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FY2018 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, NY

Funding
$30.7M
$30,650,136
Awards
69
FY2018 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
50
50 lead a grant here, 0 co-investigators
Department rank
#1
of 67 · 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 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai page.

Leads a grant in this department

50 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. Nestler, Eric J.

    Leads 5 awards · $5,325,984

    • 5P50MH096890-07Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic Mechanisms of Depression
      $2,000,000
      award amount
    • 5P01DA008227-26Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Neurobiology of Drug Addiction
      $1,772,234
      award amount
    • 5R37DA007359-30Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Studies of Cocaine Action in Brain
      $601,830
      award amount
    • 5R01DA014133-19Department: NIH department code
      Neurotrophic Mechanisms in Cocaine and Opiate Action
      $511,432
      award amount
    • 5R01MH051399-27Department: NIH department code
      Pharmacological Actions of Stress and Antidepressants
      $440,488
      award amount
  2. Rudebeck, Peter

    Leads 2 awards · $3,299,552

    • 1RF1MH117040-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic and causal basis of fMRI functional connectivity in non-human primates
      $2,810,390
      award amount
    • 5R01MH110822-03Department: NIH department code
      A new approach to the role of prefrontal-limbic circuits in anxiety disorders
      $489,162
      award amount
  3. Kenny, Paul J.

    Leads 6 awards · $2,311,711

    • 1R01DA045649-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Habenular immune signaling and addiction
      $735,894
      award amount
    • 5R01MH112168-02Department: NIH department code
      MicroRNAs in schizophrenia
      $421,237
      award amount
    • 2R37DA020686-11Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of nicotine reinforcement
      $381,375
      award amount
    • 5R01AA024292-03Department: NIH department code
      Nicotinic receptors and alcohol reinforcement
      $381,375
      award amount
    • 5R01DA025983-08Department: NIH department code
      Role of MicroRNAs in the Mechanisms of Drug Dependence
      $378,541
      award amount
    • 3R01DA025983-08S1Department: NIH department code
      Role of MicroRNAs in the Mechanisms of Drug Dependence
      $13,289
      award amount
  4. Kamenecka, Theodore M

    Leads 1 award · $2,007,235

    • 1UG3DA048385-01Department: NIH department code
      Development of novel therapeutics for opioid dependence
      $2,007,235
      award amount
  5. Clem, Roger L

    Leads 3 awards · $1,153,280

    • 5R01MH105414-04Department: NIH department code
      Noradrenergic circuit mechanisms of persistent fear
      $477,793
      award amount
    • 1R01MH116445-01Department: NIH department code
      Prefrontal circuit mechanisms of threat conditioning
      $421,237
      award amount
    • 1R21MH114170-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Cellular substrates of early life trauma
      $254,250
      award amount
  6. Russo, Scott James

    Leads 2 awards · $950,686

    • 5R01MH114882-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of lateral habenula orexin receptor signaling in aggressive social behavior
      $526,936
      award amount
    • 5R01MH090264-08Department: NIH department code
      Role of thalamic versus cortical inputs to nucleus accumbens in stress-related disorders
      $423,750
      award amount
  7. Kleinfeld, David

    Leads 1 award · $891,384

    • 5R01MH111499-03Department: NIH department code
      Realization of Optical Cell-based Reporters for in vivo Detection of Neuropeptides
      $891,384
      award amount
  8. Ehrlich, Michelle E

    Leads 1 award · $867,487

    • 1R01AG062355-01Department: NIH department code
      Systems modeling of shared and distinct molecular mechanisms underlying comorbid Major Depressive Disorder and Alzheimer's disease
      $867,487
      award amount
  9. Goate, Alison M

    Leads 1 award · $846,895

    • 1U01AG058635-01Department: NIH department code
      Genomic approach to identification of microglial networks involved in Alzheimer’s disease risk
      $846,895
      award amount
  10. Shapiro, Matthew L

    Leads 2 awards · $840,142

    • 5R01MH065658-14Department: NIH department code
      Learning, Prefrontal Cortex, and Multiple Memory Systems
      $422,473
      award amount
    • 2R01MH073689-11A1Department: NIH department code
      Prospective Coding and Memory Retrieval
      $417,669
      award amount
  11. Raj, Towfique

    Leads 1 award · $833,701

    • 5R01AG054005-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of peripheral myeloid cells in Alzheimers disease
      $833,701
      award amount
  12. Cruchaga, Carlos

