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FY2023 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, NY

Funding
$30.6M
$30,631,974
Awards
81
FY2023 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
59
59 lead a grant here, 0 co-investigators
Department rank
#2
of 68 · 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

59 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 4 awards · $3,691,517

    • 5P01DA047233-05Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional Mechanisms of Drug Addiction
      $1,821,689
      award amount
    • 5R01MH051399-32Department: NIH department code
      Pharmacological Actions of Stress and Antidepressants
      $712,894
      award amount
    • 5R01DA007359-35Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Studies of Cocaine Action in Brain
      $594,061
      award amount
    • 5R01DA014133-24Department: NIH department code
      Neurotrophic Mechanisms in Cocaine and Opiate Action
      $562,873
      award amount
  2. Kenny, Paul J.

    Leads 3 awards · $3,477,679

    • 5U01DA053629-03Department: NIH department code
      Single cell brain transcriptome changes during chronic HIV infection and opiate use in conventional mice
      $2,506,585
      award amount
    • 5T32DA053558-03Department: NIH department code
      Training Program in Substance Use Disorders
      $553,178
      award amount
    • 4R37DA020686-16Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of nicotine reinforcement
      $417,916
      award amount
  3. Russo, Scott James

    Leads 5 awards · $2,320,681

    • 1R01MH133299-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Sex Differences in Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Aggression
      $637,718
      award amount
    • 5R01MH104559-10Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of stress-induced neurovascular damage promoting immune infiltration and depression-like behaviors
      $632,786
      award amount
    • 5R01MH127820-03Department: NIH department code
      Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Stress-Impaired Social Reward
      $530,939
      award amount
    • 3R01MH127820-03S2Department: NIH department code
      Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Stress-Impaired Social Reward
      $422,500
      award amount
    • 3R01MH127820-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Stress-Impaired Social Reward
      $96,738
      award amount
  4. Rich, Erin L

    Leads 3 awards · $1,463,673

    • 1R01MH134845-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of multi-attribute decision-making
      $741,817
      award amount
    • 5R01MH121480-04Department: NIH department code
      Circuit mechanisms of self-organized cognitive strategies
      $469,116
      award amount
    • 1R21MH131900-01Department: NIH department code
      Mesoscale dynamics underlying expectation bias in the orbitofrontal cortex
      $252,740
      award amount
  5. Rudebeck, Peter

    Leads 2 awards · $1,338,964

    • 1R01MH132064-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Neural circuit mechanisms of affective probabilistic learning
      $802,783
      award amount
    • 5R01MH118638-05Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms of affective processing in prefrontal-limbic circuits
      $536,181
      award amount
  6. Clem, Roger L

    Leads 2 awards · $1,179,531

    • 1R01MH132224-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Microcircuits governing conflicting memories of threat and safety
      $622,404
      award amount
    • 5R01MH124880-04Department: NIH department code
      Cellular substrates of early life trauma
      $557,127
      award amount
  7. Cai, Denise Jade

    Leads 2 awards · $1,152,729

    • 1R56MH132959-01Department: NIH department code
      Fear and anxiety circuit mechanisms in anterior hypothalamic nucleus
      $661,951
      award amount
    • 5R01MH120162-04Department: NIH department code
      Circuit mechanisms of retrospective memory-linking
      $490,778
      award amount
  8. Knowles, David Arthur

    Leads 1 award · $1,105,599

    • 5U01AG068880-04Department: NIH department code
      Learning the Regulatory Code of Alzheimer's Disease Genomes
      $1,105,599
      award amount
  9. Yang, Nan

    Leads 2 awards · $1,080,980

    • 5R01MH129372-02Department: NIH department code
      Functional mapping of noncoding regulatory variants in human neuronal subtypes
      $682,655
      award amount
    • 5R01NS116057-04Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Brain Dysfunction in NF1
      $398,325
      award amount
  10. Benson, Deanna L

    Leads 2 awards · $915,286

    • 1R21NS130841-01A1Department: NIH department code
      A Model for Homeostatic Plasticity in Striatum
      $464,750
      award amount
    • 5R01NS115469-04Department: NIH department code
      Building Synaptic Cytoskeleton
      $450,536
      award amount
  11. Mallick, Parag Kumar

    Leads 1 award · $860,474

    • 5R01AG078755-02Department: NIH department code
      Mass spectrometry and multiplexed immunofluorescence imaging of metabolic and proteomic contributors to selective neuronal vulnerability in Alzheimer's disease
      $860,474
      award amount
  12. Schaefer, Anne

    Leads 2 awards · $820,859

    • 5R01MH118329-05Department: NIH department code
      Microglia mediated suppression of dopamine induced neuronal responses and behavior
      $422,534
      award amount
    • 5R01NS106721-04Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional Control of Microglia Diversification and Inflammation
      $398,325
      award amount
  13. Mayberg, Helen S

    Leads 1 award · $809,651

    • 1R01MH132789-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Establishing the anatomical and functional mechanisms of white matter deep brain stimulation
      $809,651
      award amount
  14. Maze, Ian S.

    Leads 2 awards · $776,734

    • 5R01MH116900-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular studies of neural histone monoaminylation in normal and aberrant brain plasticity
      $423,750
      award amount
    • 5R01HD097088-05Department: NIH department code
      Aberrant chromatin regulatory mechanisms in Down syndrome brain
      $352,984
      award amount
  15. Wu, Zheng Herbert

    Leads 1 award · $724,108

    • 1R01MH133039-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and functional architecture of a premotor circuit for decision making
      $724,108
      award amount
  16. Dietz, David M

    Leads 1 award · $692,516

    • 5R01DA056595-02Department: NIH department code
      Contributions of aberrant synaptic protein monoaminylation to opiate use disorder
      $692,516
      award amount
  17. Ellis-Davies, Graham

    Leads 2 awards · $690,752

    • 5R35NS111600-05Department: NIH department code
      Light-driven control of neurons in vitro and in vivo
      $593,252
      award amount
    • 3R35NS111600-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Light-driven control of neurons in vitro and in vivo
      $97,500
      award amount
  18. Raj, Towfique

    Leads 1 award · $688,959

    • 5R01NS116006-03Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Myeloid Cells in Parkinson's Disease
      $688,959
      award amount
  19. De Araujo, Ivan E

    Leads 1 award · $591,500

    • 5R01AT011697-03Department: NIH department code
      Spinal Sensory Ganglia and Gut Sensation
      $591,500
      award amount
  20. Shuman, Tristan

    Leads 2 awards · $570,829

    • 5R01NS116357-03Department: NIH department code
      Circuits driving spatial coding deficits in epilepsy
      $505,968
      award amount
    • 3R01NS116357-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Circuits driving spatial coding deficits in epilepsy
      $64,861
      award amount
  21. Hurd, Yasmin L.

    Leads 1 award · $542,193

    • 5R01DA051191-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Neurobiology of Human Opioid Use Disorder
      $542,193
      award amount
  22. Castellano, Joseph Michael

    Leads 2 awards · $541,071

    • 5R01AG061382-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of TIMP2-mediated hippocampal revitalization in Alzheimer's disease
      $478,833
      award amount
    • 3R01AG061382-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of TIMP2-mediated hippocampal revitalization in Alzheimer's disease
      $62,238
      award amount
  23. Blanchard, Joel William

    Leads 2 awards · $533,038

    • 5R01NS114239-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Cell-type Vulnerability and Oxidative Stress Pathology in Parkinson's Disease Using Isogenic Human Dopaminergic Neurons
      $398,325
      award amount
    • 3R01NS114239-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Cell-type Vulnerability and Oxidative Stress Pathology in Parkinson's Disease Using Isogenic Human Dopaminergic Neurons
      $134,713
      award amount
  24. Slesinger, Paul A

    Leads 1 award · $514,707

    • 5R01AA018734-12Department: NIH department code
      Structural Analysis of Alcohol-dependent Activation of GIRKs
      $514,707
      award amount
  25. Cropper, Elizabeth C

    Leads 1 award · $370,781

    • 5R01NS066587-40Department: NIH department code
      Neural Basis of Behavioral Arousal
      $370,781
      award amount
  26. Castellano, Joseph Michael

    Leads 1 award · $321,237

    • 5T32AG049688-09Department: NIH department code
      Research Training in the Neuroscience of Aging
      $321,237
      award amount
  27. Huntley, George W.

    Leads 1 award · $321,237

    • 5T32MH087004-14Department: NIH department code
      Training Program in Neuroscience
      $321,237
      award amount
  28. Schlessinger, Avner

    Leads 1 award · $253,500

    • 1R21NS130886-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Identifying New Astrocytic Kir4.1 Channel Modulators for Treating Huntington's Disease
      $253,500
      award amount
  29. Wu, Xiaoting

    Leads 1 award · $248,996

    • 5R00MH122697-04Department: NIH department code
      The role of the septum in social memory
      $248,996
      award amount
  30. Junqueira Alves, Chrystian

    Leads 1 award · $240,354

    • 1K01NS127948-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Generation of Neurons by Force-Mediated Epigenetic Mechanisms through Manipulation of Intrinsic Mechanoregulators
      $240,354
      award amount
  31. Martinez-Rivera, Freddyson J

    Leads 1 award · $178,416

    • 5K01DA054306-03Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional reprogramming of drug-associated memories in the nucleus accumbens
      $178,416
      award amount
  32. Aubry, Antonio V

    Leads 1 award · $136,890

    • 1K99DA058213-01Department: NIH department code
      Functions of the Cortical Amygdala in social behavior
      $136,890
      award amount
  33. Pennington, Zachary Thomas

    Leads 1 award · $126,090

    • 1K99MH131792-01Department: NIH department code
      Disentangling the Consequences of Trauma
      $126,090
      award amount
  34. Bond, Allison

    Leads 1 award · $105,328

    • 7K01MH125144-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms regulating neural stem cell maintenance in the dentate gyrus
      $105,328
      award amount
  35. Litke, Rachel

    Leads 1 award · $94,640

    • 1R03AG078953-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Translating in vivo drug screens to Alzheimer's patients with a pharmaco-epidemiological approach
      $94,640
      award amount
  36. Chan, Kenny

    Leads 1 award · $91,500

    • 1K99DK137037-01Department: NIH department code
      Brain-gut interactions regulating stress-related gut inflammation and barrier permeability
      $91,500
      award amount
  37. Chan, Jennifer C

    Leads 1 award · $76,052

    • 5F32MH126534-03Department: NIH department code
      Impact of histone serotonylation domain organization on neurodevelopment
      $76,052
      award amount
  38. Braunscheidel, Kevin

    Leads 1 award · $69,500

    • 5F32DA054802-02Department: NIH department code
      Nicotine & Nodose: A Neural Basis for Peripheral Control over Nicotine Intake
      $69,500
      award amount
  39. Sherman, Jeremy

    Leads 1 award · $50,414

    • 1F30DA057092-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Fyn Kinase in the Dorsal Striatum in Heroin Use Disorder
      $50,414
      award amount
  40. Simon, Joseph

    Leads 1 award · $48,694

    • 5F99NS125826-02Department: NIH department code
      Integration of social and nonsocial information in the primate brain
      $48,694
      award amount
  41. Del Valle, Pamela

    Leads 1 award · $47,694

    • 5F31CA268947-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural Mechanisms Driving Comorbid Parkinson's and Melanoma
      $47,694
      award amount
  42. Gyles, Trevonn Michael

    Leads 1 award · $47,694

    • 1F31MH133297-01Department: NIH department code
      Gene Expression Profiling of Stress Resilient Mice within the Nucleus Accumbens
      $47,694
      award amount
  43. Perkins, Aster

