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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, AL

Funding
$6.5M
$6,500,465
Awards
18
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
16
14 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#39
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 University of Alabama at Birmingham page.

Leads a grant in this department

14 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. Jamie Peters

    Leads 3 awards · $1,492,719

    • 5R01DA056660-04Department: NIH department code
      Target Specificity of Tabernanthalog Treatment in Opioid Use Disorder

      Principal investigators: Jamie Peters (contact PI), Jasper Heinsbroek

      $535,758
      award amount
    • 5R01DA058951-04Department: NIH department code
      Prefrontal mechanisms underlying polydrug heroin and alcohol use
      $481,190
      award amount
    • 5R01DA061766-02Department: NIH department code
      Prefrontal circuits controlling heroin seeking
      $475,771
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01DA066682-01, led by Jeremy J Day.

  2. Jeremy J Day

    Leads 2 awards · $1,300,994

    • 1R01DA066682-01Department: NIH department code
      A novel cellular and circuit target for opioids

      Principal investigators: Jeremy J Day (contact PI), Jamie Peters, Jasper Heinsbroek

      $661,299
      award amount
    • 5R01DA054714-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of Gadd45b in Cocaine-driven Epigenetic and Behavioral Dynamics
      $639,695
      award amount
  3. Farah Dominique Lubin

    Leads 2 awards · $907,633

    • 5R01AG082089-04Department: NIH department code
      The role of IncRNA Neat1 in Alzheimer's disease and related memory deficits
      $657,110
      award amount
    • 5T32NS061788-19Department: NIH department code
      UAB Research Training Program in Neurobiology of Cognition and Cognitive Disorders
      $250,523
      award amount
  4. Kirstie Alyssa Cummings

    Leads 1 award · $710,278

    • 5R01DA059368-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of operant reward seeking in prefrontal somatostatin-expressing interneurons
      $710,278
      award amount
  5. Craig M Powell

    Leads 1 award · $659,549

    • 5R01MH135954-02Department: NIH department code
      Functional Studies of NDD Gene(s)
      $659,549
      award amount
  6. Bryan W Luikart

    Leads 1 award · $608,918

    • 5R01MH097949-15Department: NIH department code
      The Impact of Pten Signaling on Neuronal Form and Function
      $608,918
      award amount
  7. Elizabeth Doncheck

    Leads 1 award · $248,994

    • 4R00DA058049-03Department: NIH department code
      Progesterone and allopregnanolone of prefrontal cortical activity dynamics and heroin seeking
      $248,994
      award amount
  8. Jacques Wadiche

    Leads 1 award · $186,250

    • 1R21NS147535-01Department: NIH department code
      AMPA Receptor Function at Interneuron Synapses
      $186,250
      award amount
  9. John J Shacka

    Leads 1 award · $86,946

    • 5R25NS125616-05Department: NIH department code
      UAB Blazer BRAIN Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates

      Principal investigators: John J Shacka (contact PI), Cristin F Gavin

      $86,946
      award amount
  10. Abigail Margaret Schwarz

    Leads 1 award · $78,508

    • 1F32DA065349-01Department: NIH department code
      Tabernanthalog as a dual treatment for chronic pain and opioid use disorder
      $78,508
      award amount
  11. Maria Aisha Jones-Muhammad

    Leads 1 award · $77,859

    • 5K00NS129125-05Department: NIH department code
      Sex-specific development of seizure activity following endocannabinoid system manipulation in the fetal brain
      $77,859
      award amount
  12. Kasey Lynn Brida

    Leads 1 award · $53,825

    • 5F30DA057821-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of Reelin protein in the cellular and behavioral response to drugs of abuse
      $53,825
      award amount
  13. Madeline Ragland

    Leads 1 award · $43,996

    • 1F30EY038626-01Department: NIH department code
      How Top-Down Processing Changes with Increased Peripheral Vision Use
      $43,996
      award amount
  14. Natalie Dalton Fitzgerald

    Leads 1 award · $43,996

    • 5F30DA062497-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and Functional Characterization of Transcriptionally Defined Subpopulations of VTA Dopamine Neurons
      $43,996
      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.

  • Jasper Heinsbroek

    Co-investigator on 1R01DA066682-01, led by Jeremy J Day; 5R01DA056660-04, led by Jamie Peters

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

  • Cristin F Gavin

    Co-investigator on 5R25NS125616-05, led by John J Shacka

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