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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurology at University of California at Davis

Davis, CA

Funding
$40.4M
$40,429,294
Awards
44
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurology
Principal investigators
57
42 lead a grant here, 15 co-investigators
Department rank
#10
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 California at Davis page.

Leads a grant in this department

42 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. Charles Decarli

    Leads 3 awards · $16,481,714

  2. David K Johnson

    Leads 2 awards · $12,964,089

  3. Lee-Way Jin

    Leads 2 awards · $12,964,089

  4. Kumar B. Rajan

    Leads 1 award · $8,335,249

    • 5U19NS120384-06Department: NIH department code
      The Clinical Significance of Incidental White Matter Lesions on MRI Amongst a Diverse Population with Cognitive Complaints (INDEED)

      Principal investigators: Charles Decarli (contact PI), David K Johnson (contact PI), Kumar B. Rajan (contact PI), Lee-Way Jin (contact PI), Myriam Fornage

      $8,335,249
      award amount

  5. Oanh L Meyer

    Leads 2 awards · $7,232,193

  6. Sarah E Tomaszewski-Farias

    Leads 3 awards · $6,325,529

  7. Audrey Peiwen Fan

    Leads 2 awards · $5,289,916

  8. Brittany Nicole Dugger

    Leads 1 award · $4,628,840

  9. Danielle Harvey

    Leads 1 award · $4,628,840

  10. Rachel A Whitmer

    Leads 1 award · $4,628,840

  11. Bradley Pearce Ander

    Leads 1 award · $2,346,171

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS127976-04, led by Boryana Stamova.

  12. W Martin Usrey

    Leads 4 awards · $1,758,670

    • 5R01EY036242-03Department: NIH department code
      Studies of direct and transthalamic pathways in visual cortex

      Principal investigators: W Martin Usrey (contact PI), S. Murray Sherman

      $725,486
      award amount
    • 5P30EY012576-28Department: NIH department code
      VISION RESEARCH CORE GRANT

      Principal investigators: Lisa M Oakes (contact PI), Marie E Burns (contact PI), Robert J Zawadzki (contact PI), Sara Michelle Thomasy (contact PI), Thomas M. Glaser (contact PI), W Martin Usrey (contact PI)

      $643,998
      award amount
    • 5T32MH082174-17Department: NIH department code
      Training Program in Basic Neuroscience
      $262,341
      award amount
    • 1R25NS141153-01A1Department: NIH department code
      UC Davis NEURO Program
      $126,845
      award amount

  13. John H Morrison

    Leads 1 award · $1,716,096

    • 1RF1NS144353-01A1Department: NIH department code
      SARS-CoV-2 potentiation of Tau pathology in a Rhesus macaque model of tauopathy
      $1,716,096
      award amount

  14. Karen Zito

    Leads 3 awards · $1,435,478

    • 5R01NS137635-03Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and molecular mechanisms of dendritic spine growth and stabilization in health and disease
      $706,959
      award amount
    • 1R21MH144317-01Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic plasticity and signaling in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome model mice

      Principal investigators: Karen Zito (contact PI), Alexander Nord

      $442,750
      award amount
    • 5T32MH112507-10Department: NIH department code
      Learning, Memory, and Plasticity (LaMP) Training Program
      $285,769
      award amount

  15. Nigel Paul Pedersen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,160,612

    • 5R01NS144894-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigations of Spatial Recognition Memory to Improve Cognitive Outcomes in Epilepsy Surgery
      $612,244
      award amount
    • 1R01NS147124-01Department: NIH department code
      Slow-Wave Sleep Enhancement to Treat Epilepsy and Its Comorbidities
      $548,368
      award amount

  16. Fuzheng Guo

    Leads 2 awards · $1,104,542

    • 5R01NS134887-03Department: NIH department code
      SOX2-regulated astrocyte homeostasis and pathophysiology
      $595,169
      award amount
    • 5R01NS123165-05Department: NIH department code
      The curious case of PARP1 in CNS myelin formation and repair
      $509,373
      award amount

