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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

Funding
$5.4M
$5,448,014
Awards
12
FY2026 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
11
10 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
#41
of 89 · 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 Physiology row of the Michigan State University page.

Leads a grant in this department

10 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. Alfred J Robison

    Leads 2 awards · $1,175,859

    • 5R01MH111604-10Department: NIH department code
      Projection-specific gene expression in resilience to chronic stress

      Principal investigators: Alfred J Robison (contact PI), Michelle Suzanne Mazei-Robison

      $595,642
      award amount
    • 5R01AI168014-05Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional mechanisms in mast cells underlying immune function and disease

      Principal investigators: Alfred J Robison (contact PI), Adam Moeser

      $580,217
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01DA066149-01, led by Michelle Suzanne Mazei-Robison.

  2. Brian D. Gulbransen

    Leads 2 awards · $957,067

    • 5R01DK103723-12Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of enteric motor neurocircuits by enteric glia in health and disease
      $502,932
      award amount
    • 5R01DK120862-07Department: NIH department code
      Enteric glia and visceral pain
      $454,135
      award amount
  3. Michelle Suzanne Mazei-Robison

    Leads 1 award · $495,345

    • 1R01DA066149-01Department: NIH department code
      Ventral tegmental area neuromedin s expression and signaling in opioid responses

      Principal investigators: Michelle Suzanne Mazei-Robison (contact PI), Alfred J Robison

      $495,345
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01MH111604-10, led by Alfred J Robison.

  4. Eran Robert Andrechek

    Leads 1 award · $487,189

    • 5R01HD104606-05Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional regulation of mammary gland development
      $487,189
      award amount
  5. Gina Marie Leinninger

    Leads 1 award · $484,739

    • 5R01DK103808-12Department: NIH department code
      Role of Lateral Hypothalamic Neurotensin Neurons in Energy Balance
      $484,739
      award amount
  6. Geoffroy O Laumet

    Leads 1 award · $475,479

    • 5R01AI177305-03Department: NIH department code
      NHERF1 regulates MRGPRX2/MrgprB2 responses in mast cells

      Principal investigators: Geoffroy O Laumet (contact PI), Adam Moeser

      $475,479
      award amount
  7. Hongbing Wang

    Leads 1 award · $416,859

    • 1R21MH140167-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Probing nucleolus function in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome
      $416,859
      award amount
  8. Shane R Crandall

    Leads 1 award · $384,209

    • 5R01NS117636-05Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic properties of neural circuits in the forebrain
      $384,209
      award amount
  9. Yun Liang

    Leads 1 award · $322,268

    • 5R01AR078781-06Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the immunometabolic mechanism of VGLL3 mediating female-biased autoimmunity
      $322,268
      award amount
  10. Sarah Elzinga

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00AG071667-05Department: NIH department code
      Midlife obesity and prediabetes trigger later life cognitive decline through central nervous system inflammaging and innate immune dysregulation of cGAS/STING
      $249,000
      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.

  • Adam Moeser

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI168014-05, led by Alfred J Robison; 5R01AI177305-03, led by Geoffroy O Laumet

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