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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at Northwestern University

Chicago, IL

Funding
$12.8M
$12,792,708
Awards
30
FY2025 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
29
21 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#13
of 86 · 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 Northwestern University page.

Leads a grant in this department

21 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. Peter Penzes

    Leads 3 awards · $1,980,991

    • 5R01MH130838-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Postsynaptic Small G-protein Regulators

      Principal investigators: Peter Penzes (contact PI), Chi-Hao Luan

      $690,966
      award amount
    • 5R01MH071316-19Department: NIH department code
      Rac-GEF signaling in dendritic spines

      Principal investigators: Peter Penzes (contact PI), Maria V. Barbolina

      $650,204
      award amount
    • 5R01MH107182-09Department: NIH department code
      Postsynaptic roles of ankyrins
      $639,821
      award amount

  2. Dalton James Surmeier

    Leads 2 awards · $1,450,972

    • 5R37NS034696-26Department: NIH department code
      Dopaminergic and Muscarinic Signaling in the Striatum
      $726,002
      award amount
    • 5R01NS121174-05Department: NIH department code
      Determinants of Basal Ganglia Pathology in Parkinson's Disease

      Principal investigators: Dalton James Surmeier (contact PI), Mark D Bevan

      $724,970
      award amount

  3. Anis Contractor

    Leads 1 award · $1,276,892

    • 4RF1MH130428-04Department: NIH department code
      Effectors of presynaptic cAMP dependent potentiation at mossy fiber synapses

      Principal investigators: Anis Contractor (contact PI), Jeffrey Nicholas Savas

      $1,276,892
      award amount

  4. Jones G Parker

    Leads 2 awards · $1,223,878

    • 1R01MH136998-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The Neural Basis of Dopamine-Driven Deficits in Cognition and Perception
      $774,632
      award amount
    • 5R01NS122840-05Department: NIH department code
      Dopamine, Synaptic Plasticity and Striatal Ensemble Dynamics Underlying Motor Learning
      $449,246
      award amount

  5. Gordon M Shepherd

    Leads 2 awards · $871,142

    • 5R37NS061963-17Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic circuit organization of motor cortex
      $511,142
      award amount
    • 5R34DA059723-02Department: NIH department code
      Multimodal behavioral analysis of oromanual food-handling in freely moving animals
      $360,000
      award amount

  6. Charles Heckman

    Leads 2 awards · $833,733

    • 5R01NS132487-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of propriospinal neurons in the recovery of posture after spinal cord injury

      Principal investigators: Charles Heckman (contact PI), David James Bennett, Marin Manuel

      $484,533
      award amount
    • 5R37NS135820-02Department: NIH department code
      Neuromodulation of motoneuronal processing of dynamic synaptic inputs
      $349,200
      award amount

  7. Alicia Dione Guemez Gamboa

    Leads 3 awards · $790,977

    • 5R01NS123163-04Department: NIH department code
      Identifying pathogenic mechanisms underlying PACS1 Syndrome: implications for neural development
      $509,568
      award amount
    • 5R21NS136889-02Department: NIH department code
      Pathogenic mechanisms of PACS2 syndrome variant in developing neurons
      $190,395
      award amount
    • 3R01NS123163-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Identifying pathogenic mechanisms underlying PACS1 Syndrome: implications for neural development
      $91,014
      award amount

  8. Lee Miller

    Leads 1 award · $616,798

  9. Lucas Pinto

    Leads 2 awards · $599,473

    • 1R01MH138285-01Department: NIH department code
      Microcircuit mechanisms behind the distributed cortical contributions to working memory
      $553,788
      award amount
    • 5R34NS138022-02Department: NIH department code
      Inferring causality with spatiotemporally stochastic optogenetics
      $45,685
      award amount

  10. Mark D Bevan

    Leads 1 award · $565,162

    • 5R01NS041280-24Department: NIH department code
      Resilience, Dysregulation, and Rescue of Basal Ganglia Indirect Pathway Function in Progressive Parkinsonism
      $565,162
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS121174-05, led by Dalton James Surmeier.

  11. Gianmaria MacCaferri

    Leads 1 award · $557,902

    • 5R01NS096092-07Department: NIH department code
      Microcircuits of the Subiculum and Epilepsy
      $557,902
      award amount

  12. Talia Newcombe Lerner

    Leads 1 award · $502,708

    • 5R01MH125885-03Department: NIH department code
      Plasticity and Function of Dopamine Circuits Regulating the Transition to Habit
      $502,708
      award amount

  13. Julia Cox

    Leads 1 award · $484,546

    • 1R01MH137028-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Transformation of value in the basal ganglia
      $484,546
      award amount

  14. Daniel A Dombeck

    Leads 1 award · $271,155

    • 5T32MH067564-23Department: NIH department code
      Training Program in Neurobiology of Information Storage
      $271,155
      award amount

  15. Yuta Senzai

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00EY033850-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of the Superior Colliculus in Orienting Eye Movements during REM Sleep
      $249,000
      award amount

  16. Marco Martina

    Leads 1 award · $160,000

    • 1R03AG092302-01Department: NIH department code
      The role of depolarizing GABA in Alzheimer's disease
      $160,000
      award amount

  17. Hannah S Wirtshafter

    Leads 1 award · $149,472

    • 5K99MH135062-02Department: NIH department code
      Identifying and manipulating behavioral and neural correlates of contextual learning
      $149,472
      award amount

  18. Manhua Zhu

    Leads 1 award · $75,052

    • 1F32NS141898-01Department: NIH department code
      Motor cortical control of dopamine release dynamics during motor learning
      $75,052
      award amount

  19. Jacob Andrew Nadel

    Leads 1 award · $44,751

    • 5F31DA060560-02Department: NIH department code
      The impact of adolescent stress on neural circuits underlying punishment resistant reward seeking
      $44,751
      award amount

  20. Nicolette A Moya

    Leads 1 award · $44,187

    • 5F31MH134549-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of nigrostriatal and striatal cell subtype signaling in behavioral impairments related to schizophrenia
      $44,187
      award amount

  21. Justin Anair

    Leads 1 award · $43,917

    • 5F31MH136695-02Department: NIH department code
      Determining the nigrostriatal circuit basis of false auditory perceptions.
      $43,917
      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.