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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurology at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, AL

Funding
$18.7M
$18,720,090
Awards
32
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurology
Principal investigators
45
30 lead a grant here, 15 co-investigators
Department rank
#18
of 83 · 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 University of Alabama at Birmingham page.

Leads a grant in this department

30 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. Nita A Limdi

    Leads 4 awards · $4,827,314

  2. Erik D Roberson

    Leads 2 awards · $4,412,376

  3. David S Geldmacher

    Leads 1 award · $4,271,215

  4. Jonathan Edward McConathy

    Leads 1 award · $4,271,215

  5. Kristina Visscher

    Leads 1 award · $4,271,215

  6. Lloyd J Edwards

    Leads 1 award · $4,271,215

  7. Marissa C Natelson Love

    Leads 1 award · $4,271,215

  8. Olivio J Clay

    Leads 1 award · $4,271,215

  9. Rati Chkheidze

    Leads 1 award · $4,271,215

  10. Harrison Carroll Walker

    Leads 1 award · $1,531,491

    • 5UH3NS130202-03Department: NIH department code
      Stimulus-evoked directional field potentials to guide subthalamic and pallidal DBS for PD
      $1,531,491
      award amount

  11. Talene Alene Yacoubian

    Leads 3 awards · $1,247,009

    • 5T32GM156741-02Department: NIH department code
      Medical Scientist Training Program
      $1,178,342
      award amount
    • 3T32GM156741-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Medical Scientist Training Program
      $61,167
      award amount
    • 5R13GM109532-13Department: NIH department code
      Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium
      $7,500
      award amount

  12. Peter H King

    Leads 2 awards · $1,016,249

    • 5R01NS141123-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Glial HuR to Suppress Inflammation and Promote Neuroprotection in Acute Stroke

      Principal investigators: Peter H King (contact PI), Shaida A. Andrabi

      $540,236
      award amount
    • 1R01NS146202-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Role of RNA Regulator Tristetraprolin in mitigating pain responses after peripheral injury through suppression of pro-inflammatory mediators

      Principal investigators: Peter H King (contact PI), Abhishek Guha

      $476,013
      award amount

  13. Andrew Emmett Arrant

    Leads 2 awards · $891,083

    • 1R56AG097867-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeted progranulin therapy for TDP-43 Proteinopathy
      $486,779
      award amount
    • 5R01NS128031-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Thalamocortical Dysfunction and Social Deficits in FTD due to GRN Mutations
      $404,304
      award amount

  14. Jeremy H. Herskowitz

    Leads 1 award · $767,130

  15. Laura A. Volpicelli-Daley

    Leads 1 award · $603,457

    • 5R01AG081433-04Department: NIH department code
      Role of GlcSph in cognitive deficits in Lewy body dementias
      $603,457
      award amount

  16. Jerzy P Szaflarski

    Leads 1 award · $577,597

    • 5R01NS140278-02Department: NIH department code
      Neuroimaging of Neuroinflammation in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

      Principal investigators: Jerzy P Szaflarski (contact PI), Etty N Benveniste

      $577,597
      award amount

  17. Briana De Miranda

    Leads 2 awards · $536,966

    • 5R01ES034846-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of lysosomal impairment in trichloroethylene induced Parkinsonian neurodegeneration
      $414,266
      award amount
    • 3R01ES034846-03S1Department: NIH department code
      The role of lysosomal impairment in trichloroethylene induced Parkinsonian neurodegeneration
      $122,700
      award amount

  18. Patricia Aguilar Calvo

    Leads 1 award · $499,648

    • 1R56NS144587-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Heparan sulfate-mediated mechanisms of alpha-synuclein pathology in dementia with Lewy bodies disease
      $499,648
      award amount

  19. Toby Gropen

    Leads 1 award · $376,149

  20. Karen Jaunarajs

    Leads 1 award · $347,084

    • 5R01NS141959-02Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic entrainment of striatal engram-like neurons across the time course of LID development
      $347,084
      award amount

