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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosurgery at Stanford University

Stanford, CA

Funding
$11.7M
$11,671,082
Awards
28
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosurgery
Principal investigators
30
19 lead a grant here, 11 co-investigators
Department rank
#7
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 Stanford University page.

Leads a grant in this department

19 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. Mehrdad Shamloo

    Leads 2 awards · $1,639,991

    • 5U24NS124026-05Department: NIH department code
      A Shared Neuroscience Platform for National Dissemination and Training in Brain Organogenesis, Behavioral and Brain Disease Models, Viral Vectors, and Imaging Technologies

      Principal investigators: Mehrdad Shamloo (contact PI), Gordon X Wang, Sergiu Pasca, William T Newsome

      $1,266,013
      award amount
    • 5UH3NS127382-05Department: NIH department code
      Development of selective cannabinoid receptor 2 agonists for treatment of addiction
      $373,978
      award amount

  2. Eduardo Chichilnisky

    Leads 3 awards · $1,264,964

    • 5R01EY029247-08Department: NIH department code
      Unique physiological properties of novel ganglion cell types in primate retina

      Principal investigators: Eduardo Chichilnisky (contact PI), Frederick M Rieke, Michael B Manookin

      $587,505
      award amount
    • 5R01EY033870-04Department: NIH department code
      Diverse visual processing properties of novel ganglion cell and amacrine cell types in the human retina
      $365,087
      award amount
    • 5R01EY021271-13Department: NIH department code
      Adaptive high-resolution electrical stimulation for retinal implant design
      $312,372
      award amount

  3. Ivan Soltesz

    Leads 2 awards · $1,125,497

    • 5R01NS131728-04Department: NIH department code
      Activity-dependent endocannabinoid control in epilepsy

      Principal investigators: Ivan Soltesz (contact PI), Attila Losonczy

      $584,994
      award amount
    • 5R01NS136355-02Department: NIH department code
      Behavioral biomarkers for prediction of mortality and seizures in epilepsy

      Principal investigators: Ivan Soltesz (contact PI), Sandeep R Datta

      $540,503
      award amount

  4. Xinnan Wang

    Leads 3 awards · $843,680

    • 1R35GM161519-01Department: NIH department code
      Mitochondrial transport and quality control in neurons
      $423,500
      award amount
    • 5R01NS128040-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Regulations of Mitochondrial Structure in Neuronal Homeostasis and Survival
      $399,867
      award amount
    • 3R01NS128040-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Regulations of Mitochondrial Structure in Neuronal Homeostasis and Survival
      $20,313
      award amount

  5. Jaimie M Henderson

    Leads 2 awards · $737,986

    • 5R01DC014034-12Department: NIH department code
      Engaging new cognitive and motor signals to improve communication prostheses
      $595,284
      award amount
    • 5U01DC019430-06Department: NIH department code
      Single-neuron population dynamics in human speech motor cortex for a speech prosthesis

      Principal investigators: Jaimie M Henderson (contact PI), Shaul Druckmann

      $142,702
      award amount

  6. Scott Owen

    Leads 1 award · $734,707

    • 1R01MH143936-01Department: NIH department code
      Coordinated maturation of neurons and synapses in the adolescent human neocortex
      $734,707
      award amount

  7. Melanie Hayden Gephart

    Leads 2 awards · $645,571

    • 3U54CA261717-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Deconvolution and interruption of the cancer-neuro-immune axis facilitating brain metastases
      $462,000
      award amount
    • 5UE5NS134515-03Department: NIH department code
      Stanford Neurosurgery and Neurology Resident Research Education Program

      Principal investigators: Melanie Hayden Gephart (contact PI), Brenda Elaine Porter, Paul George

      $183,571
      award amount

  8. Summer S Han

    Leads 1 award · $644,667

    • 5R01CA282793-04Department: NIH department code
      Integrating Multiple Electronic Health Records Systems to Improve Lung Cancer Outcomes
      $644,667
      award amount

  9. Ryan Marie Fame

    Leads 1 award · $634,846

    • 5R01MH136258-03Department: NIH department code
      How cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) potassium supports brain development and activity
      $634,846
      award amount

  10. Ashwin Ramayya

    Leads 2 awards · $616,000

    • 1R21NS145164-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Dissociating neural representations of pain and salience using intracranial human brain recordings
      $423,500
      award amount
    • 5R21NS140918-02Department: NIH department code
      Dissociating Sensory and Integrative Pain Processes in the Human Insula
      $192,500
      award amount

  11. John B Zuchero

    Leads 1 award · $578,980

    • 5R01NS134829-03Department: NIH department code
      Does Learning Require Calcium-Dependent Myelin Remodeling?

      Principal investigators: John B Zuchero (contact PI), Ethan Garrett Hughes

      $578,980
      award amount

  12. Jun Ding

    Leads 1 award · $488,601

    • 5R01NS091144-10Department: NIH department code
      Dopamine modulation of synaptic plasticity and integration in the striatum
      $488,601
      award amount

  13. Kelly B Mahaney

    Leads 1 award · $432,647

    • 1R01NS144825-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Ferroptosis in post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus following severe neonatal intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) - defining the role of iron in choroid plexus and ependymal cell death
      $432,647
      award amount

  14. Michael Lim

    Leads 1 award · $394,444

    • 5R01NS121404-05Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Lag-3 and PD -1 in Myeloid Cells of GBM
      $394,444
      award amount

  15. Suzanne Audrey Tharin

    Leads 1 award · $391,800

    • 5R01NS134969-03Department: NIH department code
      An evolutionarily acquired microRNA cluster shapes development of mammalian cortical projections
      $391,800
      award amount

  16. Laura Marie Prolo

    Leads 1 award · $209,177

    • 1K08NS140556-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Targeting the MAP4K4 pathway to inhibit pediatric high-grade glioma invasion
      $209,177
      award amount

  17. Zhonglin Lyu

    Leads 1 award · $163,999

    • 1K25CA304623-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the unique roles of bone-forming osteoblasts and bone endothelial cells in organ-specific metastasis of breast cancer to bone
      $163,999
      award amount

  18. Claire Baum

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 1F32EY038052-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Targeting distinct neuron types in the degenerating retina for vision restoration
      $79,348
      award amount

  19. Emmalyn Leonard

    Leads 1 award · $44,177

    • 1F31MH142087-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The role of development of glutamatergic inputs to the nucleus accumbens in adolescent behavior
      $44,177
      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.