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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

New York, NY

Funding
$17.4M
$17,425,514
Awards
35
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
34
27 lead a grant here, 7 co-investigators
Department rank
#10
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 NYU Grossman School of Medicine page.

Leads a grant in this department

27 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. Roozbeh Kiani

    Leads 3 awards · $3,380,795

    • 4RF1MH141929-02Department: NIH department code
      Data-driven control of primate prefrontal neural activity using patterned microstimulation

      Principal investigators: Roozbeh Kiani (contact PI), Luca Mazzucato

      $2,286,952
      award amount
    • 5R01MH127375-05Department: NIH department code
      Causal power of cortical neural ensembles: mechanisms and utility for brain perturbations

      Principal investigators: Roozbeh Kiani (contact PI), Luca Mazzucato

      $579,151
      award amount
    • 5R01NS145489-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural Representation of Perceptual Decisions, Confidence, and Actions in Human Basal Ganglia and Thalamus

      Principal investigators: Roozbeh Kiani (contact PI), Alon Mogilner

      $514,692
      award amount
  2. Christine M Constantinople

    Leads 3 awards · $1,711,031

    • 1R01MH139681-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Neural circuit mechanisms of dynamic learning rates
      $710,563
      award amount
    • 5R01MH136272-03Department: NIH department code
      Acetylcholine determines dopamine's role in learning versus moving
      $610,194
      award amount
    • 5R01DA065418-02Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Multiregional computations for value-based decision-making

      Principal investigators: Christine M Constantinople (contact PI), Cristina Savin

      $390,274
      award amount
  3. Dan Harvey Sanes

    Leads 2 awards · $1,524,549

    • 1U01DA063581-01Department: NIH department code
      Computational Analyses of Family Auditory Communication: Linking Behavior, Vocalization, and Neural Dynamics

      Principal investigators: Dan Harvey Sanes (contact PI), Alexander Henry Williams, David Michael Schneider, Talmo D. Pereira

      $854,818
      award amount
    • 5R01DC020279-05Department: NIH department code
      Social learning enhances auditory cortex sensitivity and task acquisition
      $669,731
      award amount
  4. Eric Klann

    Leads 2 awards · $1,516,913

    • 5R35NS122316-06Department: NIH department code
      Translational Control in Memory and Brain Disorders
      $1,094,616
      award amount
    • 1R21AG093455-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Dysregulated Translation in Human Neurons Carrying FTD-associated Tau Mutations
      $422,297
      award amount
  5. Robert Crooks Froemke

    Leads 1 award · $1,240,576

  6. J Anthony Movshon

    Leads 2 awards · $897,973

    • 5R01EY022428-12Department: NIH department code
      Visual pattern representation in the extrastriate cortex

      Principal investigators: J Anthony Movshon (contact PI), Eero Peter Simoncelli

      $646,174
      award amount
    • 5T32EY007136-32Department: NIH department code
      Training in Visual Neuroscience
      $251,799
      award amount
  7. Najib Judeh Majaj

    Leads 1 award · $768,485

    • 4R01NS127122-02Department: NIH department code
      Computational Dynamics in Neural Populations of Freely Foraging vs. Restrained Monkeys
      $768,485
      award amount
  8. Cristina M Alberini

    Leads 1 award · $687,837

    • 5R01MH065635-25Department: NIH department code
      Gene Expression in Long-Term Memory
      $687,837
      award amount
  9. Wei Ji Ma

    Leads 2 awards · $655,655

    • 5T90DA059110-04Department: NIH department code
      Training program in computational approaches to brain and behavior
      $329,539
      award amount
    • 5R90DA060339-04Department: NIH department code
      Training program in computational approaches to brain and behavior
      $326,116
      award amount
  10. Andre Antonio Fenton

    Leads 1 award · $651,814

    • 5R01MH132204-04Department: NIH department code
      Towards a critical test of the synaptic plasticity and memory hypothesis
      $651,814
      award amount
  11. Biyu Jade He

    Leads 1 award · $639,600

    • 1R01NS148898-01Department: NIH department code
      Neural Mechanisms of Visual Hallucinations in Lewy Body Diseases
      $639,600
      award amount
  12. Erin L Rich

    Leads 1 award · $627,687

    • 5R01MH134845-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of multi-attribute decision-making
      $627,687
      award amount
  13. David Michael Schneider

    Leads 1 award · $561,352

    • 2R01DC018802-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Auditory cortical processing of self-generated sounds
      $561,352
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1U01DA063581-01, led by Dan Harvey Sanes.

  14. Molly Gale Hammell

    Leads 1 award · $518,509

    • 2R56NS118570-03A1Department: NIH department code
      Connecting TDP-43 Pathology to the Molecular Profiles of Neurodegeneration
      $518,509
      award amount
  15. Alexander Henry Williams

    Leads 1 award · $411,187

    • 1R01DA066648-01Department: NIH department code
      Impacts of neural variability and noise on neural population codes
      $411,187
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1U01DA063581-01, led by Dan Harvey Sanes.

  16. Eero Peter Simoncelli

    Leads 1 award · $292,002

    • 5R01DA059220-03Department: NIH department code
      A multi-level framework for characterizing task-efficient coding geometry of neural population activities

      Principal investigators: Eero Peter Simoncelli (contact PI), Sueyeon Chung

      $292,002
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01EY022428-12, led by J Anthony Movshon.

  17. Xingjie Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $245,815

    • 5R00DK134853-04Department: NIH department code
      Competing effects of AgRP and POMC neurons on cAMP signaling in downstream neurons in vivo
      $245,815
      award amount
  18. Adam G Carter

    Leads 1 award · $241,500

    • 5R21DA064023-02Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic organization of cholinergic interneurons in the nucleus accumbens
      $241,500
      award amount
  19. Carla Golden

    Leads 1 award · $169,489

    • 1K99DA062326-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Estrogenic regulation of neuromodulators and temporal discounting
      $169,489
      award amount
  20. David Hocker

    Leads 1 award · $145,174

    • 5K01MH132043-04Department: NIH department code
      Acquiring cognitive maps: how brains learn hidden structure
      $145,174
      award amount
  21. Megan Anne Kirchgessner

    Leads 1 award · $134,109

    • 1K99DC022676-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Plasticity and social neuromodulation of developing auditory cortical circuits
      $134,109
      award amount
  22. Amber M Kline

    Leads 1 award · $81,580

    • 5F32DC022169-03Department: NIH department code
      Long-range exchange of expectation, experience and error during auditory-motor learning
      $81,580
      award amount
  23. Garrett Blair

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32MH135680-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of Anterior Cingulate Cortex Contributions to Hippocampal Cognitive Control
      $79,348
      award amount
  24. Charles Jacob Sheehan

    Leads 1 award · $76,300

    • 1F32HD121352-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of astrocytic regulation of neuronal physiology in Fragile X Syndrome
      $76,300
      award amount
  25. Joseph Charbonneau

    Leads 1 award · $76,300

    • 1F32MH143408-01Department: NIH department code
      Causal mechanisms of expectation bias in frontal cortex and its role in motivated behaviors
      $76,300
      award amount
  26. Brian Yanzhe Li

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 1F30MH143505-01Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the Dynamics of Hippocampal-Neocortical Coupling in Humans and Mice
      $55,114
      award amount
  27. Isabella Rischall

    Leads 1 award · $34,820

    • 5F31MH140560-02Department: NIH department code
      The representational geometry of hierarchical decision-making processes
      $34,820
      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.

  • Luca Mazzucato

    Co-investigator on 4RF1MH141929-02, led by Roozbeh Kiani; 5R01MH127375-05, led by Roozbeh Kiani

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Cristina Savin

    Co-investigator on 1U01DA063565-01, led by Robert Crooks Froemke; 5R01DA065418-02, led by Christine M Constantinople

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

  • Dayu Lin

    Co-investigator on 1U01DA063565-01, led by Robert Crooks Froemke

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Kenneth L Shepard

    Co-investigator on 1U01DA063565-01, led by Robert Crooks Froemke

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Talmo D. Pereira

    Co-investigator on 1U01DA063581-01, led by Dan Harvey Sanes

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

  • Alon Mogilner

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS145489-02, led by Roozbeh Kiani

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

  • Sueyeon Chung

    Co-investigator on 5R01DA059220-03, led by Eero Peter Simoncelli

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads