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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosurgery at UT Health Science Center Houston

San Antonio, TX

Funding
$11.6M
$11,639,571
Awards
26
FY2025 NIH awards in Neurosurgery
Principal investigators
22
17 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
#5
of 53 · 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

17 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. Xuefang Sophie Ren

    Leads 2 awards · $2,906,772

    • 4RF1AG073659-02Department: NIH department code
      A Novel Blood Substitution Approach Treats Acute Ischemia in the Aged Brain
      $2,498,714
      award amount
    • 5R01NS117606-03Department: NIH department code
      MicroRNAs, Mitochondria and the Blood-Brain Barrier - Therapeutic Targets for Stroke
      $408,058
      award amount
  2. Huimahn Alex Choi

    Leads 2 awards · $1,077,052

    • 5R01NS131469-02Department: NIH department code
      Radiographic markers and therapeutic targets of cerebral edema after SAH
      $557,202
      award amount
    • 4R33NS119640-04Department: NIH department code
      Discovery of Plasma Biomarkers of Delayed Cerebral Ischemia after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

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

      $519,850
      award amount
  3. Sandeep Burma

    Leads 2 awards · $921,158

    • 5R01CA258381-05Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing MAPK-targeted Therapy in PDX Models of BRAF-Mutant Pediatric Brain Tumors
      $564,437
      award amount
    • 5R01CA246807-05Department: NIH department code
      Radiation-induced senescence in the brain microenvironment: Implications for glioblastoma recurrence and therapy
      $356,721
      award amount
  4. Naomi Ledene Sayre

    Leads 3 awards · $905,847

    • 1R21AG096625-01Department: NIH department code
      Does extracellular tau modulate neurogenesis via LRP1?

      Principal investigators: Naomi Ledene Sayre (contact PI), Sarah Christine Hopp

      $433,125
      award amount
    • 5R01NS132778-03Department: NIH department code
      LRP1 as a novel regulator of CXCR4 in adult neural stem cells and post-stroke response
      $396,347
      award amount
    • 3R01NS132778-03S1Department: NIH department code
      LRP1 as a novel regulator of CXCR4 in adult neural stem cells and post-stroke response
      $76,375
      award amount
  5. Nitin Tandon

    Leads 2 awards · $754,631

    • 5U01NS128921-04Department: NIH department code
      The Neural Code and Dynamics of the Reading Network
      $693,636
      award amount
    • 2UE5NS113757-06Department: NIH department code
      Research Training for Residents & Fellows in Neurological Disorders

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

      $60,995
      award amount
  6. Eunhee Kim

    Leads 2 awards · $694,023

    • 5R01NS135153-02Department: NIH department code
      Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in mutant KRAS-induced brain as a cause of arteriovenous malformations
      $460,023
      award amount
    • 5R21NS137102-02Department: NIH department code
      EndMT as a target to treat human brain arteriovenous malformations

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

      $234,000
      award amount
  7. Sunil Krishnan

    Leads 1 award · $624,904

    • 5R01CA257241-05Department: NIH department code
      Rational translation of gold nanoparticle mediated radiosensitization to the clinic

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

      $624,904
      award amount
  8. Peeyush Kumar Thankamani Pandit

    Leads 2 awards · $623,101

    • 5R01NS121339-05Department: NIH department code
      Endothelial Cell Epigenetics and Blood-Brain Barrier.
      $428,101
      award amount
    • 5R21NS135176-02Department: NIH department code
      Neuroregeneration after stroke using Vascular Guidance
      $195,000
      award amount
  9. Ji Young Yoo

    Leads 2 awards · $592,456

    • 5R01CA276942-03Department: NIH department code
      Enhanced Viro-Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis
      $494,886
      award amount
    • 3R01CA276942-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Enhanced Viro-Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis
      $97,570
      award amount
  10. Devin William McBride

    Leads 1 award · $518,119

    • 5R01NS115887-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of Microthrombi and Inflammation in Delayed Deficits after SAH
      $518,119
      award amount
  11. Jiaqian Wu-Huber

    Leads 1 award · $435,395

    • 5R01NS088353-09Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Novel Molecular Targets for Chronic SCI
      $435,395
      award amount
  12. Eunsu Park

    Leads 1 award · $351,000

    • 5R01NS126415-04Department: NIH department code
      Microglia/macrophages as target to prevent intracerebral hemorrhage in KRAS mutation-induced brain arteriovenous malformations
      $351,000
      award amount
  13. Zhen Xu

    Leads 1 award · $350,997

    • 5R01NS126664-03Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Podosomes in Cerebrovascular Integrity and Intracranial Aneurysm
      $350,997
      award amount
  14. Junghwan Kim

    Leads 1 award · $346,725

    • 5R01NS121040-05Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of neurovascular and neurometabolic coupling of the negative BOLD response in human
      $346,725
      award amount
  15. Yanning Rui

    Leads 1 award · $343,906

    • 5R01NS126820-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of Selective Autophagy of Focal Adhesion in Intracranial Aneurysm
      $343,906
      award amount
  16. Aaron Mark Gusdon

    Leads 1 award · $183,857

    • 5K23NS121628-04Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic alterations after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
      $183,857
      award amount
  17. Eyad Shihabeddin

    Leads 1 award · $9,628

    • 5F31EY034793-03Department: NIH department code
      Rod photoreceptor regeneration in a zebrafish model of Retinitis Pigmentosa.
      $9,628
      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.

  • Sang Hyun Cho

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA257241-05, led by Sunil Krishnan

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

  • Jude Pj Savarraj

    Co-investigator on 4R33NS119640-04, led by Huimahn Alex Choi

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

  • Sarah Christine Hopp

    Co-investigator on 1R21AG096625-01, led by Naomi Ledene Sayre

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Peng Roc Chen

    Co-investigator on 5R21NS137102-02, led by Eunhee Kim

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

  • Samden Lhatoo

    Co-investigator on 2UE5NS113757-06, led by Nitin Tandon

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads