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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosurgery at University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Funding
$17.4M
$17,416,858
Awards
28
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosurgery
Principal investigators
25
18 lead a grant here, 7 co-investigators
Department rank
#2
of 58 · 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 Neurosurgery row of the University of Pennsylvania page.

Leads a grant in this department

18 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. Douglas Hamilton Smith

    Leads 5 awards · $3,168,312

    • 5U01NS137500-03Department: NIH department code
      Transdisciplinary Research Accelerating Neuropathology Studies and Facilitating Open Research Methods in TBI (TRANSFORM-TBI)

      Principal investigators: Douglas Hamilton Smith (contact PI), Edward Byung-Ha Lee

      $1,882,570
      award amount
    • 5R01NS094003-09Department: NIH department code
      Axonal Pathology and TBI-Related Neurodegeneration (TReND)

      Principal investigators: Douglas Hamilton Smith (contact PI), William Stewart

      $556,119
      award amount
    • 5R01NS123034-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Chronic Progressive Axon Degeneration Following TBI

      Principal investigators: Douglas Hamilton Smith (contact PI), Daniel Kacy Cullen

      $379,823
      award amount
    • 5T32NS043126-24Department: NIH department code
      Brain Injury Training Grant
      $329,800
      award amount
    • 1R13NS149706-01Department: NIH department code
      National Neurotrauma Society (NNS) Symposium: Brainstorming for Breakthroughs
      $20,000
      award amount

  2. Bijan Pesaran

    Leads 2 awards · $2,256,416

    • 1U01MH144347-01Department: NIH department code
      SMART-DBS: A Symptom-Manipulating, Adaptive and Responsive Therapy for continuous brain-behavioral recording and stimulation

      Principal investigators: Bijan Pesaran (contact PI), Casey Harrison Halpern, Firooz Aflatouni, Flavia Vitale, Katherine W Scangos

      $1,653,363
      award amount
    • 5R01EY035826-03Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms of multiregional communication during coordinated visual behavior
      $603,053
      award amount

  3. Casey Harrison Halpern

    Leads 2 awards · $1,543,750

    • 5DP1OD040905-02Department: NIH department code
      Tuning the brain from the outside in: a new way forward for treating mental health disorders and beyond
      $1,137,500
      award amount
    • 5R01MH124760-05Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of nucleus accumbens delta signaling in loss of control
      $406,250
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1U01MH144347-01, led by Bijan Pesaran; 1UG3DA066451-01, led by Katherine W Scangos.

  4. Brett Foster

    Leads 2 awards · $1,224,053

    • 5R01MH129439-05Department: NIH department code
      Posterior cingulate cortex and executive control of episodic memory

      Principal investigators: Brett Foster (contact PI), Benjamin Y Hayden

      $677,440
      award amount
    • 1R01MH139654-01A1Department: NIH department code
      State modulation of hippocampal mediated memory formation in the human brain
      $546,613
      award amount

  5. Dolores Hambardzumyan

    Leads 2 awards · $1,217,455

    • 5R01NS137631-04Department: NIH department code
      Myeloid Recruitments and their Role in Brain Tumors
      $632,746
      award amount
    • 5R01NS100864-11Department: NIH department code
      Tumor-Associated Macrophages in Vasogenic Cerebral Edema in Brain Tumors
      $584,709
      award amount

  6. Daniel Kacy Cullen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,149,076

    • 5R01NS127895-04Department: NIH department code
      Tissue Engineered Nigrostriatal Pathway for Anatomical Tract Reconstruction in Parkinson's Disease
      $574,982
      award amount
    • 5R01AR083489-03Department: NIH department code
      Tissue Engineered Motor Units for Neuromuscular Modeling and Repair
      $574,094
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS123034-05, led by Douglas Hamilton Smith.

  7. John Allen Wolf

    Leads 2 awards · $1,038,333

    • 1R01NS146037-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Effects of TBI on the Neuronal Assemblies and Coupled Oscillations Underlying Cognition
      $634,583
      award amount
    • 5R01NS101108-09Department: NIH department code
      Network Dysfunction and Neuromodulation following TBI
      $403,750
      award amount

  8. Zev Ari Binder

    Leads 1 award · $727,211

    • 5R37CA285434-03Department: NIH department code
      Development and validation of an autologous mouse model for the study of immune interactions with glioblastoma
      $727,211
      award amount

  9. Katherine W Scangos

    Leads 1 award · $692,449

    Also a principal investigator on 1U01MH144347-01, led by Bijan Pesaran.

  10. Donald M O'Rourke

    Leads 1 award · $668,864

    • 1R01CA304417-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Real-time response prediction to GBM CART cell therapy with patient-matched organoids

      Principal investigators: Donald M O'Rourke (contact PI), Hongjun Song

      $668,864
      award amount

  11. Daniel Yoshor

    Leads 1 award · $667,929

    • 5R01EY023336-12Department: NIH department code
      Naturalistic electrical stimulation strategies for effective visual cortical prostheses
      $667,929
      award amount

  12. Iahn Cajigas Gonzalez

    Leads 1 award · $616,474

    • 1R01NS146786-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Microscale Spatial and Temporal Dynamics Of Premotor And Motor Cortex For Enabling Brain Computer Interface Based Motor Restoration Of Arm and Hand Function
      $616,474
      award amount

  13. Nduka Mgbechinyere Amankulor

    Leads 1 award · $597,432

    • 5R37CA284132-04Department: NIH department code
      Interrogating Mechanisms of Anti-tumor Immunity in Human Subjects and Murine Models of IDH-Mutant Glioma Treated with All-Trans Retinoic Acid and PD-1 Inhibition
      $597,432
      award amount

  14. Michael S Beauchamp

    Leads 1 award · $581,919

    • 5R01NS065395-15Department: NIH department code
      Neural substrates of optimal multisensory integration
      $581,919
      award amount

  15. John F Magnotti

    Leads 1 award · $411,064

    • 5R01MH133717-03Department: NIH department code
      Solutions for Organizing, Sharing and Making Discoveries from iEEG Data
      $411,064
      award amount

  16. Andrew Garmory Richardson

    Leads 1 award · $391,771

    • 5R01NS129738-04Department: NIH department code
      A wireless closed-loop sleep modulation system-on-chip
      $391,771
      award amount

  17. Kathryn Leigh Wofford

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00NS125039-05Department: NIH department code
      Understanding and Controlling Neuro-immune Interactions Following Traumatic Brain Injury
      $249,000
      award amount

  18. Christina Jackson

    Leads 1 award · $215,350

    • 1K08NS138676-01A1Department: NIH department code
      BCAT1 targeted metabolic reprogramming in myeloid derived suppressor cells in glioblastoma
      $215,350
      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.

Also counted toward University of Pennsylvania in the Neurosurgery ranking

Department rankings count awards at these organizations toward University of Pennsylvania. With University of Pennsylvania's own 28 awards (R&D contracts left out), they make up its ranking row: #2, $28,530,778, 32 awards. Each organization's page lists its investigators.