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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurology at Northwestern University

Chicago, IL

Funding
$28.8M
$28,794,561
Awards
52
FY2025 NIH awards in Neurology
Principal investigators
52
38 lead a grant here, 14 co-investigators
Department rank
#7
of 71 · 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 Neurology row of the Northwestern University page.

Leads a grant in this department

38 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. Phyllis C. Zee

    Leads 2 awards · $3,344,483

    • 4RF1AG081520-02Department: NIH department code
      Noradrenergic Dysregulation, Sleep and Cognition in Older Adults with Insomnia

      Principal investigators: Phyllis C. Zee (contact PI), Daniela Grimaldi

      $2,725,842
      award amount
    • 5R01HL174661-02Department: NIH department code
      Physiological and Behavioral Basis of Circadian Rhythm Delayed Sleep-Wake Phase Disorder

      Principal investigators: Phyllis C. Zee (contact PI), Sabra M Abbott

      $618,641
      award amount

  2. Christina Maria Zelano

    Leads 5 awards · $2,427,560

    • 5R01DC021663-02Department: NIH department code
      Electrophysiological representations of odor in the human brain
      $662,328
      award amount
    • 5R01DC015426-10Department: NIH department code
      Principles of olfactory reward processing in the human brain
      $481,022
      award amount
    • 1R21AG091651-01Department: NIH department code
      Antemortem biomarkers in nasally exhaled breath: A potential novel, noninvasive human diagnostic technique for Alzheimer’s Disease
      $440,000
      award amount
    • 5T32NS047987-18Department: NIH department code
      Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition

      Principal investigators: Christina Maria Zelano (contact PI), Rodrigo M Braga

      $438,221
      award amount
    • 5R01DC018539-05Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing the primary olfactory subregions of the human amygdala
      $405,989
      award amount

  3. Marek-Marsel M Mesulam

    Leads 1 award · $2,058,335

    • 5R01AG077444-19Department: NIH department code
      ASYMMETRIC NEURODEGENERATION AND LANGUAGE IN PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA

      Principal investigators: Marek-Marsel M Mesulam (contact PI), Emily J Rogalski

      $2,058,335
      award amount

  4. Brian J Popko

    Leads 2 awards · $1,872,227

    • 5R35NS137478-02Department: NIH department code
      CNS Demyelination: Initiation, Protection, and Correction
      $1,162,000
      award amount
    • 5R01AG072080-03Department: NIH department code
      Exploring the origins of myelin abnormalities in normal ageing and in vascular dementia

      Principal investigators: Brian J Popko (contact PI), Margaret E Flanagan

      $710,227
      award amount

  5. Evangelos Kiskinis

    Leads 3 awards · $1,730,706

    • 5R01NS134166-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Contribution of ALS/FTD-Associated Mutations in the NEK1 Kinase to Disease Pathophysiology

      Principal investigators: Evangelos Kiskinis (contact PI), Udai B Pandey

      $759,016
      award amount
    • 5R01AG086270-02Department: NIH department code
      Refining iPSC-Based Spinal Cord Model Systems by Fabricating Developmentally Programmed Extracellular Matrix Cues
      $533,084
      award amount
    • 1R21NS142733-01Department: NIH department code
      Establishing iPSC-based models to investigate the mechanistic interaction between neurotrauma and ALS/FTD
      $438,606
      award amount

  6. Pembe Hande Ozdinler

    Leads 1 award · $1,401,127

    • 5R01AG061708-07Department: NIH department code
      Investigations of the protein aggregation inhibitor NU-9 and its derivatives: mode of action and impact on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias

      Principal investigators: Pembe Hande Ozdinler (contact PI), Richard B Silverman, William L Klein

      $1,401,127
      award amount

  7. Robert J Vassar

    Leads 2 awards · $1,253,339

    • 5R01AG081649-02Department: NIH department code
      Exploring annexin A6 for the prevention of dystrophic neurites and tau seeding and spreading in Alzheimer's disease

      Principal investigators: Robert J Vassar (contact PI), Katherine R. Sadleir

      $735,953
      award amount
    • 5T32AG020506-24Department: NIH department code
      Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Training Program in Aging and Dementia

      Principal investigators: Robert J Vassar (contact PI), Sandra Weintraub

      $517,386
      award amount

  8. Lesli Elizabeth Skolarus

    Leads 2 awards · $1,240,035

    • 5R01NS138072-02Department: NIH department code
      Advancing Community Connections and Calculating Risk to Optimize Stroke Survivorship (ACROSS)
      $637,722
      award amount
    • 5R01MD019124-02Department: NIH department code
      Reach Out 2: Randomized Clinical Trial of Emergency Department-Initiated Hypertension Mobile Health Intervention Connecting Multiple HealthSystems

      Principal investigators: Lesli Elizabeth Skolarus (contact PI), William Joseph Meurer

      $602,313
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2UE5NS070695-16, led by John A Kessler.

  9. Dimitri Krainc

    Leads 1 award · $1,200,000

    • 5R35NS122257-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Analysis of Genetic Modifiers in Parkinson's Disease
      $1,200,000
      award amount

  10. Puneet Opal

    Leads 2 awards · $1,198,461

    • 2R01NS082351-11Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the Cellular Basis of Movement Disorders
      $635,901
      award amount
    • 5R01NS127204-04Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating cellular mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration
      $562,560
      award amount

  11. Robert G Kalb

    Leads 2 awards · $1,054,898

    • 5R01NS124802-04Department: NIH department code
      Defining mechanisms underlying C9orf72-associated frontotemporal dementia with C. elegans and mammalian models

      Principal investigators: Robert G Kalb (contact PI), Samuel T Lamitina

      $654,898
      award amount
    • 5R01NS122908-05Department: NIH department code
      RAD23 Control of ALS phenotypes
      $400,000
      award amount

  12. Shi-Yuan Cheng

    Leads 2 awards · $937,318

    • 5R01NS125318-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting RNA Splicing in Glioma
      $490,568
      award amount
    • 5R01NS133160-02Department: NIH department code
      Therapeutic Targeting in EGFR-amplified Glioblastoma
      $446,750
      award amount

  13. Eyal Yaacov Kimchi

    Leads 1 award · $782,328

    • 5R01AG078261-02Department: NIH department code
      Delirium Dynamics: Understanding Causes and Effects
      $782,328
      award amount

  14. Farzaneh A Sorond

    Leads 1 award · $719,780

    • 5R01NS085002-08Department: NIH department code
      Cerebral Small Vessels in Motor and Cognitive Decline: Neuroimaging Signatures of Vulnerability & Resilience
      $719,780
      award amount

  15. Marc W. Slutzky

    Leads 1 award · $694,300

    • 5R01HD113270-02Department: NIH department code
      MINT conditioning to improve post-stroke gait

      Principal investigators: Marc W. Slutzky (contact PI), Yasin Yousef Dhaher

      $694,300
      award amount

  16. Carson J Ingo

    Leads 1 award · $666,679

    • 5R01NS126509-03Department: NIH department code
      Post-stroke normal appearing white matter diffusion properties and cognitive trajectories across age
      $666,679
      award amount

  17. John A Kessler

    Leads 2 awards · $633,317

    • 5R01NS128053-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Behavior by Noggin
      $526,771
      award amount
    • 2UE5NS070695-16Department: NIH department code
      Neuroscience Research Education Program

      Principal investigators: John A Kessler (contact PI), Lesli Elizabeth Skolarus

      $106,546
      award amount

  18. Joseph R Mazzulli

    Leads 1 award · $618,542

    • 5R01NS092823-09Department: NIH department code
      The role of a-synuclein accumulation in lysosomal hydrolase trafficking and function
      $618,542
      award amount

  19. David Gate

    Leads 1 award · $595,259

    • 5R01AG078713-04Department: NIH department code
      The role of apolipoprotein E in Alzheimer's adaptive immunity
      $595,259
      award amount

  20. Gemma Louise Carvill

    Leads 1 award · $573,486

    • 5R01NS134938-02Department: NIH department code
      Poison exons in epilepsy and neurodevelopment
      $573,486
      award amount

  21. Jeffrey Nicholas Savas

    Leads 1 award · $513,087

    • 5R01AG078796-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Amyloid Pathology - Multiomic Activity Imaging of Plaque Formation Dynamics (AmyMAP)
      $513,087
      award amount

  22. Han-Xiang Deng

    Leads 1 award · $450,079

    • 5R01NS099623-09Department: NIH department code
      Mouse model studies of TMEM230-linked Parkinson's disease
      $450,079
      award amount

  23. Tanya Simuni

    Leads 1 award · $439,358

    • 5U24NS107213-08Department: NIH department code
      Clinical Research Site for the Network of Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials (NeuroNEXT site)
      $439,358
      award amount

  24. Rajeshwar B Awatramani

    Leads 1 award · $422,397

    • 5R01NS119690-05Department: NIH department code
      Developmental underpinnings of substantia nigra vulnerability
      $422,397
      award amount

  25. Philip B Gorelick

    Leads 1 award · $301,097

    • 5D43TW009608-12Department: NIH department code
      Multidisciplinary NeuroAIDS Research and Training Program to Improve HIV Outcomes in Nigeria and Africa

      Principal investigators: Philip B Gorelick (contact PI), Olayinka Olusola Omigbodun

      $301,097
      award amount

  26. Niccolo E Mencacci

    Leads 1 award · $228,015

    • 5K08NS131581-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the role of BORCS5 in neuronal lysosomal function and neurodegeneration
      $228,015
      award amount

  27. Sarah Marie Brooker

    Leads 1 award · $227,205

    • 1K08NS138592-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Effects of the Parkinsons Disease associated protein LRRK2 on lysosomal function and inflammatory activity in microglia
      $227,205
      award amount

  28. Joshua I Glaser

    Leads 1 award · $226,454

    • 5R00NS119787-05Department: NIH department code
      Interpretable machine learning for understanding the neural control of movement
      $226,454
      award amount

  29. Scott K. Adney

    Leads 1 award · $225,180

    • 5K08NS121601-04Department: NIH department code
      Multi-scale disease modeling of SCN2A-related epilepsy due to gain-of-function variants
      $225,180
      award amount

  30. Minjee Kim

    Leads 1 award · $191,700

    • 5K23AG088497-02Department: NIH department code
      Sleep Health and Cognitive Function among Middle-aged Adults: the SleepCog Study
      $191,700
      award amount

  31. Eric Michael Liotta

    Leads 1 award · $190,175

    • 5K23AG078705-03Department: NIH department code
      Cerebral Autoregulation, Metabolic derangement, and Edema in Encephalopathy Outcome (CAMEEO)
      $190,175
      award amount

  32. Diana Carolina Perez Rivera

    Leads 1 award · $89,256

    • 4K00AG088569-02Department: NIH department code
      Precision Mapping of Functional Networks in Healthy and Pathological Aging
      $89,256
      award amount

  33. Sidhanth Chandra

    Leads 1 award · $54,538

    • 5F30AG079577-04Department: NIH department code
      The gut microbiome in Alzheimer's disease: exploring the role of astrocytes
      $54,538
      award amount

  34. Allegra Kawles

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31AG094137-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Clinical, Anatomic, and Pathologic Spread of Semantic Language Impairment in the Type C Variant of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration due to TDP-43 (TDP-C)
      $49,538
      award amount

  35. Annie Zalon

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31NS131055-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of ER-phagy in maintaining protein homeostasis in PD patient derived neurons.
      $49,538
      award amount

  36. Brooke Simonton

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31AG091984-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating Sex-Specific Hypothalamic Pathology and Immune Infiltration in Alzheimer's Disease
      $49,538
      award amount

  37. Ye Eun Esther Yoon

    Leads 1 award · $45,200

    • 1F30HD120077-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of CHASERR in CHD2 regulation, chromatin architecture, and gene expression during neurodevelopment
      $45,200
      award amount

  38. Mia Suzanne Broad

    Leads 1 award · $40,026

    • 1F31NS141554-01Department: NIH department code
      POISEN: A Bioinformatics Pipeline to Identify Poison Exons in Neurodevelopment
      $40,026
      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.

  • Daniela Grimaldi

    Co-investigator on 4RF1AG081520-02, led by Phyllis C. Zee

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

  • Emily J Rogalski

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG077444-19, led by Marek-Marsel M Mesulam

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Richard B Silverman

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG061708-07, led by Pembe Hande Ozdinler

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • William L Klein

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG061708-07, led by Pembe Hande Ozdinler

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

  • Udai B Pandey

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS134166-03, led by Evangelos Kiskinis

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Katherine R. Sadleir

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG081649-02, led by Robert J Vassar

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

  • Margaret E Flanagan

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG072080-03, led by Brian J Popko

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Yasin Yousef Dhaher

    Co-investigator on 5R01HD113270-02, led by Marc W. Slutzky

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

  • Samuel T Lamitina

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS124802-04, led by Robert G Kalb

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

  • Sabra M Abbott

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL174661-02, led by Phyllis C. Zee

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

  • William Joseph Meurer

    Co-investigator on 5R01MD019124-02, led by Lesli Elizabeth Skolarus

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Sandra Weintraub

    Co-investigator on 5T32AG020506-24, led by Robert J Vassar

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Rodrigo M Braga

    Co-investigator on 5T32NS047987-18, led by Christina Maria Zelano

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

  • Olayinka Olusola Omigbodun

    Co-investigator on 5D43TW009608-12, led by Philip B Gorelick

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