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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosurgery at UT Health Science Center Houston

San Antonio, TX

Funding
$13.6M
$13,643,287
Awards
33
FY2024 NIH awards in Neurosurgery
Principal investigators
29
20 lead a grant here, 9 co-investigators
Department rank
#4
of 60 · 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 Neurosurgery row of the UT Health Science Center Houston page.

Leads a grant in this department

20 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. Nitin Tandon

    Leads 3 awards · $1,935,299

    • 5UH3NS119834-02Department: NIH department code
      Network based neuro-modulation for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

      Principal investigators: Nitin Tandon (contact PI), Behnaam Aazhang, Gregory A Worrell, Jay Raman Gavvala

      $987,971
      award amount
    • 5U01NS128921-03Department: NIH department code
      The Neural Code and Dynamics of the Reading Network
      $714,489
      award amount
    • 5UE5NS113757-05Department: NIH department code
      Research Training for Neurosurgery and Neurology Residents & Fellows

      Principal investigators: Nitin Tandon (contact PI), Samden Lhatoo

      $232,839
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5UG3NS125487-02, led by John P Seymour.

  2. John P Seymour

    Leads 1 award · $1,670,599

    • 5UG3NS125487-02Department: NIH department code
      DIrectional and SCalable (DISC) Microelectrode Array for Speech Decoding

      Principal investigators: John P Seymour (contact PI), Nitin Tandon

      $1,670,599
      award amount

  3. Georgene W Hergenroeder

    Leads 1 award · $1,401,149

    • 4R33NS113329-02Department: NIH department code
      Discovery of Biomarker Signatures Prognostic for Neuropathic Pain after Acute Spinal Cord Injury
      $1,401,149
      award amount

  4. Xuefang Sophie Ren

    Leads 2 awards · $1,084,678

    • 1R01AG073659-01A1Department: NIH department code
      A Novel Blood Substitution Approach Treats Acute Ischemia in the Aged Brain
      $644,881
      award amount
    • 5R01NS117606-02Department: NIH department code
      MicroRNAs, Mitochondria and the Blood-Brain Barrier - Therapeutic Targets for Stroke
      $439,797
      award amount

  5. Huimahn Alex Choi

    Leads 2 awards · $1,037,849

    • 1R01NS131469-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Radiographic markers and therapeutic targets of cerebral edema after SAH
      $571,202
      award amount
    • 5R61NS119640-03Department: NIH department code
      Discovery of Plasma Biomarkers of Delayed Cerebral Ischemia after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

      Principal investigators: Huimahn Alex Choi (contact PI), Jude Pj Savarraj

      $466,647
      award amount

  6. Sandeep Burma

    Leads 2 awards · $875,041

    • 5R01CA258381-04Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing MAPK-targeted Therapy in PDX Models of BRAF-Mutant Pediatric Brain Tumors

      Principal investigators: Sandeep Burma (contact PI), Peter J Houghton

      $536,215
      award amount
    • 5R01CA246807-04Department: NIH department code
      Radiation-induced senescence in the brain microenvironment: Implications for glioblastoma recurrence and therapy
      $338,826
      award amount

  7. Peeyush Kumar Thankamani Pandit

    Leads 2 awards · $682,518

    • 5R01NS121339-04Department: NIH department code
      Endothelial Cell Epigenetics and Blood-Brain Barrier.
      $461,398
      award amount
    • 1R21NS135176-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Neuroregeneration after stroke using Vascular Guidance
      $221,120
      award amount

  8. Eunhee Kim

    Leads 2 awards · $667,156

    • 1R01NS135153-01Department: NIH department code
      Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in mutant KRAS-induced brain as a cause of arteriovenous malformations
      $472,156
      award amount
    • 1R21NS137102-01Department: NIH department code
      EndMT as a target to treat human brain arteriovenous malformations

      Principal investigators: Eunhee Kim (contact PI), Peng Roc Chen

      $195,000
      award amount

  9. Ji Young Yoo

    Leads 3 awards · $602,634

    • 5R01CA276942-02Department: NIH department code
      Enhanced Viro-Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis
      $475,165
      award amount
    • 3R01CA276942-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Enhanced Viro-Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis
      $92,692
      award amount
    • 3R01CA276942-01A1S1Department: NIH department code
      Enhanced Viro-Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis
      $34,777
      award amount

