Neurosciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Leads a grant in this department

52 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. Towfique Raj

   Leads 4 awards · $2,874,308

   • 5U01AG068880-05Department: NIH department code

     Learning the Regulatory Code of Alzheimer's Disease Genomes

     Principal investigators: Towfique Raj (contact PI), David Arthur Knowles

     $1,028,077

     award amount
   • 4R01AG065926-02Department: NIH department code

     Modeling the impact of regulatory and splicing variants on cellular function in Alzheimer's disease

     Principal investigators: Towfique Raj (contact PI), Kristen Jennifer Brennand

     $838,586

     award amount
   • 5R01NS116006-04Department: NIH department code

     The Role of Myeloid Cells in Parkinson's Disease
     $657,644

     award amount
   • 1R56AG088669-01Department: NIH department code

     Unraveling the Role of Clonal Hematopoiesis in Neurodegenerative Diseases
     $350,001

     award amount

2. Paul J. Kenny

   Leads 3 awards · $2,624,808

   • 5U01DA053629-04Department: NIH department code

     Single cell brain transcriptome changes during chronic HIV infection and opiate use in conventional mice

     Principal investigators: Paul J. Kenny (contact PI), David J Volsky

     $1,641,558

     award amount
   • 5T32DA053558-04Department: NIH department code

     Training Program in Substance Use Disorders
     $565,334

     award amount
   • 5R37DA020686-17Department: NIH department code

     Mechanisms of nicotine reinforcement
     $417,916

     award amount

3. Ian S. Maze

   Leads 3 awards · $2,259,199

   • 2R01MH116900-06A1Department: NIH department code

     Molecular studies of neural histone monoaminylation in normal and aberrant brain plasticity
     $844,899

     award amount
   • 2R01HD097088-06Department: NIH department code

     Aberrant chromatin regulatory mechanisms in Down syndrome brain
     $725,919

     award amount
   • 5R01DA056595-03Department: NIH department code

     Contributions of aberrant synaptic protein monoaminylation to opiate use disorder

     Principal investigators: Ian S. Maze (contact PI), David M Dietz

     $688,381

     award amount

4. Scott James Russo

   Leads 5 awards · $2,249,956

   • 2R01MH104559-11Department: NIH department code

     ROLE OF PERIPHERAL IMMUNE-DERIVED MMP8 IN STRESS SUSCEPTIBILITY
     $842,950

     award amount
   • 5R01MH133299-02Department: NIH department code

     Sex Differences in Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Aggression
     $637,718

     award amount
   • 5R01MH127820-04Department: NIH department code

     Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Stress-Impaired Social Reward
     $589,933

     award amount
   • 1T32MH135853-01Department: NIH department code

     Training Program in Social Neuroscience Research

     Principal investigators: Scott James Russo (contact PI), Hirofumi Morishita

     $139,049

     award amount
   • 3R01MH127820-04S1Department: NIH department code

     Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Stress-Impaired Social Reward
     $40,306

     award amount

5. Eric J. Nestler

   Leads 3 awards · $1,831,470

   • 5R01MH129306-02Department: NIH department code

     Epigenetic Mechanisms of Chronic Stress Action
     $674,536

     award amount
   • 5R01DA007359-36Department: NIH department code

     Molecular Studies of Cocaine Action in Brain
     $594,061

     award amount
   • 5R01DA014133-25Department: NIH department code

     Neurotrophic Mechanisms in Cocaine and Opiate Action
     $562,873

     award amount

6. Peter Rudebeck

   Leads 2 awards · $1,624,726

   • 5R01MH132064-02Department: NIH department code

     Neural circuit mechanisms of affective probabilistic learning
     $816,865

     award amount
   • 5R01MH132789-02Department: NIH department code

     Establishing the anatomical and functional mechanisms of white matter deep brain stimulation

     Principal investigators: Peter Rudebeck (contact PI), Brian E Russ, Helen S Mayberg

