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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Otolaryngology at University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Funding
$8.4M
$8,380,807
Awards
18
FY2026 NIH awards in Otolaryngology
Principal investigators
19
12 lead a grant here, 7 co-investigators
Department rank
#7
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 Otolaryngology row of the University of Pennsylvania page.

Leads a grant in this department

12 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. Robert J. Lee

    Leads 5 awards · $2,923,332

    • 1R01AI198193-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic roles of bitter taste receptors in the pathogenesis and treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis

      Principal investigators: Robert J. Lee (contact PI), Eugene Yu

      $843,568
      award amount
    • 1R01HL178613-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Ciliated cell bitter taste receptors in cystic fibrosis and chronic rhinosinusitis

      Principal investigators: Robert J. Lee (contact PI), James Palmer, Nithin Adappa

      $609,027
      award amount
    • 5R01AI167971-05Department: NIH department code
      Immune function of bitter taste receptors in human macrophages

      Principal investigators: Robert J. Lee (contact PI), James Palmer, Nithin Adappa

      $511,924
      award amount
    • 5R01HL181155-02Department: NIH department code
      Sweet receptor T1R3 in airway glucose homeostasis and chronic rhinosinusitis

      Principal investigators: Robert J. Lee (contact PI), James Palmer, Nithin Adappa

      $496,292
      award amount
    • 5R01HL168060-03Department: NIH department code
      Intracellular signaling in airway solitary chemosensory (tuft) cells
      $462,521
      award amount

  2. Jennifer Ellen Douglas

    Leads 2 awards · $1,258,517

    • 1U01DC024405-01Department: NIH department code
      Chemosensory Diagnostics in Clinical Care: Identifying a Scalable Standard of Care for Disease Diagnosis and Management

      Principal investigators: Jennifer Ellen Douglas (contact PI), Valentina Parma

      $1,075,727
      award amount
    • 1K08DC024106-01Department: NIH department code
      Human olfactory epithelial biology using single-cell and organoid approaches
      $182,790
      award amount

  3. Yale E Cohen

    Leads 4 awards · $1,188,585

    • 1R01DC023036-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Population coding of multisensory activity in the primate auditory cortex

      Principal investigators: Yale E Cohen (contact PI), Monty A Escabi

      $641,180
      award amount
    • 5R01DC020089-05Department: NIH department code
      Hierarchical circuits in the ventral auditory pathway

      Principal investigators: Yale E Cohen (contact PI), Yonatan Fishman

      $297,777
      award amount
    • 5T32DC016903-08Department: NIH department code
      Cross-disciplinary training in computational approaches to the neuroscience of audition and communication

      Principal investigators: Yale E Cohen (contact PI), Maria Neimark Geffen, Vijay Balasubramanian

      $217,828
      award amount
    • 5R13DC010549-17Department: NIH department code
      Conferences for Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience (APAN)
      $31,800
      award amount

  4. Erle S. Robertson

    Leads 2 awards · $1,007,196

    • 5P01CA281867-04Department: NIH department code
      Transcription and Replication of Oncogenic Viruses in Hypoxia

      Principal investigators: Erle S. Robertson (contact PI), Jianxin You (contact PI), Paul M. Lieberman (contact PI), Yan Yuan (contact PI)

      $595,501
      award amount
    • 5T32CA288356-03Department: NIH department code
      Training in Tumor Virology
      $411,695
      award amount

  5. Jianxin You

    Leads 1 award · $595,501

  6. Paul M. Lieberman

    Leads 1 award · $595,501

  7. Yan Yuan

    Leads 1 award · $595,501

  8. Devraj Basu

    Leads 1 award · $556,527

    • 5R01DE034056-03Department: NIH department code
      Exploiting differences in HPV oncoprotein function among oropharyngeal cancers to personalize therapy
      $556,527
      award amount

  9. Maria Neimark Geffen

    Leads 1 award · $548,768

    • 5R01DC015527-10Department: NIH department code
      Neuronal circuits supporting learning-driven changes in auditory perception
      $548,768
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32DC016903-08, led by Yale E Cohen.

  10. Ryan Michael Carey

    Leads 1 award · $511,578

    • 5R01DE034474-02Department: NIH department code
      Bitter taste receptors in oral cancer tumor-associated macrophages
      $511,578
      award amount

  11. Ahmed Mohamed Diab

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 5R00DE030194-07Department: NIH department code
      Targeting the DNA Damage Response in HPV+ Head and Neck Cancer
      $248,999
      award amount

  12. Alexandria Marie Lesicko

    Leads 1 award · $137,305

    • 5K99DC021582-02Department: NIH department code
      Top-down mechanisms underlying contextual and adaptive processing in the auditory system
      $137,305
      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.

  • James Palmer

    Co-investigator on 1R01HL178613-01A1, led by Robert J. Lee; 5R01AI167971-05, led by Robert J. Lee; 5R01HL181155-02, led by Robert J. Lee

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

  • Nithin Adappa

    Co-investigator on 1R01HL178613-01A1, led by Robert J. Lee; 5R01AI167971-05, led by Robert J. Lee; 5R01HL181155-02, led by Robert J. Lee

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

  • Valentina Parma

    Co-investigator on 1U01DC024405-01, led by Jennifer Ellen Douglas

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Eugene Yu

    Co-investigator on 1R01AI198193-01, led by Robert J. Lee

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Monty A Escabi

    Co-investigator on 1R01DC023036-01A1, led by Yale E Cohen

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Yonatan Fishman

    Co-investigator on 5R01DC020089-05, led by Yale E Cohen

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

  • Vijay Balasubramanian

    Co-investigator on 5T32DC016903-08, led by Yale E Cohen

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

Also counted toward University of Pennsylvania in the Otolaryngology ranking

Department rankings count awards at these organizations toward University of Pennsylvania. With University of Pennsylvania's own 18 awards (R&D contracts left out), they make up its ranking row: #7, $8,557,720, 19 awards. Each organization's page lists its investigators.