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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA

Funding
$35.5M
$35,485,974
Awards
64
FY2024 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
60
42 lead a grant here, 18 co-investigators
Department rank
#2
of 81 · 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

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. Judy Pa

    Leads 3 awards · $4,697,979

    • 1RF1AG088811-01Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging 30 years of Alzheimer's disease clinical trials data to decipher phenotypic response to treatment
      $3,281,385
      award amount
    • 5R01AG065356-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeted Physical and Cognitive Activity in a VR Environment in Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease
      $1,334,613
      award amount
    • 3R01AG065356-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Targeted Physical and Cognitive Activity in a VR Environment in Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease
      $81,981
      award amount
  2. Jeffrey S. Grethe

    Leads 2 awards · $2,749,999

    • 2U24DK097771-11Department: 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
    • 3U24DK097771-11S1Department: 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

      $749,999
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R24GM144308-03, led by Anita Elzbieta Bandrowski.

  3. Maryann E Martone

    Leads 3 awards · $2,600,012

    • 3OT2OD030541-01S5Department: NIH department code
      K-CORE: Curation and Knowledge Management for SPARC

      Principal investigators: Maryann E Martone (contact PI), Bernard De Bono

      $2,170,440
      award amount
    • 3OT2OD032619-01S3Department: NIH department code
      SPARC Engagement Plan with the Common Fund Data Ecosystem

      Principal investigators: Maryann E Martone (contact PI), Bernard De Bono

      $299,972
      award amount
    • 5R25DK130611-03Department: 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
  4. Ronald J. Ellis

    Leads 3 awards · $2,382,116

    • 5R01DA056058-03Department: NIH department code
      Effects of Cannabidiol and Tetrahydrocannabinol on the Microbiome, Endocannabinoids and Neuroinflammation in HIV
      $896,116
      award amount
    • 5R01AG074808-03Department: NIH department code
      GPLD1: Association with Cognition and Amelioration through Exercise in Aging People with HIV

      Principal investigators: Ronald J. Ellis (contact PI), Brook Henry

      $789,997
      award amount
    • 5R01MH128869-04Department: NIH department code
      Immunometabolicgene expression profiles associated with depressed mood and behavioral domains inpeople with HIV

      Principal investigators: Ronald J. Ellis (contact PI), Jared William Young

      $696,003
      award amount
  5. Sarah Banks

    Leads 4 awards · $1,984,528

    • 5R01AG080663-02Department: 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

      $1,077,862
      award amount
    • 5R01AG077579-02Department: 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

      $780,651
      award amount
    • 3R01AG077579-02S1Department: 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

      $82,873
      award amount
    • 3R01AG077579-02S2Department: 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

      $43,142
      award amount
  6. Mark H. Tuszynski

    Leads 3 awards · $1,804,444

    • 5R01AG071656-04Department: NIH department code
      A Clinical Trial of AAV2-BDNF Gene Therapy in Alzheimer's Disease
      $795,037
      award amount
    • 5R01NS104442-08Department: NIH department code
      The Primate Corticospinal Connectome and Transcriptome
      $614,442
      award amount
    • 5R01AG066080-05Department: NIH department code
      Improved Intrathecal BDNF Gene Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease

      Principal investigators: Mark H. Tuszynski (contact PI), Michael Castle

      $394,965
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS130033-02, led by Ephron Solomon Rosenzweig; 1R21NS135479-01A1, led by Pengzhe Lu.

  7. Mark H Ellisman

    Leads 2 awards · $1,752,721

    • 5U24NS120055-04Department: NIH department code
      National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research: A BRAIN Technology Integration and Dissemination Resource
      $1,003,792
      award amount
    • 5R01AG065549-05Department: NIH department code
      3D Reconstruction and Analysis of Alzheimer's Patient Biopsy Samples to Map and Quantify Hallmarks of Pathogenesis and Vulnerability
      $748,929
      award amount
  8. William C Mobley

    Leads 1 award · $1,698,323

    • 1R61NS138830-01Department: NIH department code
      Develop and Validate a Mouse Model for Alzheimer Disease in Down Syndrome
      $1,698,323
      award amount
  9. Karen L Pierce

    Leads 2 awards · $1,223,049

    • 5R37MH132924-02Department: NIH department code
      Testing the accuracy of eye tracking as a screening tool for ASD in the general population
      $785,570
      award amount
    • 1R21DC022449-01Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging a Unique Dataset to Identify Outcome Predictors in Late Talkers

      Principal investigators: Karen L Pierce (contact PI), Eric Courchesne

      $437,479
      award amount
  10. Thomas Hnasko

    Leads 2 awards · $1,067,219

    • 1R01DA060923-01Department: NIH department code
      Opioid actions on the habenulo-peduncular circuit
      $562,014
      award amount
    • 2R01DA036612-11Department: NIH department code
      Role of novel VTA neurons in addiction-related behaviors
      $505,205
      award amount
  11. Xu Chen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,062,145

    • 5R01AG078185-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of Testosterone in Modulating Tau Pathogenesis in Females
      $534,810
      award amount
    • 5R01AG074273-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms by which the ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate counteracts tau pathogenesis
      $527,335
      award amount
  12. Binhai Zheng

    Leads 3 awards · $943,226

    • 1R01NS139527-01Department: NIH department code
      Patch-based deep scRNA-Seq to understand axon repair in the mammalian spinal cord
      $494,186
      award amount
    • 5R01NS093055-10Department: NIH department code
      The Role of a Pair of MAP3Ks in the Multicellular Response to Spinal Cord Injury
      $360,161
      award amount
    • 3R01NS093055-10S1Department: NIH department code
      The Role of a Pair of MAP3Ks in the Multicellular Response to Spinal Cord Injury
      $88,879
      award amount
  13. Nathan Christopher Shaner

    Leads 2 awards · $904,021

  14. Takaki Komiyama

    Leads 3 awards · $820,767

    • 5R01DC018545-05Department: NIH department code
      Context-dependent plasticity of adult-born neurons
      $393,621
      award amount
    • 5R01NS091010-10Department: NIH department code
      Cortical Control of Motor Learning
      $375,331
      award amount
    • 3R01DC018545-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Context-dependent plasticity of adult-born neurons
      $51,815
      award amount
  15. Jerome S. Mertens

    Leads 1 award · $793,656

    • 1R01AG085634-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Age-equivalent neurons from MCI patients to investigate early determinants of AD
      $793,656
      award amount
  16. Emilie T. Reas

    Leads 1 award · $781,184

    • 5R01AG077202-02Department: NIH department code
      COVID-19-related blood-brain barrier and microstructural brain injury; Sex differences and synergy with Alzheimer's disease risk
      $781,184
      award amount
  17. Joseph G Gleeson

    Leads 2 awards · $764,594

    • 5R01NS098004-08Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Characterization of Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia
      $459,529
      award amount
    • 5R01MH124890-04Department: NIH department code
      Origins of Brain Somatic Mosaicism in Developmental Brain Disease
      $305,065
      award amount
  18. Scott M Sternson

    Leads 1 award · $656,111

    • 5U01NS126054-03Department: NIH department code
      Optimization of Calcium and RNA multiplexed activity imaging for highly parallelized evaluation of cell type functions in deep-brain structures

      Principal investigators: Scott M Sternson (contact PI), Meng Cui

      $656,111
      award amount
  19. Ephron Solomon Rosenzweig

    Leads 1 award · $638,249

  20. Robert Rissman

    Leads 1 award · $578,101

    • 4R01AG072053-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel Systemic Delivery of Peptide-Mediated Anti-Sense Oligonucleotides for Dementia with Lewy Bodies
      $578,101
      award amount
  21. Anita Elzbieta Bandrowski

    Leads 1 award · $550,081

  22. Paula Alejandra Desplats

    Leads 1 award · $513,500

    • 1R61AG085253-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Time Restricted Eating intervention for Alzheimer's disease (TREAD)
      $513,500
      award amount
  23. James B Brewer

    Leads 1 award · $501,145

    • 5T32AG066596-05Department: NIH department code
      Multidisciplinary training in basic and translational Alzheimer's disease research
      $501,145
      award amount
  24. Kim Bohemie Dore

    Leads 1 award · $455,215

    • 4R01AG067049-02Department: NIH department code
      Increasing synaptic PSD-95, a neuroprotection approach against Alzheimer's disease
      $455,215
      award amount
  25. Pengzhe Lu

    Leads 1 award · $437,250

    • 1R21NS135479-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Rapid In Vivo Screening of Combination Gene Therapies for Axonal Regeneration after Spinal Cord Injury

      Principal investigators: Pengzhe Lu (contact PI), Mark H. Tuszynski, Michael Castle

      $437,250
      award amount
  26. Diane M. Jacobs

    Leads 1 award · $435,100

    • 5R01AG064002-05Department: NIH department code
      Novel Cognitive Markers of Early Alzheimer's Disease.
      $435,100
      award amount
  27. Matthew Shtrahman

    Leads 1 award · $425,923

    • 5R01NS126680-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating Mechanisms of Viral Impairment of Neurogenesis Using Recombinant AAV
      $425,923
      award amount
  28. Michael G Rosenfeld

    Leads 1 award · $399,310

    • 5R01AG074307-03Department: NIH department code
      Viral IncRNAs Regulate Host Genomic Transcriptional Programs Associated with Sporadic Alzheimer's Disease
      $399,310
      award amount
  29. Alexander M Kleschevnikov

    Leads 1 award · $395,000

    • 5R01HD100607-03Department: NIH department code
      Preventing cognitive impairment in mouse genetic models of Down syndrome by early postnatal suppression of Kir3.2 channel signaling
      $395,000
      award amount
  30. Brett C Meyer

