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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Radiology at University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Funding
$52.3M
$52,272,265
Awards
76
FY2026 NIH awards in Radiology
Principal investigators
80
58 lead a grant here, 22 co-investigators
Department rank
#2
of 75 · 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 Radiology row of the University of Pennsylvania page.

Leads a grant in this department

58 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. Chester A Mathis

    Leads 1 award · $5,951,941

  2. Joel Synes Perlmutter

    Leads 1 award · $5,951,941

  3. Robert H Mach

    Leads 1 award · $5,951,941

  4. Ravinder Reddy

    Leads 4 awards · $4,223,913

    • 2P41EB029460-06Department: NIH department code
      Center for Advanced Metabolic Imaging in Precision Medicine (CAMIPM)
      $1,297,826
      award amount
    • 1S10OD040072-01Department: NIH department code
      Terra-X Upgrade for Siemens Whole Body 7T Terra MRI System
      $1,264,944
      award amount
    • 5U01AG089107-03Department: NIH department code
      Validation of NAD+ measurements for human clinical studies: multi-method inter-laboratory standardization

      Principal investigators: Ravinder Reddy (contact PI), A. Clementina Mesaros, Joseph A. Baur

      $1,056,436
      award amount
    • 5R01AG071725-05Department: NIH department code
      In vivo Mapping of Muscle Specific Metabolism
      $604,707
      award amount
  5. Constantinos Koumenis

    Leads 3 awards · $2,801,601

  6. Theresa M Busch

    Leads 2 awards · $2,589,761

  7. Walter R.t. Witschey

    Leads 2 awards · $2,405,751

    • 3OT2OD038048-01S1Department: NIH department code
      Ethical Multimodal AI Development for Obesity, Diabetes and Digestive Disease
      $1,682,880
      award amount
    • 5R01HL169378-04Department: NIH department code
      Non-invasive imaging of reactive oxygen species in reperfusion injury myocardial infarction

      Principal investigators: Walter R.t. Witschey (contact PI), Paco E. Bravo

      $722,871
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32EB020087-11, led by Felix W Wehrli.

  8. Amir Abdollahi

    Leads 1 award · $2,399,839

  9. Enrico Radaelli

    Leads 1 award · $2,399,839

  10. Eric S Diffenderfer

    Leads 1 award · $2,399,839

  11. Mary E. Putt

    Leads 1 award · $2,399,839

  12. Wei Zou

    Leads 1 award · $2,399,839

  13. Felix W Wehrli

    Leads 5 awards · $2,296,716

    • 5R01HL172928-03Department: NIH department code
      Time-Resolved MRI Method for EEG Assisted Concurrent Mapping of Cerebral Oxygen Metabolism and Airway Structure in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
      $637,259
      award amount
    • 1R01DE034733-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Single-Scan Multi-Contrast Cranial MRI in Pediatric Patients
      $528,460
      award amount
    • 5R01NS131235-03Department: NIH department code
      Simultaneous PET/MR Imaging of Brain Glucose and Oxygen Metabolism to Assess Energy Deficits Related to Alzheimer's Disease and the Response to Intervention

      Principal investigators: Felix W Wehrli (contact PI), Keith St. Lawrence

      $482,807
      award amount
    • 1R21AG095658-01A1Department: NIH department code
      3D MRI Method for CMRO2 Mapping of the Brain in Dementia
      $429,498
      award amount
    • 2T32EB020087-11Department: NIH department code
      Training in Structural, Physiologic and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

      Principal investigators: Felix W Wehrli (contact PI), Chamith Sudesh Rajapakse, James C Gee, Walter R.t. Witschey

      $218,692
      award amount
  14. Christos Davatzikos

    Leads 3 awards · $2,268,487

    • 5U24NS130411-04Department: NIH department code
      The Neuroimaging Brain Chart Software Suite

      Principal investigators: Christos Davatzikos (contact PI), Haochang Shou, Ilya M Nasrallah, Yong Fan

      $944,632
      award amount
    • 5R01AG054409-04Department: NIH department code
      Machine Learning and Large-scale Imaging analytics for dimensional representations of brain trajectories in aging and preclinical Alzheimer's Disease: The brain aging chart and the iSTAGING consortium
      $706,145
      award amount
    • 5R01CA269948-05Department: NIH department code
      Generalizable quantitative imaging and machine learning signatures in glioblastoma, for precision diagnostics and personalized treatment: the ReSPOND consortium
      $617,710
      award amount
  15. Rahim R Rizi

