Neurosciences at Brown University

Leads a grant in this department

17 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. David L Sheinberg

   Leads 1 award · $1,196,250

   • 5P30GM149405-04Department: NIH department code

     COBRE Center for Central Nervous System Function

     Principal investigators: David L Sheinberg (contact PI), Jerome N Sanes (contact PI)

     $1,196,250

     award amount

2. Jerome N Sanes

   Leads 1 award · $1,196,250

   • 5P30GM149405-04Department: NIH department code

     COBRE Center for Central Nervous System Function

     Principal investigators: David L Sheinberg (contact PI), Jerome N Sanes (contact PI)

     $1,196,250

     award amount

3. Kathaleen M O'Connor-Giles

   Leads 2 awards · $952,283

   • 2R01NS117068-06A1Department: NIH department code

     Function of ALKBH8 and tRNA modification in the nervous system

     Principal investigators: Kathaleen M O'Connor-Giles (contact PI), Dragony Fu

     $478,722

     award amount
   • 1R56NS146176-01Department: NIH department code

     Role of ER membrane contact sites in synapse formation and plasticity
     $473,561

     award amount

   Also a principal investigator on 5R01DA058947-04, led by Karla R. Kaun.

4. Ahmed Abdelfattah

   Leads 1 award · $889,894

   • 1R01MH141441-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Development of genetically encoded sensors and high-speed FLIM for in vivo quantitative multiplexed voltage imaging

     Principal investigators: Ahmed Abdelfattah (contact PI), Hidehiko Inagaki, Ryohei Yasuda

     $889,894

     award amount

5. Gilad Barnea

   Leads 2 awards · $884,296

   • 5R01DC020703-04Department: NIH department code

     A Neuropeptidergic Neural Network Integrates Taste with Internal State to Modulate Feeding
     $452,854

     award amount
   • 5R01NS133238-04Department: NIH department code

     Sensorimotor Transformations for Controlling Heading Direction in the Insect Central Complex
     $431,442

     award amount

6. Alexander Jaworski

   Leads 2 awards · $843,821

   • 5R01NS123290-05Department: NIH department code

     Axon guidance through the bifunctional cue WFIKKN2 and its receptors
     $435,236

     award amount
   • 1R21NS151664-01Department: NIH department code

     Gene-regulatory mechanisms of stepwise axon pathfinding
     $408,585

     award amount

7. Matthew Nassar

   Leads 2 awards · $767,404

   • 5R01MH126971-05Department: NIH department code

     Representational dynamics for flexible learning in complex environments
     $483,856

     award amount
   • 5R01MH139351-03Department: NIH department code

     CRCNS: Investigating the Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Belief Updating
     $283,548

     award amount

8. Stephanie Ruggiano Jones

   Leads 2 awards · $736,422

   • 5U24NS129945-04Department: NIH department code

     Dissemination of the Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN) software for circuit level interpretation of human MEG/EEG
     $617,469

     award amount
   • 5R25NS130655-03Department: NIH department code

     Brown University Summer Scholars Program in Computational Brain Science

     Principal investigators: Stephanie Ruggiano Jones (contact PI), Jason T Ritt, Kristin Webster

     $118,953

     award amount

9. Alexander Fleischmann

   Leads 1 award · $544,705

   • 5R01DC020478-04Department: NIH department code

     Gene regulatory network control of olfactory cortex cell type specification
     $544,705

     award amount

10. Karla R. Kaun

    Leads 1 award · $468,889

    • 5R01DA058947-04Department: NIH department code

      Gene Regulation in Memory Circuits as a Consequence of Polysubstance Use

      Principal investigators: Karla R. Kaun (contact PI), Erica Nicole Larschan, Kathaleen M O'Connor-Giles

      $468,889

      award amount

11. Theresa Marie Desrochers

    Leads 1 award · $466,610

    • 5R01MH131615-04Department: NIH department code

      Testing neural mechanisms of sequence monitoring in the frontal cortex across species: integrated fMRI and electrophysiology
      $466,610

      award amount

12. Anne Church Hart

    Leads 1 award · $408,585

    • 1R21NS142903-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Identifying conserved cellular mechanisms involved in Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood
      $408,585

      award amount

13. Carlos D Aizenman

    Leads 1 award · $317,897

    • 5R25GM125500-09Department: NIH department code

      Brown University Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program

      Principal investigators: Carlos D Aizenman (contact PI), Alycia Mosley Austin, Amanda M Jamieson

      $317,897

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R25NS124530-05, led by Diane Lipscombe.

14. Diane Lipscombe

    Leads 1 award · $241,487

    • 5R25NS124530-05Department: NIH department code

      Advancing the Research Careers of Postdocs in Brain Science

      Principal investigators: Diane Lipscombe (contact PI), Carlos D Aizenman

      $241,487

      award amount

15. Alice S Lin

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30NS141502-02Department: NIH department code

      Effect of Extracellular Citrate on Neuronal Excitability in SLC13A5 Epilepsy
      $55,114

      award amount

16. Anna R Kimata

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 1F30NS143406-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Characterizing Central Thalamic Regulation of Altered States of Awareness in Humans
      $55,114

      award amount

17. Angel Muka Okoro

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31DC022476-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Modulation of food preference through the integration of gustatory and olfactory circuits
      $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.

• Hidehiko Inagaki

  Co-investigator on 1R01MH141441-01A1, led by Ahmed Abdelfattah

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Max Planck Florida Corporation (no department on record, 1 award)

• Ryohei Yasuda

  Co-investigator on 1R01MH141441-01A1, led by Ahmed Abdelfattah

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Max Planck Florida Corporation (no department on record, 1 award)

• Dragony Fu

  Co-investigator on 2R01NS117068-06A1, led by Kathaleen M O'Connor-Giles

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • University of Rochester · Biology (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Erica Nicole Larschan

  Co-investigator on 5R01DA058947-04, led by Karla R. Kaun

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Brown University · Biochemistry (NIH department code, 4 awards)

• Alycia Mosley Austin

  Co-investigator on 5R25GM125500-09, led by Carlos D Aizenman

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

• Amanda M Jamieson

  Co-investigator on 5R25GM125500-09, led by Carlos D Aizenman

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Brown University · Microbiology & Immunology (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Jason T Ritt

  Co-investigator on 5R25NS130655-03, led by Stephanie Ruggiano Jones

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

• Kristin Webster

  Co-investigator on 5R25NS130655-03, led by Stephanie Ruggiano Jones

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