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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at Columbia University

New York, NY

Funding
$15.4M
$15,449,846
Awards
41
FY2025 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
42
34 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#13
of 71 · 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

34 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. C. Daniel Salzman

    Leads 2 awards · $1,637,566

    • 5R01MH082017-18Department: NIH department code
      Neurophysiology underlying neural representations of value

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

      $821,503
      award amount
    • 1R01MH136502-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Brain mechanisms underlying how social stimuli elicit motivated behavior
      $816,063
      award amount
  2. Steven A Siegelbaum

    Leads 3 awards · $1,623,161

    • 5R01MH128303-04Department: NIH department code
      Hippocampal CA2 sharp wave ripple oscillations in neuropsychiatric disease
      $632,136
      award amount
    • 5R01MH104602-12Department: NIH department code
      Control of CA2 by its cortico-hippocampal inputs and local inhibition in social information processing and learning
      $587,549
      award amount
    • 5R01NS123648-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of HCN1 Channels in the Function and Malfunction of Parvalbumin Positive Interneurons
      $403,476
      award amount
  3. Vincent P Ferrera

    Leads 2 awards · $1,520,136

    Also a principal investigator on 5R34NS137420-02, led by Jacqueline Gottlieb.

  4. Franck Polleux

    Leads 1 award · $1,233,750

    • 5R35NS127232-04Department: NIH department code
      Development, Maintenance, and Human-Specific Evolution of Cortical Circuits
      $1,233,750
      award amount
  5. Nathaniel Sawtell

    Leads 2 awards · $1,146,469

    • 5R01DK131086-04Department: 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
    • 5R01NS075023-14Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms for Internal Models in a Cerebellum-like Circuit

      Principal investigators: Nathaniel Sawtell (contact PI), Laurence F. Abbott

      $533,681
      award amount
  6. Minoree Kohwi

    Leads 2 awards · $1,093,342

    • 1R01HD119838-01Department: NIH department code
      In vivo regulation of progenitor genome organization and cellular diversity
      $638,625
      award amount
    • 5R01GM152663-02Department: NIH department code
      Chromatin factor regulation of neuroblast progenitor genome dynamics
      $454,717
      award amount
  7. Vikram Gadagkar

    Leads 1 award · $987,000

    • 4DP2AT012347-02Department: NIH department code
      The Female Songbird as a Novel Mechanistic Model for the Neural Basis of Social Evaluation
      $987,000
      award amount
  8. Daniel Wolpert

    Leads 2 awards · $820,770

    • 5R01NS117699-05Department: NIH department code
      Computations in Human Motor Learning
      $491,429
      award amount
    • 1T32NS141752-01Department: NIH department code
      Postdoctoral T32 in Integrated Computational and Experimental Sensorimotor Control

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

      $329,341
      award amount
  9. Attila Losonczy

    Leads 1 award · $680,849

    • 5R01MH124867-05Department: NIH department code
      Experimental and modeling investigations into microcircuit, cellular and subcellular determinants of hippocampal ensemble recruitment to contextual representations

      Principal investigators: Attila Losonczy (contact PI), Panayiota Poirazi

      $680,849
      award amount
  10. Mark M Churchland

    Leads 1 award · $636,881

    • 5R01NS135240-02Department: NIH department code
      Determining the Sources of Motor-Cortex Response Complexity
      $636,881
      award amount
  11. Michael Neil Shadlen

    Leads 1 award · $545,882

    • 5R01EY036455-02Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Oculomotor Proprioception in the Establishment of Long-Term Visuospatial Memory
      $545,882
      award amount
  12. Yasmine El-Shamayleh

    Leads 1 award · $427,015

    • 5R01EY032190-05Department: NIH department code
      Cortical circuit mechanisms of visual shape processing
      $427,015
      award amount
  13. Ning Qian

    Leads 1 award · $411,250

    • 5R01EY032938-04Department: NIH department code
      Physiological, Computational, and Psychological Approaches to Understanding Spatial Vision
      $411,250
      award amount
  14. Roudabeh Behnia

    Leads 1 award · $405,817

    • 1R01NS143142-01Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Multimodal integration for spatial navigation
      $405,817
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32NS064929-16A1, led by Laurence F. Abbott.

  15. Jacqueline Gottlieb

    Leads 1 award · $370,125

    • 5R34NS137420-02Department: NIH department code
      A Biological Theory of Attention Control in the Framework of Rational Meta-Reasoning

      Principal investigators: Jacqueline Gottlieb (contact PI), Vincent P Ferrera

      $370,125
      award amount
  16. Itamar Kahn

    Leads 1 award · $331,259

    • 5R01AG092219-02Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Assessing long-term impacts of disruption to large-scale brain networks

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

      $331,259
      award amount
  17. Laurence F. Abbott

    Leads 1 award · $220,308

    • 2T32NS064929-16A1Department: NIH department code
      Advanced Graduate Training Program in Theoretical Neuroscience

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

      $220,308
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS075023-14, led by Nathaniel Sawtell.

  18. Ji Xia

    Leads 1 award · $126,900

    • 1K99NS144599-01Department: NIH department code
      Computational Approaches for Understanding Multi-Area Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Memory-Guided Movements
      $126,900
      award amount
  19. Saurabh Vyas

    Leads 1 award · $126,333

    • 1K99NS140554-01Department: NIH department code
      Neural population geometry and dynamics underlying multi-step cognitive-motor sequencing
      $126,333
      award amount
  20. William J Johnston

    Leads 1 award · $126,333

    • 5K99NS138578-02Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Functional Modularity in the Neural Code Underlying Contextual Behavior
      $126,333
      award amount
  21. Lorenzo Posani

    Leads 1 award · $123,715

    • 5K99MH135166-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the neural mechanisms of social memory in the hippocampal-cortical network
      $123,715
      award amount
  22. Selmaan Chettih

    Leads 1 award · $123,191

    • 5K99NS136846-02Department: NIH department code
      Hippocampal Mechanisms of Episodic Memory Recall and their Contribution to Naturalistic Navigation Decisions
      $123,191
      award amount
  23. Jia Shen

    Leads 1 award · $82,744

    • 5F32DA060751-02Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the neural mechanism underlying context-dependent decision making
      $82,744
      award amount
  24. Elias Issa

    Leads 1 award · $82,250

    • 1R03MH140024-01Department: NIH department code
      Behavioral paradigms for cognitive neuroscience in the common marmoset
      $82,250
      award amount
  25. Daniel Kato

    Leads 1 award · $78,151

    • 1F32EY037556-01Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing representational geometry and learning across primate visual streams
      $78,151
      award amount
  26. Sachira Denagamage

    Leads 1 award · $75,520

    • 1F32NS144013-01Department: NIH department code
      Suppression of distributed sensory representations by self-motion cues in Drosophila
      $75,520
      award amount
  27. Matthew Casciola Rosen

    Leads 1 award · $74,632

    • 1F32EY038094-01Department: NIH department code
      Representation and computation of semantic categories in the dorsal visual stream
      $74,632
      award amount
  28. Aleksandra Recupero

    Leads 1 award · $51,501

    • 5F30MH136683-02Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Species-Specific Synaptic Maturation Timing on Cortical Circuit and Behavioral Development
      $51,501
      award amount
  29. David Court Gruskin

    Leads 1 award · $51,501

    • 5F30MH135661-02Department: NIH department code
      Multiscale imaging of context-dependent decision-making
      $51,501
      award amount
  30. Briana Rose McRae

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31HD114466-02Department: NIH department code
      Brain-wide neural mechanisms enhancing maternal behavioral response to infant cues
      $49,538
      award amount
  31. Hannah Shu Chen

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31NS143402-01Department: NIH department code
      Neural Circuits for Evaluating Complex Motor Sequences in Female Songbirds
      $49,538
      award amount
  32. Jack Thomas Whiteley

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31NS143361-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating SCN8A developmental and epileptic encephalopathy mechanisms and treatments in a human cellular model of the thalamocortical circuit
      $49,538
      award amount
  33. Nathan Nadler

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31NS147862-01Department: NIH department code
      In search of the template: the neural substrate of birdsong memory
      $49,538
      award amount
  34. Kevin C Gonzalez

    Leads 1 award · $37,343

    • 5F99NS139551-02Department: NIH department code
      Subcellular Plasticity Mechanisms of Hippocampal-Dependent Memory Formation and Consolidation
      $37,343
      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.

  • Stefano Fusi

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH082017-18, led by C. Daniel Salzman

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

  • Elisa E. Konofagou

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH133020-03, led by Vincent P Ferrera

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Herbert S. Terrace

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH111703-08, led by Vincent P Ferrera

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

  • Panayiota Poirazi

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH124867-05, led by Attila Losonczy

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

  • Rudolph L Leibel

    Co-investigator on 5R01DK131086-04, led by Nathaniel Sawtell

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Gagan S Wig

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG092219-02, led by Itamar Kahn

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

  • Ashok Litwin-Kumar

    Co-investigator on 1T32NS141752-01, led by Daniel Wolpert

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Gwyneth M Card

    Co-investigator on 1T32NS141752-01, led by Daniel Wolpert

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