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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, WI

Funding
$12.2M
$12,196,265
Awards
26
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
29
22 lead a grant here, 7 co-investigators
Department rank
#18
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 Wisconsin-Madison page.

Leads a grant in this department

22 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. Ben L Zarzaur

    Leads 1 award · $2,052,374

    • 5R01AG076489-05Department: NIH department code
      Emergency General Surgery Delirium Recovery Model: A Collaborative Care Intervention

      Principal investigators: Ben L Zarzaur (contact PI), Malaz Boustani

      $2,052,374
      award amount

  2. Susan Lynn Thibeault

    Leads 3 awards · $1,643,057

    • 5R01DC004336-27Department: NIH department code
      Engineering the Vocal Fold Mucosa
      $582,854
      award amount
    • 5R01DC020734-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Lrig1+ in vocal fold epithelium and organoid biology

      Principal investigators: Susan Lynn Thibeault (contact PI), Vlasta Lungova

      $538,667
      award amount
    • 5T32DC009401-18Department: NIH department code
      University of Wisconsin Voice Research Training Program
      $521,536
      award amount

  3. Nadine P Connor

    Leads 2 awards · $1,434,609

    • 5R01AG085564-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of swallowing dysfunction and rescue in a translational rat model of Alzheimer's disease

      Principal investigators: Nadine P Connor (contact PI), Michelle Renee Ciucci

      $766,822
      award amount
    • 5R01DC019735-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Down syndrome-associated swallowing dysfunction in mouse models

      Principal investigators: Nadine P Connor (contact PI), Eugene Yu, Tiffany Glass

      $667,787
      award amount

  4. Nathan Welham

    Leads 2 awards · $1,089,870

    • 5R01DC004428-19Department: NIH department code
      Characterization and treatment of the scarred vocal fold
      $560,804
      award amount
    • 5R01DC019357-05Department: NIH department code
      Pathophysiological profiling of vocal fold hyperkeratosis

      Principal investigators: Nathan Welham (contact PI), Sherry A Tanumihardjo

      $529,066
      award amount

  5. Freya Mowat

    Leads 1 award · $695,971

    • 5R01AG082907-04Department: NIH department code
      Companion dogs: sentinels for multimorbidity of human neurocognitive-sensory aging and susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
      $695,971
      award amount

  6. John A Russell

    Leads 1 award · $634,644

    • 1R01CA301371-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Treatment of neuroinflammation for remediation of chemoradiation-induced dysphagia
      $634,644
      award amount

  7. Miranda Jane Cullins

    Leads 1 award · $614,993

    • 1R01HD119580-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Neuroplastic mechanisms of dysphagia following stroke: Effects of aging and tongue exercise treatment
      $614,993
      award amount

  8. Cynthia A Kelm-Nelson

    Leads 1 award · $608,027

    • 5R01NS117469-07Department: NIH department code
      Pathways, mechanisms, and treatments of vocal communication deficits in a Parkinson rat model
      $608,027
      award amount

  9. Margaret Schwarze

    Leads 1 award · $519,728

    • 5R01AG078242-05Department: NIH department code
      A Randomized Clinical Trial of Scenario Planning for Older Adults with Serious Injury
      $519,728
      award amount

  10. Heather B Neuman

    Leads 1 award · $484,386

    • 2T32CA090217-26Department: NIH department code
      Surgical Oncology Research Training Program

      Principal investigators: Heather B Neuman (contact PI), Muhammed Murtaza

      $484,386
      award amount

  11. David O. Francis

    Leads 1 award · $481,528

    • 5R01DC021431-04Department: NIH department code
      CoPE II: Individualizing patient-reported outcomes in patient care for vocal fold paralysis in the clinic and in research

      Principal investigators: David O. Francis (contact PI), Jiwei Zhao

      $481,528
      award amount

  12. Jack J Jiang

    Leads 1 award · $362,078

    • 5R01DC021415-02Department: NIH department code
      Aerodynamic measurements in the pediatric population
      $362,078
      award amount

  13. Angela L F Gibson

    Leads 1 award · $254,597

    • 5R01GM145723-05Department: NIH department code
      Fluorescence-based detection of inflammation and necrosis to inform surgical decision-making and enhance outcomes
      $254,597
      award amount

  14. Muhammed Murtaza

    Leads 1 award · $205,159

    • 5UH3CA234306-05Department: NIH department code
      Treatment monitoring in early and locally advanced breast cancer using circulating tumor DNA analysis
      $205,159
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32CA090217-26, led by Heather B Neuman.

  15. Carrie Thiessen

    Leads 1 award · $190,772

    • 5K23DK139465-02Department: NIH department code
      Assessing the impact of cognitive biases on patient and provider willingness to accept imperfect kidneys for transplantation
      $190,772
      award amount

  16. Julia Rose Berian

    Leads 1 award · $190,383

    • 5K23AG081487-04Department: NIH department code
      Preparing older adults for major abdominal surgery: a systems engineering approach to implement preoperative comprehensive geriatric assessments
      $190,383
      award amount

  17. Mehreen T Kisat

    Leads 1 award · $190,383

    • 5K08GM148858-04Department: NIH department code
      Improving diagnosis of post-traumatic sepsis using plasma microbial DNA sequencing
      $190,383
      award amount

  18. Ran An

    Leads 1 award · $187,715

    • 5R21DC021012-03Department: NIH department code
      Microbial modulation of mucosal wound healing in the larynx
      $187,715
      award amount

  19. Ruth Jennifer Davis

    Leads 1 award · $142,236

    • 5K23DC022677-02Department: NIH department code
      Inflammatory mechanisms of dysbiosis in laryngeal glottic stenosis
      $142,236
      award amount

  20. Haikun Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $123,309

    • 1K99GM163014-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Computational methods for plasma metagenomic sequencing to improve diagnosis of sepsis in critically-ill patients
      $123,309
      award amount

  21. Michelle Bretl

    Leads 1 award · $53,114

    • 5F31DC023096-02Department: NIH department code
      Toward vocal fold scar mitigation through CRISPR/Cas-9-mediated gene editing of fibroblasts
      $53,114
      award amount

  22. Amanda Schussman

    Leads 1 award · $37,332

    • 5F31CA306346-02Department: NIH department code
      Genome-wide Analysis and Enrichment of Chimeric DNA Fragments in Plasma for Early Detection of Cancer
      $37,332
      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.