    Leads 1 award · $336,106

    • 2U24NS107225-06Department: NIH department code
      San Diego StrokeNet+
      $336,106
      award amount
  31. Melissa McKenzie Campbell

    Leads 1 award · $224,100

    • 5R00MH126430-04Department: NIH department code
      mRNA Alternative Splicing Regulatory Networks in the Specification of Cortical Interneuron Subtypes
      $224,100
      award amount
  32. Jamie Nicole Labuzetta

    Leads 1 award · $196,498

    • 1K23AG080023-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Hourly Neurochecks in Critically Ill Older Adults
      $196,498
      award amount
  33. David G Coughlin

    Leads 1 award · $169,612

    • 5K23NS120038-04Department: NIH department code
      Pathological and cognitive correlations of real time quaking induced conversion in LBD and AD
      $169,612
      award amount
  34. Alejandra Morlett Paredes

    Leads 1 award · $116,252

    • 5K01AG076962-02Department: NIH department code
      Pathways to enrolling diverse Latinos in autopsy studies: Insights from a largelongitudinal study
      $116,252
      award amount
  35. Iris J Broce-Diaz

    Leads 1 award · $83,363

    • 5K01AG070376-04Department: NIH department code
      Novel imaging genetic biomarkers for sporadic frontotemporal dementia through machine learning
      $83,363
      award amount
  36. Xiaoxu Yang

    Leads 1 award · $60,251

    • 5K99HD111686-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding genomic stability betweengenerations by assessing mutational burdens in single sperms
      $60,251
      award amount
  37. Lourdes Guerrero

    Leads 1 award · $57,918

  38. James Derong Deng

    Leads 1 award · $53,974

    • 5F30HD106699-04Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Astrocyte BMP Signaling in Fragile X Syndrome
      $53,974
      award amount
  39. Diana Mun Yee Smith

    Leads 1 award · $44,955

    • 5F30DA057078-02Department: NIH department code
      Genetic influence on behavior, brain development, and substance use in two large, longitudinal adolescent cohorts
      $44,955
      award amount
  40. Jillybeth Burgado

    Leads 1 award · $43,336

    • 5F99NS134205-02Department: NIH department code
      Dysregulated cholesterol metabolism in Alzheimer's Disease astrocytes: Investigating contributions to neuronal dysfunction
      $43,336
      award amount
  41. Julia C Gorman

    Leads 1 award · $43,032

    • 1F99NS141305-01Department: NIH department code
      Neural population dynamics underlying flexibility in natural communication behaviors
      $43,032
      award amount
  42. Trevor Supan McPherson

    Leads 1 award · $41,609

    • 5F31DC021631-02Department: NIH department code
      Delineation of auditory-motor population dynamics underlying sensorimotor integration in the birdsong system
      $41,609
      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.

  • Chen Li

    Co-investigator on 2U24DK097771-11, led by Jeffrey S. Grethe; 3U24DK097771-11S1, 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 2U24DK097771-11, led by Jeffrey S. Grethe; 3U24DK097771-11S1, led by Jeffrey S. Grethe

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Wei Wang

    Co-investigator on 2U24DK097771-11, led by Jeffrey S. Grethe; 3U24DK097771-11S1, led by Jeffrey S. Grethe

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

  • Bernard De Bono

    Co-investigator on 3OT2OD030541-01S5, led by Maryann E Martone; 3OT2OD032619-01S3, led by Maryann E Martone

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

  • Erin Elizabeth Sundermann

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG080663-02, led by Sarah Banks; 5R01AG077579-02, led by Sarah Banks; 3R01AG077579-02S1, led by Sarah Banks; 3R01AG077579-02S2, led by Sarah Banks

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Jennifer Prescher

    Co-investigator on 1R01CA279813-01A1, led by Nathan Christopher Shaner; 1R21EY036659-01, led by Nathan Christopher Shaner

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

  • Michael Castle

    Co-investigator on 1R21NS135479-01A1, led by Pengzhe Lu; 5R01AG066080-05, led by Mark H. Tuszynski

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

  • Brook Henry

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG074808-03, led by Ronald J. Ellis

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

  • Jared William Young

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH128869-04, led by Ronald J. Ellis

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Yingxiao Wang

    Co-investigator on 1R01CA279813-01A1, led by Nathan Christopher Shaner

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Meng Cui

    Co-investigator on 5U01NS126054-03, led by Scott M Sternson

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Jacqueline C Bresnahan

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS130033-02, 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 5R01NS130033-02, 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 5R24GM144308-03, led by Anita Elzbieta Bandrowski

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

  • Eric Courchesne

    Co-investigator on 1R21DC022449-01, led by Karen L Pierce

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

  • Walter F Boron

    Co-investigator on 5R25DK130611-03, led by Maryann E Martone

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Hector M Gonzalez

    Co-investigator on 1R13AG089978-01, led by Lourdes Guerrero

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

  • Linda C Gallo

    Co-investigator on 1R13AG089978-01, led by Lourdes Guerrero

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