    Leads 1 award · $793,195

    • 5U01AG052411-03Department: NIH department code
      Identification and characterization of AD risk networks using multi-dimensional "omics" data
      $793,195
      award amount
  13. Cropper, Elizabeth C

    Leads 2 awards · $740,519

    • 5R01NS070583-08Department: NIH department code
      Neural Basis of Behavioral Flexibility
      $370,781
      award amount
    • 5R01NS066587-35Department: NIH department code
      Neural Basis of Behavioral Arousal
      $369,738
      award amount
  14. Baxter, Mark G

    Leads 2 awards · $695,580

    • 5R01AG046634-05Department: NIH department code
      Trajectory of Recovery in the Elderly
      $483,705
      award amount
    • 5R21NS096936-02Department: NIH department code
      Chemogenetic modulation of the primate basal forebrain
      $211,875
      award amount
  15. Merad, Miriam

    Leads 1 award · $596,882

    • 5R01MH104559-05Department: NIH department code
      Peripheral IL-6 from leukocytes controls susceptibility to social defeat stress
      $596,882
      award amount
  16. Zachariou, Venetia

    Leads 2 awards · $582,656

    • 5R01NS086444-05Department: NIH department code
      Cellular Mechanisms of Antidepressant Drug Actions in Neuropathic Pain Models
      $370,781
      award amount
    • 5R21NS098264-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting HDAC6 for the treatment of neuropathic pain
      $211,875
      award amount
  17. Bartolomucci, Alessandro

    Leads 1 award · $574,098

    • 1R01DK117504-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms for VGF regulation of energy balance
      $574,098
      award amount
  18. Schaefer, Anne

    Leads 2 awards · $525,885

    • 5R01NS091574-04Department: NIH department code
      Control of neuron activity and animal behavior by non-coding RNAs
      $369,434
      award amount
    • 3R01NS091574-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Control of neuron activity and animal behavior by non-coding RNAs
      $156,451
      award amount
  19. Hurd, Yasmin L.

    Leads 1 award · $509,398

    • 5R01DA015446-15Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Neurobiology of Human Drug Abuse
      $509,398
      award amount
  20. Ellis-Davies, Graham

    Leads 1 award · $509,346

    • 5R01GM053395-21Department: NIH department code
      Photochemical regulation of calcium in cell physiology
      $509,346
      award amount
  21. Maze, Ian S.

    Leads 1 award · $508,500

    • 5DP1DA042078-03Department: NIH department code
      Roles for histone monoaminylation in cocaine-induced transcriptional and behavioral plasticity
      $508,500
      award amount
  22. Benson, Deanna L

    Leads 1 award · $426,467

    • 5R01MH103455-05Department: NIH department code
      Developmentally sensitive regulatory mechanisms of synapse assembly and function
      $426,467
      award amount
  23. Mobbs, Charles V.

    Leads 1 award · $423,750

    • 1R01AG062303-01Department: NIH department code
      Delay of Alzheimer's phenotypes by interventions that increase lifespan
      $423,750
      award amount
  24. Moss, Stephen J

    Leads 1 award · $411,371

    • 5R01DA037170-05Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting Mechanisms of GABAB-GIRK Plasticity with Psychostimulants
      $411,371
      award amount
  25. Slesinger, Paul A

    Leads 1 award · $399,087

    • 5R01AA018734-08Department: NIH department code
      Structural analysis of alcohol-dependent activation of GIRKs
      $399,087
      award amount
  26. Benson, Deanna L

    Leads 1 award · $381,375

    • 5R01MH104491-03Department: NIH department code
      Cdh8-dependent circuit development in autism
      $381,375
      award amount
  27. Friedel, Roland Horst

    Leads 1 award · $371,598

    • 5R01NS092735-03Department: NIH department code
      Plexin-B2 function in glioma invasion and glioma stem cell maintenance
      $371,598
      award amount
  28. Bliss-Moreau, Eliza

    Leads 2 awards · $316,835

    • 5R21MH112539-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms of social affect induction
      $259,583
      award amount
    • 3R21MH112539-01S1Department: NIH department code
      Neural Mechanisms of Social Affect Induction
      $57,252
      award amount
  29. Castellano, Joseph Michael

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00AG051711-04Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of hippocampal plasticity and learning and memory by a bloodborne rejuvenation factor
      $249,000
      award amount
  30. De Araujo, Ivan E

    Leads 1 award · $235,566

    • 7R01DC014859-05Department: NIH department code
      Neural circuitry of sweet taste
      $235,566
      award amount
  31. Huntley, George W.

    Leads 1 award · $211,875

    • 5R21MH110727-02Department: NIH department code
      Susceptibility to depression by human disease-causing mutation
      $211,875
      award amount
  32. Dumitriu, Dani

    Leads 1 award · $201,707

    • 5R01MH111918-02Department: NIH department code
      Multiscale connectomic principles of resilience and susceptibility in mouse
      $201,707
      award amount
  33. Kapoor, Manav

    Leads 1 award · $201,281

    • 1R21AA026388-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Role of genomic imprinting in the etiology of Alcohol Dependence
      $201,281
      award amount
  34. Rich, Erin L

    Leads 1 award · $191,560

    • 5K08DA039351-04Department: NIH department code
      Multi-scale Orbitofrontal Networks Underlying Reward Processing
      $191,560
      award amount
  35. Salton, Stephen R

    Leads 1 award · $181,811

    • 5T32MH087004-10Department: NIH department code
      Training Program in Neuroscience
      $181,811
      award amount
  36. Walker, Deena M.

    Leads 1 award · $177,930

    • 1K99DA042100-01A1Department: NIH department code
      A novel role for the medial amygdala in the modulation of sex differences in cocaine reward
      $177,930
      award amount
  37. Hamilton, Peter James

    Leads 1 award · $177,770

    • 1K99DA045795-01Department: NIH department code
      Engineering CRISPR constructs to elucidate the causal contribution of cell-type specific, gene-targeted CREB binding to the pathogenesis of drug abuse
      $177,770
      award amount
  38. Baxter, Mark G

    Leads 1 award · $170,702

    • 5T32AG049688-04Department: NIH department code
      Research Training in the Neuroscience of Aging
      $170,702
      award amount
  39. Pena, Catherine Jensen

    Leads 1 award · $71,385

    • 5K99MH115096-02Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic and cellular markers of stress sensitization by early life stress in mice
      $71,385
      award amount
  40. Cummings, Kirstie Alyssa

    Leads 1 award · $61,354

    • 1F32MH115688-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Circuit plasticity regulation of fear memory expression
      $61,354
      award amount
  41. Blaze, Jennifer

    Leads 1 award · $58,654

    • 1F32MH115565-01A1Department: NIH department code
      RNA cytosine methylation in the rodent prefrontal cortex
      $58,654
      award amount
  42. Lorsch, Zachary Spencer

    Leads 1 award · $45,339

    • 5F30MH110073-03Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional networks of resilience in a mouse model of depression
      $45,339
      award amount
  43. Lepack, Ashley

    Leads 1 award · $44,524

    • 1F31DA045428-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Functions for histone dopaminylation in cocaine-induced plasticity
      $44,524
      award amount
  44. Efthymiou, Anastasia

    Leads 1 award · $44,364

    • 1F31AG059337-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the effect of the MS4A locus on Alzheimer's disease
      $44,364
      award amount
  45. Mesias, Roxana

    Leads 1 award · $44,364

    • 1F31MH115541-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Development of corticostriatal networks in health and disease
      $44,364
      award amount
  46. Castro, Kamilah

    Leads 1 award · $41,724

    • 5F31NS098575-02Department: NIH department code
      High fat diet impacts disease course in preclinical models of MS through DNA methylation changes in monocytes
      $41,724
      award amount
  47. Ely, Benjamin Adam

    Leads 1 award · $41,724

    • 5F31MH109257-03Department: NIH department code
      Delineating the Reward Circuitry of Anhedonia
      $41,724
      award amount
  48. Sullivan, Josefa

    Leads 1 award · $41,724

    • 5F31MH111147-02Department: NIH department code
      Control of Neuronal Transcriptional Elongation by Brd4 and itsContribution to Autism
      $41,724
      award amount
  49. Flanigan, Meghan Elizabeth

    Leads 1 award · $36,259

    • 5F31MH111108-02Department: NIH department code
      Lateral Habenula Orexin Receptor 2 Regulation of Aggression Reward
      $36,259
      award amount
  50. Smith, Alexander Wanless

    Leads 1 award · $24,920

    • 5F32DA043315-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of microRNA-212 in striatal plasticity underlying cocaine addiction
      $24,920
      award amount