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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosurgery at University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

Funding
$8.1M
$8,076,122
Awards
15
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosurgery
Principal investigators
21
10 lead a grant here, 11 co-investigators
Department rank
#9
of 58 · 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 Pittsburgh page.

Leads a grant in this department

10 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. Ava M. Puccio

    Leads 2 awards · $1,749,468

  2. Avniel S Ghuman

    Leads 2 awards · $1,694,770

    • 1R61MH138967-01Department: NIH department code
      A Day in the Life of the Human Brain: Investigating the Dynamic Interrelationship Between Brain, Cognition, Behavior, and Physiology

      Principal investigators: Avniel S Ghuman (contact PI), John Rogers, Joseph S Neimat

      $1,004,971
      award amount
    • 5R01MH132225-04Department: NIH department code
      Active Social Vision: How the Brain Processes Visual Information During Natural Social Perception

      Principal investigators: Avniel S Ghuman (contact PI), Charles E Schroeder, Louis-Philippe Morency

      $689,799
      award amount

  3. Sameer Agnihotri

    Leads 2 awards · $1,036,283

    • 5R01CA268634-05Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Regulation of Glioblastoma Epitranscriptomics

      Principal investigators: Sameer Agnihotri (contact PI), Jeremy N Rich

      $594,193
      award amount
    • 5R01NS138440-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Hexosamine Synthesis in Pediatric Brain Tumors
      $442,090
      award amount

  4. Baoli Hu

    Leads 2 awards · $1,018,356

    • 5R01NS138348-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of SMARCD3/BAF60C in medulloblastoma
      $560,212
      award amount
    • 5R01CA259124-05Department: NIH department code
      Chitinase-3-like-1 mediated immunosuppression in Glioblastoma
      $458,144
      award amount

  5. Jorge Alvaro Gonzalez-Martinez

    Leads 2 awards · $693,003

    • 1T32NS147937-01Department: NIH department code
      Neural Engineering in Neurosurgery: Bridging Engineering to Clinical Practice
      $380,145
      award amount
    • 1UG3NS139235-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Deep brain stimulation of the motor thalamus to improve orofacial motor and speech production deficits after stroke

      Principal investigators: Jorge Alvaro Gonzalez-Martinez (contact PI), Elvira Pirondini

      $312,858
      award amount

  6. Taylor John Abel

    Leads 1 award · $605,903

    • 1R01DC024000-01Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic Network Mechanisms of Flexible Categorization in Human Cortex
      $605,903
      award amount

  7. Fang-Cheng Yeh

    Leads 1 award · $562,876

    • 5R01NS120954-05Department: NIH department code
      Ultra-high Resolution Structural Connectome Atlases of the Animal Brain and their Associated Toolbox
      $562,876
      award amount

  8. Shaun Carlson

    Leads 1 award · $424,799

    • 5R01NS124730-05Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic Vesicular Alterations after Traumatic Brain Injury
      $424,799
      award amount

  9. Zhimin Huang

    Leads 1 award · $235,550

    • 1R21EB039194-01Department: NIH department code
      Programmable Ultrasound-Leveraged Site-specific Exosomes
      $235,550
      award amount

  10. Jasmine Leah Hect

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30DC021342-04Department: NIH department code
      Intracranial Electrophysiology & Anatomical Connectivity of Voice-Selective Auditory Cortex
      $55,114
      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.

  • Kevin Ka Wang Wang

    Co-investigator on 5U01NS131740-03, led by Ava M. Puccio; 3U01NS131740-03S1, led by Ava M. Puccio

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Ramon Diaz-Arrastia

    Co-investigator on 5U01NS131740-03, led by Ava M. Puccio; 3U01NS131740-03S1, led by Ava M. Puccio

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • John Rogers

    Co-investigator on 1R61MH138967-01, led by Avniel S Ghuman

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

  • Joseph S Neimat

    Co-investigator on 1R61MH138967-01, led by Avniel S Ghuman

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

  • Charles E Schroeder

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH132225-04, led by Avniel S Ghuman

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Louis-Philippe Morency

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH132225-04, led by Avniel S Ghuman

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

  • Jeremy N Rich

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA268634-05, led by Sameer Agnihotri

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Elvira Pirondini

    Co-investigator on 1UG3NS139235-01A1, led by Jorge Alvaro Gonzalez-Martinez

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Cheryl Lea Wellington

    Co-investigator on 3U01NS131740-03S1, led by Ava M. Puccio

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

  • Jamie Sanders Hutchison

    Co-investigator on 3U01NS131740-03S1, led by Ava M. Puccio

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

  • Stefania Mondello

    Co-investigator on 3U01NS131740-03S1, led by Ava M. Puccio

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