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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Psychiatry at Emory University

Atlanta, GA

Funding
$15.1M
$15,083,574
Awards
25
FY2026 NIH awards in Psychiatry
Principal investigators
32
24 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#26
of 87 · 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 Psychiatry row of the Emory University page.

Leads a grant in this department

24 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. Mar M Sanchez

    Leads 2 awards · $1,649,109

    • 2R01DA052909-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Early experience and neurobiological risks of adult cocaine use disorder

      Principal investigators: Mar M Sanchez (contact PI), Michael A Nader

      $881,232
      award amount
    • 2R01AG070704-06Department: NIH department code
      Early Risk Factors of Accelerated Neural Aging Trajectories and Cognitive Decline: A Nonhuman Primate Longitudinal Model

      Principal investigators: Mar M Sanchez (contact PI), Maria C Alvarado

      $767,877
      award amount
  2. Adam Ericsen

    Leads 1 award · $1,531,512

    • 2U42OD011023-23Department: NIH department code
      Maintenance of the SPF Breeding Colony at Emory National Primate Research Center

      Principal investigators: Adam Ericsen (contact PI), Joyce Kimberly Cohen (contact PI), Matthew Ryan Gardner (contact PI)

      $1,531,512
      award amount
  3. Joyce Kimberly Cohen

    Leads 1 award · $1,531,512

    • 2U42OD011023-23Department: NIH department code
      Maintenance of the SPF Breeding Colony at Emory National Primate Research Center

      Principal investigators: Adam Ericsen (contact PI), Joyce Kimberly Cohen (contact PI), Matthew Ryan Gardner (contact PI)

      $1,531,512
      award amount
  4. Matthew Ryan Gardner

    Leads 1 award · $1,531,512

    • 2U42OD011023-23Department: NIH department code
      Maintenance of the SPF Breeding Colony at Emory National Primate Research Center

      Principal investigators: Adam Ericsen (contact PI), Joyce Kimberly Cohen (contact PI), Matthew Ryan Gardner (contact PI)

      $1,531,512
      award amount
  5. Vasiliki Michopoulos

    Leads 2 awards · $1,438,209

    • 5R01AG078248-05Department: NIH department code
      The role of stress exposure on estradiol-induced changes in neuroinflammation and cognition

      Principal investigators: Vasiliki Michopoulos (contact PI), Maria C Alvarado

      $745,028
      award amount
    • 5R01MH128244-05Department: NIH department code
      Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Underlying Perimenopausal Risk for Trauma-Related Hyperarousal in Black Women

      Principal investigators: Vasiliki Michopoulos (contact PI), Jennifer Strafford Stevens

      $693,181
      award amount
  6. Julie A Kable

    Leads 1 award · $1,395,370

    • 4U01DA055360-06Department: NIH department code
      4/24 Healthy Brain and Child Development National Consortium

      Principal investigators: Julie A Kable (contact PI), Claire D. Coles

      $1,395,370
      award amount
  7. Jennifer C Felger

    Leads 2 awards · $1,246,430

    • 5R01MH140180-02Department: NIH department code
      JAK Signaling as a Mechanism of Inflammation-related Reward and Motor Circuit Deficits in Depression

      Principal investigators: Jennifer C Felger (contact PI), Andrew H Miller, Christina Gavegnano

      $627,566
      award amount
    • 5R01MH128872-05Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Inflammation in CNS Mechanisms of Anhedonia and Psychomotor Slowing in Depressed PWH as Determined using a Next Generation TNF Antagonist

      Principal investigators: Jennifer C Felger (contact PI), Andrew H Miller

      $618,864
      award amount
  8. Sanne Jh Van Rooij

    Leads 1 award · $1,229,954

    • 1R61MH138733-01A1Department: NIH department code
      PREVENT study: Promoting resilience via early neurostimulation after trauma

      Principal investigators: Sanne Jh Van Rooij (contact PI), Jennifer Strafford Stevens

      $1,229,954
      award amount
  9. Michael Tilghman Treadway

    Leads 1 award · $744,561

    • 5R01MH126985-05Department: NIH department code
      Multi-level Mechanisms of Behavioral Activation Therapy for Adolescent Depression

      Principal investigators: Michael Tilghman Treadway (contact PI), W. Edward Craighead (contact PI)

      $744,561
      award amount
  10. W. Edward Craighead

    Leads 1 award · $744,561

    • 5R01MH126985-05Department: NIH department code
      Multi-level Mechanisms of Behavioral Activation Therapy for Adolescent Depression

      Principal investigators: Michael Tilghman Treadway (contact PI), W. Edward Craighead (contact PI)

      $744,561
      award amount
  11. Tricia Z. King

    Leads 1 award · $704,596

    • 5R01CA261887-05Department: NIH department code
      Outcomes in AYA survivors of pediatric medulloblastoma.
      $704,596
      award amount
  12. Ebrahim Haroon

    Leads 1 award · $682,162

    • 5R01MH132059-04Department: NIH department code
      Leucine as a Probe of Kynurenine-Induced Glutamate and Neural Circuit Dysfunction in Midlife Depression
      $682,162
      award amount
  13. Justine Wittenauer Welsh

    Leads 1 award · $616,006

    • 5R01AA030529-05Department: NIH department code
      Improving alcohol and substance use care access and outcomes during the reproductive years: A Type 1 Hybrid Trial in Family Planning Clinics

      Principal investigators: Justine Wittenauer Welsh (contact PI), Heather J Gotham, Kelli Stidham Hall

      $616,006
      award amount
  14. Abigail Powers Lott

    Leads 1 award · $601,113

    • 5R01HD109126-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic links between maternal PTSD and early infant emotional development
      $601,113
      award amount
  15. David Ryan Goldsmith

    Leads 1 award · $585,197

    • 5R01MH131910-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Inflammation-Induced Changes in Brain Reward Signaling and Motivational Deficits in Patients with Schizophrenia Using an Anti-Inflammatory Challenge
      $585,197
      award amount
  16. Zhexing Wen

    Leads 1 award · $549,705

    • 5R01MH139822-02Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging human iPSC technology to understand the role of neuroinflammation in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
      $549,705
      award amount
  17. Negar Fani

    Leads 1 award · $539,563

    • 5R01MH138893-02Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Neural Signatures of Racial Discrimination in Black individuals with a Multivariate Data Fusion Approach
      $539,563
      award amount
  18. Zachary V Johnson

    Leads 1 award · $445,349

    • 5R35GM155357-03Department: NIH department code
      Cellular, neurogenomic and neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying variation in social behavior
      $445,349
      award amount
  19. Claire D. Coles

    Leads 2 awards · $325,678

    • 3U01AA026108-10S1Department: NIH department code
      A Multisite Study of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Effects of Inflammation and Endocrine Dysfunction in Adulthood

      Principal investigators: Claire D. Coles (contact PI), Tamara Sonia Bodnar

      $292,150
      award amount
    • 5U01AA026108-10Department: NIH department code
      A Multisite Study of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Effects of Inflammation and Endocrine Dysfunction in Adulthood

      Principal investigators: Claire D. Coles (contact PI), Tamara Sonia Bodnar

      $33,528
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 4U01DA055360-06, led by Julie A Kable.

  20. Roman Palitsky

    Leads 1 award · $195,390

    • 1K23MH142800-01Department: NIH department code
      Understanding, Measuring, and Addressing Adverse Effects of Psychedelics for Clinical Research and Harm Reduction
      $195,390
      award amount
  21. Benson Ku

    Leads 1 award · $194,076

    • 5K23MH129684-05Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Neighborhood Characteristics on Conversion to Psychosis among Youth at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis
      $194,076
      award amount
  22. Jessica Cooper Robinson

    Leads 1 award · $180,068

    • 5K01MH126308-05Department: NIH department code
      From stress to anhedonia: examining inflammation and altered glutamate function as distinct or common etiological pathways
      $180,068
      award amount
  23. Mandakh Bekhbat

    Leads 1 award · $146,986

    • 5K01MH136861-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of monocyte metabolism and migration in inflammation-related reward circuit deficits and symptoms of anhedonia in people with HIV
      $146,986
      award amount
  24. Amanda Arnold

    Leads 1 award · $82,540

    • 1F32MH139301-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing the role of anandamide in trauma-related hyperarousal during the menopause transition
      $82,540
      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.

  • Jennifer Strafford Stevens

    Co-investigator on 1R61MH138733-01A1, led by Sanne Jh Van Rooij; 5R01MH128244-05, led by Vasiliki Michopoulos

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

  • Maria C Alvarado

    Co-investigator on 2R01AG070704-06, led by Mar M Sanchez; 5R01AG078248-05, led by Vasiliki Michopoulos

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

  • Andrew H Miller

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH140180-02, led by Jennifer C Felger; 5R01MH128872-05, led by Jennifer C Felger

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Michael A Nader

    Co-investigator on 2R01DA052909-06A1, led by Mar M Sanchez

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Christina Gavegnano

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH140180-02, led by Jennifer C Felger

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Heather J Gotham

    Co-investigator on 5R01AA030529-05, led by Justine Wittenauer Welsh

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

  • Kelli Stidham Hall

    Co-investigator on 5R01AA030529-05, led by Justine Wittenauer Welsh

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Tamara Sonia Bodnar

    Co-investigator on 3U01AA026108-10S1, led by Claire D. Coles; 5U01AA026108-10, led by Claire D. Coles

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