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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA

Funding
$30M
$29,986,497
Awards
45
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
53
41 lead a grant here, 12 co-investigators
Department rank
#2
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 California, San Diego page.

Leads a grant in this department

41 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. Douglas R Galasko

    Leads 2 awards · $6,329,501

  2. Jerome S. Mertens

    Leads 2 awards · $5,366,965

  3. Guerry Marie Peavy

    Leads 1 award · $4,584,783

  4. James B Brewer

    Leads 1 award · $4,584,783

  5. Mark W Bondi

    Leads 1 award · $4,584,783

  6. Steven Dyal Edland

    Leads 1 award · $4,584,783

  7. Subhojit Roy

    Leads 1 award · $4,584,783

  8. Tamar Gollan

    Leads 1 award · $4,584,783

  9. Hector M Gonzalez

    Leads 1 award · $3,673,985

    • 5R01AG075758-04Department: NIH department code
      Study of Latinos-Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging-Alzheimer's disease

      Principal investigators: Hector M Gonzalez (contact PI), Charles Decarli

      $3,673,985
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R13AG089978-03, led by Lourdes Guerrero.

  10. Jeffrey S. Grethe

    Leads 3 awards · $2,473,786

    • 5U24DK097771-13Department: NIH department code
      dkNET Coordinating Unit: Harnessing the Power of AI and Data Science forCollaborative Discovery and Sharing in the DK Community

      Principal investigators: Jeffrey S. Grethe (contact PI), Chen Li, Shuibing Chen, Wei Wang

      $2,000,000
      award amount
    • 3U24DK097771-13S2Department: NIH department code
      dkNET Coordinating Unit: Harnessing the Power of AI and Data Science forCollaborative Discovery and Sharing in the DK Community

      Principal investigators: Jeffrey S. Grethe (contact PI), Chen Li, Shuibing Chen, Wei Wang

      $300,000
      award amount
    • 1R01NS153771-01Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Open Data Commons for Stroke Research - Promoting FAIR Data Through Community-Driven Design
      $173,786
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R24GM144308-05, led by Anita Elzbieta Bandrowski.

  11. Sarah Banks

    Leads 3 awards · $1,799,346

    • 5R01AG080663-04Department: NIH department code
      Biological and lifestyle factors contributing to Tau in women at risk for Alzheimer's disease.

      Principal investigators: Sarah Banks (contact PI), Erin Elizabeth Sundermann

      $954,307
      award amount
    • 5R01AG077579-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Biological and Lifestyle Contributions to Alzheimer's Disease Pathology and Clinical Profiles in Black Women: Defining Prevention Targets in High Risk Groups

      Principal investigators: Sarah Banks (contact PI), Erin Elizabeth Sundermann

      $758,755
      award amount
    • 3R01AG077579-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Biological and Lifestyle Contributions to Alzheimer's Disease Pathology and Clinical Profiles in Black Women: Defining Prevention Targets in High Risk Groups

      Principal investigators: Sarah Banks (contact PI), Erin Elizabeth Sundermann

      $86,284
      award amount

  12. Karen L Pierce

    Leads 1 award · $1,546,507

    • 4R37MH132924-04Department: NIH department code
      Testing the accuracy of eye tracking as a screening tool for ASD in the general population
      $1,546,507
      award amount

  13. Emilie T. Reas

    Leads 2 awards · $1,543,950

    • 5R01AG091503-02Department: NIH department code
      Blood-brain barrier and microstructural brain biomarkers of ARIA and treatment outcomes with anti-amyloid immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease
      $788,945
      award amount
    • 5R01AG077202-04Department: NIH department code
      COVID-19-related blood-brain barrier and microstructural brain injury; Sex differences and synergy with Alzheimer's disease risk
      $755,005
      award amount

  14. Joseph G Gleeson

    Leads 2 awards · $1,185,173

    • 1R01HD121764-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Human Meningomyelocele (Spina Bifida)
      $711,432
      award amount
    • 5R01NS098004-10Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Characterization of Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia
      $473,741
      award amount

  15. Thomas Hnasko

    Leads 2 awards · $1,101,344

    • 5R01DA060923-03Department: NIH department code
      Opioid actions on the habenulo-peduncular circuit
      $570,496
      award amount
    • 5R01DA036612-13Department: NIH department code
      Role of novel VTA neurons in addiction-related behaviors
      $530,848
      award amount

  16. Xu Chen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,054,245

    • 5R01AG078185-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of Testosterone in Modulating Tau Pathogenesis in Females
      $534,810
      award amount
    • 5R01AG074273-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms by which the ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate counteracts tau pathogenesis
      $519,435
      award amount

  17. Matthew R. Banghart

    Leads 1 award · $967,201

    • 5R01NS139872-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of photocaged DREADD agonists for high-efficiency, target-specific optical silencing of synaptic transmission
      $967,201
      award amount

  18. Ronald J. Ellis

    Leads 1 award · $896,116

    • 5R01DA056058-05Department: NIH department code
      Effects of Cannabidiol and Tetrahydrocannabinol on the Microbiome, Endocannabinoids and Neuroinflammation in HIV
      $896,116
      award amount

  19. Nathan Christopher Shaner

    Leads 2 awards · $849,240

  20. Mark H. Tuszynski

    Leads 1 award · $776,629

    • 5R01AG071656-05Department: NIH department code
      A Clinical Trial of AAV2-BDNF Gene Therapy in Alzheimer's Disease
      $776,629
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS130033-04, led by Ephron Solomon Rosenzweig.