  17. Simona Ghetti

    Leads 2 awards · $1,087,429

    • 5U01DK140760-03Department: NIH department code
      Risk and Protective Factors for Neurocognitive Development in Type 1 Diabetes

      Principal investigators: Simona Ghetti (contact PI), Nicole S Glaser

      $560,282
      award amount
    • 5R01HD112686-03Department: NIH department code
      Neural Substrates of Word Retention and Generalization in Toddlers
      $527,147
      award amount

  18. Kyle Fink

    Leads 2 awards · $827,246

    • 1R21NS142879-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Optimization of AAV gene therapy through the unbiased, high-throughput screening of novel ITR domains in the mouse brain

      Principal investigators: Kyle Fink (contact PI), Julian Halmai

      $442,750
      award amount
    • 5R01NS102486-08Department: NIH department code
      MSCS ENGINEERED TO PRODUCE BDNF AND GENE EDITING CARGO FOR THE TREATMENT OF HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE

      Principal investigators: Kyle Fink (contact PI), Jan A. Nolta

      $384,496
      award amount

  19. Brian C Trainor

    Leads 2 awards · $792,532

    • 5R01MH135937-03Department: NIH department code
      Developmental programming of stress-sensitive neural circuits underlying social behavior

      Principal investigators: Brian C Trainor (contact PI), Jessica Tollkuhn

      $753,229
      award amount
    • 3R01MH135937-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Supplement: Developmental programming of stress-sensitive neural circuits underlying social behavior

      Principal investigators: Brian C Trainor (contact PI), Jessica Tollkuhn

      $39,303
      award amount

  20. Eliza Bliss-Moreau

    Leads 1 award · $714,542

    • 5R33AG078471-04Department: NIH department code
      Creation of a monkey mini mental state exam (mMMSE) for identifying early cognitive deficits related to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
      $714,542
      award amount

  21. Thomas Spurgeon Wingo

    Leads 1 award · $712,490

    • 5R01AG075827-05Department: NIH department code
      Integrative genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic analyses to investigate sex-specific differences in Alzheimer's Disease

      Principal investigators: Thomas Spurgeon Wingo (contact PI), Aliza Pham Wingo

      $712,490
      award amount

  22. Brian J Wiltgen

    Leads 2 awards · $653,723

    • 5R01NS129217-04Department: NIH department code
      The role of novelty and surprise in aversive conditioning
      $585,973
      award amount
    • 3R01NS129217-04S1Department: NIH department code
      The role of novelty and surprise in aversive conditioning
      $67,750
      award amount

  23. Lisa M Oakes

    Leads 1 award · $643,998

  24. Marie E Burns

    Leads 1 award · $643,998

  25. Robert J Zawadzki

    Leads 1 award · $643,998

  26. Sara Michelle Thomasy

    Leads 1 award · $643,998

  27. Thomas M. Glaser

    Leads 1 award · $643,998

  28. Boryana Stamova

    Leads 1 award · $642,100

    • 5R01NS127976-04Department: NIH department code
      Whole Transcriptome Studies of Blood to Predict Stroke Outcome

      Principal investigators: Boryana Stamova (contact PI), Bradley Pearce Ander

      $642,100
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R61NS140824-01A1, led by Bradley Pearce Ander.

  29. Andrew P Yonelinas

    Leads 1 award · $569,003

    • 5R01EY035249-03Department: NIH department code
      Visual perception and the medial temporal lobes
      $569,003
      award amount

  30. Diasynou Fioravante

    Leads 1 award · $550,411

    • 5R01MH128744-05Department: NIH department code
      Multi-level dissection of cerebello-limbic connectivity
      $550,411
      award amount

  31. Amy R. Brooks-Kayal

    Leads 1 award · $468,559

    • 1R01NS151264-01Department: NIH department code
      JAK/STAT signaling as a therapeutic target to mitigate long-term effects of acute organophosphate intoxication