     $807,861

     award amount

7. Erin L Rich

   Leads 3 awards · $1,388,759

   • 5R01MH134845-02Department: NIH department code

     Mechanisms of multi-attribute decision-making
     $721,370

     award amount
   • 5R01MH121480-05Department: NIH department code

     Circuit mechanisms of self-organized cognitive strategies
     $456,899

     award amount
   • 5R21MH131900-02Department: NIH department code

     Mesoscale dynamics underlying expectation bias in the orbitofrontal cortex
     $210,490

     award amount

8. Patrick R Hof

   Leads 2 awards · $1,371,939

   • 1R01AG087945-01Department: NIH department code

     Lifespan and Cardiovascular Health Effects on The Brain in Humans and Great Ape

     Principal investigators: Patrick R Hof (contact PI), Chester Sherwood, Mary Ann Raghanti, Melissa K. Edler

     $1,055,607

     award amount
   • 5T32AG049688-10Department: NIH department code

     Research Training in the Neuroscience of Aging

     Principal investigators: Patrick R Hof (contact PI), Joseph Michael Castellano

     $316,332

     award amount

9. Joel William Blanchard

   Leads 3 awards · $1,235,312

   • 1R01AG089533-01Department: NIH department code

     Investigating the combined role of APOE4 and ketogenic diets in Alzheimer's disease
     $714,224

     award amount
   • 5R01NS114239-05Department: NIH department code

     Understanding Cell-type Vulnerability and Oxidative Stress Pathology in Parkinson's Disease Using Isogenic Human Dopaminergic Neurons
     $386,375

     award amount
   • 3R01NS114239-05S1Department: NIH department code

     Understanding Cell-type Vulnerability and Oxidative Stress Pathology in Parkinson's Disease Using Isogenic Human Dopaminergic Neurons
     $134,713

     award amount

10. Nan Yang

    Leads 3 awards · $1,175,033

    • 5R01MH129372-03Department: NIH department code

      Functional mapping of noncoding regulatory variants in human neuronal subtypes
      $688,130

      award amount
    • 5R01NS116057-05Department: NIH department code

      Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Brain Dysfunction in NF1
      $386,375

      award amount
    • 3R01MH129372-03S1Department: NIH department code

      Functional mapping of noncoding regulatory variants in human neuronal subtypes
      $100,528

      award amount

11. Roger L Clem

    Leads 2 awards · $1,169,531

    • 5R01MH132224-02Department: NIH department code

      Microcircuits governing conflicting memories of threat and safety
      $612,404

      award amount
    • 5R01MH124880-05Department: NIH department code

      Cellular substrates of early life trauma
      $557,127

      award amount

12. Denise Jade Cai

    Leads 2 awards · $1,153,420

    • 5R56MH132959-02Department: NIH department code

      Fear and anxiety circuit mechanisms in anterior hypothalamic nucleus
      $662,641

      award amount
    • 5R01MH120162-05Department: NIH department code

      Circuit mechanisms of retrospective memory-linking
      $490,779

      award amount

13. George W. Huntley

    Leads 2 awards · $1,146,672

    • 1R01NS135728-01Department: NIH department code

      Investigating the Neurobiology of Early Cognitive Impairment

      Principal investigators: George W. Huntley (contact PI), Deanna L Benson

      $830,339

      award amount
    • 5T32MH087004-15Department: NIH department code

      Training Program in Neuroscience
      $316,333

      award amount

14. Tristan Shuman

    Leads 3 awards · $1,138,605

    • 1R01NS136590-01Department: NIH department code

      Closed-loop Control of Interneuron Spike Timing in Epilepsy
      $525,573

      award amount
    • 5R01NS116357-04Department: NIH department code

      Circuits Driving Spatial Coding Deficits in Epilepsy
      $488,219

      award amount
    • 3RF1AG072497-01A1S1Department: NIH department code

      Entorhinal-hippocampal interactions during progressive memory impairments in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease pathology
      $124,813

      award amount

15. Anne Schaefer

    Leads 2 awards · $1,111,981

    • 4R01AG068558-02Department: NIH department code

      Age-dependent activation of microglia inflammatory state and its epigenetic modulation

      Principal investigators: Anne Schaefer (contact PI), Alexander Tarakhovsky

      $725,606

      award amount
    • 5R01NS106721-05Department: NIH department code

      Transcriptional Control of Microglia Diversification and Inflammation

      Principal investigators: Anne Schaefer (contact PI), Alexander Tarakhovsky

      $386,375

      award amount

16. Xiaoting Wu

    Leads 2 awards · $1,078,656

    • 1R01MH136228-01Department: NIH department code

      Neural Mechanisms of Social Information Processing
      $829,966

      award amount
    • 5R00MH122697-05Department: NIH department code

      The role of the septum in social memory
      $248,690

      award amount

17. Joseph Michael Castellano

    Leads 2 awards · $928,262

    • 4R01AG072300-02Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of youth-associated blood-borne factors regulating CNS rejuvenation
      $505,760

      award amount
    • 5R01AG061382-05Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of TIMP2-mediated hippocampal revitalization in Alzheimer's disease
      $422,502

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32AG049688-10, led by Patrick R Hof.

18. Merina Thekenangarpadiyil Varghese

    Leads 2 awards · $890,777

    • 5R01AG078755-03Department: NIH department code

      Mass spectrometry and multiplexed immunofluorescence imaging of metabolic and proteomic contributors to selective neuronal vulnerability in Alzheimer's disease

      Principal investigators: Merina Thekenangarpadiyil Varghese (contact PI), Livia Schiavinato Eberlin, Parag Kumar Mallick

      $819,435

      award amount
    • 3R01AG078755-03S1Department: NIH department code

      Mass spectrometry and multiplexed immunofluorescence imaging of metabolic and proteomic contributors to selective neuronal vulnerability in Alzheimer's disease

      Principal investigators: Merina Thekenangarpadiyil Varghese (contact PI), Livia Schiavinato Eberlin, Parag Kumar Mallick

      $71,342

      award amount

19. Stephen R Salton

    Leads 1 award · $844,721

    • 1R01AG084699-01Department: NIH department code

      Intranasal delivery of VGF-derived peptides in a preclinical model of Alzheimer's disease

      Principal investigators: Stephen R Salton (contact PI), Michelle E Ehrlich

      $844,721

      award amount

20. Graham Ellis-Davies

    Leads 2 awards · $801,354

    • 5R35NS111600-06Department: NIH department code

      Light-Driven Control of Neurons in Vitro and in Vivo
      $575,454

      award amount
    • 3R35NS111600-06S1Department: NIH department code

      Light-driven control of neurons in vitro and in vivo
      $225,900

      award amount

21. Paul A Slesinger

    Leads 2 awards · $723,932

    • 5R01AA018734-13Department: NIH department code

      Structural Analysis of Alcohol-dependent Activation of GIRKs
      $512,682

      award amount
    • 5R21NS130886-02Department: NIH department code

      Identifying New Astrocytic Kir4.1 Channel Modulators for Treating Huntington's Disease

      Principal investigators: Paul A Slesinger (contact PI), Avner Schlessinger

      $211,250

      award amount

22. Zheng Herbert Wu

    Leads 1 award · $705,342

    • 5R01MH133039-02Department: NIH department code

      Molecular and functional architecture of a premotor circuit for decision making
      $705,342

      award amount

23. Yasmin L. Hurd

    Leads 1 award · $638,529

    • 5R01DA051191-04Department: NIH department code

      Molecular Neurobiology of Human Opioid Use Disorder
      $638,529

      award amount

24. Ivan E De Araujo

    Leads 1 award · $579,670

    • 5R01AT011697-04Department: NIH department code

      Spinal Sensory Ganglia and Gut Sensation

      Principal investigators: Ivan E De Araujo (contact PI), Matthew Huntoon Perkins

      $579,670

      award amount

25. Chrystian Junqueira Alves

    Leads 1 award · $240,354

    • 5K01NS127948-02Department: NIH department code

      Generation of Neurons by Force-Mediated Epigenetic Mechanisms through Manipulation of Intrinsic Mechanoregulators
      $240,354

      award amount

26. Roland Horst Friedel

    Leads 1 award · $223,621

    • 1R21NS134158-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Novel mechanisms of confined migration of GBM cells
      $223,621

      award amount

27. Rachel Litke

    Leads 1 award · $169,000

    • 5R03AG078953-02Department: NIH department code

      Translating in vivo drug screens to Alzheimer's patients with a pharmaco-epidemiological approach
      $169,000

      award amount

28. Antonio V Aubry

    Leads 1 award · $136,890

    • 5K99DA058213-02Department: NIH department code

      Functions of the Cortical Amygdala in social behavior
      $136,890

      award amount

29. Allison Bond

    Leads 1 award · $136,350

    • 5K01MH125144-05Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms regulating neural stem cell maintenance in the dentate gyrus
      $136,350

      award amount

30. Justin Lines

    Leads 1 award · $132,705

    • 1K99AG084853-01Department: NIH department code

      Holographic activation of ensemble activity during sleep in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
      $132,705

      award amount

31. Davide Folloni

    Leads 1 award · $127,305

    • 1K99MH137315-01Department: NIH department code

      Neural Mechanisms and Neuromodulation of Affective States
      $127,305

      award amount

32. Zachary Thomas Pennington

    Leads 1 award · $126,090

    • 5K99MH131792-02Department: NIH department code

      Disentangling the Consequences of Trauma
      $126,090

      award amount

33. Kenny Chan

    Leads 1 award · $90,000

    • 5K99DK137037-02Department: NIH department code

      Brain-gut interactions regulating stress-related gut inflammation and barrier permeability
      $90,000

      award amount

34. Kevin Braunscheidel

    Leads 1 award · $76,756

    • 5F32DA054802-03Department: NIH department code

      Nicotine & Nodose: A Neural Basis for Peripheral Control over Nicotine Intake
      $76,756

      award amount

35. Alberto Corona

    Leads 1 award · $74,284

    • 1F32MH136726-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Norepinephrine-sensing habenular microglia and stress-related behaviors
      $74,284

      award amount

36. Ashley Cunningham

    Leads 2 awards · $72,661

    • 1F99NS139541-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Cell-type Specific Roles for H3 Serotonylation During Critical Periods of Postnatal Brain Development and Plasticity
      $48,974

      award amount
    • 5F31NS132558-02Department: NIH department code

      Functional Role for H3 Serotonylation During Critical Periods of Postnatal Brain Development and Plasticity
      $23,687

      award amount

37. Jeremy Sherman

    Leads 1 award · $53,974

    • 5F30DA057092-02Department: NIH department code

      The Role of Fyn Kinase in the Dorsal Striatum in Heroin Use Disorder
      $53,974

      award amount

38. Pamela Del Valle

    Leads 1 award · $48,974

    • 5F31CA268947-03Department: NIH department code

      Neural Mechanisms Driving Comorbid Parkinson's and Melanoma
      $48,974

      award amount

39. Sarah Elizabeth Williams

    Leads 1 award · $48,974

    • 5F31MH133365-02Department: NIH department code

      Cell-type specific and activity-dependent characterization of non-coding autism de novo variants in human stem cell-derived neurons
      $48,974

      award amount

40. Trevonn Michael Gyles

    Leads 1 award · $48,974

    • 5F31MH133297-02Department: NIH department code

      Gene Expression Profiling of Stress Resilient Mice within the Nucleus Accumbens
      $48,974

      award amount

41. Austin Baggetta

    Leads 1 award · $48,814

    • 1F31AG087649-01Department: NIH department code

      How does the brain accumulate cognitive maps?
      $48,814

      award amount

42. Winnie Chen

    Leads 1 award · $48,814

    • 1F30AG090096-01Department: NIH department code

      Investigating Histone 3 Dopaminylation in Parkinson's Disease
      $48,814

      award amount

43. Brittany Marie Hemmer

    Leads 1 award · $47,374

    • 5F31AG079604-02Department: NIH department code

      Regulation of microglial function by blood-borne factors
      $47,374

      award amount

44. Camille Goldman

    Leads 1 award · $47,374

    • 5F31NS130909-02Department: 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
      $47,374

      award amount

45. Emma Hays

    Leads 1 award · $47,374

    • 5F31DA059266-02Department: NIH department code

      Microglia-neuron dopamine signaling - a novel mechanism of dopamine circuit modulation
      $47,374

      award amount

46. Jessica Crowley

    Leads 1 award · $47,374

    • 5F30AG079491-02Department: NIH department code

      Transcriptional regulation of neuroprotective microglia subtypes in health and disease
      $47,374

      award amount

47. Matthew Francis Challman

    Leads 1 award · $47,374

    • 5F30AG079492-02Department: NIH department code

      The regulation of the microglial response to amyloid-beta plaques by the polycomb repressive complex 2
      $47,374

      award amount

48. Mikaela Rosen

    Leads 1 award · $47,374

    • 1F31NS134319-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Role of T-lymphocytes in Idiopathic and Genetic Parkinson's Disease
      $47,374

      award amount

49. Paul Andrew Philipsberg

    Leads 1 award · $47,374

    • 1F31NS134301-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Theta Phase-Locked Stimulation of Entorhinal-Hippocampal Inputs in Healthy and Epileptic Mice
      $47,374

      award amount

50. Philip Henry Hwang

    Leads 1 award · $47,374

    • 5F31AG074652-03Department: NIH department code

      Age-dependent effects on microglia-mediated control of neuronal activity
      $47,374

      award amount

51. Ivan Soler

    Leads 1 award · $47,094

    • 5F99NS135813-02Department: NIH department code

      Progression of Entorhinal-hippocampal Spatial and Emotional Processing Deficits in a Mouse Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
      $47,094

      award amount

52. Winston Hirschler Cuddleston

    Leads 1 award · $17,938

    • 5F31AG084223-02Department: NIH department code

      Examining the genetic regulation of A-to-I editing and mediation of Alzheimer's disease
      $17,938

      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.

• David J Volsky

  Co-investigator on 5U01DA053629-04, led by Paul J. Kenny

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Alexander Tarakhovsky

  Co-investigator on 4R01AG068558-02, led by Anne Schaefer; 5R01NS106721-05, led by Anne Schaefer

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

• Chester Sherwood

  Co-investigator on 1R01AG087945-01, led by Patrick R Hof

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

• Mary Ann Raghanti

  Co-investigator on 1R01AG087945-01, led by Patrick R Hof

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

• Melissa K. Edler

  Co-investigator on 1R01AG087945-01, led by Patrick R Hof

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Kent State University · Social Sciences (NIH department code, 1 award)

• David Arthur Knowles

  Co-investigator on 5U01AG068880-05, led by Towfique Raj

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • New York Genome Center (no department on record, 1 award)

• Livia Schiavinato Eberlin

  Co-investigator on 5R01AG078755-03, led by Merina Thekenangarpadiyil Varghese; 3R01AG078755-03S1, led by Merina Thekenangarpadiyil Varghese

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Baylor College of Medicine · Surgery (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Parag Kumar Mallick

  Co-investigator on 5R01AG078755-03, led by Merina Thekenangarpadiyil Varghese; 3R01AG078755-03S1, led by Merina Thekenangarpadiyil Varghese

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Stanford University · Radiology (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Michelle E Ehrlich

  Co-investigator on 1R01AG084699-01, led by Stephen R Salton

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

• Kristen Jennifer Brennand

  Co-investigator on 4R01AG065926-02, led by Towfique Raj

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Yale University · Psychiatry (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Deanna L Benson

  Co-investigator on 1R01NS135728-01, led by George W. Huntley

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (no department on record, 1 award)

• Brian E Russ

  Co-investigator on 5R01MH132789-02, led by Peter Rudebeck

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

• Helen S Mayberg

  Co-investigator on 5R01MH132789-02, led by Peter Rudebeck

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

• David M Dietz

  Co-investigator on 5R01DA056595-03, led by Ian S. Maze

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • University at Buffalo · Pharmacology (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Matthew Huntoon Perkins

  Co-investigator on 5R01AT011697-04, led by Ivan E De Araujo

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

• Avner Schlessinger

  Co-investigator on 5R21NS130886-02, led by Paul A Slesinger

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · Pharmacology (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Hirofumi Morishita

  Co-investigator on 1T32MH135853-01, led by Scott James Russo

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · Psychiatry (NIH department code, 3 awards)