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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, TX

Funding
$10.6M
$10,625,078
Awards
19
FY2025 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
27
13 lead a grant here, 14 co-investigators
Department rank
#15
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 UT MD Anderson Cancer Center page.

Leads a grant in this department

13 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 3 awards · $3,293,852

    • 4R01CA280980-04Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging Hyperpolarized MRI for Precision Oncology Approaches in Head and Neck Cancer

      Principal investigators: Stephen Y Lai (contact PI), James A Bankson, Vlad C Sandulache

      $1,945,952
      award amount
    • 5U01DE032168-03Department: NIH department code
      Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Prospective Validation of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI as a Metric of Orodental Injury After Radiotherapy (QI-ProVE-MRI)

      Principal investigators: Stephen Y Lai (contact PI), Clifton David Fuller

      $704,812
      award amount
    • 5R01DE032521-03Department: NIH department code
      Development of miR-27a* for the Treatment of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

      Principal investigators: Stephen Y Lai (contact PI), Flordeliza S Villanueva

      $643,088
      award amount

  2. Jennifer A. Wargo

    Leads 2 awards · $1,309,935

    • 5T32CA009599-37Department: NIH department code
      Training of Academic Surgical Oncologists

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

      $794,823
      award amount
    • 5R01CA289456-02Department: 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

  3. Yu Leo Lei

    Leads 2 awards · $1,233,972

    • 5U01DE033330-03Department: 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
    • 5R01DE026728-08Department: NIH department code
      Restoring the Immunogenicity of Head and Neck Cancer

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

      $559,720
      award amount

  4. Yonathan Lissanu

    Leads 2 awards · $805,160

    • 5R01CA272945-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting SMARCA2 as a therapeutic strategy in SMARCA4 mutant lung cancer
      $537,633
      award amount
    • 1R21CA295906-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting SMARCA2 to overcome resistance of SMARCA4-mutant lung cancer to KRAS G12C inhibitors
      $267,527
      award amount

  5. Moran Amit

    Leads 2 awards · $688,424

    • 5R01DE032018-04Department: 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
    • 1R13CA306203-01Department: NIH department code
      Cancer Neuroscience: Crossing Disciplines to Revolutionize Cancer Treatment

      Principal investigators: Moran Amit (contact PI), Nisha J D'silva

      $10,000
      award amount

  6. Katherine Arnold Hutcheson

    Leads 1 award · $635,890

    • 5R01CA271223-03Department: NIH department code
      Dissemination and implementation of DIGEST™ as an evidence-based measurement tool for dysphagia in cancer
      $635,890
      award amount

  7. Jeffrey Nicholas Myers

    Leads 1 award · $556,146

    • 5R01DE030875-04Department: NIH department code
      Functional roles of GOF TP53 mutations in metastasis and immunosuppression of head and neck cancers

      Principal investigators: Jeffrey Nicholas Myers (contact PI), Andrew Sikora

      $556,146
      award amount

  8. Keila Enitt Torres

    Leads 1 award · $530,632

    • 5R01CA285980-02Department: 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

      $530,632
      award amount

  9. Jesse Joshua Smith

    Leads 1 award · $465,168

    • 7R37CA248289-07Department: NIH department code
      Expansion of Tumoroid Models for Precise Treatment of the Rectal Cancer Patient
      $465,168
      award amount

  10. Michael Paul Kim

    Leads 1 award · $451,313

    • 5R01CA269651-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining pro-metastatic drivers in the pancreatic cancer tumor microenvironment
      $451,313
      award amount

  11. Abdullah Ali Osman

    Leads 1 award · $383,497

    • 5R01DE030104-05Department: NIH department code
      Targeting replication stress and homologous recombination repair mechanisms in HPV-positive and negative head and neck cancer

      Principal investigators: Abdullah Ali Osman (contact PI), Mitchell J. Frederick

      $383,497
      award amount

  12. Kristy Kummerow Broman

    Leads 1 award · $159,063

    • 7K08CA283001-04Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging Health Systems to Increase Implementation of Evidence-Based Surgical Cancer Care
      $159,063
      award amount

  13. Golnaz Morad

    Leads 1 award · $112,026

    • 1K99CA296780-01Department: 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.