    Leads 3 awards · $2,257,211

    • 1R01HL181051-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Quantitative staging of early radiation-induced lung injury using multimodal imaging
      $777,071
      award amount
    • 5R01HL171482-03Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic imaging of lung function in free-breathing subjects

      Principal investigators: Rahim R Rizi (contact PI), Stephen J Kadlecek

      $749,197
      award amount
    • 5R01HL175937-03Department: NIH department code
      Using Advanced Imaging to Improve Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion
      $730,943
      award amount
  16. Ragini Verma

    Leads 1 award · $1,917,588

  17. Joel S Karp

    Leads 3 awards · $1,873,986

    • 1R01CA308968-01A1Department: NIH department code
      A High-Performance Instrument for Brain Imaging in Combination with Whole Body PET-CT for Oncology

      Principal investigators: Joel S Karp (contact PI), Suleman Surti

      $672,995
      award amount
    • 5R01CA288521-02Department: NIH department code
      Innovative Scan Protocols With Combined Long Axial FOV PET and Spectral CT for Improved Quantification in Oncology

      Principal investigators: Joel S Karp (contact PI), Peter B Noel

      $666,553
      award amount
    • 5R01CA113941-19Department: NIH department code
      Time-of-Flight PET for Improved Whole-Body Imaging

      Principal investigators: Joel S Karp (contact PI), Suleman Surti

      $534,438
      award amount
  18. Paul A. Yushkevich

    Leads 3 awards · $1,318,934

    • 1R01EB039789-01Department: NIH department code
      Transforming ITK-SNAP into a modern AI-assisted segmentation platform
      $638,835
      award amount
    • 4R01AG056014-07Department: NIH department code
      Ex Vivo Imaging of the Aging Brain to Discover Morphology/Pathology Associations
      $576,255
      award amount
    • 3R01AG056014-07S1Department: NIH department code
      Ex Vivo Imaging of the Aging Brain to Discover Morphology/Pathology Associations
      $103,844
      award amount
  19. Suleman Surti

    Leads 2 awards · $1,233,096

    • 5R01CA196528-09Department: NIH department code
      High Performance, Quantitative Breast PET Scanner Integrated With Tomosynthesis

      Principal investigators: Suleman Surti (contact PI), Andrew Douglas Arnold Maidment

      $690,488
      award amount
    • 5R01EB035103-03Department: NIH department code
      Data Driven Background Estimation in PET
      $542,608
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01CA308968-01A1, led by Joel S Karp; 5R01CA113941-19, led by Joel S Karp.

  20. Terence P Gade

    Leads 2 awards · $1,231,850

    • 1R01CA309041-01Department: NIH department code
      Validation and Credentialing of Patient-Derived Xenograft Models of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Patient Level Data
      $667,041
      award amount
    • 5R01CA258715-05Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic Nuclear Polarization MR Spectroscopic Imaging for Diagnosis and Treatment Response Assessment in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
      $564,809
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32EB004311-22, led by David A. Mankoff.

  21. David Peter Cormode

    Leads 2 awards · $1,207,345

    • 5R01CA291880-02Department: NIH department code
      Silver Telluride Nanoparticle Dual-Energy Mammography Contrast Agents For Breast Cancer Screening
      $662,055
      award amount
    • 5R01EB036942-02Department: NIH department code
      Cerium oxide nanoparticles for CT imaging and catalytic therapeutic intervention in inflammatory bowel disease
      $545,290
      award amount
  22. Yi Fan

    Leads 2 awards · $1,180,134

    • 1R01CA311313-01Department: NIH department code
      FLASH-CAR-T radioimmunotherapy in pediatric brain tumor

      Principal investigators: Yi Fan (contact PI), Jay Fitzgerald Dorsey

      $618,063
      award amount
    • 2R01NS094533-11Department: NIH department code
      Endothelial plasticity in glioma vascularization and therapy resistance
      $562,071
      award amount
  23. Peter B Noel

    Leads 2 awards · $1,145,961

    • 5R01HL166236-04Department: NIH department code
      Speckle x-ray imaging: detecting early changes in lung microstructure
      $576,113
      award amount
    • 5R01EB035092-03Department: NIH department code
      PixelPrint: a 3D printing platform for creating lifelike patient-based CT phantoms
      $569,848
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA288521-02, led by Joel S Karp.

  24. Edward J Delikatny

    Leads 2 awards · $1,131,148

    • 5R01CA293595-02Department: NIH department code
      Clinical Translation of a Choline-targeted NIR dye to guide lung cancer resection

      Principal investigators: Edward J Delikatny (contact PI), Sunil Singhal

      $640,820
      award amount
    • 5R01CA266234-05Department: NIH department code
      Translating phospholipase activatable fluorophores for the sensitive detection of non-small cell lung cancer

      Principal investigators: Edward J Delikatny (contact PI), Sunil Singhal

      $490,328
      award amount
  25. David A. Mankoff

    Leads 2 awards · $870,720

    • 5R01CA266285-05Department: NIH department code
      PET Imaging of Glutamine Metabolism and Glutamate Transport to Guide Metabolically Targeted Therapy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

      Principal investigators: David A. Mankoff (contact PI), Rong Zhou

      $522,750
      award amount
    • 5T32EB004311-22Department: NIH department code
      Research Track Radiology Residency

      Principal investigators: David A. Mankoff (contact PI), Misun Hwang, Terence P Gade

      $347,970
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01CA301356-01A1, led by Rong Zhou.

  26. Surbhi Grover

    Leads 1 award · $852,709

    • 5U01CA275032-05Department: NIH department code
      Thibang Diphatlha: Testing adaptive strategies to close the gap from cervical cancer diagnosis to treatment in Botswana

      Principal investigators: Surbhi Grover (contact PI), Katharine A. Rendle

      $852,709
      award amount
  27. Mohammad Haris

    Leads 1 award · $812,096

    • 5R01AG091760-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel imaging biomarkers of neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease
      $812,096
      award amount
  28. Ioannis Verginadis

    Leads 1 award · $757,729

    • 1R01HL187931-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting ATF4 in radiation-induced myocardial fibrosis
      $757,729
      award amount
  29. Jeffrey B Ware

    Leads 1 award · $754,122

    • 5R01NS125408-05Department: NIH department code
      Longitudinal MRI Investigation of Traumatic Microvascular Injury
      $754,122
      award amount
  30. Sudipto Dolui

    Leads 1 award · $741,069

    • 5R33AG080518-04Department: NIH department code
      Automated Quality Evaluation and Harmonization for Multisite ASL MRI Data

      Principal investigators: Sudipto Dolui (contact PI), Ze Wang

      $741,069
      award amount
  31. James C Gee

    Leads 1 award · $697,439

    • 1R01EB038985-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Extensible Framework for Fast Deformable Matching of Very Large Imaging Data
      $697,439
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32EB020087-11, led by Felix W Wehrli.

  32. Vivek Narayan

    Leads 1 award · $679,710

    • 5R01CA300202-02Department: NIH department code
      Early phase clinical trials of 211At-meta-astatobenzylguanidine for children with neuroblastoma and adults with advanced neuroendocrine cancers
      $679,710
      award amount
  33. Rong Zhou

    Leads 1 award · $674,339

    • 1R01CA301356-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Translational Imaging Markers for Metabolic Potentiation of Immunotherapy

      Principal investigators: Rong Zhou (contact PI), David A. Mankoff

      $674,339
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA266285-05, led by David A. Mankoff.

  34. Lin Z Li

    Leads 1 award · $659,676

    • 5R01CA277037-04Department: NIH department code
      Label-Free Optical Redox Imaging for Pretreatment Prognosis of Early-Stage Triple Negative Breast Cancer
      $659,676
      award amount
  35. Alison Marie Pouch

    Leads 1 award · $651,663

    • 5R01HL163202-05Department: NIH department code
      4D Multimodal Image-Based Modeling for Bicuspid Aortic Valve Repair Surgery
      $651,663
      award amount
  36. Andrea Facciabene

    Leads 1 award · $650,210

    • 5R01CA288473-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Lymphoma: A Multimodal Approach using Radiation, CART-19 Therapy, and Gut Microbiome Modulation