      Principal investigators: Amy R. Brooks-Kayal (contact PI), Pamela J Lein

      $468,559
      award amount

  32. Fumika Hamada

    Leads 1 award · $402,500

    • 5R35GM152154-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and Neural Mechanisms of Temperature Preference Rhythm in Drosophila
      $402,500
      award amount

  33. John M Henderson

    Leads 1 award · $398,458

    • 2R01EY027792-07A1Department: NIH department code
      Guiding Attention in Real-World Scenes
      $398,458
      award amount

  34. Gregg Howard Recanzone

    Leads 1 award · $369,498

  35. Mitchell L Sutter

    Leads 1 award · $369,498

  36. Michael A. Rogawski

    Leads 1 award · $260,000

  37. Kevin Keenan

    Leads 1 award · $227,475

    • 5K23NS140559-02Department: NIH department code
      Large Vessel Occlusion Stroke Triage Strategies
      $227,475
      award amount

  38. Steven J Luck

    Leads 1 award · $215,067

    • 5R25MH080794-17Department: NIH department code
      Yearly Workshop in the Event-Related Potential Technique

      Principal investigators: Steven J Luck (contact PI), Emily S. Kappenman

      $215,067
      award amount

  39. Temitayo Oyegbile-Chidi

    Leads 1 award · $191,564

    • 5K23NS131574-04Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing Sleep Signatures and its effects on Cognition in New-Onset Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
      $191,564
      award amount

  40. Alyssa Mae Weakley

    Leads 1 award · $185,396

    • 5K23AG080152-04Department: NIH department code
      A stakeholder derived intervention to enhance technology engagement and reduce the emotional divide in distance caregiving of older adults with cognitive impairment
      $185,396
      award amount

  41. David Philip Bissig

    Leads 1 award · $163,980

    • 5K08AG080178-04Department: NIH department code
      Illuminating Glial Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease with Optical Coherence Tomography
      $163,980
      award amount

  42. Michelle Ying-Ying Chan

    Leads 1 award · $32,920

    • 5F31DK136313-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms Driving the Kinetics of Incretin-Mediated Beta Cell Responses
      $32,920
      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.

  • Myriam Fornage

    Co-investigator on 5U19NS120384-06, led by Charles Decarli and David K Johnson and Kumar B. Rajan and Lee-Way Jin

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

  • Hector M Gonzalez

    Co-investigator on 1R01AG083894-01A1, led by Charles Decarli

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Opeolu M Adeoye

    Co-investigator on 1R61NS140824-01A1, led by Bradley Pearce Ander

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

  • Evan Fletcher

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG031563-11, led by Sarah E Tomaszewski-Farias

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

  • Jessica Tollkuhn

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH135937-03, led by Brian C Trainor; 3R01MH135937-03S1, led by Brian C Trainor

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • S. Murray Sherman

    Co-investigator on 5R01EY036242-03, led by W Martin Usrey

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Aliza Pham Wingo

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG075827-05, led by Thomas Spurgeon Wingo

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Nicole S Glaser

    Co-investigator on 5U01DK140760-03, led by Simona Ghetti

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

  • Pamela J Lein

    Co-investigator on 1R01NS151264-01, led by Amy R. Brooks-Kayal

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Alexander Nord

    Co-investigator on 1R21MH144317-01, led by Karen Zito

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Julian Halmai

    Co-investigator on 1R21NS142879-01A1, led by Kyle Fink

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

  • Jan A. Nolta

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS102486-08, led by Kyle Fink

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

  • Joseph Gerard Makin

    Co-investigator on 5R01DC021600-04, led by Gregg Howard Recanzone and Mitchell L Sutter

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

  • Barbara Stauch Slusher

    Co-investigator on 5R25NS129110-05, led by Michael A. Rogawski

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Emily S. Kappenman

    Co-investigator on 5R25MH080794-17, led by Steven J Luck

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