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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Otolaryngology at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$10.8M
$10,834,435
Awards
25
FY2026 NIH awards in Otolaryngology
Principal investigators
16
14 lead a grant here, 2 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 Otolaryngology row of the Washington University in St. Louis page.

Leads a grant in this department

14 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. Guangyong Peng

    Leads 5 awards · $2,209,795

    • 1R01DE035103-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Senescent T cells and immunotherapy resistance in head and neck cancer

      Principal investigators: Guangyong Peng (contact PI), Sidharth Venkata Puram

      $615,908
      award amount
    • 5R01CA237149-06Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Control of Innate and Adaptive Immunity in Breast Cancer
      $420,182
      award amount
    • 5R01CA242188-06Department: NIH department code
      Targeting T Cell Senescence and Dysfunction for Anti-tumor Immunity
      $396,205
      award amount
    • 5R01AG078822-05Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Control of T Cell Senescence in Pathogenesis and Immunotherapy of Alzheimer's Disease
      $388,750
      award amount
    • 5R01AI173260-04Department: NIH department code
      Excessive lipid metabolism in T cell senescence and immunosuppression
      $388,750
      award amount

  2. Sidharth Venkata Puram

    Leads 5 awards · $1,605,819

    • 5R01DE032865-04Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering epigenetically-regulated pathways to improve targeted therapy for invasion and metastasis in head and neck cancer

      Principal investigators: Sidharth Venkata Puram (contact PI), Robi D Mitra

      $606,038
      award amount
    • 5U01DE034565-02Department: NIH department code
      Validation of a clinically accessible prognostic biomarker for oropharynx cancer using molecular and spatial data

      Principal investigators: Sidharth Venkata Puram (contact PI), Shama Virani

      $447,817
      award amount
    • 5R01DE032371-04Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting hybrid epithelial-mesenchymal states in head and neck cancer
      $393,750
      award amount
    • 3U01DE034565-02S2Department: NIH department code
      Validation of a clinically accessible prognostic biomarker for oropharynx cancer using molecular and spatial data

      Principal investigators: Sidharth Venkata Puram (contact PI), Shama Virani

      $129,226
      award amount
    • 3U01DE034565-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Validation of a clinically accessible prognostic biomarker for oropharynx cancer using molecular and spatial data

      Principal investigators: Sidharth Venkata Puram (contact PI), Shama Virani

      $28,988
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01DE035103-01A1, led by Guangyong Peng.

  3. Mark Allen Rutherford

    Leads 2 awards · $1,352,617

    • 1S10OD038349-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Abberior MIRAVA STED Microscope
      $750,000
      award amount
    • 5R01DC014712-10Department: NIH department code
      Excitability and Excitotoxicity in Type-I Cochlear Afferents: Synapse Structure and Function
      $602,617
      award amount

  4. Lavinia Sheets

    Leads 2 awards · $1,152,850

    • 1R01DC024211-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Hair Cell Vulnerability Following Sublethal Cisplatin Exposure
      $647,082
      award amount
    • 5R01DC016066-09Department: NIH department code
      Roles of the Synapse in Hair-Cell Pathology
      $505,768
      award amount

  5. Lisa Surber Davidson

    Leads 1 award · $655,938

    • 5R01DC012778-12Department: NIH department code
      The Effects of Early Acoustic Hearing for Pediatric Cochlear Implant Recipients
      $655,938
      award amount

  6. Randal C Paniello

    Leads 1 award · $640,642

    • 5R01DC021830-02Department: NIH department code
      Treatment of Vocal Fold Paralysis with Muscle Progenitor Cells
      $640,642
      award amount

  7. Keiko Hirose

    Leads 1 award · $606,598

    • 5R01DC021649-03Department: NIH department code
      Inner ear infection and innate immunity
      $606,598
      award amount

  8. Jinkyung Kim

    Leads 1 award · $557,999

    • 1R01DC023948-01Department: NIH department code
      Receptive Property of Cochlear Cells in Sound Encoding
      $557,999
      award amount

  9. Manoj Kumar

    Leads 1 award · $464,646

    • 1R01DC024001-01Department: NIH department code
      Cortical mechanisms underlying hearing deficits in noisy backgrounds after noise trauma
      $464,646
      award amount

  10. Tatyana Aleksandrovna Yakusheva

    Leads 1 award · $427,625

    • 1R21AG104646-01Department: NIH department code
      Probing Cerebellar Cortex Computations in Alzheimer's Disease
      $427,625
      award amount

  11. Lauren Tashima Roland

    Leads 2 awards · $419,395

    • 1K23AI196262-01Department: NIH department code
      Fungal aggressiveness and sinonasal tissue dysregulation in invasive fungal sinusitis
      $263,895
      award amount
    • 1R03TR006415-01Department: NIH department code
      Establishing a National Consortium to Investigate Adaptive Immune Responses in Invasive Fungal Sinusitis
      $155,500
      award amount

  12. Jay F. Piccirillo

    Leads 1 award · $392,149

    • 5R25DC020706-04Department: NIH department code
      Otolaryngology R25 Mentored Research Pathway at Washington University
      $392,149
      award amount

  13. Matthew Shew

    Leads 1 award · $178,182

    • 5K23DC022345-02Department: NIH department code
      Precision Medicine in Cochlear Implantation: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Novel Variables for Performance.
      $178,182
      award amount

  14. Richard Alexander Harbison

    Leads 1 award · $170,180

    • 5K08DE034837-02Department: NIH department code
      Polyamine blockade and anti-tumor immunity in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
      $170,180
      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.

  • Robi D Mitra

    Co-investigator on 5R01DE032865-04, led by Sidharth Venkata Puram

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Shama Virani

    Co-investigator on 5U01DE034565-02, led by Sidharth Venkata Puram; 3U01DE034565-02S2, led by Sidharth Venkata Puram; 3U01DE034565-02S1, led by Sidharth Venkata Puram

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