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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pathology at University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Funding
$48.9M
$48,855,236
Awards
52
FY2026 NIH awards in Pathology
Principal investigators
61
44 lead a grant here, 17 co-investigators
Department rank
#1
of 90 · 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 Pathology row of the University of Pennsylvania page.

Leads a grant in this department

44 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. Li-San Wang

    Leads 6 awards · $13,406,189

  2. Boon Lead Tee

    Leads 1 award · $7,121,149

  3. Gyungah Jun

    Leads 1 award · $7,121,149

    Also a principal investigator on 3U19AG079774-04S1, led by Li-San Wang; 3U19AG079774-04S2, led by Li-San Wang; 3U19AG079774-04S3, led by Li-San Wang.

  4. Ho Wh Yu

    Leads 1 award · $7,121,149

  5. Jennifer S Yokoyama

    Leads 1 award · $7,121,149

  6. Van My Ta Park

    Leads 1 award · $7,121,149

    Also a principal investigator on 3U19AG079774-04S1, led by Li-San Wang; 3U19AG079774-04S2, led by Li-San Wang; 3U19AG079774-04S3, led by Li-San Wang.

  7. Victor Henderson

    Leads 1 award · $7,121,149

  8. Carl H. June

    Leads 2 awards · $3,437,824

    • 5P01CA214278-09Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapies for HematologicMalignancies: Beyond CART 19

      Principal investigators: Carl H. June (contact PI), Donald Lawrence Siegel (contact PI), Joseph Anthony Fraietta (contact PI), Michael C. Milone (contact PI)

      $2,764,798
      award amount
    • 1R01CA316019-01Department: NIH department code
      Precision UCART and Nanoparticle Combination to Combat Hostile Microenvironments (PUNCH)
      $673,026
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5UH3CA283652-04, led by Beatriz M. Carreno.

  9. Michael C. Milone

    Leads 2 awards · $3,328,001

  10. Jorge Henao-Mejia

    Leads 3 awards · $3,120,099

    • 4R01CA294364-03Department: NIH department code
      Non-coding RNA regulation of Myeloid Cells
      $1,569,723
      award amount
    • 1R01AI200305-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms Underlying Tfh Cell Dysfunction in Early-Life Obesity

      Principal investigators: Jorge Henao-Mejia (contact PI), Sarah E Henrickson

      $815,764
      award amount
    • 5R01DK145006-02Department: NIH department code
      Programming of Monocyte and Macrophage Populations by Early-Life Glucocorticoid Exposure

      Principal investigators: Jorge Henao-Mejia (contact PI), Christoph Alexander Thaiss

      $734,612
      award amount

  11. Donald Lawrence Siegel

    Leads 1 award · $2,764,798

  12. Joseph Anthony Fraietta

    Leads 1 award · $2,764,798

  13. Taku Kambayashi

    Leads 4 awards · $2,367,130

    • 1R01HD119137-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The role of T cells in transgenerational epigentic inheritance

      Principal investigators: Taku Kambayashi (contact PI), Colin Conine

      $704,336
      award amount
    • 5R01HL141408-09Department: NIH department code
      JAK1/2 as a Central Regulator of iMCD Pathogenesis and Novel Therapeutic Target
      $680,307
      award amount
    • 5R01AR082256-04Department: NIH department code
      Skin microbiome regulation of the sebum-immune axis

      Principal investigators: Taku Kambayashi (contact PI), Elizabeth Anne Grice

      $649,363
      award amount
    • 5T32AI170501-03Department: NIH department code
      Physician Scientist Training Program in Immune Dysregulation

      Principal investigators: Taku Kambayashi (contact PI), Edward M Behrens, Warren S Pear

      $333,124
      award amount

  14. Beatriz M. Carreno

    Leads 1 award · $2,338,661

  15. Hydar Ali

    Leads 1 award · $1,909,388

    • 2R01AI149487-06Department: NIH department code
      Roles of novel MRGPRX2/MrgprB2 signaling in mast cells on host defense and Inflammation
      $1,909,388
      award amount

  16. Daniel J. Powell

    Leads 1 award · $1,853,561

    • 4UH3CA290451-03Department: NIH department code
      Dual-targeted DOTA CAR T cells with image-guided monitoring for solid tumor treatment

      Principal investigators: Daniel J. Powell (contact PI), Michael David Farwell

      $1,853,561
      award amount

  17. Saba Ghassemi

    Leads 1 award · $1,761,323

    • 4R01CA292680-03Department: NIH department code
      Increasing the efficacy of non-activated CAR T cells by modulating IFN1 signaling
      $1,761,323
      award amount

  18. Janis K. Burkhardt

    Leads 1 award · $1,490,981

    • 5K12GM081259-19Department: NIH department code
      IRACDA at the University of Pennsylvania: Penn Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PennPORT).
      $1,490,981
      award amount

  19. Yanxiang Deng

    Leads 3 awards · $1,285,530

    • 5R01AG085344-03Department: NIH department code
      Spatially resolved multi-omics profiling of human hippocampus in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
      $615,717
      award amount
    • 5DP2AI177913-04Department: NIH department code
      High-spatial-resolution multi-omics sequencing of brain lesions in multiple sclerosis
      $441,905
      award amount
    • 5R61CA287408-03Department: NIH department code
      Spatially resolved multi-omics sequencing of FFPE tissues at cellular level
      $227,908
      award amount

  20. Xiaowei Xu

    Leads 2 awards · $1,265,974

    • 5R01CA284182-03Department: NIH department code
      Designer extracellular vesicles for cancer therapy
      $637,676
      award amount
    • 5R01CA258113-05Department: NIH department code
      Gamma delta T cell based melanoma therapies

      Principal investigators: Xiaowei Xu (contact PI), Meenhard F Herlyn

      $628,298
      award amount

  21. David M Allman

    Leads 2 awards · $1,241,269

    • 5R01CA283844-02Department: NIH department code
      Purinergic Receptors in Myeloma

      Principal investigators: David M Allman (contact PI), Dan Toby Vogl

      $621,156
      award amount
    • 5R01AI175185-04Department: NIH department code
      Biochemical Mechanisms for Sustained Humoral Immunity
      $620,113
      award amount

  22. Jina Ko

    Leads 1 award · $927,500

    • 4DP2GM154018-02Department: NIH department code
      Droplet-based Spatially Encoded Live Cell Digital Extraction
      $927,500
      award amount

  23. Kathleen T. Montone

    Leads 1 award · $877,501

    • 5UM1CA239745-08Department: NIH department code
      Cooperative Human Tissue Network Eastern Division
      $877,501
      award amount

  24. Parker C. Wilson

    Leads 2 awards · $859,698

    • 1R01DK148464-01Department: NIH department code
      DCLK1 isoform switching and proximal tubule injury in kidney disease
      $691,758
      award amount
    • 5K08DK126847-05Department: NIH department code
      The Single Cell Landscape of Early Human Diabetic Nephropathy
      $167,940
      award amount

  25. Vijay Bhoj

    Leads 1 award · $783,386

    • 5R01HL178849-02Department: NIH department code
      Selective B Cell Depletion Using Engineered T Cells As A Curative Treatment For Acquired Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

      Principal investigators: Vijay Bhoj (contact PI), Marco Ruella

      $783,386
      award amount

  26. Edward Byung-Ha Lee

    Leads 1 award · $760,127

    • 5R01AG065341-03Department: NIH department code
      Loss of VCP Function in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration
      $760,127
      award amount

  27. Virginia M Lee

    Leads 1 award · $754,333

    • 5R01AG076434-04Department: NIH department code
      Pathogenesis of Tauopathies
      $754,333
      award amount

  28. Kelly L Jordan-Sciutto

    Leads 1 award · $739,317

    • 5R01MH098742-13Department: NIH department code
      Oligodendrocyte damage and dysfunction in HIV associated neurocognitive disorder

      Principal investigators: Kelly L Jordan-Sciutto (contact PI), Judith B Grinspan

      $739,317
      award amount

  29. Malek Kamoun

    Leads 1 award · $731,553

    • 5R01AI173095-04Department: NIH department code
      HLA Immunogenetics and kidney allograft outcomes
      $731,553
      award amount

  30. Hong Xu

    Leads 1 award · $689,334

    • 1R01AG098319-01Department: NIH department code
      Understand the Role of ASAP1 in Tau Pathogenesis
      $689,334
      award amount

  31. Sydney Shaffer

    Leads 1 award · $676,006

    • 5R01DK135729-03Department: NIH department code
      Single-cell mitochondrial mutation lineage tracing of non-dysplastic and dysplastic Barrett's esophagus

      Principal investigators: Sydney Shaffer (contact PI), Amanda Brooke Muir

      $676,006
      award amount

  32. Shefali Setia Verma

    Leads 1 award · $657,428

    • 5R01HD110567-04Department: NIH department code
      Integrative risk modeling for early prediction of endometriosis and its long-term health outcomes 
      $657,428
      award amount

  33. Malay Haldar

    Leads 1 award · $623,488

    • 2T32CA009140-51Department: NIH department code
      Immunobiology of Normal and Neoplastic Lymphocytes

      Principal investigators: Malay Haldar (contact PI), Warren S Pear

      $623,488
      award amount

  34. Silvia Porta Antolinez

    Leads 1 award · $596,378

    • 5R01AG075276-05Department: NIH department code
      Biochemical and molecular heterogeneity of human TDP-43 proteinopathies in age-related dementias
      $596,378
      award amount

  35. Michael Haney

    Leads 1 award · $487,500

    • 5DP2AI192583-02Department: NIH department code
      Functional genomics of microglial phagocytosis for precision neuroimmune therapeutics
      $487,500
      award amount

  36. Alessandra Chesi

    Leads 1 award · $459,594

    • 5R01NS135075-03Department: NIH department code
      A cross-species approach to hypersomnia genetics informed by human GWAS
      $459,594
      award amount

  37. Eleanna Kaffe

    Leads 1 award · $426,563

    • 1R21AA032616-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Development of a Novel Humanized Liver Model with Alcoholic Liver Fibrosis
      $426,563
      award amount

  38. Robert Babak Faryabi

    Leads 1 award · $418,860

    • 5R01CA248041-05Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic Mechanisms Underpinning Mantle Cell Lymphoma Sensitivity and Resistance to Notch Inhibitors
      $418,860
      award amount

  39. Andrew John Rech

    Leads 1 award · $406,250

    • 5DP5OD037346-03Department: NIH department code
      Response and resistance to chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy in human solid tumors using spatial multi-omics
      $406,250
      award amount

  40. Yongwon Choi

    Leads 1 award · $339,625

    • 5R01AR080021-05Department: NIH department code
      IgSF11 Signaling Controls Osteoclast Maturation and Pathogenic Bone Loss
      $339,625
      award amount

  41. Roderick O'Connor

    Leads 1 award · $309,507

    • 5R01CA278837-04Department: NIH department code
      What fuels CAR T-cell serial killing
      $309,507
      award amount

  42. Yeqiao Zhou

    Leads 1 award · $147,874

    • 1K99CA315421-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of enhancer regulation by EBF1 in mantle cell lymphoma.
      $147,874
      award amount

  43. Dorottya I Laczko

    Leads 1 award · $92,168

    • 1K08AI199050-01Department: NIH department code
      The role of idiopathic multicentric Castleman Disease patient-derived CABIN1 mutation in Germinal Center Response.
      $92,168
      award amount

  44. Natalie Moore

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31DK145121-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of fibroadipogenic progenitor cell regulation of skeletal muscle recovery after injury and responses to whole-body weight loss
      $50,114
      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.

Also counted toward University of Pennsylvania in the Pathology ranking

Department rankings count awards at these organizations toward University of Pennsylvania. With University of Pennsylvania's own 52 awards (R&D contracts left out), they make up its ranking row: #1, $67,298,632, 80 awards. Each organization's page lists its investigators.