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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, NY

Funding
$77.9M
$77,877,809
Awards
82
FY2026 NIH awards in Psychiatry
Principal investigators
86
63 lead a grant here, 23 co-investigators
Department rank
#4
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 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai page.

Leads a grant in this department

63 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. Rene S. Kahn

    Leads 2 awards · $12,380,381

  2. Clara Li

    Leads 3 awards · $8,063,092

    • 5R01AG095513-02Department: NIH department code
      Examining Unique Markers and Risk Factors for AD/ADRD in Foreign- and Native-born Older Chinese Americans: A Study of Social Determinants of Health, Sleep Patterns, Neuroimaging, and Plasma Biomarkers

      Principal investigators: Clara Li (contact PI), Ankit Ashok Parekh, Bin Zhang, Jessica Spat-Lemus

      $5,515,046
      award amount
    • 5R01AG083840-04Department: NIH department code
      Chinese language versions of the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center's Uniform Data Set version 4: a linguistic and cultural adaptation study

      Principal investigators: Clara Li (contact PI), Boon Lead Tee

      $1,303,798
      award amount
    • 5UH3AG083258-04Department: NIH department code
      Research Infrastructure for the study of Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-related dementias in older Asian Americans

      Principal investigators: Clara Li (contact PI), Bin Zhang, Dongming Cai, Jessica Spat-Lemus

      $1,244,248
      award amount
  3. Panagiotis Roussos

    Leads 3 awards · $6,627,358

    • 5U24AG087563-03Department: NIH department code
      The BrainCellQTL consortium: QTL mapping in the human brain at the single cell level
      $2,471,871
      award amount
    • 5R01AG082185-04Department: NIH department code
      The adaptive-innate immune interactome across multiple tissues in Alzheimer's disease

      Principal investigators: Panagiotis Roussos (contact PI), Cameron Stuart McAlpine, Donghoon Lee, Vahram Haroutunian

      $2,188,178
      award amount
    • 1RF1NS147363-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting The Role of Small RNAs in Microglia-driven Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease

      Principal investigators: Panagiotis Roussos (contact PI), Isidore Rigoutsos

      $1,967,309
      award amount
  4. Carolyn Wei Zhu

    Leads 1 award · $4,736,863

  5. Fanny M Elahi

    Leads 1 award · $4,736,863

  6. Hillel Grossman

    Leads 1 award · $4,736,863

  7. John Fonda Crary

    Leads 1 award · $4,736,863

  8. Julius C Hedden

    Leads 1 award · $4,736,863

  9. Margaret Sewell

    Leads 1 award · $4,736,863

    Also a principal investigator on 5R25AG092297-02, led by Judith Neugroschl.

  10. Mary Sano

    Leads 1 award · $4,736,863

  11. Nikolaos K Robakis

    Leads 1 award · $4,736,863

  12. Schahram Akbarian

    Leads 3 awards · $4,331,299

    • 1R01DA065015-01Department: NIH department code
      Single molecule functional validation of neurogenomic alterations in opioid-exposed HIV brain
      $2,352,000
      award amount
    • 5DP1DA056018-05Department: NIH department code
      Single Chromatin Fiber Sequencing and Longitudinal Epigenomic Profiling in HIV+ Brain Cells Exposed to Narcotic and Stimulant
      $1,183,000
      award amount
    • 1R01DA064588-01Department: NIH department code
      Single chromatin fiber multiomics in opioid use disorder brain
      $796,299
      award amount
  13. Behrang Mahjani

    Leads 1 award · $3,252,932

    • 4RF1MH139952-02Department: NIH department code
      Moderate effect size genes in autism spectrum disorder
      $3,252,932
      award amount
  14. Abraham Reichenberg

    Leads 7 awards · $1,813,512

    • 5R01HD107528-05Department: NIH department code
      Prenatal medication exposure in autism, birth complications and developmental disabilities

      Principal investigators: Abraham Reichenberg (contact PI), Avner Schlessinger, Magdalena Janecka

      $686,840
      award amount
    • 1R01AG096298-01Department: NIH department code
      The risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (AsDRD)

      Principal investigators: Abraham Reichenberg (contact PI), Michal Schnaider Beeri, Sven Sandin

      $625,347
      award amount
    • 5R01MH128971-05Department: NIH department code
      The impact of social isolation on aging health in schizophrenia

      Principal investigators: Abraham Reichenberg (contact PI), Eva Velthorst

      $430,739
      award amount
    • 3R01MH128971-05S2Department: NIH department code
      The impact of social isolation on aging health in schizophrenia

      Principal investigators: Abraham Reichenberg (contact PI), Eva Velthorst

      $32,786
      award amount
    • 3R01MH128971-05S4Department: NIH department code
      The impact of social isolation on aging health in schizophrenia

      Principal investigators: Abraham Reichenberg (contact PI), Eva Velthorst

      $21,280
      award amount
    • 3R01MH128971-05S3Department: NIH department code
      The impact of social isolation on aging health in schizophrenia

      Principal investigators: Abraham Reichenberg (contact PI), Eva Velthorst

      $13,122
      award amount
    • 3R01MH128971-05S1Department: NIH department code
      The impact of social isolation on aging health in schizophrenia

      Principal investigators: Abraham Reichenberg (contact PI), Eva Velthorst

      $3,398
      award amount
  15. Rita Z Goldstein

    Leads 3 awards · $1,733,861

    • 5R01DA060914-02Department: NIH department code
      Cognitively-enhanced tDCS of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to reduce craving in cocaine addiction
      $815,710
      award amount
    • 1UG3DA063211-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Cognitively-enhanced tDCS of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to reduce craving in opioid use disorder
      $749,153
      award amount
    • 3R01DA060914-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Cognitively-enhanced tDCS of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to reduce craving in cocaine addiction
      $168,998
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DA049547-05, led by Nelly Alia-Klein; 3R01DA049547-05S1, led by Nelly Alia-Klein.

  16. Muhammad Adeel Parvaz

    Leads 2 awards · $1,672,537

    • 5R37DA058039-04Department: NIH department code
      Cognitive Reappraisal for Mitigating Incubation of Cocaine Cue-Reactivity
      $837,812
      award amount
    • 4R33DA056779-03Department: NIH department code
      Cue Reactivity Modulation in Methamphetamine Use Disorder
      $834,725
      award amount
  17. Silvia De Rubeis

    Leads 1 award · $1,664,276

    • 4RF1MH131537-04Department: NIH department code
      Global mapping of altered neural circuits in a mouse model of DDX3X mutations

      Principal investigators: Silvia De Rubeis (contact PI), Zhuhao Wu

      $1,664,276
      award amount
  18. James Warren Murrough

    Leads 2 awards · $1,605,742

    • 1R01MH141038-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Neuroimmune Mechanisms of Depression and Anhedonia

      Principal investigators: James Warren Murrough (contact PI), Scott James Russo

      $839,815
      award amount
    • 5R01MH134045-04Department: NIH department code
      Neural Circuit-Specific Mechanisms of Ketamine's Effect on Anhedonia and Anxiety in Depression Using Ultra-High Field 7-Tesla MRI
      $765,927
      award amount
  19. Hirofumi Morishita

    Leads 2 awards · $1,228,327

    • 5R01MH118297-08Department: NIH department code
      Maturation of frontal cortico-thalamic circuitry in control of social behavior
      $665,667
      award amount
    • 5R01EY037134-02Department: NIH department code
      Nicotinic modulation of deep layer somatostatin interneurons for visual critical period plasticity
      $562,660
      award amount
  20. Ki Ann Goosens

    Leads 1 award · $1,210,250

    • 5R01AG093773-02Department: NIH department code
      A humanized monoclonal FSH antibody for Alzheimer's Disease and co-occurring health conditions in Down Syndrome

      Principal investigators: Ki Ann Goosens (contact PI), Mone Zaidi

      $1,210,250
      award amount
  21. Joseph D. Buxbaum

    Leads 2 awards · $1,178,192

    • 5R01MH128813-05Department: NIH department code
      Genomics of Autism in Latino Ancestries
      $762,896
      award amount
    • 5R01MH129724-05Department: NIH department code
      1/4 - The Autism Sequencing Consortium: Discovering autism risk genes and how they impact core features of the disorder
      $415,296
      award amount
  22. Harold W Koenigsberg

    Leads 1 award · $1,077,161

    • 5R33MH125130-05Department: NIH department code
      Cognitive Reappraisal Training Targeting Emotion Circuits As a Therapeutic Intervention in Borderline Patients
      $1,077,161
      award amount
  23. Maria De Las Mercedes Perez Rodriguez

    Leads 2 awards · $1,069,306

    • 1R01MH144302-01Department: NIH department code
      Disentangling the complex role of endogenous and exogenous oxytocin (Pitocin) in postpartum depression and anxiety
      $861,666
      award amount
    • 5R25MH129256-04Department: NIH department code
      Training the Next Generation of Psychiatrists-Scientists for Translational Research

      Principal investigators: Maria De Las Mercedes Perez Rodriguez (contact PI), Antonia S New

      $207,640
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32MH122394-07, led by Rene S. Kahn.

