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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, WI

Funding
$14.6M
$14,609,829
Awards
32
FY2025 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
31
25 lead a grant here, 6 co-investigators
Department rank
#11
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 University of Wisconsin-Madison 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. Ben L Zarzaur

    Leads 1 award · $2,011,326

    • 5R01AG076489-04Department: NIH department code
      Emergency General Surgery Delirium Recovery Model: A Collaborative Care Intervention

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

      $2,011,326
      award amount
  2. Matthew E Brown

    Leads 1 award · $1,488,578

    • 1R24AI197259-01Department: NIH department code
      Human Immune System Humanized Modeling of Down Syndrome Immune Responses to Pluripotent Stem Cells
      $1,488,578
      award amount
  3. Nadine P Connor

    Leads 2 awards · $1,421,218

    • 5R01AG085564-03Department: 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

      $751,486
      award amount
    • 4R01DC019735-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Down syndrome-associated swallowing dysfunction in mouse models

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

      $669,732
      award amount
  4. Nathan Welham

    Leads 2 awards · $1,131,505

    • 5R01DC004428-18Department: NIH department code
      Characterization and treatment of the scarred vocal fold
      $589,221
      award amount
    • 5R01DC019357-04Department: NIH department code
      Pathophysiological profiling of vocal fold hyperkeratosis

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

      $542,284
      award amount
  5. Susan Lynn Thibeault

    Leads 3 awards · $976,478

    • 5R01DC020734-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Lrig1+ in vocal fold epithelium and organoid biology

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

      $541,163
      award amount
    • 5T32DC009401-17Department: NIH department code
      University of Wisconsin Voice Research Training Program
      $435,314
      award amount
    • 5R01DC004336-26Department: NIH department code
      Engineering the Vocal Fold Mucosa
      $1
      award amount
  6. Margaret Schwarze

    Leads 2 awards · $735,704

    • 5R01AG078242-04Department: NIH department code
      A Randomized Clinical Trial of Scenario Planning for Older Adults with Serious Injury
      $592,996
      award amount
    • 5K24AG073476-05Department: NIH department code
      Use of systems engineering to evaluate the initiation of life-supporting treatments in older adults with life-limiting illness
      $142,708
      award amount
  7. Heather B Neuman

    Leads 2 awards · $700,792

    • 5T32CA090217-25Department: NIH department code
      UW Surgical Oncology Research Training Program (UW-SORT)

      Principal investigators: Heather B Neuman (contact PI), Wei Xu

      $482,702
      award amount
    • 5R21CA283601-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding patient-surgeon interactions to support deimplementation of preference-sensitive low value care
      $218,090
      award amount
  8. Freya Mowat

    Leads 1 award · $690,705

    • 5R01AG082907-03Department: NIH department code
      Companion dogs: sentinels for multimorbidity of human neurocognitive-sensory aging and susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
      $690,705
      award amount
  9. Michelle Renee Ciucci

    Leads 1 award · $653,455

    • 5R01DC018584-05Department: NIH department code
      Preclinical trial for dysarthria treatment in Parkinson disease
      $653,455
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AG085564-03, led by Nadine P Connor.

  10. Tiffany Glass

    Leads 2 awards · $618,730

    • 5R01HD104640-03Department: NIH department code
      Tongue maturation deficits in a mouse model of Down syndrome
      $436,087
      award amount
    • 3R01HD104640-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Tongue maturation deficits in a mouse model of Down syndrome
      $182,643
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 4R01DC019735-02, led by Nadine P Connor.

  11. Gunnar Lennart Quass

    Leads 1 award · $583,125

    • 1R21DC023247-01Department: NIH department code
      Cortical Population Coding and Network Effects of Cochlear Implant Stimulation During Behavior
      $583,125
      award amount
  12. Cynthia A Kelm-Nelson

    Leads 1 award · $568,010

    • 2R01NS117469-06Department: NIH department code
      Pathways, mechanisms, and treatments of vocal communication deficits in a Parkinson rat model
      $568,010
      award amount
  13. David O. Francis

    Leads 1 award · $555,111

    • 5R01DC021431-03Department: 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

      $555,111
      award amount
  14. Jack J Jiang

    Leads 1 award · $405,748

    • 1R01DC021415-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Aerodynamic measurements in the pediatric population
      $405,748
      award amount
  15. Muhammed Murtaza

    Leads 1 award · $354,931

    • 5UH3CA234306-04Department: NIH department code
      Treatment monitoring in early and locally advanced breast cancer using circulating tumor DNA analysis
      $354,931
      award amount
  16. David A Harris

    Leads 1 award · $311,000

    • 1R03AG088813-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Integrating spatial transcriptomics and single cell RNA-sequencing to mechanistically define bariatric surgery's impact on Alzheimer's Disease
      $311,000
      award amount
  17. Angela L F Gibson

    Leads 1 award · $259,960

    • 5R01GM145723-04Department: NIH department code
      Fluorescence-based detection of inflammation and necrosis to inform surgical decision-making and enhance outcomes
      $259,960
      award amount
  18. Carrie Thiessen

    Leads 1 award · $193,652

    • 1K23DK139465-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Assessing the impact of cognitive biases on patient and provider willingness to accept imperfect kidneys for transplantation
      $193,652
      award amount
  19. Julia Rose Berian

    Leads 1 award · $190,383

    • 5K23AG081487-03Department: NIH department code
      Preparing older adults for major abdominal surgery: a systems engineering approach to implement preoperative comprehensive geriatric assessments
      $190,383
      award amount
  20. Mehreen T Kisat

    Leads 1 award · $190,383

    • 5K08GM148858-03Department: NIH department code
      Improving diagnosis of post-traumatic sepsis using plasma microbial DNA sequencing
      $190,383
      award amount
  21. Ran An

    Leads 1 award · $187,715

    • 5R21DC021012-02Department: NIH department code
      Microbial modulation of mucosal wound healing in the larynx
      $187,715
      award amount
  22. David Peter Al-Adra

    Leads 1 award · $149,952

    • 5K08AI155816-05Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Donor Regulatory Dendritic Cells During Normothermic Ex Vivo Liver Perfusion to Overcome Rejection after Liver Transplant
      $149,952
      award amount
  23. Ruth Jennifer Davis

    Leads 1 award · $142,074

    • 1K23DC022677-01Department: NIH department code
      Inflammatory mechanisms of dysbiosis in laryngeal glottic stenosis
      $142,074
      award amount
  24. Michelle Bretl

    Leads 1 award · $52,538

    • 1F31DC023096-01Department: NIH department code
      Toward vocal fold scar mitigation through CRISPR/Cas-9-mediated gene editing of fibroblasts
      $52,538
      award amount
  25. Amanda Schussman

    Leads 1 award · $36,756

    • 1F31CA306346-01Department: NIH department code
      Genome-wide Analysis and Enrichment of Chimeric DNA Fragments in Plasma for Early Detection of Cancer
      $36,756
      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.

  • Malaz Boustani

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG076489-04, led by Ben L Zarzaur

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Eugene Yu

    Co-investigator on 4R01DC019735-02, led by Nadine P Connor

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Jiwei Zhao

    Co-investigator on 5R01DC021431-03, led by David O. Francis

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Sherry A Tanumihardjo

    Co-investigator on 5R01DC019357-04, led by Nathan Welham

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Vlasta Lungova

    Co-investigator on 5R01DC020734-03, led by Susan Lynn Thibeault

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Wei Xu

    Co-investigator on 5T32CA090217-25, led by Heather B Neuman

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads