FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Neurosciences at Duke University
Durham, NC
- 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 Duke University page.
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.
Nuo Li
Leads 5 awards · $5,207,878
- 4DP1NS142432-03Department: NIH department codeNeural control of rhythmic orofacial movements$3,381,000award amount
- 1R01NS146062-01A1Department: NIH department codeCortico-cerebellar interactions underlying goal-directed actions$478,336award amount
- 4R01NS132025-02Department: NIH department codeDissecting modular and redundant organization of cortical circuits
Principal investigators: Nuo Li (contact PI), Shaul Druckmann
$476,611award amount - 4R01NS132025-03Department: NIH department codeDissecting modular and redundant organization of cortical circuits
Principal investigators: Nuo Li (contact PI), Shaul Druckmann
$476,611award amount - 5R01NS131229-04Department: NIH department codeOpponent control of action selection in the cortico-basal-ganglia-colliculus loop$395,320award amount
Z Josh Huang
Leads 1 award · $2,551,617
- 5U01MH139723-02Department: NIH department codeRNA Programmable and Scalable Brain Cell Type Tools Across Vertebrates
Principal investigators: Z Josh Huang (contact PI), Fei Chen, Guoping Feng
$2,551,617award amount
Kevin Franks
Leads 2 awards · $1,164,836
- 5R01DC015525-09Department: NIH department codeOdor Coding in Piriform Cortex$601,909award amount
- 5R01DC022619-02Department: NIH department codeDynamics of Olfactory Processing: Segmentation in the Piriform Cortex$562,927award amount
Anne Elizabeth West
Leads 2 awards · $1,005,653
- 5R01NS136375-03Department: NIH department codeChromatin dysregulation in neurodevelopmental disorders$576,105award amount
- 5R01GM149578-04Department: NIH department codeMECHANISMS OF CHROMATIN STRUCTURE AND TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION BY THE NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX$429,548award amount
Jeremy N Kay
Leads 2 awards · $894,683
- 5R01EY035637-03Department: NIH department codeMolecular and cellular requirements for Crb1 gene function in the onset and therapeutic rescue of an inherited retinal degeneration$511,878award amount
- 5R01EY030611-07Department: NIH department codeMechanisms of naturally-occurring astrocyte death during retinal development$382,805award amount
Eva Aimable Naumann
Leads 2 awards · $762,132
- 5R01NS128895-03Department: NIH department codeFunctional connectivity of a brain-scale neural circuit for motion perception$499,734award amount
- 5R01EY033845-05Department: NIH department codeDevelopment of brain-scale neural circuits underlying vertebrate visuomotor transformations$262,398award amount
Anita A Disney
Leads 1 award · $734,480
- 5R01AG078616-05Department: NIH department codeA spatially resolved joint cortical metabolome and proteome in aging and menopause for the rhesus macaque$734,480award amount
Court A Hull
Leads 2 awards · $706,472
- 5R01NS128054-05Department: NIH department codeCerebellar circuits for reward-based learning$407,667award amount
- 5R01NS141997-02Department: NIH department codeThe role of cell-type specific circuits for inhibition and disinhibition in cerebellar learning and behavior$298,805award amount
Lindsey L Glickfeld
Leads 1 award · $485,871
- 1R01EY038046-01A1Department: NIH department codeSynaptic mechanisms of history-dependent visual processing$485,871award amount
Dmitry Velmeshev
Leads 1 award · $436,050
- 5DP1DA063507-02Department: NIH department codeDissecting and modulating cell type and circuit-specific epigenetic mechanisms of cocaine addiction$436,050award amount
Jorg Grandl
Leads 1 award · $203,639
- 5T32NS105608-08Department: NIH department codeNeurobiology Training Program$203,639award amount
Drew Clinton Schreiner
Leads 1 award · $107,984
- 5K99NS144525-02Department: NIH department codeTesting if and how 3-factor learning rules operate at cortico-basal ganglia synapses to drive motor skill learning$107,984award amount
Sarah E. Hadyniak
Leads 1 award · $81,580
- 1F32EY038051-01A1Department: NIH department codeDiversification of the closely related bipolar cell types in retinal development$81,580award amount
Xinmeng Hermione Xu
Leads 1 award · $50,114
- 1F31NS149497-01Department: NIH department codeCell-type-specific contributions of primary somatosensory cortex to skilled forelimb control$50,114award amount
Kaitlyn Elise Fouke
Leads 1 award · $43,570
- 5F31EY037507-02Department: NIH department codeNeural mechanisms of visuomotor transformations in larval zebrafish$43,570award amount
Sara Marie Gannon
Leads 1 award · $43,041
- 5F31EY036693-03Department: NIH department codeInvestigating invariant motion encoding in mouse visual cortex$43,041award amount
John Michael Amodeo
Leads 1 award · $42,889
- 5F31EY035522-03Department: NIH department codeAssessing the spatial and temporal scales of attention effects and attention-dependent cholinergic release in macque V4.$42,889award 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.
Fei Chen
Co-investigator on 5U01MH139723-02, led by Z Josh Huang
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Broad Institute, Inc. (no department on record, 5 awards)
Guoping Feng
Co-investigator on 5U01MH139723-02, led by Z Josh Huang
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Other Basic Sciences (NIH department code, 3 awards)
Shaul Druckmann
Co-investigator on 4R01NS132025-02, led by Nuo Li; 4R01NS132025-03, led by Nuo Li
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- Stanford University · Neurology (NIH department code, 1 award)