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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosurgery at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$14.4M
$14,388,130
Awards
22
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosurgery
Principal investigators
26
19 lead a grant here, 7 co-investigators
Department rank
#5
of 58 · 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 Washington University in St. Louis page.

Leads a grant in this department

19 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. Hong Chen

    Leads 4 awards · $5,030,922

    • 4DP1DK143574-03Department: NIH department code
      Ultrasound-induced artificial hibernation: Mimicking natural hibernation to enhance human health
      $3,265,500
      award amount
    • 5R01NS128461-04Department: NIH department code
      Sonogenetics 2.0
      $599,176
      award amount
    • 5R01EB027223-08Department: NIH department code
      Focused ultrasound-mediated intranasal brain drug delivery technique (FUSIN)
      $595,542
      award amount
    • 5R01EB030102-07Department: NIH department code
      Focused ultrasound-enabled brain tumor liquid biopsy
      $570,704
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA276174-04, led by Eric Claude Leuthardt.

  2. Gregory J Zipfel

    Leads 3 awards · $2,524,289

    • 5K12NS129164-04Department: NIH department code
      Neurosurgeon Research Career Development Program (NRCDP)

      Principal investigators: Gregory J Zipfel (contact PI), Emad N Eskandar, Langston Tyler Holly, Sepideh Amin-Hanjani

      $1,662,385
      award amount
    • 5R01NS128082-04Department: NIH department code
      Roles of NAMPT and NAD+ in hypoxic conditioning-induced neurovascular protection in subarachnoid hemorrhage
      $526,594
      award amount
    • 5UE5NS090978-12Department: NIH department code
      Washington University Physician Neuroscientist Training Pipeline (PNTP) Pathway

      Principal investigators: Gregory J Zipfel (contact PI), David H Gutmann

      $335,310
      award amount

  3. Gabriel E Haller

    Leads 2 awards · $1,833,839

    • 5P01NS131131-04Department: NIH department code
      Redefining Chiari Type I Malformation and its Impact on Brain Development

      Principal investigators: Carlos Cruchaga (contact PI), Chenyang Lu (contact PI), David Delmar Limbrick (contact PI), Gabriel E Haller (contact PI), Jarod Roland (contact PI), Jennifer Strahle (contact PI), Joshua S Shimony (contact PI)

      $1,485,292
      award amount
    • 5R01AR081901-04Department: NIH department code
      Massively-parallel functional interrogation of genetic variation in CMD-associated alpha-dystroglycan glycosylating enzymes
      $348,547
      award amount

  4. Jarod Roland

    Leads 2 awards · $1,695,382

  5. Jennifer Strahle

    Leads 2 awards · $1,619,902

  6. Carlos Cruchaga

    Leads 1 award · $1,485,292

  7. Chenyang Lu

    Leads 1 award · $1,485,292

  8. David Delmar Limbrick

    Leads 1 award · $1,485,292

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS124767-05, led by Christopher Daniel Smyser.

  9. Joshua S Shimony

    Leads 1 award · $1,485,292

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA203861-10, led by Eric Claude Leuthardt.

  10. Eric Claude Leuthardt

    Leads 2 awards · $1,182,472

    • 5R01CA276174-04Department: NIH department code
      Sonobiopsy for Noninvasive Genetic Evaluation of Glioblastoma Patients

      Principal investigators: Eric Claude Leuthardt (contact PI), Hong Chen

      $645,323
      award amount
    • 5R01CA203861-10Department: NIH department code
      Advancing Neurosurgical Neuronavigation Using Resting State MRI and Machine Learning

      Principal investigators: Eric Claude Leuthardt (contact PI), Joshua S Shimony

      $537,149
      award amount

  11. David Thomas Bundy

    Leads 1 award · $617,439

    • 1R01NS144538-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Examining the impact of lesion location and extent on post-stroke neuroplasticity
      $617,439
      award amount

  12. Christopher Daniel Smyser

    Leads 1 award · $596,550

    • 5R01NS124767-05Department: NIH department code
      Effects of ventricular volume and cerebral connectivity on neurological outcomes in preterm intraventricular hemorrhage

      Principal investigators: Christopher Daniel Smyser (contact PI), David Delmar Limbrick

      $596,550
      award amount

  13. Eric Thompson

    Leads 1 award · $532,488

    • 5R01CA296813-02Department: NIH department code
      Phase 1/2 trial of PEP-CMV + nivolumab for newly diagnosed diffuse midline glioma/high-grade glioma and recurrent diffuse midline glioma/high-grade glioma, medulloblastoma, and ependymoma (PRiME II)
      $532,488
      award amount

  14. Alexander H. Stegh

    Leads 1 award · $488,030

    • 5R01NS129123-05Department: NIH department code
      Inhibition of wild-type IDH1 as a ferroptosis-inducing therapeutic approach for the treatment of malignant glioma.

      Principal investigators: Alexander H. Stegh (contact PI), Daniel R Wahl

      $488,030
      award amount

  15. Albert Hong-Jae Kim

    Leads 1 award · $382,255

    • 5R01NS128470-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of SOX2 Regulation in Glioblastoma
      $382,255
      award amount

  16. Yang Li

    Leads 1 award · $333,250

    • 1R35GM162840-01Department: NIH department code
      Bridging the Gap between Animal Models and Humans through Comparative Genomics and Machine Learning
      $333,250
      award amount

  17. Rui Tang

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00CA256039-05Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting reciprocal interactions between cancer cells and endothelial cells in SCLC liver metastasis.
      $249,000
      award amount

  18. Jacob Greenberg

    Leads 1 award · $169,586

    • 5K23AR082986-03Department: NIH department code
      Using Mobile Health Technology and Real-Time Assessments to Address Multilevel Influences on Lumbar Spine Surgery Outcomes
      $169,586
      award amount

  19. Tao Xie

    Leads 1 award · $103,310

    • 1K99MH144521-01Department: NIH department code
      Causal Dynamics of Human Amygdala-Prefrontal Circuits during Fear Extinction Learning
      $103,310
      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.

  • Emad N Eskandar

    Co-investigator on 5K12NS129164-04, led by Gregory J Zipfel

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

  • Langston Tyler Holly

    Co-investigator on 5K12NS129164-04, led by Gregory J Zipfel

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

  • Sepideh Amin-Hanjani

    Co-investigator on 5K12NS129164-04, led by Gregory J Zipfel

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

  • Daniel R Wahl

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS129123-05, led by Alexander H. Stegh

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • David H Gutmann

    Co-investigator on 5UE5NS090978-12, led by Gregory J Zipfel

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Linda J Richards

    Co-investigator on 5R25NS125604-04, led by Jennifer Strahle

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Rafael Galindo

    Co-investigator on 5R25NS125604-04, led by Jennifer Strahle

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