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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at Columbia University

New York, NY

Funding
$14.4M
$14,383,515
Awards
36
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
38
30 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#15
of 75 · 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 Neurosciences row of the Columbia University page.

Leads a grant in this department

30 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. Steven A Siegelbaum

    Leads 3 awards · $1,806,386

    • 5R01MH128303-05Department: NIH department code
      Hippocampal CA2 sharp wave ripple oscillations in neuropsychiatric disease
      $632,136
      award amount
    • 5R01MH104602-13Department: NIH department code
      Control of CA2 by its cortico-hippocampal inputs and local inhibition in social information processing and learning
      $587,549
      award amount
    • 2R01MH120292-06Department: NIH department code
      The neural bases of social fear discrimination memory
      $586,701
      award amount

  2. Stefano Fusi

    Leads 2 awards · $1,660,410

    • 1R01MH141076-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Representational geometry reveals the neural and computational basis of neural circuit specialization in basolateral amygdala

      Principal investigators: Stefano Fusi (contact PI), C. Daniel Salzman

      $837,912
      award amount
    • 4R01AG080818-02Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the role of the dentate gyrus microcircuit to improve cognitive discrimination in aging and Alzheimer's Disease

      Principal investigators: Stefano Fusi (contact PI), Attila Losonczy, Rene Hen

      $822,498
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01MH082017-19, led by C. Daniel Salzman.

  3. C. Daniel Salzman

    Leads 2 awards · $1,560,220

    • 5R01MH082017-19Department: NIH department code
      Neurophysiology underlying neural representations of value

      Principal investigators: C. Daniel Salzman (contact PI), Stefano Fusi

      $821,503
      award amount
    • 5R01MH136502-02Department: NIH department code
      Brain mechanisms underlying how social stimuli elicit motivated behavior
      $738,717
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01MH141076-01A1, led by Stefano Fusi.

  4. Vincent P Ferrera

    Leads 2 awards · $1,470,786

  5. Franck Polleux

    Leads 1 award · $1,233,750

    • 5R35NS127232-05Department: NIH department code
      Development, Maintenance, and Human-Specific Evolution of Cortical Circuits
      $1,233,750
      award amount

  6. Minoree Kohwi

    Leads 2 awards · $1,093,342

    • 5R01HD119838-02Department: NIH department code
      In vivo regulation of progenitor genome organization and cellular diversity
      $638,625
      award amount
    • 5R01GM152663-03Department: NIH department code
      Chromatin factor regulation of neuroblast progenitor genome dynamics
      $454,717
      award amount

  7. Itamar Kahn

    Leads 1 award · $1,014,054

    • 4R01AG092219-03Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Assessing long-term impacts of disruption to large-scale brain networks

      Principal investigators: Itamar Kahn (contact PI), Gagan S Wig

      $1,014,054
      award amount

  8. Mark M Churchland

    Leads 1 award · $648,989

    • 5R01NS135240-03Department: NIH department code
      Determining the Sources of Motor-Cortex Response Complexity
      $648,989
      award amount

  9. Nathaniel Sawtell

    Leads 1 award · $612,788

    • 5R01DK131086-05Department: NIH department code
      Neuroanatomic and Functional Characterization of Cerebellar Circuits Mediating Ingestive Behaviors

      Principal investigators: Nathaniel Sawtell (contact PI), Rudolph L Leibel

      $612,788
      award amount

  10. Michael Neil Shadlen

    Leads 1 award · $512,982

    • 5R01EY036455-03Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Oculomotor Proprioception in the Establishment of Long-Term Visuospatial Memory
      $512,982
      award amount

  11. Wesley B Grueber

    Leads 1 award · $435,225

    • 2T32MH126036-06Department: NIH department code
      Neurobiology and Behavior Research Training Program
      $435,225
      award amount

  12. Roudabeh Behnia

    Leads 1 award · $405,817

    • 5R01NS143142-02Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Multimodal integration for spatial navigation
      $405,817
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32NS064929-17, led by Laurence F. Abbott.

  13. Daniel Wolpert

    Leads 1 award · $334,733

    • 5T32NS141752-02Department: NIH department code
      Postdoctoral T32 in Integrated Computational and Experimental Sensorimotor Control

      Principal investigators: Daniel Wolpert (contact PI), Ashok Litwin-Kumar, Gwyneth M Card

      $334,733
      award amount

  14. George H Denfield

    Leads 1 award · $194,400

    • 1K08MH143093-01Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the representational geometries underlying deductive reasoning, generalization, and flexible response generation.
      $194,400
      award amount

  15. Laurence F. Abbott

    Leads 1 award · $143,261

    • 5T32NS064929-17Department: NIH department code
      Advanced Graduate Training Program in Theoretical Neuroscience

      Principal investigators: Laurence F. Abbott (contact PI), Roudabeh Behnia

      $143,261
      award amount

  16. Eddy Albarran

    Leads 1 award · $126,900

    • 1K99NS146613-01Department: NIH department code
      A Synaptic Basis for Dopamine-Driven Reinforcement Learning in Cortex
      $126,900
      award amount

  17. Eunji Kong

    Leads 1 award · $126,900

    • 1K99NS148806-01Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the synaptic and molecular mechanisms of cell-type-specific memory computation in hippocampal CA3
      $126,900
      award amount

  18. Ji Xia

    Leads 1 award · $126,900

    • 5K99NS144599-02Department: NIH department code
      Computational Approaches for Understanding Multi-Area Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Memory-Guided Movements
      $126,900
      award amount

  19. Lynn Yap

    Leads 1 award · $126,900

    • 1K99MH142674-01Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying the generation, regulation, and flexibility of value representations in mouse medial prefrontal cortex
      $126,900
      award amount

  20. Saurabh Vyas

    Leads 1 award · $126,333

    • 5K99NS140554-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural population geometry and dynamics underlying multi-step cognitive-motor sequencing
      $126,333
      award amount

  21. Jia Shen

    Leads 1 award · $86,824

    • 5F32DA060751-03Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the neural mechanism underlying context-dependent decision making
      $86,824
      award amount

  22. Elias Issa

    Leads 1 award · $82,250

    • 5R03MH140024-02Department: NIH department code
      Behavioral paradigms for cognitive neuroscience in the common marmoset
      $82,250
      award amount

  23. Daniel Kato

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32EY037556-02Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing representational geometry and learning across primate visual streams
      $79,348
      award amount

  24. Sachira Denagamage

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32NS144013-02Department: NIH department code
      Suppression of Distributed Sensory Representations by Self-Motion Cues in Drosophila
      $79,348
      award amount

  25. Klavdia Zemlianova

    Leads 1 award · $75,880

    • 1F32NS146149-01Department: NIH department code
      Interactions Between Motor Cortex and Dorsolateral Striatum in a Model of Naturalistic Motor Behavior
      $75,880
      award amount

  26. Aleksandra Recupero

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30MH136683-03Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Species-Specific Synaptic Maturation Timing on Cortical Circuit and Behavioral Development
      $55,114
      award amount

  27. David Court Gruskin

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30MH135661-03Department: NIH department code
      Multiscale imaging of context-dependent decision-making
      $55,114
      award amount

  28. Helena Bachmann

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31NS151579-01Department: NIH department code
      Individual Differences in Dopamine-Dependent Learning and Decision-making in Parkinson's Disease
      $50,114
      award amount

  29. Hannah Shu Chen

    Leads 1 award · $33,057

    • 5F31NS143402-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural Circuits for Evaluating Complex Motor Sequences in Female Songbirds
      $33,057
      award amount

  30. Briana Rose McRae

    Leads 1 award · $25,390

    • 5F31HD114466-03Department: NIH department code
      Brain-wide neural mechanisms enhancing maternal behavioral response to infant cues
      $25,390
      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.