FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Other Health Professions at Boston University
Boston, MA
- 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 Other Health Professions row of the Boston University page.
Leads a grant in this department
9 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Frank H Guenther
Leads 2 awards · $1,367,203
- 5R01DC022949-02Department: NIH department codeInvestigating Subcortical Contributions to Speech Sequencing in Deep Brain Stimulator Recipients
Principal investigators: Frank H Guenther (contact PI), Todd Herrington
$691,361award amount - 5R01DC022014-02Department: NIH department codeQuantitatively Characterizing the Speech Motor Skillsets of Individual Speakers$675,842award amount
Swathi Kiran
Leads 3 awards · $1,366,557
- 1R01DC023439-01A1Department: NIH department codeFunctional reorganization and recovery of the language and domain-general multiple demand systems in aphasia
Principal investigators: Swathi Kiran (contact PI), Evelina Fedorenko
$704,116award amount - 5R01DC020653-04Department: NIH department codeComputational modeling of language impairment and control in bilingual individuals with post-stroke aphasia and neurodegenerative disorders
Principal investigators: Swathi Kiran (contact PI), Risto Miikkulainen
$623,563award amount - 5R13DC017375-09Department: NIH department codeAcademy of Aphasia Research and Training Symposium$38,878award amount
Cara E. Stepp
Leads 2 awards · $1,225,923
- 5R01DC020867-04Department: NIH department codeComprehensive assessment of speech physiology and acoustics in Parkinson's disease progression
Principal investigators: Cara E. Stepp (contact PI), Daryush Dinyar Mehta
$709,577award amount - 2T32DC013017-11Department: NIH department codeAdvanced Research Training in Communication Sciences and Disorders$516,346award amount
Helen Barbas
Leads 1 award · $793,040
- 5R01MH136013-03Department: NIH department codePrimate inhibitory neurons in hippocampal CA3-CA1 intrinsic circuits
Principal investigators: Helen Barbas (contact PI), Maria Medalla, Vasileios Zikopoulos
$793,040award amount
Vasileios Zikopoulos
Leads 1 award · $787,354
- 5R01MH118500-08Department: NIH department codeOrganization and Circuit Interactions of Thalamocortical Attentional Networks in Health and Disease
Principal investigators: Vasileios Zikopoulos (contact PI), Arash Yazdanbakhsh
$787,354award amount
Also a principal investigator on 5R01MH136013-03, led by Helen Barbas.
Virginia Ann Best
Leads 1 award · $412,500
- 5R01DC015760-10Department: NIH department codeSpatial Hearing in Speech Mixtures$412,500award amount
Kimberly Crespo
Leads 1 award · $191,334
- 5K23DC022006-03Department: NIH department codeDual language input, semantic structure and word learning in typically developing and late talking bilingual children$191,334award amount
Allison Aaron
Leads 1 award · $38,004
- 5F31DC021863-03Department: NIH department codeThe Lombard effect in muscle tension dysphonia: mechanistic and clinical characterization$38,004award amount
Jennifer Vojtech
Leads 1 award · $4,206
- 5R13DC017674-07Department: NIH department codeBoston Speech Motor Control Symposium$4,206award 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.
Maria Medalla
Co-investigator on 5R01MH136013-03, led by Helen Barbas
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Boston University · Anatomy & Cell Biology (NIH department code, 2 awards)
Arash Yazdanbakhsh
Co-investigator on 5R01MH118500-08, led by Vasileios Zikopoulos
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Daryush Dinyar Mehta
Co-investigator on 5R01DC020867-04, led by Cara E. Stepp
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Massachusetts General Hospital · Surgery (investigator's affiliation, 1 award)
Evelina Fedorenko
Co-investigator on 1R01DC023439-01A1, led by Swathi Kiran
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Miscellaneous (NIH department code, 1 award)
Todd Herrington
Co-investigator on 5R01DC022949-02, led by Frank H Guenther
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Risto Miikkulainen
Co-investigator on 5R01DC020653-04, led by Swathi Kiran
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.