    Leads 1 award · $47,694

    • 5F31MH127901-03Department: NIH department code
      Decision making in the context of multi-attribute options
      $47,694
      award amount
  44. Williams, Sarah Elizabeth

    Leads 1 award · $47,694

    • 1F31MH133365-01Department: NIH department code
      Cell-type specific and activity-dependent characterization of non-coding autism de novo variants in human stem cell-derived neurons
      $47,694
      award amount
  45. Crowley, Jessica

    Leads 1 award · $47,534

    • 1F30AG079491-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional regulation of neuroprotective microglia subtypes in health and disease
      $47,534
      award amount
  46. Cuddleston, Winston Hirschler

    Leads 1 award · $47,534

    • 1F31AG084223-01Department: NIH department code
      Examining the genetic regulation of A-to-I editing and mediation of Alzheimer's disease
      $47,534
      award amount
  47. Hays, Emma

    Leads 1 award · $47,534

    • 1F31DA059266-01Department: NIH department code
      Microglia-neuron dopamine signaling - a novel mechanism of dopamine circuit modulation
      $47,534
      award amount
  48. Soler, Ivan

    Leads 1 award · $47,094

    • 1F99NS135813-01Department: NIH department code
      Progression of Entorhinal-hippocampal Spatial and Emotional Processing Deficits in a Mouse Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
      $47,094
      award amount
  49. Minier-Toribio, Angelica

    Leads 1 award · $46,944

    • 5F99NS129172-02Department: NIH department code
      Multilevel Characterization of Approach and Avoidance Biases Linked to Social Stress
      $46,944
      award amount
  50. Cunningham, Ashley

    Leads 1 award · $46,094

    • 1F31NS132558-01Department: NIH department code
      Functional Role for H3 Serotonylation During Critical Periods of Postnatal Brain Development and Plasticity
      $46,094
      award amount
  51. Goldman, Camille

    Leads 1 award · $46,094

    • 1F31NS130909-01Department: NIH department code
      Determining the Interacting Effects of GBA, SNCA, and APOE on a-Synuclein Pathology Severity in Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson's Disease
      $46,094
      award amount
  52. Hemmer, Brittany Marie

    Leads 1 award · $46,094

    • 1F31AG079604-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of microglial function by blood-borne factors
      $46,094
      award amount
  53. Hwang, Philip Henry

    Leads 1 award · $46,094

    • 5F31AG074652-02Department: NIH department code
      Age-dependent effects on microglia-mediated control of neuronal activity
      $46,094
      award amount
  54. Stewart, Andrew F

    Leads 1 award · $46,094

    • 5F31DA055462-02Department: NIH department code
      Identification of CaMKII as a novel substrate of dopaminylation following heroin self administration
      $46,094
      award amount
  55. Zaki, Yosif

    Leads 1 award · $46,094

    • 5F31MH126543-03Department: NIH department code
      Linking memories through hippocampal ensemble reactivation
      $46,094
      award amount
  56. Christenson Wick, Zoé

    Leads 1 award · $42,092

    • 5F32NS116416-03Department: NIH department code
      Closed-Loop Control of Dentate Inhibitory Timing in Healthy and Epileptic Mice
      $42,092
      award amount
  57. Strasburger, Hayley

    Leads 1 award · $34,574

    • 5F31MH124400-03Department: NIH department code
      Dopamine signaling as a cognate microglia-neuron interaction in the striatum
      $34,574
      award amount
  58. Marallano, Valerie

    Leads 1 award · $20,406

    • 5F31NS124259-02Department: NIH department code
      Functional Analysis of Hypoxia-Induced Genes in Promoting Malignant Growth of Glioblastoma
      $20,406
      award amount
  59. Moen, Janna K

    Leads 1 award · $13,263

    • 5F32DA057079-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor modulation of cocaine reward
      $13,263
      award amount