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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

Funding
$18.8M
$18,769,678
Awards
38
FY2025 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
45
31 lead a grant here, 14 co-investigators
Department rank
#5
of 76 · 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 Pittsburgh page.

Leads a grant in this department

31 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. Matthew D Neal

    Leads 2 awards · $2,762,512

    • 5R01HL166944-03Department: NIH department code
      Endothelial Dysfunction and Restoration in Trauma Induced Coagulopathy

      Principal investigators: Matthew D Neal (contact PI), Kalev Freeman, Michael B Yaffe, Mitchell Cohen

      $2,365,012
      award amount
    • 5R35GM119526-10Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Elucidation and Targeted Therapy of Organ Injury and Inflammation following Trauma
      $397,500
      award amount
  2. Timothy R Billiar

    Leads 3 awards · $1,796,487

    • 5R35GM127027-08Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Immune Dysfunction after Trauma and Surgical Sepsis
      $697,185
      award amount
    • 5T32GM008516-32Department: NIH department code
      Training in Trauma and Sepsis Research
      $590,757
      award amount
    • 5R01NS134651-02Department: NIH department code
      Efficacy and mechanisms of anti-IFN drugs in AGS treatment
      $508,545
      award amount
  3. Adrian E. Morelli

    Leads 1 award · $1,331,252

    • 4R01AI174273-04Department: NIH department code
      Graft extracellular vesicles as promoters of anti-donor immunity in cardiac and skin transplantation
      $1,331,252
      award amount
  4. David M Rothstein

    Leads 2 awards · $1,136,312

    • 5R01AI184980-02Department: NIH department code
      Proinflammatory B Cells Defined by TIM-4 in the Alloimmune Response
      $669,277
      award amount
    • 5R01AI114587-10Department: NIH department code
      In Vivo Detection And Mechanisms of Regulatory B cell Function in Transplantation
      $467,035
      award amount
  5. Shari S Rogal

    Leads 1 award · $999,972

  6. Melanie J. Scott

    Leads 3 awards · $872,904

    • 5R01AA030007-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of matrix-bound microvesicles in alcohol-related liver disease

      Principal investigators: Melanie J. Scott (contact PI), Gavin E Arteel

      $483,165
      award amount
    • 5R01GM102146-13Department: NIH department code
      Inflammasome activation in trauma-hemorrhagic shock
      $331,005
      award amount
    • 3R01GM102146-13S1Department: NIH department code
      Inflammasome activation in trauma-hemorrhagic shock
      $58,734
      award amount
  7. Mohamed B Ezzelarab

    Leads 1 award · $717,706

    • 5U01AI177308-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targeting of T cell Regulation in Heart Allograft Recipient Monkeys
      $717,706
      award amount
  8. Fadi G. Lakkis

    Leads 1 award · $698,177

    • 5R01AI172973-03Department: NIH department code
      Innate Allorecognition in Clinical Organ Transplantation

      Principal investigators: Fadi G. Lakkis (contact PI), Diana M Metes

      $698,177
      award amount
  9. Jennifer L. Steel

    Leads 1 award · $669,324

    • 1R01CA296402-01Department: NIH department code
      Hybrid Type I Cluster Randomized Effectiveness-Implementation Trial of CARES
      $669,324
      award amount
  10. Edith Tzeng

    Leads 2 awards · $635,789

    • 2T32HL098036-16A1Department: NIH department code
      Vascular Surgery Research Training (VascTrain)
      $599,709
      award amount
    • 5T35HL155018-04Department: NIH department code
      Summer Research in Vascular Surgery (SRVS)
      $36,080
      award amount
  11. Kevin P Mollen

    Leads 1 award · $618,405

    • 2R01DK120986-06Department: NIH department code
      Mitonuclear Communication During the Pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
      $618,405
      award amount
  12. Martin H Oberbarnscheidt

    Leads 1 award · $612,975

    • 1R01AI181954-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Targeting monocyte allorecognition to achieve allograft acceptance
      $612,975
      award amount
  13. Heth R Turnquist