  10. Yanning Rui

    Leads 2 awards · $565,651

    • 5R01NS126820-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of Selective Autophagy of Focal Adhesion in Intracranial Aneurysm
      $370,651
      award amount
    • 5R21NS130570-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of p62-Mediated Endothelial FA-Phagy in Intracranial Aneurysms
      $195,000
      award amount

  11. Devin William McBride

    Leads 1 award · $558,416

    • 5R01NS115887-04Department: NIH department code
      Role of Microthrombi and Inflammation in Delayed Deficits after SAH
      $558,416
      award amount

  12. Naomi Ledene Sayre

    Leads 3 awards · $507,371

    • 5R01NS132778-02Department: NIH department code
      LRP1 as a novel regulator of CXCR4 in adult neural stem cells and post-stroke response
      $384,458
      award amount
    • 3R01NS132778-02S1Department: NIH department code
      LRP1 as a novel regulator of CXCR4 in adult neural stem cells and post-stroke response
      $76,375
      award amount
    • 3R01NS132778-01S1Department: NIH department code
      Interrogating the role of LRP1 subdomains in neural stem cell function
      $46,538
      award amount

  13. Jiaqian Wu-Huber

    Leads 1 award · $467,447

    • 5R01NS088353-08Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Novel Molecular Targets for Chronic SCI
      $467,447
      award amount

  14. Eunsu Park

    Leads 1 award · $378,300

    • 5R01NS126415-03Department: NIH department code
      Microglia/macrophages as target to prevent intracerebral hemorrhage in KRAS mutation-induced brain arteriovenous malformations
      $378,300
      award amount

  15. Zhen Xu

    Leads 1 award · $378,298

    • 5R01NS126664-02Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Podosomes in Cerebrovascular Integrity and Intracranial Aneurysm
      $378,298
      award amount

  16. Junghwan Kim

    Leads 1 award · $365,955

    • 5R01NS121040-04Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of neurovascular and neurometabolic coupling of the negative BOLD response in human
      $365,955
      award amount

  17. Aaron Mark Gusdon

    Leads 1 award · $185,477

    • 5K23NS121628-03Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic alterations after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
      $185,477
      award amount

  18. Sunil Krishnan

    Leads 1 award · $147,082

    • 5R01CA257241-04Department: NIH department code
      Rational translation of gold nanoparticle mediated radiosensitization to the clinic

      Principal investigators: Sunil Krishnan (contact PI), Sang Hyun Cho

      $147,082
      award amount

  19. Hui-Wen Lo

    Leads 2 awards · $95,406

    • 1R21CA286225-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Understanding and overcoming resistance of breast cancer brain metastases to RET inhibition
      $95,405
      award amount
    • 5R01CA228137-06Department: NIH department code
      Roles of tGLI1 and microRNA Network in Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis

      Principal investigators: Hui-Wen Lo (contact PI), Kounosuke Watabe

      $1
      award amount

  20. Eyad Shihabeddin

    Leads 1 award · $36,961

    • 5F31EY034793-02Department: NIH department code
      Rod photoreceptor regeneration in a zebrafish model of Retinitis Pigmentosa.
      $36,961
      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.

  • Behnaam Aazhang

    Co-investigator on 5UH3NS119834-02, led by Nitin Tandon

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

  • Gregory A Worrell

    Co-investigator on 5UH3NS119834-02, led by Nitin Tandon

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Jay Raman Gavvala

    Co-investigator on 5UH3NS119834-02, led by Nitin Tandon

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

  • Peter J Houghton

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA258381-04, led by Sandeep Burma

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

  • Jude Pj Savarraj

    Co-investigator on 5R61NS119640-03, led by Huimahn Alex Choi

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

  • Samden Lhatoo

    Co-investigator on 5UE5NS113757-05, led by Nitin Tandon

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

  • Peng Roc Chen

    Co-investigator on 1R21NS137102-01, led by Eunhee Kim

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

  • Sang Hyun Cho

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA257241-04, led by Sunil Krishnan

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

  • Kounosuke Watabe

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA228137-06, led by Hui-Wen Lo

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads