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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Otolaryngology at University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

Funding
$12.7M
$12,728,505
Awards
13
FY2026 NIH awards in Otolaryngology
Principal investigators
36
34 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#2
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 Pittsburgh page.

Leads a grant in this department

34 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. Christopher J. Bakkenist

    Leads 2 awards · $8,039,131

  2. Riyue Bao

    Leads 2 awards · $8,039,131

  3. Tullia Carmela Bruno

    Leads 2 awards · $8,039,131

  4. Aatur Dilip Singhi

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  5. Adam M Brufsky

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  6. Dan Paul Zandberg

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  7. Dario Aa Vignali

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  8. Hong Wang

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  9. James G. Herman

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  10. Jessie Nedrow

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  11. John C. Byrd

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  12. Leonard J. Appleman

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  13. Margaret Q. Rosenzweig

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  14. Patricia L Opresko

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  15. Raman Venkataramanan

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  16. Ronald J Buckanovich

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  17. Sawa Ito

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  18. Simon C Watkins

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  19. Yuri E Nikiforov

    Leads 1 award · $5,995,559

  20. Diana M Bell

    Leads 1 award · $2,043,572

  21. Greg M. Delgoffe

    Leads 1 award · $2,043,572

  22. Heath Devin Skinner

    Leads 1 award · $2,043,572

  23. Marci Lee Nilsen

    Leads 1 award · $2,043,572

  24. Peter Luke Santa Maria

    Leads 1 award · $726,188

    • 5R01DC019965-05Department: NIH department code
      The role of macrophages in chronic suppurative otitis media associated sensory hearing loss
      $726,188
      award amount

  25. Michele Insanally

    Leads 1 award · $664,448

    • 1R01DC023532-01Department: NIH department code
      The contribution of heterogeneous neural responses to auditory learning and perception
      $664,448
      award amount

  26. Christopher L Cunningham

    Leads 1 award · $659,250

    • 1R01DC023579-01Department: NIH department code
      Critical proteins for hair cell protein trafficking and auditory function
      $659,250
      award amount

  27. Thanos Tzounopoulos

    Leads 1 award · $584,312

    • 5R01DC020923-04Department: NIH department code
      Cortical neuromodulatory mechanisms underlying adaptation and plasticity
      $584,312
      award amount

  28. Ross Stewart Williamson

    Leads 1 award · $559,197

    • 5R01DC020459-05Department: NIH department code
      Extratelencephalic contributions to auditory categorization
      $559,197
      award amount

  29. Gregory Joseph Basura

    Leads 1 award · $504,848

    • 5R01DC021746-03Department: NIH department code
      Subjective and Somatic Tinnitus; Using Functional Near-Infrared-Spectroscopy to Identify Objective Correlates in Auditory and Non-Auditory Cortices
      $504,848
      award amount

  30. Jose P. Zevallos

    Leads 1 award · $345,893

    • 5U01CA301249-02Department: NIH department code
      Preanalytical Validation of Circulating Tumor DNA from Surgical Drain Fluid as a marker of Postoperative Minimal Residual Disease in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

      Principal investigators: Jose P. Zevallos (contact PI), Aadel Chaudhuri

      $345,893
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5P50CA097190-20, led by Christopher J. Bakkenist and Diana M Bell and Greg M. Delgoffe and Heath Devin Skinner and Marci Lee Nilsen and Riyue Bao and Tullia Carmela Bruno.

  31. Karl Kandler

    Leads 1 award · $296,010

    • 5T32DC011499-15Department: NIH department code
      Training in Auditory and Vestibular Neuroscience

      Principal investigators: Karl Kandler (contact PI), Bill J Yates

      $296,010
      award amount

  32. Adele Moatti

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00DC019960-05Department: NIH department code
      Enhanced intratympanic delivery of therapeutics to treat and prevent hearing loss using nanovesicles in the porcine model
      $249,000
      award amount

  33. Abby Jurgensmeier Carney

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31DC023122-02Department: NIH department code
      The contributions of N-linked glycosylation to hair cell mechanoelectrical transduction-linked proteins and auditory function
      $50,114
      award amount

  34. Keith Kaufman

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31DC021867-03Department: NIH department code
      Arousal-dependent modulation of layer 5 neurons in the auditory cortex
      $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.

  • Aadel Chaudhuri

    Co-investigator on 5U01CA301249-02, led by Jose P. Zevallos

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Bill J Yates

    Co-investigator on 5T32DC011499-15, led by Karl Kandler

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