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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at Brandeis University

Waltham, MA

Funding
$16.5M
$16,477,304
Awards
30
FY2026 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
25
20 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • 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 Biology row of the Brandeis University page.

Leads a grant in this department

20 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. Paul Garrity

    Leads 4 awards · $2,677,640

    • 1R01AI189819-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The molecular and cellular basis of circadian rhythms in vector mosquitoes
      $779,825
      award amount
    • 5R01DC022576-02Department: NIH department code
      Probing Molecular and Genetic Mechanisms of Invertebrate Sugar Detection

      Principal investigators: Paul Garrity (contact PI), Rachelle Gaudet

      $691,298
      award amount
    • 2T32GM139798-06Department: NIH department code
      Predoctoral Training in Cross-Disciplinary Molecular and Cellular Biology

      Principal investigators: Paul Garrity (contact PI), Bruce L Goode

      $647,005
      award amount
    • 5R01GM130842-07Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and cellular determinants of Drosophila larva thermotaxis

      Principal investigators: Paul Garrity (contact PI), Aravinthan D. Samuel

      $559,512
      award amount

  2. Leslie C Griffith

    Leads 2 awards · $2,164,437

    • 4RF1MH067284-23Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Intrinsic Plasticity in Neural Circuits
      $1,758,187
      award amount
    • 5R01NS122970-05Department: NIH department code
      Neurotransmitter Plasticity and Regulation of Behavior
      $406,250
      award amount

  3. Gina G Turrigiano

    Leads 2 awards · $1,628,401

    • 5R35NS111562-08Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and Function of Firing Rate Homeostasis in Cortical Circuits
      $1,058,237
      award amount
    • 2T32NS007292-41Department: NIH department code
      Quantitative Neuroscience: tools for bridging levels of analysis
      $570,164
      award amount

  4. Piali Sengupta

    Leads 2 awards · $1,552,988

    • 5R35GM122463-10Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of sensory neuron morphological diversification, signaling, and functional plasticity
      $796,323
      award amount
    • 5R01DK142077-02Department: NIH department code
      Establishing sensory functions of pharyngeal enteric neurons in C. elegans

      Principal investigators: Piali Sengupta (contact PI), Oliver Hobert, Vivek Venkatachalam

      $756,665
      award amount

  5. Bruce L Goode

    Leads 1 award · $1,081,395

    • 5R35GM134895-07Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms controlling cellular actin dynamics and cytoskeletal crosstalk
      $1,081,395
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32GM139798-06, led by Paul Garrity.

  6. Avital Adah Rodal

    Leads 3 awards · $1,063,437

    • 5R01NS116375-06Department: NIH department code
      Organization and Function of the Periactive Zone
      $505,734
      award amount
    • 5R01NS103967-09Department: NIH department code
      Roles of Recycling Endosomes in Neuronal Extracellular Vesicle Cargo Traffic
      $478,251
      award amount
    • 3R01NS103967-09S1Department: NIH department code
      Roles of Recycling Endosomes in Neuronal Extracellular Vesicle Cargo Traffic
      $79,452
      award amount

  7. Eve E Marder

    Leads 1 award · $1,045,790

    • 5R35NS142987-02Department: NIH department code
      Resilience of Neurons and Circuits
      $1,045,790
      award amount

  8. Sebastian Kadener

    Leads 2 awards · $989,816

    • 5R01AG091918-02Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the functions of circRNAs in aging

      Principal investigators: Sebastian Kadener (contact PI), Michael Thomas Marr

      $662,618
      award amount
    • 5R01GM124406-07Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling regulatory functions of circRNAs at the muscleblind locus
      $327,198
      award amount

  9. James E Haber

    Leads 1 award · $973,357

    • 5R35GM127029-09Department: NIH department code
      DNA damage response and repair of a broken chromosome
      $973,357
      award amount

  10. Christine Grienberger

    Leads 1 award · $954,646

    • 4DP2MH136393-02Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the synaptic and circuit mechanisms underlying a plasticity-driving instructive signal
      $954,646
      award amount

  11. Joshua Daniel Meisel

    Leads 2 awards · $685,864

    • 1R21NS151350-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial complex I rescue by hypoxia and genetic suppressors
      $436,864
      award amount
    • 5R00GM140217-04Department: NIH department code
      Identification of genetic and environmental suppressors of mitochondrial dysfunction
      $249,000
      award amount

  12. Kaushik Ragunathan

    Leads 1 award · $460,282

    • 5R35GM137832-07Department: NIH department code
      Heterochromatin dynamics during inheritance and adaptation
      $460,282
      award amount

  13. Michael Rosbash

    Leads 1 award · $406,250

    • 5R01NS130670-12Department: NIH department code
      Addressing Protein Synthesis Regulation within Small Numbers of Discrete Neurons
      $406,250
      award amount

  14. Paul Miller

    Leads 1 award · $247,968

    • 5R90DA060341-04Department: NIH department code
      Undergraduate and Graduate Training in Computational Neuroscience and Data Analysis
      $247,968
      award amount

  15. Sacha B Nelson

    Leads 1 award · $221,094

    • 1R21NS147284-01Department: NIH department code
      A Transcriptional Switch Between KLF Activators and Repressors in Maturing Neocortex
      $221,094
      award amount

  16. Diane Bissen

    Leads 1 award · $118,014

    • 1K99EY038313-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing learning-induced remodeling of cortical circuitry and computation during the critical period
      $118,014
      award amount

  17. Elizabeth Ann Hemenway

    Leads 1 award · $76,780

    • 1F32GM167237-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating epigenetic mechanisms of adaptation in a polyextremotolerant fungus
      $76,780
      award amount

  18. Lucius Kelton Wilmerding

    Leads 1 award · $76,780

    • 5F32NS143954-02Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the entorhinal cortex target signal for behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity
      $76,780
      award amount

  19. Teodora Markova

    Leads 1 award · $36,533

    • 5F31AG087628-02Department: NIH department code
      Associations among monoamines, tau pathology and emotional memory in aging
      $36,533
      award amount

  20. Samuel Gaither Bates

    Leads 1 award · $15,832

    • 5F31NS137615-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulatory Strategies for the Control of Activity-Dependent Gene Expression in a Single Neuron Type
      $15,832
      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.