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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosurgery at Rutgers University

Newark, NJ

Funding
$6.5M
$6,504,326
Awards
10
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosurgery
Principal investigators
7
6 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
#12
of 58 · 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 Neurosurgery row of the Rutgers University page.

Leads a grant in this department

6 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. Mi-Hyeon Jang

    Leads 2 awards · $2,248,449

    • 4R01CA293210-03Department: NIH department code
      Identification of novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies in chemobrain.

      Principal investigators: Mi-Hyeon Jang (contact PI), Peter D. Cole

      $1,777,449
      award amount
    • 1R01NS144283-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Astrocyte-based mechanisms of organophosphate poisoning

      Principal investigators: Mi-Hyeon Jang (contact PI), Detlev Boison

      $471,000
      award amount

  2. Sangmi Chung

    Leads 3 awards · $2,004,328

    • 5R01MH131610-05Department: NIH department code
      Common schizophrenia variants functioning in developmental human cortical interneurons
      $738,410
      award amount
    • 3UH3NS129630-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Cortical interneuron transplantation to treat intractable epilepsy.
      $644,612
      award amount
    • 5R01MH133205-05Department: NIH department code
      Brain-region-specific humanized cortical interneuron mice
      $621,306
      award amount

  3. Hai Sun

    Leads 2 awards · $1,457,651

    • 5R18NS141769-02Department: NIH department code
      An Epileptic-Network Closed-loop Stimulation Device (enCLS) Designed to Target and Arrest Ictogenesis
      $849,697
      award amount
    • 1R01NS148383-01Department: NIH department code
      The Chokepoints of the Epileptogenic Network in Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
      $607,954
      award amount

  4. Detlev Boison

    Leads 1 award · $425,721

    • 5R01NS127846-05Department: NIH department code
      Therapies for Epilepsy Prevention - Focus on Adenosine
      $425,721
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01NS144283-01A1, led by Mi-Hyeon Jang.

  5. Salman Ehtesham Qasim

    Leads 1 award · $244,829

    • 5R00MH132873-04Department: NIH department code
      The computational and neural mechanisms linking decision-making and memory in humans
      $244,829
      award amount

  6. Benton Scott Purnell

    Leads 1 award · $123,348

    • 5K99NS140499-02Department: NIH department code
      Convergent mechanisms of respiratory dysregulation after seizures and alcohol poisoning
      $123,348
      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.