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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA

Funding
$13.2M
$13,246,623
Awards
17
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
31
25 lead a grant here, 6 co-investigators
Department rank
#16
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 California, San Diego page.

Leads a grant in this department

25 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. Diane M Simeone

    Leads 2 awards · $5,797,959

  2. Dwayne G. Stupack

    Leads 1 award · $4,989,141

  3. James D Murphy

    Leads 1 award · $4,989,141

  4. Jesse Nodora

    Leads 1 award · $4,989,141

  5. Jill P. Mesirov

    Leads 1 award · $4,989,141

  6. Jing Yang

    Leads 1 award · $4,989,141

  7. Judith A Varner

    Leads 1 award · $4,989,141

  8. Lyudmila Bazhenova

    Leads 1 award · $4,989,141

  9. Matthew Jenusaitis

    Leads 1 award · $4,989,141

  10. Rana Ramzi McKay

    Leads 1 award · $4,989,141

  11. Samir Gupta

    Leads 1 award · $4,989,141

  12. Thomas J Kipps

    Leads 1 award · $4,989,141

  13. Jason Keith Sicklick

    Leads 3 awards · $1,662,020

    • 5R01CA292590-02Department: NIH department code
      Prognostic and Therapeutic Roles of Voltage Gated Potassium Channels in Managing KIT Mutant Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST)
      $666,441
      award amount
    • 5U01CA278470-03Department: NIH department code
      National Succinate Dehydrogenase-deficient GIST Translational Research and Clinical Trial Consortium

      Principal investigators: Jason Keith Sicklick (contact PI), John Walter Glod

      $636,527
      award amount
    • 5T32CA275782-04Department: NIH department code
      Surgical Oncologists as Scientists (SOAS) Training Program

      Principal investigators: Jason Keith Sicklick (contact PI), Yuan Chen

      $359,052
      award amount

  14. Joseph A Califano

    Leads 1 award · $673,744

    • 5R01CA304085-02Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing Dendritic Cell Migration to Draining Sentinel Nodes to Improve Immunotherapy Response in HPV negative HNSCC
      $673,744
      award amount

  15. Yuan Chen

    Leads 1 award · $663,196

    • 1R01CA315210-01Department: NIH department code
      Assay Development and Screening for Discovery of UBR2 Chemical Probes

      Principal investigators: Yuan Chen (contact PI), Thomas D Y Chung

      $663,196
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32CA275782-04, led by Jason Keith Sicklick.

  16. Andrew M Lowy

    Leads 1 award · $643,013

    • 1R01CA309448-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Role of MICAL2 in KRAS Mediated Pancreatic Duct Neoplasia
      $643,013
      award amount

  17. Patricia A Thistlethwaite

    Leads 1 award · $605,726

    • 5R01HL169861-03Department: NIH department code
      NOTCH3 ECD as a Serum Biomarker for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
      $605,726
      award amount

  18. Rebekah White

    Leads 1 award · $594,600

    • 5R01CA282439-04Department: NIH department code
      Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) Combined with CD40 Agonism as In Situ Vaccine Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer

      Principal investigators: Rebekah White (contact PI), Stephen Philip Schoenberger

      $594,600
      award amount

  19. Elsie Gyang Ross

    Leads 1 award · $468,664

    • 5R01AG084343-04Department: NIH department code
      Artificial Intelligence for early Detection of Peripheral Artery Disease (AID-PAD)
      $468,664
      award amount

  20. Michael Bouvet

    Leads 1 award · $450,010

    • 5R01CA256973-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Imaging Probe(s) for Optical Surgical Navigation of Pancreatic Cancer

      Principal investigators: Michael Bouvet (contact PI), Surinder K. Batra

      $450,010
      award amount

  21. Akihiro J Matsuoka

    Leads 1 award · $438,244

    • 1R21DC022690-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Exploring the Blood-Labyrinthine Barrier: A Novel Approach with hiPSC-Derived Spheroids and Assembloids
      $438,244
      award amount

  22. Antonio De Maio

    Leads 1 award · $437,193

    • 5T34GM149445-04Department: NIH department code
      MARC at University of California, San Diego

      Principal investigators: Antonio De Maio (contact PI), Mark Andrew Lawson

      $437,193
      award amount

  23. Brian P Eliceiri

    Leads 1 award · $410,800

    • 5R35GM149245-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of extracellular vesicle biogenesis that regulate wound healing
      $410,800
      award amount

  24. Theresa Guo

    Leads 1 award · $235,417

    • 5K08CA276999-03Department: NIH department code
      Identification of splice variant derived neo-antigens in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma as targets for tumor vaccine therapy
      $235,417
      award amount

  25. Jonathan Robert Weitz

    Leads 1 award · $166,037

    • 5K01CA297135-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting CDK4/6 as an interception strategy for intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasia
      $166,037
      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.

  • Jessica Everett

    Co-investigator on 5U01CA282272-04, led by Diane M Simeone

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Thomas D Y Chung

    Co-investigator on 1R01CA315210-01, led by Yuan Chen

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • John Walter Glod

    Co-investigator on 5U01CA278470-03, led by Jason Keith Sicklick

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Stephen Philip Schoenberger

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA282439-04, led by Rebekah White

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Surinder K. Batra

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA256973-05, led by Michael Bouvet

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Mark Andrew Lawson

    Co-investigator on 5T34GM149445-04, led by Antonio De Maio

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.