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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosurgery at University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Funding
$14.9M
$14,856,641
Awards
25
FY2025 NIH awards in Neurosurgery
Principal investigators
21
15 lead a grant here, 6 co-investigators
Department rank
#3
of 53 · 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

15 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 4 awards · $3,181,990

    • 5U01NS137500-02Department: 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

      $1,919,827
      award amount
    • 5R01NS094003-08Department: NIH department code
      Axonal Pathology and TBI-Related Neurodegeneration (TReND)

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

      $511,255
      award amount
    • 5R01NS123034-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Chronic Progressive Axon Degeneration Following TBI

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

      $375,750
      award amount
    • 5T32NS043126-23Department: NIH department code
      Brain Injury Training Grant
      $375,158
      award amount
  2. Casey Harrison Halpern

    Leads 3 awards · $2,609,404

    • 1DP1OD040905-01Department: NIH department code
      Tuning the anterior cingulate from the outside in: a new way forward for treating mental health disorders and beyond
      $1,137,500
      award amount
    • 5UH3NS103446-04Department: NIH department code
      Responsive Neurostimulation for Loss of Control Eating

      Principal investigators: Casey Harrison Halpern (contact PI), Joshua I Gold, Thomas A. Wadden

      $1,065,654
      award amount
    • 5R01MH124760-04Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of nucleus accumbens delta signaling in loss of control
      $406,250
      award amount
  3. Daniel Kacy Cullen

    Leads 4 awards · $1,808,386

    • 5R01AR083489-02Department: NIH department code
      Tissue Engineered Motor Units for Neuromuscular Modeling and Repair
      $591,727
      award amount
    • 5R01NS127895-03Department: NIH department code
      Tissue Engineered Nigrostriatal Pathway for Anatomical Tract Reconstruction in Parkinson's Disease
      $581,365
      award amount
    • 5R01NS117757-05Department: NIH department code
      Tissue Engineered Rostral Migratory Stream for Directed Neuronal Replacement
      $553,471
      award amount
    • 3R01NS117757-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Tissue Engineered Rostral Migratory Stream for Directed Neuronal Replacement
      $81,823
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS123034-04, led by Douglas Hamilton Smith.

  4. Dolores Hambardzumyan

    Leads 3 awards · $1,577,901

    • 7R01CA258636-05Department: NIH department code
      The role of Myeloid cells in pediatric-high grade gliomas

      Principal investigators: Dolores Hambardzumyan (contact PI), Oren Josh Becher

      $594,958
      award amount
    • 7R01NS100864-10Department: NIH department code
      Tumor-Associated Macrophages in Vasogenic Cerebral Edema in Brain Tumors
      $585,044
      award amount
    • 7R01NS137631-03Department: NIH department code
      Myeloid Recruitments and their Role in Brain Tumors
      $397,899
      award amount
  5. Nduka Mgbechinyere Amankulor

    Leads 1 award · $710,142

    • 5R37CA284132-03Department: 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
      $710,142
      award amount
  6. Daniel Yoshor

    Leads 1 award · $678,979

    • 5R01EY023336-11Department: NIH department code
      Naturalistic electrical stimulation strategies for effective visual cortical prostheses
      $678,979
      award amount
  7. Zev Ari Binder

    Leads 1 award · $667,171

    • 5R37CA285434-02Department: NIH department code
      Development and validation of an autologous mouse model for the study of immune interactions with glioblastoma
      $667,171
      award amount
  8. Bijan Pesaran

    Leads 1 award · $603,053

    • 5R01EY035826-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms of multiregional communication during coordinated visual behavior
      $603,053
      award amount
  9. Michael S Beauchamp

    Leads 1 award · $581,919

    • 5R01NS065395-14Department: NIH department code
      Neural substrates of optimal multisensory integration
      $581,919
      award amount
  10. Brett Foster

    Leads 1 award · $578,587

    • 5R01MH129439-04Department: NIH department code
      Posterior cingulate cortex and executive control of episodic memory

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

      $578,587
      award amount
  11. Andrew Garmory Richardson

    Leads 1 award · $432,306

    • 5R01NS129738-03Department: NIH department code
      A wireless closed-loop sleep modulation system-on-chip
      $432,306
      award amount
  12. John F Magnotti

    Leads 1 award · $411,064

    • 5R01MH133717-02Department: NIH department code
      Solutions for Organizing, Sharing and Making Discoveries from iEEG Data
      $411,064
      award amount
  13. Han-Chiao Isaac Chen

    Leads 1 award · $405,614

    • 5R01NS119472-05Department: NIH department code
      Chronic Versus Acute Transplantation of Neural Tissues for TBI-Induced Cortical Injuries
      $405,614
      award amount
  14. John Allen Wolf

    Leads 1 award · $361,125

    • 5R01NS101108-08Department: NIH department code
      Network Dysfunction and Neuromodulation following TBI
      $361,125
      award amount
  15. Kathryn Leigh Wofford

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00NS125039-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding and Controlling Neuro-immune Interactions Following Traumatic Brain Injury
      $249,000
      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.