  21. Louis B Nabors

    Leads 1 award · $339,694

    • 5R01CA269365-04Department: NIH department code
      ELAVL1 role in glioblastoma heterogeneity through intercellular gene transfer mediated by cell fusion and tunneling membrane nanotube formation

      Principal investigators: Louis B Nabors (contact PI), Natalia Filippova

      $339,694
      award amount

  22. Benjamin C Cox

    Leads 1 award · $237,870

    • 1K23NS142570-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Localization of cerebral epileptiform activity during stereo EEG monitoring
      $237,870
      award amount

  23. Brittney H Davis

    Leads 1 award · $169,204

    • 5K23HL165031-03Department: NIH department code
      Ancestry and sex-related pharmacogenomic and metabolomic signatures of oral anticoagulant response
      $169,204
      award amount

  24. Anna K Cook

    Leads 1 award · $53,825

    • 5F30AG085889-03Department: NIH department code
      Interactions between progranulin insufficiency and TDP-43
      $53,825
      award amount

  25. Frank Sanders Pair

    Leads 1 award · $53,268

    • 5F31ES034986-03Department: NIH department code
      Causes and Downstream Effects of 14-3-3 Phosphorylation in Synucleinopathies
      $53,268
      award amount

  26. William J Stone

    Leads 1 award · $53,114

    • 5F31ES034985-04Department: NIH department code
      Role of 14-3-3θ in Environmental Toxicant Exposure and Neuroinflammation in Synucleinopathies
      $53,114
      award amount

  27. Ryan A Tuckey

    Leads 1 award · $52,350

    • 5F30AG092080-02Department: NIH department code
      TREM2 activation by vitamin D3 in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease
      $52,350
      award amount

  28. Mary Bullock Cooper

    Leads 1 award · $44,404

    • 5F31AG092133-02Department: NIH department code
      Interneuron circadian rhythms and tau-dependent network excitability in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis
      $44,404
      award amount

  29. Ashley Adamson

    Leads 1 award · $41,404

    • 5F31ES036890-03Department: NIH department code
      The role for cell cycle regulators in trichloroethylene induced Parkinson's dementia
      $41,404
      award amount

  30. Neda Mihaylova Ilieva

    Leads 1 award · $41,404

    • 5F31ES037227-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of lysosomal dysfunction in STING-mediated neurodegeneration from trichloroethylene exposure
      $41,404
      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.

  • Larry Robert Hearld

    Co-investigator on 1U01HG014137-01, led by Nita A Limdi; 1U01HG014610-01, led by Nita A Limdi

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

  • Kim M Unertl

    Co-investigator on 1U01HG014137-01, led by Nita A Limdi

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

  • Rizwan Hamid

    Co-investigator on 1U01HG014137-01, led by Nita A Limdi

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • James J Cimino

    Co-investigator on 3U01HG011167-05S2, led by Nita A Limdi

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

  • Pankaj Arora

    Co-investigator on 1U01HG014610-01, led by Nita A Limdi

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Christopher A. Gaiteri

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG061800-07, led by Jeremy H. Herskowitz

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

  • Nicholas Thomas Seyfried

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG061800-07, led by Jeremy H. Herskowitz

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Etty N Benveniste

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS140278-02, led by Jerzy P Szaflarski

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

  • Shaida A. Andrabi

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS141123-02, led by Peter H King

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Abhishek Guha

    Co-investigator on 1R01NS146202-01A1, led by Peter H King

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

  • Mark Robert Harrigan

    Co-investigator on 5U24NS107223-08, led by Toby Gropen

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

  • Ronald M Lazar

    Co-investigator on 5U24NS107223-08, led by Toby Gropen

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

  • Natalia Filippova

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA269365-04, led by Louis B Nabors

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

  • Gregory Michael Cooper

    Co-investigator on 2T32HG008961-11, led by Nita A Limdi

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Marguerite R Irvin

    Co-investigator on 2T32HG008961-11, led by Nita A Limdi

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads