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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

Funding
$7M
$7,031,312
Awards
7
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
9
5 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
#29
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 Chicago page.

Leads a grant in this department

5 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. Jayant M Pinto

    Leads 2 awards · $4,046,685

    • 1R01AG089671-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing the Pathology, Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias Study to Understand Ancestry, Pollution Exposure, and AD/ADRD(PARDoS APEX)

      Principal investigators: Jayant M Pinto (contact PI), Bernardo Lemos, Marc G Weisskopf

      $2,586,176
      award amount
    • 1R01AG100240-01Department: NIH department code
      Experiences, Exposures, and Alzheimer’s Disease: Longitudinal Study of Olfaction, Cognition, and Metabolism in Older US Adults (NSHAP EXPOSOME)
      $1,460,509
      award amount

  2. Tanya L Zakrison

    Leads 1 award · $1,640,000

    • 5UH3HD111325-04Department: NIH department code
      Harmonizing Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs with a Novel Medical-Legal Partnership – the HVIP-MLP Model

      Principal investigators: Tanya L Zakrison (contact PI), Elizabeth Lunjun Tung

      $1,640,000
      award amount

  3. Ryan Patrick Merkow

    Leads 2 awards · $900,136

    • 1R01HL183429-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeted Quality Improvement Trial to Improve Post-Discharge VTE Chemoprophylaxis after Abdominal and Pelvic Cancer Surgery
      $642,477
      award amount
    • 1R34HL186435-01Department: NIH department code
      Development and Evaluation of an Iron Deficiency Anemia Contextually Adapted Intervention in Gastrointestinal Surgery

      Principal investigators: Ryan Patrick Merkow (contact PI), Micah Thomas Prochaska

      $257,659
      award amount

  4. Maria Lucia Madariaga

    Leads 1 award · $243,000

    • 5K76AG095111-02Department: NIH department code
      BeFitMe II: Applying User-Centered Co-Design and Implementation Science to Enhance Prehabilitation for Frail Older Adults Undergoing Lung Cancer Surgery
      $243,000
      award amount

  5. Summer E Hanson

    Leads 1 award · $201,491

    • 5R21EB035242-03Department: NIH department code
      Quantitative assessment of autologous fat grafting in breast cancer treatment using 3D imaging
      $201,491
      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.