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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas, TX

Funding
$7.2M
$7,246,627
Awards
15
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
17
13 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
#30
of 81 · 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 UT Southwestern Medical Center page.

Leads a grant in this department

13 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. Sam C. Wang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,321,703

    • 5R01CA276690-03Department: NIH department code
      Using artificial intelligence to discover spatial, genomic, and pathologic biomarkers to guide and augment immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy for gastric cancer

      Principal investigators: Sam C. Wang (contact PI), Tae Hyun Hwang

      $661,533
      award amount
    • 5R37CA265967-05Department: NIH department code
      Determining the role of germline CDH1 variants in gastric cancer outcome disparities in Hispanic/Latino patients
      $660,170
      award amount

  2. Shai Michael Rozen

    Leads 1 award · $686,858

    • 1R01DE035827-01Department: NIH department code
      Improving care and understanding of underlying mechanisms of facial synkinesis

      Principal investigators: Shai Michael Rozen (contact PI), Diana Tavares Ferreira

      $686,858
      award amount

  3. Benjamin Levi

    Leads 1 award · $613,036

    • 1R01AR086509-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging lymphatics to reverse heterotopic ossification
      $613,036
      award amount

  4. Xinxin Song

    Leads 2 awards · $570,922

    • 1R01CA307561-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Targeting a Novel Ferroptosis Defense Pathway in Pancreatic Cancer
      $404,922
      award amount
    • 1R03CA308472-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting cell death pathways to prevent KRAS inhibitor resistance
      $166,000
      award amount

  5. Robert Tower

    Leads 1 award · $560,819

    • 5R01AI186118-03Department: NIH department code
      Neutrophil Metabolism Regulates Hematopoiesis After Trauma
      $560,819
      award amount

  6. Huocong Huang

    Leads 1 award · $501,803

    • 1R01CA303246-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Decoding the stromal niches of antigen-presenting cancer-associated fibroblast in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
      $501,803
      award amount

  7. Michael Thomas Dellinger

    Leads 1 award · $498,267

    • 5R01HL176788-02Department: NIH department code
      “Two-hit” model for lymphatic malformations.
      $498,267
      award amount

  8. Rui Kang

    Leads 1 award · $484,720

    • 1R01DK144077-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Ferroptotic damage in acute pancreatitis
      $484,720
      award amount

  9. Matteo Ligorio

    Leads 1 award · $458,086

    • 4R37CA242070-06Department: NIH department code
      Targeting tumor architecture as a novel therapeutic strategy for pancreatic cancer
      $458,086
      award amount

  10. Vanessa Nomellini

    Leads 1 award · $424,615

    • 1R35GM164256-01Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Energy Utilization to Predict Immune Dysfunction and Chronic Critical Illness
      $424,615
      award amount

  11. Ganesh Sankaranarayanan

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 5R01HS029874-03Department: NIH department code
      Developing strategies for implementation and use of the Operating Room Black Box

      Principal investigators: Ganesh Sankaranarayanan (contact PI), Courtney J Balentine

      $400,000
      award amount

  12. Rolf A Brekken

    Leads 1 award · $389,598

    • 5T32CA291654-03Department: NIH department code
      Translational Cancer Biology (TCB) T32 Training Program

      Principal investigators: Rolf A Brekken (contact PI), Jerry William Shay

      $389,598
      award amount

  13. Daolin Tang

    Leads 1 award · $336,200

    • 5R01GM127791-08Department: NIH department code
      Targeting ACOD1 to attenuate innate immune responses to lethal infections
      $336,200
      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.