      Principal investigators: Andrea Facciabene (contact PI), Boyu Hu, Elise Chong

      $650,210
      award amount
  37. Michael David Farwell

    Leads 1 award · $641,837

    • 5R01CA278882-04Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing theranostic radiopharmaceutical therapy to combat resistance to PARP inhibition in advanced ovarian cancer
      $641,837
      award amount
  38. Chamith Sudesh Rajapakse

    Leads 1 award · $625,568

    • 1R01AR085593-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging MRI Technology for Atypical Femoral Fracture Risk Management

      Principal investigators: Chamith Sudesh Rajapakse (contact PI), Ani Ural

      $625,568
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32EB020087-11, led by Felix W Wehrli.

  39. Yong Fan

    Leads 1 award · $625,317

    • 5R01EB022573-10Department: NIH department code
      Interpretable Deep Learning for Analyzing Brain Development Heterogeneity with Personalized Functional Networks Across Multi-Site Data

      Principal investigators: Yong Fan (contact PI), Theodore Satterthwaite

      $625,317
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U24NS130411-04, led by Christos Davatzikos.

  40. Kavindra Nath

    Leads 1 award · $609,855

    • 5R01CA268601-05Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Imaging of Targeted Therapies in Cancer

      Principal investigators: Kavindra Nath (contact PI), Mariusz A. Wasik

      $609,855
      award amount
  41. Jianan Grace Gang

    Leads 1 award · $600,759

    • 1R01EB040169-01Department: NIH department code
      High-resolution, motion-tolerant spectral DSA for small vessel imaging
      $600,759
      award amount
  42. Mark A Sellmyer

    Leads 1 award · $594,898

    • 5R01GM150804-04Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of eDHFR-tagged proteins with trimethoprim PROTACs
      $594,898
      award amount
  43. Austin Pantel

    Leads 1 award · $569,046

    • 5R37CA291948-02Department: NIH department code
      Dual-tracer multiparametric imaging with a long-axial field-of-view PET to better characterize cancer
      $569,046
      award amount
  44. Elizabeth McDonald

    Leads 1 award · $523,385

    • 5R37CA277541-03Department: NIH department code
      Developing PARP-1 PET with companion tissue assay as a precision tool to guide PARPi therapy
      $523,385
      award amount
  45. Chandra M Sehgal

    Leads 1 award · $503,123

    • 5R01EB037569-02Department: NIH department code
      Early-stage detection of hepatocellular carcinoma with hydralazine-augmented contrast ultrasound imaging
      $503,123
      award amount
  46. Stephen J Kadlecek

    Leads 1 award · $415,623

    • 1R21CA297468-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Imaging Using Hyperpolarized Agents at Tracer Concentrations
      $415,623
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HL171482-03, led by Rahim R Rizi.

  47. Crystal S Conn

    Leads 1 award · $406,250

    • 5R35GM154896-03Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics of RNA regulation and noncanonical translation between cell states
      $406,250
      award amount
  48. Raymond Joseph Acciavatti

    Leads 1 award · $367,143

    • 4R37CA273959-05Department: NIH department code
      Next-Generation Tomosynthesis Pilot Study
      $367,143
      award amount
  49. Matthew Dylan Tisdall

    Leads 1 award · $365,625

    • 5R01AG080734-04Department: NIH department code
      Imaging Iron-Rich Pathology to Monitor and Diagnose FLTD Subtypes
      $365,625
      award amount
  50. David James Tischfield

    Leads 1 award · $296,232

    • 1K08CA304354-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Imaging to Enable Targeted Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
      $296,232
      award amount
  51. Stephen Avery

    Leads 1 award · $295,303

    • 5R25CA291597-02Department: NIH department code
      Increasing Global AMPERE (Access for Medical Physicists to Education and Research Excellence)

      Principal investigators: Stephen Avery (contact PI), M. Saiful Huq

      $295,303
      award amount
  52. Jay Fitzgerald Dorsey

    Leads 1 award · $279,071

    • 2R25CA140116-16Department: NIH department code
      Summer Undergraduate Program to Educate Radiation Scientists (SUPERS)
      $279,071
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01CA311313-01, led by Yi Fan.

  53. Suyash Mohan

    Leads 1 award · $261,913

    • 5R01CA262584-05Department: NIH department code
      Whole-brain Spectroscopy Guided Personalized Mapping of Transducer Arrays for Glioblastoma Patients Receiving Tumor Treating Fields

      Principal investigators: Suyash Mohan (contact PI), Sanjeev Chawla

      $261,913
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R21NS150730-01, led by Sanjeev Chawla.

  54. Jay Samuel Wright

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00EB031564-05Department: NIH department code
      Metal-Mediated C-H Radiofluorination for Rapid Access to PET Imaging Agents
      $249,000
      award amount
  55. Sanjeev Chawla

    Leads 1 award · $203,125

    • 1R21NS150730-01Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Neurodegeneration Along the Path of Intracranial CST in ALS Patients using Combined Metabolic and Microstructural Tractometry

      Principal investigators: Sanjeev Chawla (contact PI), Defne Audrey Amado, Suyash Mohan

      $203,125
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA262584-05, led by Suyash Mohan.

  56. Naomi B Haas

    Leads 1 award · $178,893

    • 5R50CA288482-02Department: NIH department code
      Engaging Impactful Immunotherapy Approaches in Renal Cell Cancer Studies
      $178,893
      award amount
  57. Michael C Soulen

    Leads 1 award · $173,119

    • 5R50CA276008-04Department: NIH department code
      Interventional oncology clinical research specialist
      $173,119
      award amount
  58. Alexander Zavriyev

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31CA291090-03Department: NIH department code
      Noninvasive assessment of IDH mutation status in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
      $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.

  • Alexander Lin

    Co-investigator on 5P01CA257904-05, led by Amir Abdollahi and Constantinos Koumenis and Enrico Radaelli and Eric S Diffenderfer and Mary E. Putt and Theresa M Busch and Wei Zou

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

  • Constantinos George Hadjipanayis

    Co-investigator on 4R01CA278819-05, led by Ragini Verma

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Michele Renee Aizenberg

    Co-investigator on 4R01CA278819-05, led by Ragini Verma

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

  • Sunil Singhal

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA293595-02, led by Edward J Delikatny; 5R01CA266234-05, led by Edward J Delikatny

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • A. Clementina Mesaros

    Co-investigator on 5U01AG089107-03, led by Ravinder Reddy

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Joseph A. Baur

    Co-investigator on 5U01AG089107-03, led by Ravinder Reddy

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Haochang Shou

    Co-investigator on 5U24NS130411-04, led by Christos Davatzikos

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

  • Ilya M Nasrallah

    Co-investigator on 5U24NS130411-04, led by Christos Davatzikos

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Katharine A. Rendle

    Co-investigator on 5U01CA275032-05, led by Surbhi Grover

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Ze Wang

    Co-investigator on 5R33AG080518-04, led by Sudipto Dolui

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Paco E. Bravo

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL169378-04, led by Walter R.t. Witschey

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

  • Andrew Douglas Arnold Maidment

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA196528-09, led by Suleman Surti

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

  • Boyu Hu

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA288473-02, led by Andrea Facciabene

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Elise Chong

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA288473-02, led by Andrea Facciabene

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

  • Ani Ural

    Co-investigator on 1R01AR085593-01A1, led by Chamith Sudesh Rajapakse

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

  • Theodore Satterthwaite

    Co-investigator on 5R01EB022573-10, led by Yong Fan

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Mariusz A. Wasik

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA268601-05, led by Kavindra Nath

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

  • Keith St. Lawrence

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS131235-03, led by Felix W Wehrli

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

  • Colin Goding

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA268597-05, led by Constantinos Koumenis; 3R01CA268597-05S1, led by Constantinos Koumenis

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

  • Misun Hwang

    Co-investigator on 5T32EB004311-22, led by David A. Mankoff

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • M. Saiful Huq

    Co-investigator on 5R25CA291597-02, led by Stephen Avery

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

  • Defne Audrey Amado

    Co-investigator on 1R21NS150730-01, led by Sanjeev Chawla

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

Also counted toward University of Pennsylvania in the Radiology ranking

Department rankings count awards at these organizations toward University of Pennsylvania. With University of Pennsylvania's own 76 awards (R&D contracts left out), they make up its ranking row: #2, $58,311,240, 86 awards. Each organization's page lists its investigators.