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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at Duke University

Durham, NC

Funding
$14.5M
$14,522,489
Awards
26
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
20
17 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators
Department rank
#14
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 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.

  1. Nuo Li

    Leads 5 awards · $5,207,878

    • 4DP1NS142432-03Department: NIH department code
      Neural control of rhythmic orofacial movements
      $3,381,000
      award amount
    • 1R01NS146062-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Cortico-cerebellar interactions underlying goal-directed actions
      $478,336
      award amount
    • 4R01NS132025-02Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting modular and redundant organization of cortical circuits

      Principal investigators: Nuo Li (contact PI), Shaul Druckmann

      $476,611
      award amount
    • 4R01NS132025-03Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting modular and redundant organization of cortical circuits

      Principal investigators: Nuo Li (contact PI), Shaul Druckmann

      $476,611
      award amount
    • 5R01NS131229-04Department: NIH department code
      Opponent control of action selection in the cortico-basal-ganglia-colliculus loop
      $395,320
      award amount

  2. Z Josh Huang

    Leads 1 award · $2,551,617

    • 5U01MH139723-02Department: NIH department code
      RNA Programmable and Scalable Brain Cell Type Tools Across Vertebrates

      Principal investigators: Z Josh Huang (contact PI), Fei Chen, Guoping Feng

      $2,551,617
      award amount

  3. Kevin Franks

    Leads 2 awards · $1,164,836

    • 5R01DC015525-09Department: NIH department code
      Odor Coding in Piriform Cortex
      $601,909
      award amount
    • 5R01DC022619-02Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics of Olfactory Processing: Segmentation in the Piriform Cortex
      $562,927
      award amount

  4. Anne Elizabeth West

    Leads 2 awards · $1,005,653

    • 5R01NS136375-03Department: NIH department code
      Chromatin dysregulation in neurodevelopmental disorders
      $576,105
      award amount
    • 5R01GM149578-04Department: NIH department code
      MECHANISMS OF CHROMATIN STRUCTURE AND TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION BY THE NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX
      $429,548
      award amount

  5. Jeremy N Kay

    Leads 2 awards · $894,683

    • 5R01EY035637-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and cellular requirements for Crb1 gene function in the onset and therapeutic rescue of an inherited retinal degeneration
      $511,878
      award amount
    • 5R01EY030611-07Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of naturally-occurring astrocyte death during retinal development
      $382,805
      award amount

  6. Eva Aimable Naumann

    Leads 2 awards · $762,132

    • 5R01NS128895-03Department: NIH department code
      Functional connectivity of a brain-scale neural circuit for motion perception
      $499,734
      award amount
    • 5R01EY033845-05Department: NIH department code
      Development of brain-scale neural circuits underlying vertebrate visuomotor transformations
      $262,398
      award amount

  7. Anita A Disney

    Leads 1 award · $734,480

    • 5R01AG078616-05Department: NIH department code
      A spatially resolved joint cortical metabolome and proteome in aging and menopause for the rhesus macaque
      $734,480
      award amount

  8. Court A Hull

    Leads 2 awards · $706,472

    • 5R01NS128054-05Department: NIH department code
      Cerebellar circuits for reward-based learning
      $407,667
      award amount
    • 5R01NS141997-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of cell-type specific circuits for inhibition and disinhibition in cerebellar learning and behavior
      $298,805
      award amount

  9. Lindsey L Glickfeld

    Leads 1 award · $485,871

    • 1R01EY038046-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic mechanisms of history-dependent visual processing
      $485,871
      award amount

  10. Dmitry Velmeshev

    Leads 1 award · $436,050

    • 5DP1DA063507-02Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting and modulating cell type and circuit-specific epigenetic mechanisms of cocaine addiction
      $436,050
      award amount

  11. Jorg Grandl

    Leads 1 award · $203,639

    • 5T32NS105608-08Department: NIH department code
      Neurobiology Training Program
      $203,639
      award amount

  12. Drew Clinton Schreiner

    Leads 1 award · $107,984

    • 5K99NS144525-02Department: NIH department code
      Testing if and how 3-factor learning rules operate at cortico-basal ganglia synapses to drive motor skill learning
      $107,984
      award amount

  13. Sarah E. Hadyniak

    Leads 1 award · $81,580

    • 1F32EY038051-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Diversification of the closely related bipolar cell types in retinal development
      $81,580
      award amount

  14. Xinmeng Hermione Xu

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31NS149497-01Department: NIH department code
      Cell-type-specific contributions of primary somatosensory cortex to skilled forelimb control
      $50,114
      award amount

  15. Kaitlyn Elise Fouke

    Leads 1 award · $43,570

    • 5F31EY037507-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms of visuomotor transformations in larval zebrafish
      $43,570
      award amount

  16. Sara Marie Gannon

    Leads 1 award · $43,041

    • 5F31EY036693-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating invariant motion encoding in mouse visual cortex
      $43,041
      award amount

  17. John Michael Amodeo

    Leads 1 award · $42,889

    • 5F31EY035522-03Department: NIH department code
      Assessing the spatial and temporal scales of attention effects and attention-dependent cholinergic release in macque V4.
      $42,889
      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.