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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurology at University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

Funding
$23.3M
$23,287,070
Awards
41
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurology
Principal investigators
50
40 lead a grant here, 10 co-investigators
Department rank
#14
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, Los Angeles page.

Leads a grant in this department

40 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. Thomas A. Rando

    Leads 2 awards · $2,908,694

    • 5P01AG036695-14Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Regulation of Stem Cell Aging

      Principal investigators: Anne Brunet (contact PI), Margaret A. Goodell (contact PI), Matteo Pellegrini (contact PI), Sean Curtis Bendall (contact PI), Thomas A. Rando (contact PI)

      $2,478,719
      award amount
    • 5R01AG082764-04Department: NIH department code
      Genomic Instability as A Driver of Stem Cell Exhaustion
      $429,975
      award amount

  2. Anne Brunet

    Leads 1 award · $2,478,719

  3. Margaret A. Goodell

    Leads 1 award · $2,478,719

  4. Matteo Pellegrini

    Leads 1 award · $2,478,719

  5. Sean Curtis Bendall

    Leads 1 award · $2,478,719

  6. Daniel H Geschwind

    Leads 1 award · $1,458,895

    • 5RM1MH132651-04Department: NIH department code
      UCLA High-Throughput Neuropsychiatric Disorder Phenotyping Center (UCLA HT-NPC)

      Principal investigators: Daniel H Geschwind (contact PI), Bennett G Novitch

      $1,458,895
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R56MH143740-01, led by Xiangdong William Yang.

  7. Jerome None Engel

    Leads 1 award · $1,216,453

  8. Varghese John

    Leads 2 awards · $1,143,804

    • 5R01AG090773-02Department: NIH department code
      Optimization and preclinical evaluation of brain permeant SE-CRISPR to edit ApoE4 after IV infusion in AD models
      $753,804
      award amount
    • 5R01AG073377-05Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating the p-Tau inhibition and neuroprotective effects of sAPPalpha using brain permeable small molecules
      $390,000
      award amount

  9. Keith Alan Vossel

    Leads 1 award · $1,141,634

    • 5UH3AG083254-04Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging the Electronic Health Record and Integrating Social and Biological Data to Expand Dementia Research in Understudied Populations in Los Angeles County
      $1,141,634
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 4R01NS033310-28, led by Jerome None Engel.

  10. Peyman Golshani

    Leads 2 awards · $1,008,008

    • 5R01MH132736-04Department: NIH department code
      Unstable nucleus accumbens social representations in models of social behavioral dysfunction.

      Principal investigators: Peyman Golshani (contact PI), Weizhe Hong

      $771,758
      award amount
    • 1R21NS146912-01Department: NIH department code
      Deficits in behavioral time-scale plasticity underlying imprecision and instability of hippocampal cognitive representations in temporal lobe epilepsy

      Principal investigators: Peyman Golshani (contact PI), Ahmet Arac

      $236,250
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U24NS144101-02, led by Daniel Aharoni.

  11. Ahmet Arac

    Leads 1 award · $1,000,000

    • 1R56HD120560-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting recovery from post-stroke arm paresis with 3D kinematics
      $1,000,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R21NS146912-01, led by Peyman Golshani.

  12. Gal Bitan

    Leads 2 awards · $965,627

    • 4R01NS126406-02Department: NIH department code
      Biomarkers for parkinsonian disorders in CNS-originating extracellular vesicles
      $768,752
      award amount
    • 1R21NS144989-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Evaluation and discovery of blood-based biomarkers for ataxia

      Principal investigators: Gal Bitan (contact PI), Brent Linden Fogel

      $196,875
      award amount

  13. Rhonda R Voskuhl

    Leads 1 award · $922,109

    • 5R35NS132150-04Department: NIH department code
      Neurodegeneration Underlying Distinct Disabilities in Multiple Sclerosis Using a Cell-Specific, Region-Specific, and Sex-Specific Approach
      $922,109
      award amount

  14. Carlos Portera-Cailliau

    Leads 2 awards · $921,611

    • 5R01HD108370-05Department: NIH department code
      Cortical Interneuron Dysfunction in Fragile X Syndrome

      Principal investigators: Carlos Portera-Cailliau (contact PI), Anis Contractor

      $485,966
      award amount
    • 5R01HD054453-18Department: NIH department code
      Circuit Defects Underlying Deficits in Social Touch in Fragile X Syndrome
      $435,645
      award amount

  15. Xiangdong William Yang

    Leads 1 award · $772,569

    • 1R56MH143740-01Department: NIH department code
      Highly Parallel Analysis of High-Confidence ASD and Schizophrenia Risk Gene Mechanisms

      Principal investigators: Xiangdong William Yang (contact PI), Daniel H Geschwind

      $772,569
      award amount

  16. Timothy S Chang

    Leads 1 award · $752,920

    • 5R01AG085518-03Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Undiagnosed Alzheimer’s Disease in Understudied Populations
      $752,920
      award amount

  17. Mersedeh Bahr Hosseini

    Leads 1 award · $746,698

    • 4UH3NS134619-03Department: NIH department code
      Transcranial Electrical Stimulation in Stroke EaRly After onset Clinical Trial-2 (TESSERACT 2)

      Principal investigators: Mersedeh Bahr Hosseini (contact PI), Argye E. Hillis, Wuwei Feng

      $746,698
      award amount

  18. Daniel Aharoni

    Leads 1 award · $706,031

    • 5U24NS144101-02Department: NIH department code
      Advancing Infrastructure, Collaboration, and Innovation across the Open-Source UCLA Miniscope Ecosystem

      Principal investigators: Daniel Aharoni (contact PI), Peyman Golshani

      $706,031
      award amount

  19. Chao Peng

    Leads 1 award · $678,640

    • 5R01NS128964-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Pathological Tau Transmission by Soluble Tau Post-Translational Modifications
      $678,640
      award amount

  20. Jessica E Rexach

    Leads 1 award · $674,513

    • 1R01AG100878-01Department: NIH department code
      Ultra High-Resolution Multimodal Cross-Disorder Atlas of Neurodegenerative Dementias
      $674,513
      award amount

  21. William Abel Zeiger

    Leads 1 award · $662,969

    • 5R01NS129517-04Department: NIH department code
      Reciprocal interactions between cortical circuit dysfunction and α-synuclein pathology
      $662,969
      award amount

  22. Richard Staba

    Leads 1 award · $635,381

    • 2R01NS106957-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Epileptogenic Network and Identifying Which Components Generate Seizures
      $635,381
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 4R01NS033310-28, led by Jerome None Engel.

  23. Kimberly Paul

    Leads 1 award · $625,622

    • 1R01NS150054-01Department: NIH department code
      Blood-based neurodegenerative disease biomarkers, environment, and dementia in Parkinson’s disease progression
      $625,622
      award amount

  24. David W Shattuck

    Leads 1 award · $612,523

    • 5R01NS121761-05Department: NIH department code
      A Toolkit for Analysis and Visualization of Preclinical Rodent Neuroimaging Experiments

      Principal investigators: David W Shattuck (contact PI), Allan James MacKenzie-Graham

      $612,523
      award amount

  25. Katherine L Narr

    Leads 1 award · $571,781

    • 5R01MH128690-05Department: NIH department code
      1/4-Deciphering Mechanisms of ECT Outcomes and Adverse Effects (DECODE)
      $571,781
      award amount

  26. Kathryn Amy Cross

    Leads 1 award · $537,266

    • 5R01NS140283-02Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging invasive recordings and immersive virtual reality to characterize freezing of gait mechanisms in Parkinson disease
      $537,266
      award amount

  27. Jeffrey L Saver

    Leads 1 award · $431,467

    • 5U24NS107321-08Department: NIH department code
      Los Angeles - Southern California (LASC) NIH StrokeNet Regional Coordinating Center

      Principal investigators: Jeffrey L Saver (contact PI), Sebina Bulic

      $431,467
      award amount

  28. Anne Kathryn Churchland

    Leads 1 award · $393,750

    • 5R01EY022979-14Department: NIH department code
      A cell-type specific explanation of visual decision circuits.
      $393,750
      award amount

  29. Sinifunanya Elvee Nwaobi

    Leads 1 award · $287,415

    • 5K01NS127944-03Department: NIH department code
      Adenosine Modulation of the Bi-Directional Relationship between Sleep and Migraine
      $287,415
      award amount

  30. Mayank Anant Jog

    Leads 1 award · $248,998

    • 5R00MH128572-04Department: NIH department code
      Optimization of tDCS brain network engagement in depression
      $248,998
      award amount

  31. Avi Jacob Samelson

    Leads 1 award · $242,657

    • 5R00AG080116-04Department: NIH department code
      Functional Characterization of Tau Mutation and Post-translational Modifications
      $242,657
      award amount

  32. Victoria Ho

    Leads 1 award · $240,474

    • 5K08NS123509-05Department: NIH department code
      Cell Type-Specific Transcriptional Changes Underlying Memory Impairment in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
      $240,474
      award amount

  33. Stanley Thomas Carmichael

    Leads 1 award · $223,293

  34. Rajarshi Mazumder

    Leads 1 award · $191,536

    • 5K01TW012178-05Department: NIH department code
      Etiological Role of Parasitic Exposure and Familial Susceptibility in Nodding Syndrome-Related Epilepsies
      $191,536
      award amount

  35. Lucy Bicks

    Leads 1 award · $118,476

    • 1K99MH141252-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Integration of spatial and multi-ome data to characterize molecular and cellular networks in ASD
      $118,476
      award amount

  36. Michael Margolis

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30MH135712-03Department: NIH department code
      Mapping cell type specific isoform diversity in the human brain: dissecting mechanisms of alternative splicing in ASD
      $55,114
      award amount

  37. Natalie Hawken

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30MH135660-03Department: NIH department code
      Functional Genomic Interrogation of Autism Spectrum Disorder Genetic Risk on Microglia-Neuronal Interactions
      $55,114
      award amount

  38. Michelle W. Wu

    Leads 1 award · $46,064

    • 5F30HD117619-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of Intracortical Mechanisms Vs. Bottom-Up Influences in Developmental Desynchronization of Cortical Network Activity
      $46,064
      award amount

  39. Elle Mai Rathbun

    Leads 1 award · $45,906

    • 5F31NS135993-03Department: NIH department code
      Post-Stroke Neurovascular Function and Repair within a Porous Hydrogel
      $45,906
      award amount

  40. Jacqueline Martin

    Leads 1 award · $43,058

    • 1F30MH142021-01Department: NIH department code
      Mapping Convergence in Autism and Schizophrenia: High-Throughput characterization of Glutamatergic Neurons Harboring Perturbations across 25 Distinct Genes
      $43,058
      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.