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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Anesthesiology at Stanford University

Stanford, CA

Funding
$24.3M
$24,334,077
Awards
44
FY2026 NIH awards in Anesthesiology
Principal investigators
35
31 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
#4
of 52 · 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 Anesthesiology row of the Stanford University page.

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.

  1. Jennifer Hah

    Leads 2 awards · $3,148,740

    • 4RM1NS128956-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Action of Peripheral Nerve Stimulation for the Treatment of Chronic Neuropathic Pain

      Principal investigators: Jennifer Hah (contact PI), Andrea Lynn Chadwick, Sandip Biswal

      $2,054,560
      award amount
    • 4R01DA058694-02Department: NIH department code
      Integrating Tailored Postoperative Opioid Tapering and Pain Management Support for Patients on Long-Term Opioid Use Presenting for Spine Surgery (MIRHIQL)
      $1,094,180
      award amount

  2. Laura E Simons

    Leads 5 awards · $2,961,169

    • 4UH3NS139943-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeted Realtime Assessment of Chronic Pain (TRAC-Pain) in Youth

      Principal investigators: Laura E Simons (contact PI), Nima Aghaeepour

      $1,585,782
      award amount
    • 1UG3AR086474-01A1Department: NIH department code
      GET SMART: A Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial of Graded Exposure Treatmentfor Youth with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
      $446,303
      award amount
    • 5T90HD118400-03Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary research training in maternal and childhood pain

      Principal investigators: Laura E Simons (contact PI), Jennifer Rabbitts, Nima Aghaeepour

      $383,795
      award amount
    • 5R90HD118650-03Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary research training in maternal and childhood pain
      $354,065
      award amount
    • 5K24AR078945-05Department: NIH department code
      Mentoring and Research in Biobehavioral Aspects of Pediatric Pain
      $191,224
      award amount

  3. Nima Aghaeepour

    Leads 2 awards · $2,747,531

    • 1R35GM163830-01Department: NIH department code
      Cross-Domain Foundation Models for Integration of Electronic Health Records and Biological Data
      $2,117,500
      award amount
    • 1R01AG091506-01A1Department: NIH department code
      An AI-driven metabolic clock for healthy aging and AD/ADRD

      Principal investigators: Nima Aghaeepour (contact PI), Thomas J Montine

      $630,031
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 4UH3NS139943-02, led by Laura E Simons; 5T90HD118400-03, led by Laura E Simons.

  4. Patrick L. Purdon

    Leads 2 awards · $1,838,874

    • 5R01AG079345-04Department: NIH department code
      Advanced signal processing methods for neural data analysis to support development of brain dynamic biomarkers for research and clinical applications in patients with Alzheimer's and related dementias
      $1,246,602
      award amount
    • 5R01DA056593-06Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing brain dynamic biomarkers of fentanyl using intracranial and high-density electroencephalogram in humans
      $592,272
      award amount

  5. Gary A Peltz

    Leads 2 awards · $1,338,487

    • 5R24OD035408-04Department: NIH department code
      Enabling AI-based Mouse Genetic Discovery
      $730,534
      award amount
    • 5R01DC021133-04Department: NIH department code
      AI-based genetic discovery for hearing loss
      $607,953
      award amount

  6. Charles Hugh Brown

    Leads 2 awards · $1,125,668

    • 5R01AG090600-02Department: NIH department code
      Examining CSF and Blood Biomarkers to Gain Insight into Postoperative Delirium and Neurocognitive Dysfunction
      $745,952
      award amount
    • 5R01AG072387-03Department: NIH department code
      Cerebral Autoregulation in the Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit: Associations with Postoperative Delirium, Cognitive Change, and Biomarkers of Brain Injury
      $379,716
      award amount

  7. Kenneth Arnold Weber

    Leads 2 awards · $1,073,688

    • 5R01NS133305-04Department: NIH department code
      Dermatomal Mapping with Spinal Cord Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
      $575,451
      award amount
    • 5R01NS128478-04Department: NIH department code
      MRI-Derived Neuromuscular Signatures to Predict Surgical Response in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy
      $498,237
      award amount

  8. Vivianne L Tawfik

    Leads 2 awards · $825,925

    • 5R35GM137906-07Department: NIH department code
      Myeloid lineage targeting to improve recovery from injury and surgery: Cellular and molecular mechanism
      $433,721
      award amount
    • 5T32GM089626-17Department: NIH department code
      Research in Anesthesia Training Program (ReAP)
      $392,204
      award amount

  9. John Pearson

    Leads 1 award · $756,085

    • 1R01HL186132-01Department: NIH department code
      BREATHE: Bridging Registry Evidence to Assess the Postoperative Health Effects of Air Pollution
      $756,085
      award amount

  10. Sean C MacKey

    Leads 1 award · $753,836

    • 5T32DA035165-13Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary Research Training in Pain and/or Substance Use Disorders
      $753,836
      award amount

  11. Miles Berger

    Leads 2 awards · $714,241

    • 7R01AG073598-05Department: NIH department code
      Low Neurophysiologic Resistance to Anesthetics as a Marker of Preclinical/Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease and Neurovascular Pathology, Delirium risk and Inattention
      $498,875
      award amount
    • 1K24AG103697-01Department: NIH department code
      Postoperative Delirium- Unmasking of Pre-existing Deficits, or De Novo Injury to the Brain
      $215,366
      award amount

  12. Eric Sun

    Leads 1 award · $658,667

    • 5R33DA059168-03Department: NIH department code
      The Use of Novel Linked Databasesto Reduce Postoperative Opioid Use Among Patients Undergoing Inpatient Surgery

      Principal investigators: Eric Sun (contact PI), Douglas Alastair Colquhoun

      $658,667
      award amount

  13. Cornelius Botha Groenewald

    Leads 1 award · $596,776

    • 5R01HL166337-04Department: NIH department code
      Sleep deficiency and opioid use/misuse in adolescents following surgery
      $596,776
      award amount

  14. Creed Michael Stary

    Leads 1 award · $559,180

    • 1R01AG101934-01Department: NIH department code
      Aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 as a central regulator of vascular cognitive impairment
      $559,180
      award amount

  15. Sheng Xu

    Leads 1 award · $544,830

    • 7R01HL171652-03Department: NIH department code
      A wearable orthogonal ultrasound array for continuous imaging of the heart
      $544,830
      award amount

  16. Pervez Sultan

    Leads 1 award · $544,717

    • 5R01HL166253-04Department: NIH department code
      Development and Validation of a PROMIS-based Measure to Assess Postpartum Sleep
      $544,717
      award amount

  17. Eric Richard Gross

    Leads 1 award · $501,289

    • 2R35GM119522-11Department: NIH department code
      Precision Targeting of Aldehyde Pathways for Patients Requiring Anesthesia
      $501,289
      award amount

  18. Boris Dov Heifets

    Leads 1 award · $477,077

    • 5R01MH130591-04Department: NIH department code
      Mapping Neural Circuit Activity Mediating MDMA's Prosocial Effect
      $477,077
      award amount

  19. Pratik Sinha

    Leads 1 award · $446,600

    • 2R35GM142992-06Department: NIH department code
      Precision Medicine in Sepsis with Critical Illness
      $446,600
      award amount

  20. Kristin Schreiber

    Leads 1 award · $437,163

    • 5R35GM128691-10Department: NIH department code
      Personalizing Perioperative Preventive Analgesia: Translational Studies Investigating the Biopsychosocial Underpinnings of Enhanced Pain Propensity
      $437,163
      award amount

  21. Brice Gaudilliere

    Leads 1 award · $431,200

    • 1R35GM161298-01Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing the human myeloid system to improve surgical recovery
      $431,200
      award amount

  22. Richard J Levy

    Leads 1 award · $317,627

    • 7R01GM148716-04Department: NIH department code
      Discovery and Development of a Benzoquinone Molecule as a Novel Anesthetic
      $317,627
      award amount

  23. Beth Denise Darnall

    Leads 1 award · $210,735

    • 2K24DA053564-06Department: NIH department code
      Research and Mentoring in Innovative Patient Oriented Pain and Opioid Science
      $210,735
      award amount

  24. Candida Laura Goodnough

    Leads 1 award · $192,888

    • 1K08GM163134-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting ALDH2 to Enhance Anesthetic Arousal: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential
      $192,888
      award amount

  25. Anjali Ashish Dixit

    Leads 1 award · $191,274

    • 5K08DA060977-02Department: NIH department code
      The Impact of Discontinuing Medications for Opioid Use Disorder After Surgery: Evaluating Predictors and Outcomes to Guide Perioperative Care
      $191,274
      award amount

  26. Lichy Han

    Leads 1 award · $188,877

    • 1K08GM166866-01Department: NIH department code
      An Artificial Intelligence Framework for Modeling Physiologic and Pharmacologic Dynamics in Anesthesia
      $188,877
      award amount

  27. Jennifer Rabbitts

    Leads 1 award · $175,954

    • 5K24AR080786-05Department: NIH department code
      Preventing the Transition from Acute to Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in Adolescents after Surgery: The Role of Sleep
      $175,954
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T90HD118400-03, led by Laura E Simons.

  28. Jessica Ansari

    Leads 1 award · $165,672

    • 5K23HD115837-03Department: NIH department code
      Oxytocin-mediated calcium signaling in physiologic uterine contractility and uterine atony
      $165,672
      award amount

  29. Vikram Fielding-Singh

    Leads 1 award · $164,903

    • 5K23DK138312-03Department: NIH department code
      Toward optimizing dialysis in the perioperative period
      $164,903
      award amount

  30. Austen Brooks Casey

    Leads 1 award · $124,794

    • 1K99MH145782-01Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting Circuit and Cell-Type Mechanisms of MDMA-Evoked Sociability and Fear Extinction to Identify New PTSD Targets
      $124,794
      award amount

  31. Edward W. Lannon

    Leads 2 awards · $119,610

    • 5K23AR083171-04Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of Longitudinal EEG Biomarkers in Chronic Low Back Pain
      $117,450
      award amount
    • 3K23AR083171-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of Longitudinal EEG Biomarkers in Chronic Low Back Pain
      $2,160
      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.