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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

Funding
$3.7M
$3,736,771
Awards
9
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
12
6 lead a grant here, 6 co-investigators
Department rank
#44
of 79 · 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 Surgery row of the University of Arizona page.

Leads a grant in this department

6 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. Geoffrey C Gurtner

    Leads 3 awards · $1,343,127

    • 5U01DK119094-09Department: NIH department code
      The University of Arizona Wound Care Center Clinical Research Unit

      Principal investigators: Geoffrey C Gurtner (contact PI), Wei Zhou

      $731,851
      award amount
    • 5R01AG073815-05Department: NIH department code
      TARGETING HIF-1α DYSFUNCTION TO TREAT PRESSURE ULCERS IN THE AGED
      $566,763
      award amount
    • 3U01DK119094-09S1Department: NIH department code
      The University of Arizona Wound Care Center Clinical Research Unit

      Principal investigators: Geoffrey C Gurtner (contact PI), Wei Zhou

      $44,513
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T35HL007479-42, led by Marlys Hearst Witte.

  2. Craig C Weinkauf

    Leads 1 award · $996,193

    • 1R01AG094088-01Department: NIH department code
      Evaluation of Interaction and Time Course of Small and Large Vessel Cerebrovascular Contributions to Alzheimer's Disease Risk
      $996,193
      award amount
  3. Jason A Wertheim

    Leads 1 award · $681,569

    • 5R01DK132873-04Department: NIH department code
      Ex-vivo bioengineered technology to unravel dysfunction due to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)

      Principal investigators: Jason A Wertheim (contact PI), John Gerard Purdy, Richard M Green

      $681,569
      award amount
  4. Marlys Hearst Witte

    Leads 2 awards · $341,883

  5. Jennifer A Erdrich

    Leads 1 award · $271,631

    • 5K08CA276137-04Department: NIH department code
      A Nutrition and Exercise Prehabilitation Intervention on Inflammatory Biomarkers in American Indian Cancer Patients
      $271,631
      award amount
  6. Mitchell Julian Bartlett

    Leads 1 award · $102,368

    • 1K99NS141888-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Unlocking the Brain's Lymphatic System: A Novel Surgical and a Non-Invasive Approach to Treating Alzheimer’s Disease
      $102,368
      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.