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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pediatrics at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Memphis, TN

Funding
$35.1M
$35,141,489
Awards
48
FY2026 NIH awards in Pediatrics
Principal investigators
71
59 lead a grant here, 12 co-investigators
Department rank
#15
of 108 · 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 Pediatrics row of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital page.

Leads a grant in this department

59 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. Charles G Mullighan

    Leads 2 awards · $9,763,678

  2. Charles Roberts

    Leads 5 awards · $8,519,639

  3. Alexandre F Carisey

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  4. Camenzind G Robinson

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  5. Dana Jo Wallace

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  6. Douglas R. Green

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  7. Elizabeth Fox

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

    Also a principal investigator on 5K12CA270369-03, led by Charles Roberts.

  8. Gang Wu

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  9. Gerard Paul Zambetti

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  10. Gregory Armstrong

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  11. Gregory Turner

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  12. Heather M Brandt

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  13. Lindsey Munn

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  14. Markos Leggas

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  15. Michael A Dyer

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  16. Motomi Mori

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  17. Robert E Throm

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  18. Shondra Michelle Miller

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  19. Suzanne J. Baker

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  20. Youngwook Ahn

    Leads 1 award · $6,752,102

  21. Chun-Wei David Chen

    Leads 1 award · $3,011,576

  22. Jian Xu

    Leads 1 award · $3,011,576

  23. Richard W Kriwacki

    Leads 1 award · $3,011,576

  24. Stephen C Mack

    Leads 1 award · $3,011,576

  25. Shannon L McKinney-Freeman

    Leads 3 awards · $2,783,718

    • 1R01HL186681-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Testing senescence-targeting therapies to improve hematopoietic stem cell function and mobilization during sickle cell disease
      $1,834,564
      award amount
    • 5R01HL168893-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Investigating hematopoietic stem cell dysfunction during sickle cell disease
      $694,406
      award amount
    • 5T32HL176447-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Basic and Translational Research Training in Pediatric Classical Hematology
      $254,748
      award amount

  26. John D Crispino

    Leads 2 awards · $2,027,040

    • 5R35CA253096-06Department: investigator's affiliation
      Identifying the mechanisms of leukemia progression
      $1,077,000
      award amount
    • 4R01DK141059-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      The role of the N-terminus of GATA1 in erythropoiesis
      $950,040
      award amount

  27. Mitchell J Weiss

    Leads 2 awards · $1,948,484

    • 5U01HL163983-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Novel therapeutic gene editing to induce fetal hemoglobin for sickle cell disease

      Principal investigators: Mitchell J Weiss (contact PI), Akshay Sharma, Shengdar Tsai

      $1,183,000
      award amount
    • 5R01HL156647-06Department: investigator's affiliation
      Base editing and prime editing for sickle cell disease

      Principal investigators: Mitchell J Weiss (contact PI), Agnieszka Czechowicz, David R Liu

      $765,484
      award amount

  28. Arzu Onar-Thomas

    Leads 1 award · $1,423,203

    • 3UM1CA081457-25S2Department: investigator's affiliation
      Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium A multi-institutional consortium devoted to novel phase I and II clinical evaluations of experimental treatment approaches for pediatric CNS tumors

      Principal investigators: Arzu Onar-Thomas (contact PI), Ira J Dunkel

      $1,423,203
      award amount

  29. Adam David Durbin

    Leads 2 awards · $1,340,017

    • 5R01CA296556-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Targeting EP300 epigenomic control in neuroblastoma

      Principal investigators: Adam David Durbin (contact PI), Brian Abraham, Jun Qi

      $747,463
      award amount
    • 5R37CA286444-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Dissecting high-risk cell states in neuroblastoma
      $592,554
      award amount

  30. Paul Geeleher

    Leads 2 awards · $1,106,287

    • 2R01CA260060-06Department: investigator's affiliation
      Developing new therapeutic strategies for pediatric tumors that lack clinically actionable mutations
      $597,537
      award amount
    • 1R35GM163976-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Machine learning and AI-based tools for translational precision medicine
      $508,750
      award amount

  31. Melissa M Hudson

    Leads 1 award · $1,056,044

  32. Marta Derecka

    Leads 1 award · $794,042

    • 1R01HL181158-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Deciphering the mechanisms underlying fibrotic remodeling of the bone marrow niche
      $794,042
      award amount

  33. Asya Agulnik

    Leads 2 awards · $783,341

    • 5R37CA276215-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Sustainability determinants of an intervention to identify clinical deterioration and improve childhood cancer survival in low-resource hospitals

      Principal investigators: Asya Agulnik (contact PI), Virginia R McKay

      $665,701
      award amount
    • 3R37CA276215-04S1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Sustainability determinants of an intervention to identify clinical deterioration and improve childhood cancer survival in low-resource hospitals

      Principal investigators: Asya Agulnik (contact PI), Virginia R McKay

      $117,640
      award amount

  34. Dirk Loeffler

    Leads 1 award · $757,791

    • 5R01HL174644-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Investigating the mechanisms of lysosome segregation and cell fate regulation in dividing hematopoietic stem cells
      $757,791
      award amount

  35. Swati Naik

    Leads 1 award · $737,023

    • 1R01CA318641-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      CD45RA-DEPLETED CD19-CAR T CELL CONSOLIDATION AFTER TCR alphabeta+ T CELL-DEPLETED HAPLOIDENTICAL HEMATOPOIETIC CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR RELAPSED/REFRACTORY CD19+ ALL AND LYMPHOMA
      $737,023
      award amount

  36. Alejandro Gutierrez

    Leads 1 award · $726,194

    • 1R01CA316383-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      The role of G6PD in resistance to asparaginase-induced hyperammonemia

      Principal investigators: Alejandro Gutierrez (contact PI), Naama Kanarek

      $726,194
      award amount

  37. Marcus Fischer

    Leads 1 award · $716,776

  38. Min Ni

    Leads 1 award · $682,894

    • 1R01DK144257-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Elucidating the role of LACTB2 in liver metabolic development
      $682,894
      award amount

  39. Lillian M Guenther

    Leads 1 award · $647,502

    • 1R01CA308413-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Transcriptional overload: unlocking a new anti-cancer paradigm by targeting DDX19A
      $647,502
      award amount

  40. Mark Edward Hatley

    Leads 1 award · $628,073

    • 1R01CA311986-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Mechanistic dissection and targeting non-cell autonomous tumor promotion in DICER1 cancer predisposition
      $628,073
      award amount

  41. Giedre Krenciute

    Leads 1 award · $503,626

    • 5R01NS122859-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      GENETICALLY ENGINEERED T CELLS FOR DIPG
      $503,626
      award amount

  42. Suzanne A. Gronemeyer

    Leads 1 award · $432,000

    • 5R25CA023944-42Department: topic-inferred
      PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY EDUCATION (YEARS 38 - 42)
      $432,000
      award amount

  43. Xiang Chen

    Leads 1 award · $416,325

    • 5R01CA262790-05Department: topic-inferred
      The Role of Immature Tumor Subpopulations In Pediatric Rhabdomyosarcoma
      $416,325
      award amount

  44. Xiaotu Ma

    Leads 1 award · $416,011

    • 5R01CA273326-05Department: topic-inferred
      Tracking Therapy-Resistant Alterations in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
      $416,011
      award amount

  45. Jun J. Yang

    Leads 1 award · $370,000

    • 1R03HD123288-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Analysis of chromosome 21 non-disjunction errors in Down syndrome
      $370,000
      award amount

  46. Wilson Kendrick Clements

    Leads 1 award · $370,000

    • 5R01DK140461-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Extracellular matrix in vertebrate hematopoietic stem cell specification
      $370,000
      award amount

