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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Other Basic Sciences at University of California-Irvine

Irvine, CA

Funding
$9.5M
$9,502,655
Awards
21
FY2026 NIH awards in Other Basic Sciences
Principal investigators
22
16 lead a grant here, 6 co-investigators
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • 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 Other Basic Sciences row of the University of California-Irvine page.

Leads a grant in this department

16 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. Kim Green

    Leads 2 awards · $1,472,001

    • 5R01AG081599-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of Disease-Associated Microglia in Alzheimer's disease
      $779,590
      award amount
    • 5R01NS083801-13Department: NIH department code
      Origins, properties, and therapeutic potential of cells that repopulate the microglia-depleted adult brain
      $692,411
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32NS121727-05, led by Thomas E Lane.

  2. Marcelo Andres Wood

    Leads 2 awards · $1,418,650

    • 5R01AG076835-05Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the interface of epigenetics and metabolism underlying memory formation in the adult, aging, and AD brain
      $721,033
      award amount
    • 1R01DA066575-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic interrogation of the medial habenula's role in regulating drug-induced behaviors
      $697,617
      award amount

  3. Jorge A Busciglio

    Leads 2 awards · $1,058,825

  4. Stephen Vincent Mahler

    Leads 2 awards · $1,045,058

    • 5U01DA053826-05Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic epigenomic landscape of opioid abuse following early-life adversity

      Principal investigators: Stephen Vincent Mahler (contact PI), Christie D Fowler, Tallie Z. Baram, Vivek Swarup

      $691,808
      award amount
    • 5R01DA055849-04Department: NIH department code
      Ventral Pallidum Circuits Underlying Preclinical Models of Opioid Addiction
      $353,250
      award amount

  5. Thomas E Lane

    Leads 2 awards · $1,016,355

    • 5R35NS116835-06Department: NIH department code
      Defining mechanisms of disease and repair in a viral model of multiple sclerosis
      $869,487
      award amount
    • 5T32NS121727-05Department: NIH department code
      Neuroimmunology Training Program at the University of California, Irvine

      Principal investigators: Thomas E Lane (contact PI), Kim Green

      $146,868
      award amount

  6. Bruce L McNaughton

    Leads 1 award · $590,930

    • 4R01NS132041-02Department: NIH department code
      Bottom-Up, Top-Down, and Local Interactions in the Generation and Consolidation of Cortical Representations of Sequential Experience
      $590,930
      award amount

  7. Karina S Cramer

    Leads 1 award · $510,703

    • 5R01DC021209-03Department: NIH department code
      Non-Apoptotic Functions of Caspase-3 in Brainstem Development
      $510,703
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32DC010775-16, led by Raju Metherate.

  8. Elizabeth Chrastil

    Leads 1 award · $484,658

    • 5R01NS119468-05Department: NIH department code
      Navigational learning and memory: Cognitive graphs, active decision making, and brain network dynamics
      $484,658
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R21AG101676-01, led by Eitan Schechtman-Drayman.

  9. Ron D Frostig

    Leads 1 award · $463,276

    • 5R01NS126526-04Department: NIH department code
      The relationship between neuronal activity and stroke
      $463,276
      award amount

  10. Gyorgy Lur

    Leads 1 award · $432,270

    • 5R01NS127785-05Department: NIH department code
      Feedforward-feedback integration in the posterior parietal cortex
      $432,270
      award amount

  11. Raju Metherate

    Leads 1 award · $329,631

    • 2T32DC010775-16Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary Training Program in Hearing Research

      Principal investigators: Raju Metherate (contact PI), Karina S Cramer

      $329,631
      award amount

  12. Sean Christopher Piantadosi

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 4R00DA062328-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of valence encoding amygdala ensembles in avoidance behavior
      $248,999
      award amount

  13. Eitan Schechtman-Drayman

    Leads 1 award · $221,883

    • 1R21AG101676-01Department: NIH department code
      The role of sleep in protecting spatial memories from age-related decline

      Principal investigators: Eitan Schechtman-Drayman (contact PI), Elizabeth Chrastil

      $221,883
      award amount

  14. Alexis Michelle Topete

    Leads 1 award · $84,189

    • 4K00AG095134-02Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Influence of Ovarian Aging and Endocrine Shifts on Spatial Navigation, as an Early Diagnostic Target for Alzheimer's Disease
      $84,189
      award amount

  15. Kaitlin Murray

    Leads 1 award · $76,780

    • 5F32AI194808-02Department: NIH department code
      Cystatin F expression on microglia is critical for constraining demyelination following viral infection of the central nervous system
      $76,780
      award amount

  16. Allison Sonia Mogul

    Leads 1 award · $48,447

    • 5F30DA062492-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Interaction Between Nicotine and GPR3: Gene expression, cell activity and withdrawal
      $48,447
      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.