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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

Funding
$11.2M
$11,164,318
Awards
18
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
23
12 lead a grant here, 11 co-investigators
Department rank
#21
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 University of Virginia page.

Leads a grant in this department

12 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. Lianwang Guo

    Leads 4 awards · $2,775,031

    • 5R01HL171140-03Department: NIH department code
      Targeted suppression of ALDH1A3 for endothelial beneficial management of restenosis after vascular surgery
      $705,233
      award amount
    • 5R01HL168405-03Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic targeting and nanoplatform-enabled local drug delivery - a two-pronged approach to stenosis prevention after vascular surgery

      Principal investigators: Lianwang Guo (contact PI), K Craig Kent, Shaoqin - Gong

      $698,141
      award amount
    • 5R01HL172888-03Department: NIH department code
      Targeted approach to the mitigation of abdominal aortic aneurysm

      Principal investigators: Lianwang Guo (contact PI), Coleen A McNamara, Shaoqin - Gong

      $695,082
      award amount
    • 5R01HL167902-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic and Translational Determination of PERK-targeting Strategies for Non-surgical Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

      Principal investigators: Lianwang Guo (contact PI), Shaoqin - Gong

      $676,575
      award amount

  2. Jianjie Ma

    Leads 3 awards · $1,987,006

    • 5R01AG072430-05Department: NIH department code
      Mitigating neuroinflammation and enhancing neuronal integrity in Alzheimer's disease
      $687,824
      award amount
    • 5R01EY036243-03Department: NIH department code
      Targeting the multicellular process of corneal regeneration and vascularization to enhance outcome of cornea transplantation

      Principal investigators: Jianjie Ma (contact PI), Ajay Sharma, Heather Chandler

      $683,439
      award amount
    • 5R01AG071676-05Department: NIH department code
      MG53 function in muscle aging

      Principal investigators: Jianjie Ma (contact PI), Hua Zhu, Jingsong Zhou, Ki Ho Park

      $615,743
      award amount

  3. Zequan Yang

    Leads 1 award · $1,619,582

    • 1R01HL180693-01A1Department: NIH department code
      A cardio-splenic-NET axis mediates acute MI and post-MI heart failure

      Principal investigators: Zequan Yang (contact PI), Yongqing Li

      $1,619,582
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HL168041-03, led by Irving L. Kron.

  4. Chuanxi Cai

    Leads 1 award · $1,460,280

    • 1R01ES037603-01Department: NIH department code
      Preserving lung integrity and harnessing inflammation to treat vesicant-induced lung injury

      Principal investigators: Chuanxi Cai (contact PI), Patrick Michael McNutt

      $1,460,280
      award amount

  5. Irving L. Kron

    Leads 1 award · $789,810

    • 5R01HL168041-03Department: NIH department code
      Targeted treatment of acute lung injury using isolated lung perfusion

      Principal investigators: Irving L. Kron (contact PI), Victor E Laubach, Zequan Yang

      $789,810
      award amount

  6. Xin Li

    Leads 1 award · $617,005

    • 5R01AG080696-04Department: NIH department code
      Succinate signaling in periodontitis induced neuroinflammation and dementia
      $617,005
      award amount

  7. Craig Lee Slingluff

    Leads 1 award · $493,034

    • 2T32CA163177-16Department: NIH department code
      Postdoctoral Training Grant for MDs in Surgical Oncology Research

      Principal investigators: Craig Lee Slingluff (contact PI), Allan Tsung

      $493,034
      award amount

  8. Allan Tsung

    Leads 1 award · $404,645

    • 5R01CA214865-10Department: NIH department code
      Surgery triggered immune response and liver metastases
      $404,645
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32CA163177-16, led by Craig Lee Slingluff.

  9. Russell Gardner Witt

    Leads 1 award · $291,498

    • 1K08CA301024-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Impact of Obesity and Androgen Receptor Signaling on BRAF/MEKi Resistance in Melanoma
      $291,498
      award amount

  10. Lily S Cheng

    Leads 2 awards · $286,581

    • 5K08DK133673-06Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of biomechanical forces on the enteric nervous system in Hirschsprung disease
      $165,456
      award amount
    • 1R03DK144289-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Engineering a gut-on-chip model to study biomechanical forces on the enteric nervous system
      $121,125
      award amount

  11. Michael Ibrahim

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 4R00HL163493-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of load-induced t-tubule regulation in the mammalian heart
      $248,999
      award amount

  12. Thomas Hyungsup Shin

    Leads 1 award · $190,847

    • 1K08EB039096-01Department: NIH department code
      Establishing Force-Based Metrics and Haptic Feedback to Standardize Robotic Paraesophageal Hernia Repair
      $190,847
      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.