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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas, TX

Funding
$5.5M
$5,544,776
Awards
13
FY2025 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
15
11 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
#30
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 UT Southwestern Medical Center page.

Leads a grant in this department

11 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 · $1,325,787

    • 5R01CA276690-02Department: 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

      $665,617
      award amount
    • 5R37CA265967-04Department: NIH department code
      Determining the role of germline CDH1 variants in gastric cancer outcome disparities in Hispanic/Latino patients
      $660,170
      award amount
  2. Benjamin Levi

    Leads 2 awards · $798,946

    • 1R21AR085974-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the role of PIEZO mediated mechanosensory signaling in pediatric clubfoot deformity repair

      Principal investigators: Benjamin Levi (contact PI), Shang Ma

      $400,693
      award amount
    • 5R01AR078324-05Department: NIH department code
      Impacts of mechanosensation and matrix architecture on cell fate specification in traumatic heterotopic ossification
      $398,253
      award amount
  3. Robert Tower

    Leads 1 award · $569,019

    • 5R01AI186118-02Department: NIH department code
      Neutrophil Metabolism Regulates Hematopoiesis After Trauma
      $569,019
      award amount
  4. Michael Thomas Dellinger

    Leads 1 award · $508,436

    • 1R01HL176788-01Department: NIH department code
      “Two-hit” model for lymphatic malformations.
      $508,436
      award amount
  5. Matteo Ligorio

    Leads 1 award · $469,327

    • 5R37CA242070-05Department: NIH department code
      Targeting tumor architecture as a novel therapeutic strategy for pancreatic cancer
      $469,327
      award amount
  6. Rolf A Brekken

    Leads 1 award · $426,923

    • 5T32CA291654-02Department: NIH department code
      Translational Cancer Biology (TCB) T32 Training Program

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

      $426,923
      award amount
  7. Vivek R Sant

    Leads 1 award · $415,000

    • 1R03AG095804-01Department: NIH department code
      Unique Considerations in the Older Patient Considering Surgical Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism
      $415,000
      award amount
  8. Ganesh Sankaranarayanan

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 5R01HS029874-02Department: 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
  9. Daolin Tang

    Leads 1 award · $336,200

    • 5R01GM127791-07Department: NIH department code
      Targeting ACOD1 to attenuate innate immune responses to lethal infections
      $336,200
      award amount
  10. Huocong Huang

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00CA252009-05Department: NIH department code
      Function of mesothelial cells in the tumor microenvironment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
      $249,000
      award amount
  11. Stefanie Moye

    Leads 1 award · $46,138

    • 1F31AR086578-01Department: NIH department code
      Dietary Interventions to Limit Heterotopic Ossification after Musculoskeletal Injury
      $46,138
      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.

  • Tae Hyun Hwang

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA276690-02, led by Sam C. Wang

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

  • Jerry William Shay

    Co-investigator on 5T32CA291654-02, led by Rolf A Brekken

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Shang Ma

    Co-investigator on 1R21AR085974-01A1, led by Benjamin Levi

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

  • Courtney J Balentine

    Co-investigator on 5R01HS029874-02, led by Ganesh Sankaranarayanan

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads