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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosurgery at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$13.4M
$13,379,716
Awards
22
FY2025 NIH awards in Neurosurgery
Principal investigators
24
13 lead a grant here, 11 co-investigators
Department rank
#4
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 Washington University in St. Louis 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. Alexander H. Stegh

    Leads 3 awards · $3,891,312

    • 1R01CA294649-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Myeloid Metabolism to Reprogram the Tumor Microenvironment of Glioblastoma
      $2,467,799
      award amount
    • 4R01CA275430-04Department: NIH department code
      Spherical Nucleic Acid nano-architectures as first-in-class cGAS agonists for the immunotherapeutic treatment of Glioblastoma.

      Principal investigators: Alexander H. Stegh (contact PI), Chad A. Mirkin

      $943,101
      award amount
    • 5R01NS129123-04Department: 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

      $480,412
      award amount

  2. Hong Chen

    Leads 4 awards · $2,856,397

    • 5DP1DK143574-02Department: NIH department code
      Ultrasound-induced artificial hibernation: Mimicking natural hibernation to enhance human health
      $1,088,500
      award amount
    • 5R01NS128461-03Department: NIH department code
      Sonogenetics 2.0
      $613,752
      award amount
    • 5R01EB027223-07Department: NIH department code
      Focused ultrasound-mediated intranasal brain drug delivery technique (FUSIN)
      $604,694
      award amount
    • 5R01EB030102-06Department: NIH department code
      Focused ultrasound-enabled brain tumor liquid biopsy
      $549,451
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA276174-03, led by Eric Claude Leuthardt.

  3. Gregory J Zipfel

    Leads 3 awards · $2,596,752

    • 5K12NS129164-03Department: 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

      $1,663,132
      award amount
    • 5R01NS128082-03Department: NIH department code
      Roles of NAMPT and NAD+ in hypoxic conditioning-induced neurovascular protection in subarachnoid hemorrhage
      $527,494
      award amount
    • 2UE5NS090978-11Department: NIH department code
      Washington University Physician Neuroscientist Training Pipeline (PNTP) Pathway

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

      $406,126
      award amount

  4. Eric Claude Leuthardt

    Leads 2 awards · $1,182,472

    • 5R01CA276174-03Department: NIH department code
      Sonobiopsy for Noninvasive Genetic Evaluation of Glioblastoma Patients

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

      $645,323
      award amount
    • 5R01CA203861-09Department: 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

  5. Eric Thompson

    Leads 2 awards · $630,917

    • 1R01CA296813-01Department: 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)
      $553,167
      award amount
    • 5R03NS138988-02Department: NIH department code
      Expanding CMV peptide vaccine with novel combinations and pathologies
      $77,750
      award amount

  6. Christopher Daniel Smyser

    Leads 1 award · $536,899

    • 5R01NS124767-04Department: 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

      $536,899
      award amount

  7. Albert Hong-Jae Kim

    Leads 1 award · $393,639

    • 5R01NS128470-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of SOX2 Regulation in Glioblastoma
      $393,639
      award amount

  8. Gabriel E Haller

    Leads 1 award · $330,203

    • 5R01AR081901-03Department: NIH department code
      Massively-parallel functional interrogation of genetic variation in CMD-associated alpha-dystroglycan glycosylating enzymes
      $330,203
      award amount

  9. Rui Tang

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00CA256039-04Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting reciprocal interactions between cancer cells and endothelial cells in SCLC liver metastasis.
      $249,000
      award amount

  10. Jarod Roland

    Leads 1 award · $210,090

    • 5K23NS133486-02Department: NIH department code
      Functional Connectivity Markers of Cognitive Network Disfunction in Chiari Malformation
      $210,090
      award amount

  11. Hiroko Yano

    Leads 1 award · $194,375

    • 5R21NS133823-02Department: NIH department code
      Therapeutic targeting of DNA methyltransferases in Huntington's disease

      Principal investigators: Hiroko Yano (contact PI), Guoyan Zhao

      $194,375
      award amount

  12. Jacob Greenberg

    Leads 1 award · $173,017

    • 5K23AR082986-02Department: NIH department code
      Using Mobile Health Technology and Real-Time Assessments to Address Multilevel Influences on Lumbar Spine Surgery Outcomes
      $173,017
      award amount

  13. Jennifer Strahle

    Leads 1 award · $134,643

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.