FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Public Health at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
- 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 Public Health row of the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center page.
Leads a grant in this department
9 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Carrie Daniel-MacDougall
Leads 1 award · $2,033,481
- 4R01CA291965-03Department: NIH department codePrebiotic diet intervention to enhance the microbiome and immunotherapy response in melanoma
Principal investigators: Carrie Daniel-MacDougall (contact PI), Jennifer A. Wargo
$2,033,481award amount
Weiva Sieh
Leads 2 awards · $1,415,367
- 1R01CA317515-01Department: NIH department codeMulti-ancestry study of mammographic density
Principal investigators: Weiva Sieh (contact PI), Pei Wang
$717,715award amount - 5R01CA264987-06Department: NIH department codeRadiomic and genomic predictors of breast cancer risk
Principal investigators: Weiva Sieh (contact PI), Li Shen, Vignesh A Arasu
$697,652award amount
Veronika Fedirko
Leads 1 award · $927,329
- 5R01CA255322-05Department: NIH department codeGut Microbiome and Cancer Immunotherapy Outcomes in Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma
Principal investigators: Veronika Fedirko (contact PI), Mehmet Asim Bilen
$927,329award amount
Chad Daniel Huff
Leads 1 award · $467,204
- 5R01CA284531-04Department: NIH department codeIntegrating Epidemiologic and Genomic Data to Elucidate the Genetic Overlap Between Congenital Anomalies and Pediatric Cancer
Principal investigators: Chad Daniel Huff (contact PI), Philip Lupo
$467,204award amount
Carrie A. Cameron
Leads 1 award · $297,815
- 5R25GM125640-10Department: NIH department codeScientific Communication Advances Research Excellence (SCOARE) 2.0$297,815award amount
Shine Chang
Leads 1 award · $244,796
- 5R25CA265802-05Department: NIH department codeCancer Curricular Advances for Research and Education (Cancer CARE)
Principal investigators: Shine Chang (contact PI), Nelson Felix Sanchez
$244,796award amount
Arjun Bhattacharya
Leads 1 award · $241,317
- 1R21ES039048-01Department: NIH department codeIdentifying PFAS-Induced Disruption of Placental Imprinting and Neurodevelopment Through Multi-Omic Negative Control Calibration$241,317award amount
Rosalie Griffin
Leads 1 award · $192,240
- 5K01CA297060-02Department: NIH department codeDecoding Mosaic Chromosomal Alterations in Lymphoid Malignancy Risk and Outcomes$192,240award amount
Hanseul Kim
Leads 1 award · $151,136
- 1K01DK141967-01A1Department: NIH department codeMulti-omic approaches to exploring the gut microbiome and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)$151,136award 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.
Jennifer A. Wargo
Co-investigator on 4R01CA291965-03, led by Carrie Daniel-MacDougall
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- UT MD Anderson Cancer Center · Surgery (NIH department code, 2 awards)
Mehmet Asim Bilen
Co-investigator on 5R01CA255322-05, led by Veronika Fedirko
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Pei Wang
Co-investigator on 1R01CA317515-01, led by Weiva Sieh
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · Genetics (NIH department code, 1 award)
Li Shen
Co-investigator on 5R01CA264987-06, led by Weiva Sieh
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · Radiology (NIH department code, 1 award)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · Neurosciences (NIH department code, 1 award)
Vignesh A Arasu
Co-investigator on 5R01CA264987-06, led by Weiva Sieh
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of California, San Francisco · Surgery (NIH department code, 1 award)
Philip Lupo
Co-investigator on 5R01CA284531-04, led by Chad Daniel Huff
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Emory University · Pediatrics (NIH department code, 2 awards)
- Teratology Society (no department on record, 1 award)
Nelson Felix Sanchez
Co-investigator on 5R25CA265802-05, led by Shine Chang
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.