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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine

New York, NY

Funding
$14.5M
$14,529,247
Awards
21
FY2026 NIH awards in Surgery
Principal investigators
26
13 lead a grant here, 13 co-investigators
Department rank
#15
of 79 · 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 Weill Cornell Medicine 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. Shuibing Chen

    Leads 6 awards · $6,677,943

    • 4U01DK143498-02Department: NIH department code
      Decoding the Cell-specific Impact of Epigenomic and Alternative Splicing Regulation during T1D Progression

      Principal investigators: Shuibing Chen (contact PI), Stephen Cj Parker

      $2,367,461
      award amount
    • 1R01HL186602-01Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the molecular pathways controlling human pacemaker development

      Principal investigators: Shuibing Chen (contact PI), Todd R Evans

      $1,657,587
      award amount
    • 1R01DK149670-01Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the Role of Endogenous Retroviruses in Type 1 Diabetes Progression

      Principal investigators: Shuibing Chen (contact PI), Chengyang Liu

      $831,022
      award amount
    • 5R01DK137517-04Department: NIH department code
      Abnormal Extracellular Vesicles and Particles from Human Islets Impact T1D progression

      Principal investigators: Shuibing Chen (contact PI), David Charles Lyden, Shahin Rafii

      $696,709
      award amount
    • 5R01DK136005-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of GLIS3 in Human Pancreatic Beta Cell Generation, Survival and Proliferation
      $563,271
      award amount
    • 5R01DK142414-03Department: NIH department code
      Functional Interrogation of Type 2 Diabetes-associated Genetic Network
      $561,893
      award amount

  2. Mario Fl Gaudino

    Leads 2 awards · $1,720,205

    • 4UH3HL169564-02Department: NIH department code
      1/2 Randomized comparison of the Outcomes of single vs Multiple Arterial grafts trial in Women (ROMA:Women)

      Principal investigators: Mario Fl Gaudino (contact PI), Cathleen Noel Bairey Merz, Ruth Marie Masterson Creber

      $993,509
      award amount
    • 5R01HL170566-04Department: NIH department code
      Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Tissue Characterization of Ischemic and Non-Ischemic Myocardium to Predict Left Ventricular Functional Recovery and Outcomes after Multivessel Coronary Revascularization

      Principal investigators: Mario Fl Gaudino (contact PI), Jonathan W. Weinsaft

      $726,696
      award amount

  3. Vivek Mittal

    Leads 2 awards · $1,342,635

    • 5R01CA271545-04Department: NIH department code
      Immunoregulatory role of lung-resident club cell factors in lung cancer

      Principal investigators: Vivek Mittal (contact PI), Nasser Khaled Altorki

      $679,154
      award amount
    • 5R01CA271619-04Department: NIH department code
      ER stress-driven IRE1a-XBP1 signaling in lung cancer

      Principal investigators: Vivek Mittal (contact PI), Juan R Cubillos-Ruiz

      $663,481
      award amount

  4. Romulo Hurtado

    Leads 1 award · $1,154,840

    • 4R01DK133381-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining the onset and regulation of myogenic upper urinary tract physiology
      $1,154,840
      award amount

  5. Rohit Chandwani

    Leads 2 awards · $1,142,592

    • 5R01CA290616-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining the oncogenic potential and therapeutic dependencies of PDAC-associated KRAS variants

      Principal investigators: Rohit Chandwani (contact PI), Lukas Edward Dow

      $636,046
      award amount
    • 5R01DK138154-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining the molecular determinants of inflammatory memory in the pancreas
      $506,546
      award amount

  6. Lisa Gfrerer

    Leads 1 award · $702,655

    • 1R01NS148851-01Department: NIH department code
      Nerve Artificial Intelligence (NerveAI) and High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Neurography: Advancing the Diagnosis and Treatment of Headache Disorders
      $702,655
      award amount

  7. Todd R Evans

    Leads 1 award · $671,048

    • 5R01HD111256-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of DNA methylation by TETs and QSER1

      Principal investigators: Todd R Evans (contact PI), Danwei Huangfu

      $671,048
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01HL186602-01, led by Shuibing Chen.

  8. Jonathan Villena-Vargas

    Leads 1 award · $435,827

    • 1R21CA317270-01Department: NIH department code
      Autologous Lymph Node T Cells Engineered to Overcome Treatment Resistant Lung Cancer

      Principal investigators: Jonathan Villena-Vargas (contact PI), Mohamad Hamieh

      $435,827
      award amount

  9. Heather Yeo

    Leads 1 award · $216,203

    • 1K24AG098108-01Department: NIH department code
      Research and Mentoring Program for the Surgical Care of Older Adults
      $216,203
      award amount

  10. David Otterburn

    Leads 1 award · $191,311

    • 5R21CA287340-02Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing the autologous fat graft microenvironment resulting from differential intraoperative processing techniques: A comparative analysis and its clinical implications

      Principal investigators: David Otterburn (contact PI), Kristy A. Brown

      $191,311
      award amount

  11. Rebecca Craig-Schapiro

    Leads 1 award · $173,760

    • 1K08DK147686-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular determinants of islet-specific endothelium for regulation of beta-cell homeostasis
      $173,760
      award amount

  12. Jian Zheng

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31ES038419-01Department: NIH department code
      Bimodal conformations of Smc5/6 regulate molecular activities and anti-genotoxic functions
      $50,114
      award amount

  13. William Fall

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31DK145136-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of lineage plasticity in pancreatic disease by the pioneer factor FOXA2
      $50,114
      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.