    Leads 1 award · $609,643

    • 5R01HL122489-09Department: NIH department code
      Immunoregulatory Mechanisms of IL-33 in Heart Transplantation
      $609,643
      award amount
  14. Marcus M. Malek

    Leads 1 award · $582,580

    • 5R01CA277664-03Department: NIH department code
      Intraoperative dual-labeled molecular tracer to improve surgery on neuroblastoma

      Principal investigators: Marcus M. Malek (contact PI), Gary Kohanbash

      $582,580
      award amount
  15. Julie A Phillippi

    Leads 1 award · $575,631

    • 5R01HL162822-03Department: NIH department code
      Matrix biophysics and pericyte mechanobiology in (patho)physiological angiogenesis

      Principal investigators: Julie A Phillippi (contact PI), Amrinder Nain

      $575,631
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32HL160526-04, led by James D Luketich.

  16. Deepika Mohan

    Leads 1 award · $565,496

    • 5R01AG076499-03Department: NIH department code
      Using video games to increase implementation of clinical practice guidelines in trauma triage
      $565,496
      award amount
  17. Andrea Gambotto

    Leads 1 award · $547,988

    • 1R01AI187223-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Microneedle patch delivery of replication-inducible monkeypox vaccine

      Principal investigators: Andrea Gambotto (contact PI), Cristian Apetrei

      $547,988
      award amount
  18. Jason Jakob Lohmueller

    Leads 1 award · $442,414

    • 5R01GM142007-05Department: NIH department code
      Conditional control of universal antigen receptor signaling
      $442,414
      award amount
  19. David A Geller

    Leads 1 award · $421,554

  20. Geoffrey Camirand

    Leads 1 award · $394,733

    • 5U01AI170074-04Department: NIH department code
      Promoting and Visualizing Immune Regulation in Transplantation
      $394,733
      award amount
  21. James D Luketich

    Leads 1 award · $301,556

  22. Udai S Kammula

    Leads 1 award · $297,948

    • 5T32CA113263-17Department: NIH department code
      Postdoctoral Research Training in Biotherapy of Cancer
      $297,948
      award amount
  23. Angus W Thomson

    Leads 1 award · $278,301

    • 5T32AI074490-18Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary Training in Transplantation Biology
      $278,301
      award amount
  24. Jie Fan

    Leads 1 award · $198,750

    • 5R21AI185275-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of Trauma/Hemorrhagic Shock-Predisposed Sepsis
      $198,750
      award amount
  25. Aravind Cherukuri

    Leads 1 award · $168,730

    • 5K08AI166021-04Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic Regulation of Regulatory B Cell Cytokine Expression and Allograft Rejection
      $168,730
      award amount
  26. Mohamed Saleh

    Leads 1 award · $163,188

    • 5K08DK129834-04Department: NIH department code
      Loss of the Exocrine Pancreas Improves Glucose Tolerance and Insulin Secretion
      $163,188
      award amount
  27. Susan Marguerite Shea

    Leads 1 award · $128,601

    • 5K25HL161401-04Department: NIH department code
      Using Microfluidics to Identify Mechanisms of Platelet Dysfunction and Assess Therapeutic Efficacy in Traumatic Hemorrhage
      $128,601
      award amount
  28. Heather Mentrup

    Leads 1 award · $95,464

    • 5F32DK132826-03Department: NIH department code
      Intestinal Stem Cell Metabolism in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Mucosal Healing
      $95,464
      award amount
  29. Mona Chatrizeh

    Leads 1 award · $57,538

    • 5F30HL170777-03Department: NIH department code
      Microbiome targeted nutrition to improve immune function during critical illness
      $57,538
      award amount
  30. Jordan Warunek

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31HL170514-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining How Macrophage Allorecognition Impacts Tissue Repair After Transplantation
      $49,538
      award amount
  31. Lauren Taylor Rosenblum

    Leads 1 award · $38,210

    • 5F32CA287961-02Department: NIH department code
      Intraoperative Molecular Imaging of Metastatic Osteosarcoma with 111In-dinutuximab-IR800
      $38,210
      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.