FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Otolaryngology at Stanford University
Stanford, CA
- 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 Otolaryngology row of the Stanford University page.
Leads a grant in this department
12 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Alan Gi-Lun Cheng
Leads 6 awards · $3,098,012
- 1R01DC024152-01Department: NIH department codeDefining population-specific macrophage functions in noise-induced cochlear injury
Principal investigators: Alan Gi-Lun Cheng (contact PI), Bahareh Ajami
$657,396award amount - 5R01DC021110-04Department: NIH department codeMolecular basis of mammalian cochlear regeneration$652,194award amount
- 5R01DC016919-08Department: NIH department codeMouse and human vestibular regeneration and function$647,103award amount
- 5U24DC020857-05Department: NIH department codeHuman Ear Cellular Atlas
Principal investigators: Alan Gi-Lun Cheng (contact PI), Konstantina M Stankovic
$595,066award amount - 5R25DC020174-05Department: NIH department codeStanford Clinician Scientist Training Program$351,416award amount
- 5K24DC020986-04Department: NIH department codeMentoring Patient Oriented Research in sensory disorders$194,837award amount
Also a principal investigator on 5R01DC020879-04, led by Teresa A Nicolson.
Anthony J Ricci
Leads 2 awards · $1,293,503
- 5R01DC021690-02Department: NIH department codeDetermining how the natural hair bundle stimulations shapes the hair cell receptor current$666,243award amount
- 5R01DC021448-04Department: NIH department codeProbing how hair bundle mechanical properties shape the mechanotransducer receptor current$627,260award amount
John B Sunwoo
Leads 1 award · $946,414
- 5R35DE030054-07Department: NIH department codeReprogramming the Tumor-Immune Interface in Oral Cancer$946,414award amount
Konstantina M Stankovic
Leads 1 award · $793,292
- 5R01DC022233-02Department: NIH department codeMultimodality Micro-Optical Coherence Tomography for Imaging the Functional Microanatomy of the Human Cochlea
Principal investigators: Konstantina M Stankovic (contact PI), Guillermo J Tearney
$793,292award amount
Also a principal investigator on 5U24DC020857-05, led by Alan Gi-Lun Cheng.
Teresa A Nicolson
Leads 1 award · $626,422
- 5R01DC020879-04Department: NIH department codeDiversification of the mechanotransduction complex in vestibular hair cells
Principal investigators: Teresa A Nicolson (contact PI), Alan Gi-Lun Cheng
$626,422award amount
Stefan Heller
Leads 1 award · $545,740
- 5R01DC019619-05Department: NIH department codeRegenerative pathways in the avian cochlea$545,740award amount
Nathan Edward Reticker-Flynn
Leads 1 award · $482,902
- 1R56DE035533-01Department: NIH department codeUncovering the effects of lymph node metastasis on immune tolerance in HNSCC$482,902award amount
Elizabeth Direnzo
Leads 1 award · $364,704
- 5R01DC020176-05Department: NIH department codeEvaluating the role of epithelial basal cells in laryngeal homeostasis and disease development$364,704award amount
Guolan Lu
Leads 1 award · $249,000
- 5R00CA267171-05Department: NIH department codeIntegrating Spatial Omics and Drug Imaging to Dissect the Role of Pancreatic Tumor Microenvironment in Drug Resistance$249,000award amount
Grace Soon Kim
Leads 1 award · $196,992
- 1K08DC023954-01Department: NIH department codeImmune Mechanisms of Cochlear Injury in Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection$196,992award amount
Nesrine Benkafadar
Leads 1 award · $193,000
- 5R21DC021755-03Department: NIH department codeAvian-inspired Regenerative Therapies for Hearing Loss$193,000award amount
Cort Breuer
Leads 1 award · $44,202
- 5F31CA301857-02Department: NIH department codeInvestigating evolutionary antagonism between tumors and lymphocytes$44,202award 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.
Guillermo J Tearney
Co-investigator on 5R01DC022233-02, led by Konstantina M Stankovic
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Massachusetts General Hospital · Internal Medicine (topic-inferred, 1 award)
- Massachusetts General Hospital · Radiology (topic-inferred, 1 award)
- Massachusetts General Hospital · Otolaryngology (topic-inferred, 1 award)
Bahareh Ajami
Co-investigator on 1R01DC024152-01, led by Alan Gi-Lun Cheng
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Neurology (investigator's affiliation, 1 award)
- Oregon Health & Science University · Microbiology & Immunology (NIH department code, 1 award)