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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Otolaryngology at Stanford University

Stanford, CA

Funding
$8.8M
$8,834,183
Awards
18
FY2026 NIH awards in Otolaryngology
Principal investigators
14
12 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#6
of 53 · 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 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.

  1. Alan Gi-Lun Cheng

    Leads 6 awards · $3,098,012

    • 1R01DC024152-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining population-specific macrophage functions in noise-induced cochlear injury

      Principal investigators: Alan Gi-Lun Cheng (contact PI), Bahareh Ajami

      $657,396
      award amount
    • 5R01DC021110-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular basis of mammalian cochlear regeneration
      $652,194
      award amount
    • 5R01DC016919-08Department: NIH department code
      Mouse and human vestibular regeneration and function
      $647,103
      award amount
    • 5U24DC020857-05Department: NIH department code
      Human Ear Cellular Atlas

      Principal investigators: Alan Gi-Lun Cheng (contact PI), Konstantina M Stankovic

      $595,066
      award amount
    • 5R25DC020174-05Department: NIH department code
      Stanford Clinician Scientist Training Program
      $351,416
      award amount
    • 5K24DC020986-04Department: NIH department code
      Mentoring Patient Oriented Research in sensory disorders
      $194,837
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DC020879-04, led by Teresa A Nicolson.

  2. Anthony J Ricci

    Leads 2 awards · $1,293,503

    • 5R01DC021690-02Department: NIH department code
      Determining how the natural hair bundle stimulations shapes the hair cell receptor current
      $666,243
      award amount
    • 5R01DC021448-04Department: NIH department code
      Probing how hair bundle mechanical properties shape the mechanotransducer receptor current
      $627,260
      award amount

  3. John B Sunwoo

    Leads 1 award · $946,414

    • 5R35DE030054-07Department: NIH department code
      Reprogramming the Tumor-Immune Interface in Oral Cancer
      $946,414
      award amount

  4. Konstantina M Stankovic

    Leads 1 award · $793,292

    • 5R01DC022233-02Department: NIH department code
      Multimodality Micro-Optical Coherence Tomography for Imaging the Functional Microanatomy of the Human Cochlea

      Principal investigators: Konstantina M Stankovic (contact PI), Guillermo J Tearney

      $793,292
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U24DC020857-05, led by Alan Gi-Lun Cheng.

  5. Teresa A Nicolson

    Leads 1 award · $626,422

    • 5R01DC020879-04Department: NIH department code
      Diversification of the mechanotransduction complex in vestibular hair cells

      Principal investigators: Teresa A Nicolson (contact PI), Alan Gi-Lun Cheng

      $626,422
      award amount

  6. Stefan Heller

    Leads 1 award · $545,740

    • 5R01DC019619-05Department: NIH department code
      Regenerative pathways in the avian cochlea
      $545,740
      award amount

  7. Nathan Edward Reticker-Flynn

    Leads 1 award · $482,902

    • 1R56DE035533-01Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the effects of lymph node metastasis on immune tolerance in HNSCC
      $482,902
      award amount

  8. Elizabeth Direnzo

    Leads 1 award · $364,704

    • 5R01DC020176-05Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating the role of epithelial basal cells in laryngeal homeostasis and disease development
      $364,704
      award amount

  9. Guolan Lu

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00CA267171-05Department: NIH department code
      Integrating Spatial Omics and Drug Imaging to Dissect the Role of Pancreatic Tumor Microenvironment in Drug Resistance
      $249,000
      award amount

  10. Grace Soon Kim

    Leads 1 award · $196,992

    • 1K08DC023954-01Department: NIH department code
      Immune Mechanisms of Cochlear Injury in Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection
      $196,992
      award amount

  11. Nesrine Benkafadar

    Leads 1 award · $193,000

    • 5R21DC021755-03Department: NIH department code
      Avian-inspired Regenerative Therapies for Hearing Loss
      $193,000
      award amount

  12. Cort Breuer

    Leads 1 award · $44,202

    • 5F31CA301857-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating evolutionary antagonism between tumors and lymphocytes
      $44,202
      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.