  24. Julie A Spicer

    Leads 1 award · $954,279

    • 5R01MH135079-03Department: NIH department code
      Hormonal Drivers of Perimenopausal Inflammation and Mood Symptoms
      $954,279
      award amount
  25. Cheen Euong Ang

    Leads 2 awards · $924,000

    • 1R21MH144609-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Dissection of SRRM2-Mediated RNA Splicing and Subnuclear RNA Organization in Human Neurons
      $462,000
      award amount
    • 1R35GM166361-01Department: NIH department code
      Spatial Principles of Nuclear RNA Organization
      $462,000
      award amount
  26. Nelly Alia-Klein

    Leads 2 awards · $900,274

  27. Ignacio Saez

    Leads 1 award · $844,709

    • 5R01DA060220-02Department: NIH department code
      Examining craving-choice interaction using computational modeling and intracranial recording

      Principal investigators: Ignacio Saez (contact PI), Xiaosi Gu

      $844,709
      award amount
  28. Vincenzo Guido Fiore

    Leads 1 award · $844,081

    • 5R01MH133625-03Department: NIH department code
      Neurocomputational mechanisms and connectivity dynamics underlying obsessive-compulsive disorder and phenotypical differentiations

      Principal investigators: Vincenzo Guido Fiore (contact PI), Martijn Figee

      $844,081
      award amount
  29. Yasmin L. Hurd

    Leads 1 award · $838,504

    • 5R01DA055434-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular underpinnings of the developmental Effects of Cannabis
      $838,504
      award amount
  30. Niamh Mullins

    Leads 1 award · $831,477

    • 5R01MH132733-03Department: NIH department code
      Establishing the Suicide Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium to elucidate the genetics and biology of suicide outcomes
      $831,477
      award amount
  31. Dorothy E Grice

    Leads 1 award · $825,077

    • 5R01MH136218-03Department: NIH department code
      Phenotypic and genetic architecture of OCD in African Americans

      Principal investigators: Dorothy E Grice (contact PI), Sidney H Hankerson

      $825,077
      award amount
  32. Alexander W Charney

    Leads 1 award · $816,902

    • 5R01MH130662-04Department: NIH department code
      2/3 Sequencing and Trans-Diagnostic Phenotyping of Severe Mental Illness in Diverse Populations
      $816,902
      award amount
  33. Yulia Landa

    Leads 1 award · $807,159

    • 5R01MH130354-05Department: NIH department code
      Early Stage Identification and Engagement to Reduce the Duration of Untreated Psychosis: Evaluating the Impact of Screening and Systematic Communication
      $807,159
      award amount
  34. Laura A. Berner

    Leads 1 award · $803,489

    • 5R01MH132786-04Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic Neural Computations Underlying Cognitive Control in Bulimia Nervosa
      $803,489
      award amount
  35. Kiran Girdhar

    Leads 1 award · $794,853

    • 1R01AG097760-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Cell-specific functional impact of tandem repeat length variation in serious mental and neurological disorders
      $794,853
      award amount
  36. Thomas B Hildebrandt

    Leads 1 award · $782,443

    • 5R01MH131655-04Department: NIH department code
      A Confirmatory Efficacy Study of Interoceptive Exposure for Adolescents with Low Weight Eating Disorders
      $782,443
      award amount
  37. Dalila Pinto

    Leads 1 award · $763,265

    • 1R01MH140323-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of splicing and isoform dysregulation in ASD at cellular resolution
      $763,265
      award amount
  38. Brian Musa Sweis

    Leads 1 award · $757,776

    • 5R01MH136230-03Department: NIH department code
      Neuroeconomic mechanisms of counterfactual thinking
      $757,776
      award amount
  39. Kenneth Wengler

    Leads 1 award · $747,607

    • 5R01MH134973-03Department: NIH department code
      Biophysical modeling as a translational bridge for understanding neural ensemble alterations in schizophrenia.
      $747,607
      award amount
  40. Keren Bachi

    Leads 1 award · $743,561

    • 5R01MH139940-02Department: NIH department code
      Pathophysiological mechanisms of cannabidiol in stress regulation
      $743,561
      award amount
  41. Xiaoting Wu

    Leads 1 award · $717,323

    • 5R01MH138515-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of oxytocin in modulating activity of the supramammillary nucleus and social recognition memory

      Principal investigators: Xiaoting Wu (contact PI), Joanna Dabrowska

      $717,323
      award amount
  42. Anna-Sophie Rommel

    Leads 1 award · $712,656

    • 5R01HD109613-05Department: NIH department code
      The longer-term impact of prenatal exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection and the COVID-19 vaccine on behavior, cognition, and brain functioning in the child
      $712,656
      award amount
  43. Jacqueline-Marie Ferland

    Leads 2 awards · $687,847

    • 5DP1DA063522-02Department: NIH department code
      Multiscale Insights into the Epigenetic Basis of THC Consumption
      $507,000
      award amount
    • 5K01DA059689-03Department: NIH department code
      Determining the role of tripartite cell populations in THC-Induced behavioral phenotypes
      $180,847
      award amount
  44. Cheryl Mary Corcoran

    Leads 3 awards · $682,487

    • 5R01MH132239-04Department: NIH department code
      Computational phenotyping of face expression in early psychosis
      $423,951
      award amount
    • 3R01MH132239-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Computational phenotyping of face expression in early psychosis
      $135,653
      award amount
    • 3R01MH132239-04S2Department: NIH department code
      Computational phenotyping of face expression in early psychosis
      $122,883
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 4UF1MH136535-03, led by Rene S. Kahn.

  45. Georgios Voloudakis

    Leads 1 award · $670,825

    • 5R01AG078657-04Department: NIH department code
      Identifying genetically driven gene dysregulation in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias using statistical data integration
      $670,825
      award amount
  46. Jaroslav Bendl

    Leads 1 award · $670,266

    • 1R01NS143073-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mapping the Epigenomic and Spatial Transcriptomic Landscape in Parkinson's Disease
      $670,266
      award amount
  47. Veerle Bergink

    Leads 1 award · $661,796

    • 5R01MH122869-07Department: NIH department code
      Relapse after Discontinuation of Antipsychotics during Pregnancy (R-DAP study)
      $661,796
      award amount
  48. Thalia K Robakis

    Leads 2 awards · $639,482

    • 5R01HD111117-04Department: NIH department code
      Developmental effects of antenatal exposure to antipsychotics
      $459,295
      award amount
    • 3R01HD111117-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Developmental effects of antenatal exposure to antipsychotics
      $180,187
      award amount
  49. Allan Geliebter

    Leads 1 award · $612,700

    • 5R01AA030850-04Department: NIH department code
      Neuroimaging to investigate mechanisms underlying changes in Intake of high energy dense foods and alcohol from pre to post bariatric surgery
      $612,700
      award amount
  50. Jessica Ables

    Leads 1 award · $587,210

    • 5R01DA059455-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and Cellular Profiling of the Habenulointerpeduncular Circuit in Opioid Tolerance and Withdrawal
      $587,210
      award amount
  51. Michael S Breen

    Leads 1 award · $564,568

    • 5R01AG087324-03Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging large-scale genomics to dissect A-to-I editing in brain aging and Alzheimer's disease
      $564,568
      award amount
  52. Sven Sandin

    Leads 1 award · $532,621

    • 5R01HD113669-03Department: NIH department code
      Autism in Preterm Birth
      $532,621
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01AG096298-01, led by Abraham Reichenberg.

  53. Shawn A Rhoads

    Leads 1 award · $422,500

    • 5DP5OD037383-03Department: NIH department code
      A hierarchical examination of the neural and computational mechanisms underlying loneliness
      $422,500
      award amount
  54. Abha Karki Rajbhandari

    Leads 1 award · $420,000

    • 5R35GM160031-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Mechanisms of Brain-Heart Communication Under Stress
      $420,000
      award amount
  55. Judith Neugroschl

    Leads 1 award · $410,329

    • 5R25AG092297-02Department: NIH department code
      Postbaccalaureate Alzheimer's Disease Development Initiative (PADDI)

      Principal investigators: Judith Neugroschl (contact PI), Margaret Sewell

      $410,329
      award amount
  56. Vanessa Babineau

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00HD110939-03Department: NIH department code
      Maternal Childhood Maltreatment-Influenced Prenatal Programming of Early Brain-Behavior and Risk for Future Psychopathology
      $249,000
      award amount
  57. Amy Meryl Rapp

    Leads 1 award · $194,919

    • 5K23MH133997-02Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting Neurocognitive Components of Compulsivity Using Computational Modeling and EEG
      $194,919
      award amount
  58. Yael Jacob

    Leads 1 award · $176,750

    • 5K01MH131855-04Department: NIH department code
      Multidimensional brain connectome features of depression and anxiety
      $176,750
      award amount
  59. Deepak Kaji

    Leads 1 award · $169,701

    • 1K08MH142848-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Multiomic and spatial regulation of hippocampal radial glia and subfield specification
      $169,701
      award amount
  60. Ahmet Oguz Ceceli

    Leads 1 award · $160,155

    • 5K99DA060948-02Department: NIH department code
      Predicting craving and relapse using neurobehavioral markers of goals and habits in opioid use disorder
      $160,155
      award amount
  61. Hui Yang

    Leads 1 award · $133,110

    • 1K99AG097980-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Lifespan Cellular and Spatial Mechanisms Linking Brain Aging and Alzheimer's Disease in the Human Prefrontal Cortex
      $133,110
      award amount
  62. Tadaaki Nishioka

    Leads 1 award · $127,305

    • 5K99MH137314-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of frontal parvalbumin interneuron maturation in attentional development
      $127,305
      award amount
  63. Amber E Kiely

    Leads 1 award · $49,714

    • 5F31MH142080-02Department: NIH department code
      Intracranial Insights into Globus Pallidus externus (GPe) Computations in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
      $49,714
      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.