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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

Funding
$19.6M
$19,564,436
Awards
47
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
45
37 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#8
of 75 · 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 Johns Hopkins University page.

Leads a grant in this department

37 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. Richard L Huganir

    Leads 3 awards · $2,028,177

    • 1R56MH142785-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Noncanonical RNA Splicing and Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of SynGAP1: Novel Mechanisms Underlying Synaptic Plasticity and Cognition
      $776,233
      award amount
    • 4R37NS036715-27Department: NIH department code
      The Dynamic AMPA Receptor Interactome During Plasticity and Learning
      $627,243
      award amount
    • 5R01NS134842-03Department: NIH department code
      Exploring synaptic encoding of circuit-specific memory in behaving mice
      $624,701
      award amount

  2. Ulrich Mueller

    Leads 3 awards · $2,008,668

    • 1R01DC023325-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of hair cell mechanotransduction
      $687,094
      award amount
    • 5R01DC021941-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Clarin-1 and Clarin-2 function in mechanosensory hair cells
      $682,266
      award amount
    • 5R01DC019514-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Auditory Circuit Development
      $639,308
      award amount

  3. Jeffrey D Rothstein

    Leads 1 award · $1,228,125

    • 5R35NS132179-04Department: NIH department code
      Nuclear and Glial Dysfunction in Neurodegeneration
      $1,228,125
      award amount

  4. King-Wai Yau

    Leads 3 awards · $1,228,125

    • 5R01DC014941-10Department: NIH department code
      Cyclic AMP- and Ca2+-Signaling in Sensory Transduction by Olfactory Receptor Neurons
      $409,375
      award amount
    • 5R01EY006837-36Department: NIH department code
      Phototransduction and Signaling in Photoreceptors
      $409,375
      award amount
    • 5R01EY014596-24Department: NIH department code
      Melanopsin Photoreception and Signaling
      $409,375
      award amount

  5. Hey-Kyoung Lee

    Leads 2 awards · $1,150,677

    • 1R01DC022640-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Crossmodal plasticity of adult corticothalamic circuits

      Principal investigators: Hey-Kyoung Lee (contact PI), Patrick O Kanold

      $650,639
      award amount
    • 2R01EY014882-21A1Department: NIH department code
      Global Synpatic Plasticity Mechanisms in Visual Cortex
      $500,038
      award amount

  6. Barbara Stauch Slusher

    Leads 2 awards · $1,148,886

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AG084728-04, led by Takashi Tsukamoto.

  7. Ilya E. Monosov

    Leads 2 awards · $1,105,202

    • 5R01MH116937-08Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Information Seeking in the Primate Brain
      $716,452
      award amount
    • 5R01MH128344-05Department: NIH department code
      Neuronal mechanisms of novelty seeking
      $388,750
      award amount

  8. James J Knierim

    Leads 2 awards · $855,068

    • 5R01NS039456-26Department: NIH department code
      Multisite analysis of hippocampal neuronal ensembles
      $516,603
      award amount
    • 2T32NS091018-26Department: NIH department code
      Training Program in Neuroscience

      Principal investigators: James J Knierim (contact PI), Christopher John Potter, Daniel Hans O'Connor

      $338,465
      award amount

  9. Takashi Tsukamoto

    Leads 1 award · $777,714

    • 5R01AG084728-04Department: NIH department code
      Development of neutral sphingomyelinase 2 (nSMase2) inhibitors for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

      Principal investigators: Takashi Tsukamoto (contact PI), Barbara Stauch Slusher, Rana Rais

      $777,714
      award amount

  10. John E Desmond

    Leads 1 award · $696,964

    • 5R01MH128278-05Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of cerebellar involvement in cognitive sequencing
      $696,964
      award amount

  11. Bindu Paul

    Leads 1 award · $673,477

    • 5R01AG071512-05Department: NIH department code
      Neuroprotective actions of cystathionine g-lyase through gasotransmitter hydrogen sulfide signaling
      $673,477
      award amount

  12. Seth Blackshaw

    Leads 1 award · $651,846

    • 5R01EY036173-03Department: NIH department code
      Identification of gene regulatory networks controlling temporal patterning in retinal progenitor cells and neurogenic Müller glia
      $651,846
      award amount

  13. Solange P Brown

    Leads 1 award · $608,086

    • 1R01MH138416-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The functions of the claustrum in flexible decision making.
      $608,086
      award amount

  14. Alyssa Coyne

    Leads 1 award · $578,963

    • 5R01NS132836-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of impaired ESCRT-III nuclear surveillance in ALS/FTD
      $578,963
      award amount

  15. Xinzhong Dong

    Leads 1 award · $578,699

    • 4R37NS054791-19Department: NIH department code
      Functional Analysis of Mrgpr Family in itch sensation
      $578,699
      award amount

  16. Angelika Doetzlhofer

    Leads 1 award · $484,777

    • 5R01DC019359-05Department: NIH department code
      The function of LIN28B and follistatin in supporting cell reprogramming and hair cell regeneration in the murine cochlea
      $484,777
      award amount

  17. Shanthini Sockanathan

    Leads 1 award · $473,592

    • 5R01AG092368-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating a novel vascular pathway that regulates neuronal survival
      $473,592
      award amount

  18. Rana Rais

    Leads 1 award · $427,625

    • 1R21AG100975-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Glial Cholesteryl Ester Accumulation to Treat APOE4 Alzheimer's Disease
      $427,625
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AG084728-04, led by Takashi Tsukamoto.

  19. Sangmin Jeon

    Leads 1 award · $420,812

    • 5R01NS132879-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of immune cells in skin reinnervation by collateral sprouting after peripheral nerve injury
      $420,812
      award amount

  20. Dwight E Bergles

    Leads 1 award · $417,875

    • 2R01DC008860-14Department: NIH department code
      Spontaneous activity in the developing auditory system
      $417,875
      award amount

  21. Charles E Connor

    Leads 1 award · $409,375

    • 5R01EY037193-03Department: NIH department code
      "CRCNS": Brain-derived network architectures for deciphering and applying brain algorithms

      Principal investigators: Charles E Connor (contact PI), Alan L Yuille

      $409,375
      award amount

  22. Hyungbae Kwon

    Leads 1 award · $403,806

    • 5R01NS138176-03Department: NIH department code
      Real-time mapping of neuronal connectivity at a synapse resolution
      $403,806
      award amount

  23. Mehmet Keles

    Leads 1 award · $246,446

    • 5R00NS124976-04Department: NIH department code
      The Function of Sleep in Critical Period Plasticity
      $246,446
      award amount

  24. Diane E. Peters

    Leads 1 award · $130,140

    • 5K01OD030517-05Department: NIH department code
      Exploring Glutamate Carboxypeptidase II (GCPII) Dysregulation in Human and Experimental IBD
      $130,140
      award amount

  25. Jakub Ziak

    Leads 1 award · $120,987

    • 5K99NS138586-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms underlying interstitial axon branching in the mammalian brain
      $120,987
      award amount

  26. Yueqing Zhou

    Leads 1 award · $119,586

    • 1K99EY039015-01Department: NIH department code
      Integration of Landmark Information into Putative Head Direction Ring Attractor Networks in Retrosplenial Cortex
      $119,586
      award amount

  27. Aaron L Sampson

    Leads 1 award · $104,349

    • 1K99MH139728-01Department: NIH department code
      Attentional Modulation of Neural Activity in Multi-Attribute Decision Making
      $104,349
      award amount

  28. Michael Totty

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32MH135620-04Department: NIH department code
      Neural substrates of extinction deficits in pathological fear
      $79,348
      award amount

  29. Cole Jared Meier

    Leads 1 award · $76,300

    • 1F32AI197522-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the neural basis of spatial repellency in the malaria mosquito
      $76,300
      award amount

  30. Blake Creighton

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31DC022167-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Ribbon Synapse Formation in the Inner Ear
      $50,114
      award amount

  31. Jonah Kendahl Mittelstadt

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31DC022480-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of hair cell mechanotransduction by PIP2
      $50,114
      award amount

  32. Samantha Soto

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31AA031601-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of Orbitofrontal Cortex in Maladaptive Ethanol Seeking
      $50,114
      award amount

  33. Tate Eileen Deweese

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31MH140536-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Exploring the neural architecture of psychedelic experience with high-density electrophysiology
      $50,114
      award amount

  34. Damani Maceo Sama-Borbon

    Leads 1 award · $34,114

    • 1F31AG099539-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of NPTX Shedding - Implications for Synaptic Organizations and Function
      $34,114
      award amount

  35. Parker Stevenson

    Leads 1 award · $34,114

    • 1F31CA306373-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Right place, wrong time: Characterizing how hybrid E/M cancer cells co-opt invasive gene signatures from pubertal development via machine learning & spatial profiling
      $34,114
      award amount

  36. Jonathan Alevy

    Leads 1 award · $33,057

    • 5F31NS141263-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of microglia in TRPV4 mediated neurodegeneration
      $33,057
      award amount

  37. Kristina J. Nielsen

    Leads 1 award · $29,000

    • 1R13EY039568-01Department: NIH department code
      6th Ferret Brain Meeting
      $29,000
      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.