department code
      The Young Gut Microbiome: A Fountain of Youth for Brain Injury in the Aged?
      $712,501
      award amount
    • 5R01NS127865-05Department: NIH department code
      Trauma, the gut, and the brain: the gut microbiota-microglia axis in traumatic brain injury
      $610,090
      award amount

  12. Bowen Wang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,203,761

    • 1R01HL188253-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeted NAD+ Replenishment as Pre- and Post-bypass Therapy Against Vein Graft Failure

      Principal investigators: Bowen Wang (contact PI), Ki Ho Park, Shaoqin - Gong

      $812,196
      award amount
    • 5R01HL162895-05Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Amino Acid Starvation Response Kinase GCN2 in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
      $391,565
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01HL179850-01A1, led by Satish N Nadig; 1R01HL185344-01, led by Bin Jiang.

  13. Anne M Stey

    Leads 2 awards · $1,194,879

    • 5R01HL179086-02Department: NIH department code
      Criteria for Retriage to Improve Trauma Induced Coagulopathy and hemorrhage Associated Lethality

      Principal investigators: Anne M Stey (contact PI), Alona Furmanchuk

      $694,880
      award amount
    • 5R18HS029483-04Department: NIH department code
      Shock Patients: Interprofessional Communication to Enhance Diagnosis (SPICED)

      Principal investigators: Anne M Stey (contact PI), Andrew Barnden Lewis Berry

      $499,999
      award amount

  14. Anat R. Tambur

    Leads 1 award · $799,925

    • 5R01AI170728-04Department: NIH department code
      The immunogenicity and pathogenicity of HLA-DQ in solid organ transplantation
      $799,925
      award amount

  15. Chitaru Kurihara

    Leads 1 award · $782,979

    • 5R01HL176632-02Department: NIH department code
      Pathological activation of integrated stress response as a driver of Chronic allograft dysfunction after lung transplant
      $782,979
      award amount

  16. Daniela P Ladner

    Leads 2 awards · $720,022

    • 1R01DK146179-01Department: NIH department code
      TOPSPIN - Top-dOwn Proteomic Signatures for cirrhosis ProgressIoN

      Principal investigators: Daniela P Ladner (contact PI), Neil L Kelleher

      $683,963
      award amount
    • 2T35DK126628-06Department: NIH department code
      The Northwestern Summer Research Program for Medical Students
      $36,059
      award amount

  17. Bin Jiang

    Leads 1 award · $684,570

    • 1R01HL185344-01Department: NIH department code
      Translational Mitochondrial Therapeutics for Endothelial Repair in Vascular Surgery

      Principal investigators: Bin Jiang (contact PI), Bowen Wang

      $684,570
      award amount

  18. Mehul V. Raval

    Leads 1 award · $468,777

    • 1R21HD118358-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Promoting Readiness for Perioperative Neonatal and Infant Enhanced Recovery Guideline Implementation (PROPEL)

      Principal investigators: Mehul V. Raval (contact PI), Wilhelmina Louise Albertine Schaefer

      $468,777
      award amount

  19. Susan E. Clare

    Leads 1 award · $224,400

    • 5R21CA288676-02Department: NIH department code
      Lipid-initiated epigenetic reprogramming of the breast to a neural phenotype
      $224,400
      award amount

  20. Akhil Chawla

    Leads 1 award · $90,538

    • 5R50CA293523-03Department: NIH department code
      National and Institutional Leadership and Support of NCI-Sponsored Clinical Trial Research as a Surgical Oncologist
      $90,538
      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.

Also counted toward Northwestern University in the Surgery ranking

Department rankings count awards at these organizations toward Northwestern University. With Northwestern University's own 27 awards (R&D contracts left out), they make up its ranking row: #6, $27,372,255, 32 awards. Each organization's page lists its investigators.