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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at University of Miami School of Medicine

Coral Gables, FL

Funding
$9.3M
$9,254,480
Awards
13
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
18
13 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
#25
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 Miami School of Medicine page.

Leads a grant in this department

13 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. Juan Dominguez-Bendala

    Leads 2 awards · $3,498,296

    • 1R01DK148692-01Department: NIH department code
      Longitudinal dissection of pancreatic ?-cell regeneration in human-based in vivo models

      Principal investigators: Juan Dominguez-Bendala (contact PI), Midhat H Abdulreda, Ricardo L Pastori

      $2,962,847
      award amount
    • 5R01DK138210-03Department: NIH department code
      BMP signaling and regenerative plasticity: Correlating dynamic scRNAseq and real-time anatomical remodeling in T1D pancreatic slices

      Principal investigators: Juan Dominguez-Bendala (contact PI), Ricardo L Pastori

      $535,449
      award amount

  2. Alexander I. Zaika

    Leads 2 awards · $1,934,116

    • 5P01CA268991-05Department: NIH department code
      Disruption of Transcription Networks in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Tumorigenesis

      Principal investigators: Alexander I. Zaika (contact PI), Jianwen Que (contact PI), Oliver Gene McDonald (contact PI), Wael El-Rifai (contact PI), Xi Steven Chen (contact PI)

      $1,544,026
      award amount
    • 5R01CA138833-13Department: NIH department code
      New carcinogenic mechanisms of Helicobacter pylori infection
      $390,090
      award amount

  3. Roberto Irenardo Vazquez Padron

    Leads 3 awards · $1,657,628

    • 1R01DK142422-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The Critical Role of Endothelial Inflammation in Arteriovenous Fistula Failure

      Principal investigators: Roberto Irenardo Vazquez Padron (contact PI), Xiaochun Long

      $715,188
      award amount
    • 5R01DK136297-03Department: NIH department code
      Integrin Activation to Prevent Early Arteriovenous Fistula Failure in End-stage Renal Disease Patients

      Principal investigators: Roberto Irenardo Vazquez Padron (contact PI), Vineet Gupta, Yan-Ting E. Shiu

      $520,125
      award amount
    • 5R01DK132888-05Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Vascular Calprotectin in Arteriovenous Fistula Maturation
      $422,315
      award amount

  4. Jianwen Que

    Leads 1 award · $1,544,026

  5. Oliver Gene McDonald

    Leads 1 award · $1,544,026

  6. Wael El-Rifai

    Leads 1 award · $1,544,026

  7. Xi Steven Chen

    Leads 1 award · $1,544,026

  8. Alice Tomei

    Leads 1 award · $503,346

    • 5R01DK109929-08Department: NIH department code
      Conformal islet encapsulation for transplantation at vascularized sites to allow physiological insulin secretion
      $503,346
      award amount

  9. Sabita Roy

    Leads 1 award · $460,500

    • 1R01DA066989-01Department: NIH department code
      Microbiome-Mediated Persistent Neuroimmune Injury After Single Fentanyl Exposure
      $460,500
      award amount

  10. Dunfa Peng

    Leads 1 award · $457,516

    • 1R01CA307517-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The role of NEK2 in molecular carcinogenesis of esophageal adenocarcinoma
      $457,516
      award amount

  11. Jashodeep Datta

    Leads 1 award · $351,131

    • 5R37CA292843-03Department: NIH department code
      Disrupting MDSC-fibroblast interactions to overcome chemoimmunotherapy resistance in pancreatic cancer
      $351,131
      award amount

  12. Nagaraj S. Nagathihalli

    Leads 1 award · $336,833

    • 5R01CA262526-04Department: NIH department code
      Impact of CREB-driven mechanism in shaping the tumor-immune landscape
      $336,833
      award amount

  13. Chris Michael Li

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30DK136276-04Department: NIH department code
      Strategies to attenuate the indirect alloimmune response in encapsulated pancreatic islet transplantation
      $55,114
      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.