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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, TX

Funding
$17M
$16,990,273
Awards
22
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
36
25 lead a grant here, 11 co-investigators
Department rank
#12
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 UT MD Anderson Cancer Center page.

Leads a grant in this department

25 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. Stephen Y Lai

    Leads 4 awards · $6,377,959

  2. James A Bankson

    Leads 2 awards · $3,883,013

  3. Katherine Arnold Hutcheson

    Leads 2 awards · $2,953,744

  4. Cassian Yee

    Leads 1 award · $2,709,149

  5. Marie-Claude Catherine Hofmann

    Leads 1 award · $2,709,149

  6. Wenyi Wang

    Leads 1 award · $2,709,149

  7. Amy Catherine Moreno

    Leads 1 award · $2,320,910

  8. Carly E. A. Barbon

    Leads 1 award · $2,320,910

  9. Steven Jay Frank

    Leads 1 award · $2,320,910

  10. Jeffrey Nicholas Myers

    Leads 2 awards · $1,730,010

  11. Moran Amit

    Leads 2 awards · $1,324,289

    • 5R01DE032018-05Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing the nervous system to overcome resistance to immunotherapy in oral cancer

      Principal investigators: Moran Amit (contact PI), George A. Calin

      $678,424
      award amount
    • 1R01CA311472-01Department: NIH department code
      Disrupting ATF3/CGRP-IL-6 Neuroimmune Feedback to Overcome Neural Injury–Driven Immunotherapy Resistance in cSCC
      $645,865
      award amount

  12. Michael Paul Kim

    Leads 1 award · $1,305,356

    • 4R01CA269651-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining pro-metastatic drivers in the pancreatic cancer tumor microenvironment
      $1,305,356
      award amount

  13. Yu Leo Lei

    Leads 2 awards · $1,227,557

    • 5U01DE033330-04Department: NIH department code
      Advancing On-Slide and Optical Biopsy Tools to Detect High-Risk Oral Premalignancy

      Principal investigators: Yu Leo Lei (contact PI), Steven Bennett Chinn, Thomas D Wang

      $674,252
      award amount
    • 5R01DE026728-09Department: NIH department code
      Restoring the Immunogenicity of Head and Neck Cancer

      Principal investigators: Yu Leo Lei (contact PI), James J. Moon

      $553,305
      award amount

  14. Abdullah Ali Osman

    Leads 1 award · $1,173,864

  15. Adel K. El-Naggar

    Leads 1 award · $1,173,864

  16. Cristian Coarfa

    Leads 1 award · $1,173,864

  17. Vlad C Sandulache

    Leads 1 award · $1,173,864

  18. Jennifer A. Wargo

    Leads 2 awards · $1,111,380

    • 5T32CA009599-38Department: NIH department code
      Training of Academic Surgical Oncologists

      Principal investigators: Jennifer A. Wargo (contact PI), Ashley M Holder

      $596,268
      award amount
    • 5R01CA289456-03Department: NIH department code
      Targeting the gut microbiome to inhibit melanoma lymph node metastases

      Principal investigators: Jennifer A. Wargo (contact PI), Amanda W. Lund, Ashley M Holder

      $515,112
      award amount

  19. Xiao Zhao

    Leads 1 award · $735,436

    • 1R01DE034408-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating subclonal evolution and fitness dynamics in oral carcinogenesis
      $735,436
      award amount

  20. Yonathan Lissanu

    Leads 2 awards · $690,506

    • 5R01CA272945-05Department: NIH department code
      Targeting SMARCA2 as a therapeutic strategy in SMARCA4 mutant lung cancer
      $537,633
      award amount
    • 5R21CA295906-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting SMARCA2 to overcome resistance of SMARCA4-mutant lung cancer to KRAS G12C inhibitors
      $152,873
      award amount

  21. Jesse Joshua Smith

    Leads 1 award · $584,756

    • 5R37CA248289-08Department: NIH department code
      Expansion of Tumoroid Models for Precise Treatment of the Rectal Cancer Patient
      $584,756
      award amount

  22. Keila Enitt Torres

    Leads 1 award · $580,422

    • 5R01CA285980-03Department: NIH department code
      Use of Noninvasive Biomarkers and Advanced MRI for early detection of NF1-associated MPNSTs

      Principal investigators: Keila Enitt Torres (contact PI), Paul A Scheet

      $580,422
      award amount

  23. Yun Shin Chun

    Leads 1 award · $420,399

    • 1R21CA292213-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Impact of Tumor Heterogeneity in Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

      Principal investigators: Yun Shin Chun (contact PI), Lawrence Kwong

      $420,399
      award amount

  24. Catherine Allison Stewart

    Leads 1 award · $157,343

    • 2R50CA243698-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Modeling tumor heterogeneity, to develop new therapeutic strategies for treatment of resistant small cell lung cancer
      $157,343
      award amount

  25. Golnaz Morad

    Leads 1 award · $112,026

    • 5K99CA296780-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of oral microbiota in metastatic brain tumors
      $112,026
      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.