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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Psychiatry at Rutgers University

Newark, NJ

Funding
$11.9M
$11,904,625
Awards
27
FY2026 NIH awards in Psychiatry
Principal investigators
30
22 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#33
of 87 · 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 Psychiatry row of the Rutgers University page.

Leads a grant in this department

22 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. Nina Cooperman

    Leads 2 awards · $1,377,062

    • 5R01DA057631-03Department: NIH department code
      Motivational Interviewing and Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement for Tobacco Dependence and Other Drug use in Methadone Treatment

      Principal investigators: Nina Cooperman (contact PI), Eric Lee Garland

      $737,372
      award amount
    • 5R01DA056537-05Department: NIH department code
      Implementation and Effectiveness of Mindfulness Oriented Recovery Enhancement as an Adjunct to Methadone Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

      Principal investigators: Nina Cooperman (contact PI), Eric Lee Garland

      $639,690
      award amount

  2. Kristina Melia Jackson

    Leads 2 awards · $1,072,462

    • 2R01AA029008-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Prevalence, Onset and Progression of Substance Use in Adolescents and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders

      Principal investigators: Kristina Melia Jackson (contact PI), Stephen J Sheinkopf

      $720,089
      award amount
    • 5T32AA032229-02Department: NIH department code
      Training in Etiology and Consequences of Alcohol Use Across the Lifespan
      $352,373
      award amount

  3. Danielle M Dick

    Leads 2 awards · $1,017,756

    • 2R01DA050721-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Using the Genetic Architecture of Substance Use Disorders to Advance Gene Identification and Understanding of Pathways of Risk
      $756,820
      award amount
    • 5R25DA061485-03Department: NIH department code
      Training in Research Undergraduate Experience through the Rutgers Addiction Research Center: The TRUE RARC Scholar Program
      $260,936
      award amount

  4. Robert Christopher Pierce

    Leads 2 awards · $942,523

    • 5R01DA033641-15Department: NIH department code
      Transgenerational Inheritance of a Cocaine Resistance Phenotype
      $531,578
      award amount
    • 5T32DA055569-05Department: NIH department code
      Rutgers Training in Addiction Research Program
      $410,945
      award amount

  5. Jennifer Gladys Mulle

    Leads 1 award · $767,553

    • 5R01MH126449-05Department: NIH department code
      The schizophrenia-associated 3q29 deletion: genetic architecture of behavioral phenotypes

      Principal investigators: Jennifer Gladys Mulle (contact PI), Michael Philip Epstein

      $767,553
      award amount

  6. Jill Alexandra Rabinowitz

    Leads 2 awards · $745,315

    • 5R01MH134009-03Department: NIH department code
      Social-Ecological and Individual Determinants of the Course of Suicidal Ideation & Attempt among African Americans from Early Adolescence toYoung Adulthood

      Principal investigators: Jill Alexandra Rabinowitz (contact PI), Michael A. Lindsey

      $400,030
      award amount
    • 5R01DA057552-06Department: NIH department code
      An Examination of the Joint Contributions of Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Genetics, and COVID-19 on the Development of Delay Discounting and Substance Use Across Adolescence

      Principal investigators: Jill Alexandra Rabinowitz (contact PI), Brion S Maher, Julia W Felton

      $345,285
      award amount

  7. Avram J Holmes

    Leads 1 award · $710,976

    • 5R01MH120080-08Department: NIH department code
      Functional genomics of the human connectome in psychiatric illness

      Principal investigators: Avram J Holmes (contact PI), Thomas Boon Thye Yeo

      $710,976
      award amount

  8. Marc L Steinberg

    Leads 1 award · $706,500

    • 1R34DA062349-01A1Department: NIH department code
      RESUBMISSION R34:Acceptability And Feasibility of Telehealth Motivational Interviewing And NRT for Young Adults who Vape
      $706,500
      award amount

  9. Tammy Chung

    Leads 1 award · $706,467

    • 5R01DA058663-03Department: NIH department code
      Cannabis effects on physical and mental health in medical cannabis patients
      $706,467
      award amount

  10. David Harold Zald

    Leads 1 award · $647,940

    • 5R01MH137719-02Department: NIH department code
      Temptation Resistance Failures: Transdiagnostic Features and Etiological Influences Across Externalizing and Internalizing Disorders
      $647,940
      award amount

  11. Anna Borisova Konova

    Leads 1 award · $642,253

    • 1R01DA062450-01A1Department: NIH department code
      High-precision mapping of sex hormone modulation of reward value computations in opioid addiction
      $642,253
      award amount

  12. Gary S. Aston-Jones

    Leads 1 award · $372,867

    • 5R01DA061303-03Department: NIH department code
      Orexin (hypocretin) signaling in ventral tegmental area as a common mediator of sleep disturbances and drug demand in cocaine abstinence

      Principal investigators: Gary S. Aston-Jones (contact PI), Morgan H. James

      $372,867
      award amount

  13. Jessica E Salvatore

    Leads 1 award · $353,250

    • 5R01AA030996-04Department: NIH department code
      A genetically informative approach to understanding the impact of spousal psychiatric disorders on alcohol use disorder onset, remission, and relapse
      $353,250
      award amount

  14. Carolyn E Sartor

    Leads 1 award · $329,703

    • 5R01MD016922-05Department: NIH department code
      Cultural and Environmental Influences on Precursors to and Early Stages of Alcohol, Nicotine, and Cannabis Use in Black and Latinx Youth
      $329,703
      award amount

  15. Carolina Cappi

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00MH128540-04Department: NIH department code
      Genomics of OCD in Latin American Communities
      $249,000
      award amount

  16. Sharon Sanz Simon

    Leads 1 award · $247,143

    • 5R00AG078561-04Department: NIH department code
      Web-based technology and cognitive training: improving executive control in cognitivelyhealthy older adults
      $247,143
      award amount

  17. Luciana Fonseca

    Leads 1 award · $246,694

    • 5R00AG082864-04Department: NIH department code
      Intraindividual cognitive variability in aging adults with Down syndrome: associations with Alzheimer's disease plasma biomarkers, neuropathology and clinical dementia
      $246,694
      award amount

  18. Marilyn Piccirillo

    Leads 1 award · $234,461

    • 5R00AA029459-05Department: NIH department code
      Digital Phenotyping of Anxiety and Anxiety-Related Alcohol Comorbidity and Treatment
      $234,461
      award amount

  19. Sarah Brislin

    Leads 1 award · $191,699

    • 5K23DA058808-03Department: NIH department code
      Neural, genetic, and environmental indicators of treatment outcomes for adolescent substance use
      $191,699
      award amount

  20. Holly Poore

    Leads 1 award · $155,032

    • 5K01DA059657-02Department: NIH department code
      Exploring the Interface between Substance Use Disorders and other Forms of Psychopathology using Phenotypic and Genomic Approaches
      $155,032
      award amount

  21. Xiangyu Tao

    Leads 1 award · $139,612

    • 1K99DA064782-01Department: NIH department code
      Integrating AI and Co-production to Analyze Communications in Social Media Substance Use Recovery Groups
      $139,612
      award amount

  22. Francesca Lofaro

    Leads 1 award · $48,357

    • 5F31DA061610-02Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating How Menstrual Cycle Phase Influences Neurocognitive Processes Underlying Risk-Taking in Women with Opioid Use Disorder
      $48,357
      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.