  21. Melissa McKenzie Campbell

    Leads 1 award · $760,000

    • 1DP2ES039816-01Department: NIH department code
      Reconstructing the Maternal-Fetal Interface: A Placenta–Brain Axis on a Chip Platform to Transform Models of Prenatal Neurotoxicity
      $760,000
      award amount

  22. Ephron Solomon Rosenzweig

    Leads 1 award · $656,409

  23. Anita Elzbieta Bandrowski

    Leads 1 award · $550,081

  24. Binhai Zheng

    Leads 1 award · $485,766

    • 5R01NS139527-03Department: NIH department code
      Patch-based deep scRNA-Seq to understand axon repair in the mammalian spinal cord
      $485,766
      award amount

  25. Matthew Shtrahman

    Leads 1 award · $476,101

    • 5R01NS126680-04Department: NIH department code
      Investigating Mechanisms of Viral Impairment of Neurogenesis Using Recombinant AAV
      $476,101
      award amount

  26. Michael G Rosenfeld

    Leads 1 award · $396,445

    • 5R01AG074307-05Department: NIH department code
      Viral IncRNAs Regulate Host Genomic Transcriptional Programs Associated with Sporadic Alzheimer's Disease
      $396,445
      award amount

  27. Brett C Meyer

    Leads 1 award · $331,395

    • 5U24NS107225-08Department: NIH department code
      San Diego StrokeNet+
      $331,395
      award amount

  28. Megan Charlotte Fitzhugh

    Leads 1 award · $200,273

    • 5K22AG081276-02Department: NIH department code
      An emerging Alzheimer's disease risk factor: An investigation of hearing impairment, hippocampal function, and memory in middle-aged and older adults
      $200,273
      award amount

  29. Jamie Nicole Labuzetta

    Leads 1 award · $196,498

    • 5K23AG080023-03Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Hourly Neurochecks in Critically Ill Older Adults
      $196,498
      award amount

  30. Sharona Ben-Haim

    Leads 1 award · $195,561

    • 5K08NS123543-04Department: NIH department code
      Defining the forebrain neurophysiological representation of pain
      $195,561
      award amount

  31. Maryann E Martone

    Leads 1 award · $129,600

    • 5R25DK130611-05Department: NIH department code
      FAIR DOs: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable Development of Open Simulation

      Principal investigators: Maryann E Martone (contact PI), Walter F Boron

      $129,600
      award amount

  32. Larissa Traxler

    Leads 1 award · $124,124

    • 1K99AG103868-01Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Regulation of RNA Processing in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Neurodegeneration
      $124,124
      award amount

  33. Alejandra Morlett Paredes

    Leads 1 award · $116,252

    • 5K01AG076962-04Department: NIH department code
      Pathways to enrolling diverse Latinos in autopsy studies: Insights from a largelongitudinal study
      $116,252
      award amount

  34. Lourdes Guerrero

    Leads 1 award · $58,125

  35. Diana Mun Yee Smith

    Leads 1 award · $58,114

    • 5F30DA057078-04Department: NIH department code
      Genetic influence on behavior, brain development, and substance use in two large, longitudinal adolescent cohorts
      $58,114
      award amount

  36. Amanda Vy Nguyen

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30MH142104-02Department: NIH department code
      A Neural Circuit for Hunger Induced Suppression of Socio-affective Behavior
      $55,114
      award amount

  37. Julia Louise Napoli

    Leads 1 award · $43,817

    • 5F31NS141340-02Department: NIH department code
      Hunger-Dependent Modulation of Neural Circuits for Social Visuomotor Processing in Schooling Fish
      $43,817
      award amount

  38. Elizabeth Chamiec-Case

    Leads 1 award · $43,555

    • 5F31HD116554-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural circuit mechanisms underlying pubertal timing
      $43,555
      award amount

  39. Jianna Cressy

    Leads 1 award · $43,446

    • 1F31MH142108-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Social Effects of Shared Trauma
      $43,446
      award amount

  40. Zoe Sheinkopf

    Leads 1 award · $43,444

    • 5F31AG090090-02Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering a role for S-nitrosylated phospholipase D3 in the microglial and neuronal pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease
      $43,444
      award amount

  41. Sierra Wilson

    Leads 1 award · $43,172

    • 5F31NS145704-02Department: NIH department code
      Cortical Integration in Humans: An Intracranial Investigation of Neural Synchrony
      $43,172
      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.

  • Charles Decarli

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG075758-04, led by Hector M Gonzalez

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Chen Li

    Co-investigator on 5U24DK097771-13, led by Jeffrey S. Grethe; 3U24DK097771-13S2, led by Jeffrey S. Grethe

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

  • Shuibing Chen

    Co-investigator on 5U24DK097771-13, led by Jeffrey S. Grethe; 3U24DK097771-13S2, led by Jeffrey S. Grethe

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Wei Wang

    Co-investigator on 5U24DK097771-13, led by Jeffrey S. Grethe; 3U24DK097771-13S2, led by Jeffrey S. Grethe

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

  • Erin Elizabeth Sundermann

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG080663-04, led by Sarah Banks; 5R01AG077579-04, led by Sarah Banks; 3R01AG077579-04S1, led by Sarah Banks

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Jennifer Prescher

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA279813-03, led by Nathan Christopher Shaner; 5R21EY036659-03, led by Nathan Christopher Shaner

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Yingxiao Wang

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA279813-03, led by Nathan Christopher Shaner

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Jacqueline C Bresnahan

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS130033-04, led by Ephron Solomon Rosenzweig

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

  • Michael S Beattie

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS130033-04, led by Ephron Solomon Rosenzweig

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

  • Chunnan Hsu

    Co-investigator on 5R24GM144308-05, led by Anita Elzbieta Bandrowski

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

  • Walter F Boron

    Co-investigator on 5R25DK130611-05, led by Maryann E Martone

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Linda C Gallo

    Co-investigator on 5R13AG089978-03, led by Lourdes Guerrero

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads