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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Memphis, TN

Funding
$12.4M
$12,406,714
Awards
22
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
21
13 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#23
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.
  • NIH gives hospital awards no department code. Each counts under its contact PI's own department, from their PubMed affiliations, or under a department inferred from the award's topic when no affiliation names one. Each award below says which. How departments are assigned
  • These are the awards in the Neurosciences row of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital page.

Leads a grant in this department

13 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. Stephen C Mack

    Leads 4 awards · $2,423,880

    • 5U01CA281823-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Targeting tumor and T cell DNA methylomes to improve CAR T cell therapies for diffuse midline glioma

      Principal investigators: Stephen C Mack (contact PI), Giedre Krenciute, Timothy N Phoenix

      $786,304
      award amount
    • 5R01CA284455-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Transcriptional Regulation in ZFTA-RELA Ependymoma

      Principal investigators: Stephen C Mack (contact PI), Benjamin Deneen

      $622,500
      award amount
    • 5U01CA294103-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Discovering the mechanisms underlying oncogenesis by ZFTA-RELA and pinpointing therapeutic targets.

      Principal investigators: Stephen C Mack (contact PI), Richard W Kriwacki

      $538,937
      award amount
    • 5R01NS116361-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      Deciphering the Role of Aberrant Endogenous Retroviral Expression in Onco-histone Driven Glioma
      $476,139
      award amount

  2. Stanislav S Zakharenko

    Leads 3 awards · $1,847,437

    • 5R01MH139498-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Thalamocortical disruption as a convergence point for schizophrenia risks
      $662,341
      award amount
    • 5R01MH136215-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Cooperative dysfunction of thalamocortical and cerebellar inputs to the auditory cortex in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome model of schizophrenia.

      Principal investigators: Stanislav S Zakharenko (contact PI), Troy A. Hackett

      $623,312
      award amount
    • 5R01DC021511-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Sensory-evoked adenosine release in cortical plasticity
      $561,784
      award amount

  3. Michael A Dyer

    Leads 3 awards · $1,586,229

    • 5R01EY037117-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      The Role of Müller Glia in Acute and Chronic Response to Stress, Injury, and Disease in the Retina
      $606,034
      award amount
    • 5R01EY036689-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      The Role of Modular Super-Enhancers in the Developing Murine and Human Retina
      $596,514
      award amount
    • 3U01CA263969-05S1Department: investigator's affiliation
      In Vivo Testing of Novel Drug Combinations for Pediatric Soft Tissue Sarcomas

      Principal investigators: Michael A Dyer (contact PI), Elizabeth A Stewart

      $383,681
      award amount

  4. David Joseph Solecki

    Leads 2 awards · $1,366,684

    • 1R01NS141793-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Decoding Neuron Nuclear Condensation in Differentiation: Imaging & Molecular Insights
      $690,296
      award amount
    • 5R01NS139519-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Polarity Signals Coordinate Neuronal Differentiation & Nuclear Organization
      $676,388
      award amount

  5. Paul Northcott

    Leads 2 awards · $1,264,080

    • 5R01CA270785-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Mapping the Cerebellar Origins of Medulloblastoma Subgroups
      $686,021
      award amount
    • 5R01CA259372-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Deconstructing pineoblastoma origins to advance disease biology, modeling, and therapy
      $578,059
      award amount

  6. Junmin Peng

    Leads 1 award · $849,475

    • 5R01AG092468-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Proteogenomics of Splicing Proteinopathies in Neurodegeneration

      Principal investigators: Junmin Peng (contact PI), Hongjun Song, Xusheng Wang

      $849,475
      award amount

  7. Young-Goo Han

    Leads 1 award · $570,593

    • 5R01NS100939-08Department: investigator's affiliation
      Sonic Hedgehog Signaling in Neocortical Growth and Folding
      $570,593
      award amount

  8. Jamy C. Peng

    Leads 1 award · $508,750

    • 5R35GM158393-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Epigenetic gene regulation for stem cell fates
      $508,750
      award amount

  9. Jay Benjamin Bikoff

    Leads 1 award · $498,871

    • 1R01NS148415-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Dissecting spinal interneuron circuits controlling motor output
      $498,871
      award amount

  10. Fabio Demontis

    Leads 1 award · $462,500

    • 5R01AG075869-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      REGULATION OF PROTEOSTASIS AND TAUOPATHY BY MALTOSE-INDUCED SIGNALING
      $462,500
      award amount

  11. Xinwei Cao

    Leads 1 award · $462,500

    • 1R01NS146721-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Transcriptional mechanisms underlying cell fate specification and maintenance during neural development
      $462,500
      award amount

  12. Yuuta Imoto

    Leads 1 award · $462,500

    • 1R35GM162501-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Dissecting a Novel Pathway for Degradative Endosome Generation during Rapid Synaptic Vesicle Recycling Pathway
      $462,500
      award amount

  13. Victoria L Castro

    Leads 1 award · $103,215

    • 5K00NS125690-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      Gene regulatory mechanisms governed by the ASXL1/HCF1/OGT complex during neurogenesis
      $103,215
      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.