FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Psychiatry at Emory University

Atlanta, GA

Funding

$15.1M

$15,083,574

Awards

FY2026 NIH awards in Psychiatry

Principal investigators

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.

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Tricia Z. King
Leads 1 award · $704,596
- 5R01CA261887-05Department: NIH department code
  Outcomes in AYA survivors of pediatric medulloblastoma.
  $704,596
  award amount
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
- Emory University · Psychiatry (NIH department code, 1 award)
Michael A Nader
Co-investigator on 2R01DA052909-06A1, led by Mar M Sanchez
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Neurosciences (NIH department code, 2 awards)
Christina Gavegnano
Co-investigator on 5R01MH140180-02, led by Jennifer C Felger
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Emory University · Pathology (NIH department code, 1 award)
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
- Columbia University · Obstetrics & Gynecology (NIH department code, 1 award)
- Tulane University of Louisiana · Public Health (NIH department code, 1 award)
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.