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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Psychology at University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

Funding
$12.3M
$12,313,341
Awards
23
FY2026 NIH awards in Psychology
Principal investigators
20
13 lead a grant here, 7 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 Psychology row of the University of California, Los Angeles page.

Leads a grant in this department

13 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. Bridget L Callaghan

    Leads 2 awards · $3,078,505

    • 4RF1MH136259-03Department: NIH department code
      Dopaminergic Gut-Brain Signaling on Adolescent Reward Learning After Adversity: Toward New, Noninvasive Treatments for Depression and Anxiety
      $2,324,338
      award amount
    • 5R01AG089426-03Department: NIH department code
      Testing sex as a moderator of health impacts of upward mobility on indicators for AD risk in young adulthood

      Principal investigators: Bridget L Callaghan (contact PI), Jennifer Ashley Silvers

      $754,167
      award amount

  2. Kate M Wassum

    Leads 4 awards · $1,914,297

    • 5R01DA058374-03Department: NIH department code
      Do opposing amygdala-striatal pathways enable chronic stress to promote habit formation?
      $615,423
      award amount
    • 5R01DA057084-04Department: NIH department code
      Contribution of non-canonical dopamine pathways to model-based learning

      Principal investigators: Kate M Wassum (contact PI), Melissa Sharpe

      $586,948
      award amount
    • 5R01DA035443-13Department: NIH department code
      Amygdala Output Circuitry in Reward Encoding, Expectation, and Decision Making
      $580,754
      award amount
    • 3R01DA057084-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Contribution of non-canonical dopamine pathways to model-based learning

      Principal investigators: Kate M Wassum (contact PI), Melissa Sharpe

      $131,172
      award amount

  3. Tiffany Cheing Ho

    Leads 2 awards · $1,160,886

    • 5R01MH127176-05Department: NIH department code
      Inflammatory and Glutamatergic Mechanisms of Sustained Threat in Adolescents with Depression: Toward Predictors of Treatment Response and Clinical Course
      $767,136
      award amount
    • 1R01MH145225-01Department: NIH department code
      Bidirectional Influences Between Social Media Use and Adolescent Depression: Testing the Role of Frontoparietal Connectivity
      $393,750
      award amount

  4. Lara A. Ray

    Leads 4 awards · $1,102,050

    • 5R01AA029701-04Department: NIH department code
      Translational underpinnings of motivation for alcohol in humans
      $423,503
      award amount
    • 5R21DA059769-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of Tetrahydrocannabivarin as a Treatment for Smokers

      Principal investigators: Lara A. Ray (contact PI), Erica N Grodin

      $236,250
      award amount
    • 3R01AA029701-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Translational underpinnings of motivation for alcohol in humans
      $229,327
      award amount
    • 5K24AA025704-07Department: NIH department code
      Clinical Neuroscience of Alcoholism: Integrating Neuroscience and Clinical Trials
      $212,970
      award amount

  5. Anna Shan-Lai Lau

    Leads 2 awards · $931,482

    • 5R37MH128729-05Department: NIH department code
      Project STRIVE (STudents RIsing above) - Offsetting the health and mental health costs of resilience
      $905,906
      award amount
    • 3R37MH128729-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Project STRIVE (STudents RIsing above) - Offsetting the health and mental health costs of resilience
      $25,576
      award amount

  6. Jennifer A Sumner

    Leads 2 awards · $896,178

    • 5R01HL176899-02Department: NIH department code
      Evidence-based Treatment for PTSD and Cardiovascular Disease Risk

      Principal investigators: Jennifer A Sumner (contact PI), Brian Shiner, Jaimie L. Gradus

      $659,928
      award amount
    • 1R34HL180396-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing Evidence-based Psychotherapies to Develop an Integrated Intervention Targeting Key Psychological Mechanisms of PTSD in Cardiac Patients

      Principal investigators: Jennifer A Sumner (contact PI), Kate Basia Wolitzky-Taylor

      $236,250
      award amount

  7. Michelle G Craske

    Leads 1 award · $716,464

    • 5R33MH135002-03Department: NIH department code
      Unconscious reduction of fear through decoded neuro-reinforcement

      Principal investigators: Michelle G Craske (contact PI), Dean Mobbs

      $716,464
      award amount

  8. Alicia Izquierdo

    Leads 1 award · $648,655

    • 5R01DA047870-08Department: NIH department code
      Cortico-Amygdalar Substrates of Adaptive Learning

      Principal investigators: Alicia Izquierdo (contact PI), Alireza Soltani

      $648,655
      award amount

  9. Avishek Adhikari

    Leads 1 award · $546,971

    • 5R01DK139605-03Department: NIH department code
      GABAergic Cells in the Periaqueductal Gray Region Control Food-Seeking
      $546,971
      award amount

  10. Andrew M Wikenheiser

    Leads 1 award · $462,815

    • 5R01MH137276-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding spatial representations in rat orbitofrontal cortex
      $462,815
      award amount

  11. Cindy M. Yee-Bradbury

    Leads 1 award · $408,843

    • 1R21MH142995-01Department: NIH department code
      Autonomic regulation of brain function and cognition in patients with first-episode schizophrenia and healthy individuals
      $408,843
      award amount

  12. Christine Dunkel Schetter

    Leads 1 award · $295,358

    • 2T32MH015750-46Department: NIH department code
      Biobehavioral Issues in Physical and Mental Health
      $295,358
      award amount

  13. Erica N Grodin

    Leads 1 award · $150,837

    • 5K01AA029712-05Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing the Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis in Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder
      $150,837
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R21DA059769-02, led by Lara A. Ray.

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.

  • Jennifer Ashley Silvers

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG089426-03, led by Bridget L Callaghan

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Melissa Sharpe

    Co-investigator on 5R01DA057084-04, led by Kate M Wassum; 3R01DA057084-04S1, led by Kate M Wassum

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Dean Mobbs

    Co-investigator on 5R33MH135002-03, led by Michelle G Craske

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Brian Shiner

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL176899-02, led by Jennifer A Sumner

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

  • Jaimie L. Gradus

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL176899-02, led by Jennifer A Sumner

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

  • Alireza Soltani

    Co-investigator on 5R01DA047870-08, led by Alicia Izquierdo

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

  • Kate Basia Wolitzky-Taylor

    Co-investigator on 1R34HL180396-01A1, led by Jennifer A Sumner

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads