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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Funding
$31.9M
$31,863,035
Awards
20
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
32
16 lead a grant here, 16 co-investigators
Department rank
#3
of 79 · 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 Surgery row of the University of Pennsylvania page.

Leads a grant in this department

16 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. Ali Naji

    Leads 3 awards · $14,818,701

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01AI201182-01, led by James Francis Markmann.

  2. Hansell H Stedman

    Leads 3 awards · $4,759,250

    • 5U01NS134672-03Department: NIH department code
      IND-enabling studies of non-immunogenic gene therapy for ultra-rare DMD patients excluded from dystrophin trials
      $2,792,126
      award amount
    • 3U01NS134672-02S1Department: NIH department code
      IND-enabling studies of non-immunogenic gene therapy for ultra-rare DMD patients excluded from dystrophin trials
      $1,343,215
      award amount
    • 1R01HL181220-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Rational design of gene therapy transgenes to enhance efficacy, durability and safety in DMD
      $623,909
      award amount

  3. Scott Michael Damrauer

    Leads 3 awards · $2,949,388

    • 1K12TR006152-01Department: NIH department code
      CTSA K12 Program at the University of Pennsylvania

      Principal investigators: Scott Michael Damrauer (contact PI), Michael Oscar Harhay

      $1,620,000
      award amount
    • 5R01HL181587-02Department: NIH department code
      Triglyceride-rich lipoproteins and abdominal aortic aneurysm growth and progression

      Principal investigators: Scott Michael Damrauer (contact PI), Hong Shen Lu, Ryan Eugene Temel

      $672,921
      award amount
    • 5R01HL166991-04Department: NIH department code
      Impact of PCSK9 inhibition on abdominal aortic aneurysm pathobiology and growth
      $656,467
      award amount

  4. James Francis Markmann

    Leads 2 awards · $1,956,457

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01AI163087-06, led by Ali Naji; 5R01AI190177-02, led by Ali Naji.

  5. Edward J Delikatny

    Leads 1 award · $1,659,316

  6. Madduri S Srinivasarao

    Leads 1 award · $1,659,316

  7. Shuming Nie

    Leads 1 award · $1,659,316

  8. Sunil Singhal

    Leads 1 award · $1,659,316

  9. Wei-Ting Hwang

    Leads 1 award · $1,659,316

  10. Matthew Howard Levine

    Leads 1 award · $1,378,666

    • 4R01DK139679-03Department: NIH department code
      Estrogen and Serms as Therapy for Renal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury

      Principal investigators: Matthew Howard Levine (contact PI), Wayne William Hancock

      $1,378,666
      award amount

  11. Abraham Na Shaked

    Leads 1 award · $1,287,492

    • 5U01AI191397-02Department: NIH department code
      Immunobiology and Physiology of Liver xenograft in the Decedent
      $1,287,492
      award amount

  12. Ronald P. Dematteo

    Leads 2 awards · $997,026

    • 2T32CA251063-06Department: NIH department code
      SURGICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM AT PENN
      $554,620
      award amount
    • 5R01CA102613-20Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
      $442,406
      award amount

  13. Rachel Kelz

    Leads 1 award · $633,032

    • 5R01MD016088-05Department: NIH department code
      Personalized Provider Selection to Reduce Surgical Disparities
      $633,032
      award amount

  14. Luke Keele

    Leads 1 award · $622,659

    • 1R01LM014800-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Causal Ablation Methods for Comparative Effectiveness Research

      Principal investigators: Luke Keele (contact PI), Dean Knox

      $622,659
      award amount

  15. John Patrick Fischer

    Leads 1 award · $607,677

    • 5R01DK131067-05Department: NIH department code
      Improving surgical outcomes through optimized hernia prediction
      $607,677
      award amount

  16. Heather Wachtel

    Leads 1 award · $193,371

    • 5K08CA270385-05Department: NIH department code
      A genotype-phenotype study of germline succinate dehydrogenase pathogenic variants
      $193,371
      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 Surgery ranking

Department rankings count awards at these organizations toward University of Pennsylvania. With University of Pennsylvania's own 20 awards (R&D contracts left out), they make up its ranking row: #3, $41,425,027, 35 awards. Each organization's page lists its investigators.