  47. Joshua Wolf

    Leads 1 award · $335,871

    • 1R21AI196618-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Enhancing Precision Use of Beta-lactam Antibiotics in Immunocompromised Children
      $335,871
      award amount

  48. Anand G Patel

    Leads 1 award · $290,017

    • 5K08CA286845-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Dissecting Persistent Cell Populations in Rhabdomyoscaroma
      $290,017
      award amount

  49. Rebecca Anne Epperly

    Leads 1 award · $289,893

    • 5K08CA300913-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Hypofractionated radiation in combination with B7-H3-CAR T cells for pediatric patients with relapsed/refractory sarcomas
      $289,893
      award amount

  50. Aimee C. Talleur

    Leads 1 award · $289,458

    • 5K08CA279927-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Improving CAR T-cell therapy for Pediatric B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL)
      $289,458
      award amount

  51. Caitlyn Duffy

    Leads 1 award · $283,091

    • 1K08CA304362-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Mapping Real-World CAR T-cell Implementation to Support Future Scale Out
      $283,091
      award amount

  52. Caitlin Zebley

    Leads 1 award · $263,778

    • 5K08CA279926-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Decoding the epigenetic landscape that delineates T cell homeostatic proliferation from uncontrolled growth”
      $263,778
      award amount

  53. Erica Carmen Kaye

    Leads 1 award · $252,084

    • 5K08CA266935-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      IMPROVING PROGNOSTIC COMMUNICATION IN PEDIATRIC CANCER
      $252,084
      award amount

  54. Senthil Velan Bhoopalan

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 4R00DK134844-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Hematopoietic stem cell defects in Diamond-Blackfan Anemia
      $248,999
      award amount

  55. Andrew M Heitzer

    Leads 1 award · $163,886

    • 5K23HL166697-04Department: topic-inferred
      School Readiness Intervention for Preschool Children with Sickle Cell Disease
      $163,886
      award amount

  56. Stephen Gottschalk

    Leads 1 award · $162,835

    • 5T32CA272387-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      T32 Training Program in Pediatric Immuno-Oncology and Immunotherapy
      $162,835
      award amount

  57. Noha Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Shendy

    Leads 1 award · $143,814

    • 1K99CA312755-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Reprogramming chemoresistant cell states in high-risk neuroblastoma
      $143,814
      award amount

  58. Diana Sa Da Bandeira

    Leads 1 award · $140,809

    • 1K99HL183751-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Comparative vertebrate neural crest contribution to the hematopoietic stem cell specification niche
      $140,809
      award amount

  59. Seamus Balinth

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32CA298648-02Department: topic-inferred
      Elucidating the role of an essential transcription factor in SWI/SNF -mutant rhabdoid tumors
      $79,348
      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.

  • Ira J Dunkel

    Co-investigator on 3UM1CA081457-25S2, led by Arzu Onar-Thomas

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

  • Akshay Sharma

    Co-investigator on 5U01HL163983-04, led by Mitchell J Weiss

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

  • Shengdar Tsai

    Co-investigator on 5U01HL163983-04, led by Mitchell J Weiss

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Kirsten Kimberlie Ness

    Co-investigator on 5U01CA301480-02, led by Melissa M Hudson

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Virginia R McKay

    Co-investigator on 5R37CA276215-04, led by Asya Agulnik; 3R37CA276215-04S1, led by Asya Agulnik

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Agnieszka Czechowicz

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL156647-06, led by Mitchell J Weiss

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • David R Liu

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL156647-06, led by Mitchell J Weiss

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Brian Abraham

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA296556-02, led by Adam David Durbin

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

  • Jun Qi

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA296556-02, led by Adam David Durbin

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

  • Naama Kanarek

    Co-investigator on 1R01CA316383-01, led by Alejandro Gutierrez

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Anang A Shelat

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA290805-02, led by Marcus Fischer

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

  • William Charles Krause Pomerantz

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA290805-02, led by Marcus Fischer

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads