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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Psychiatry at University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA

Funding
$63.6M
$63,626,770
Awards
104
FY2026 NIH awards in Psychiatry
Principal investigators
107
79 lead a grant here, 28 co-investigators
Department rank
#6
of 87 · 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 Psychiatry row of the University of California, San Diego page.

Leads a grant in this department

79 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. Olivier George

    Leads 5 awards · $4,768,049

  2. Francesca Telese

    Leads 5 awards · $4,674,640

  3. Giordano De Guglielmo

    Leads 3 awards · $3,967,008

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01DA065090-01, led by Christine Cheng; 5R01DA056602-05, led by Francesca Telese.

  4. Colin A. Depp

    Leads 4 awards · $3,925,149

    • 5K12TR005441-02Department: NIH department code
      CTSA K12 Program at University of California San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute

      Principal investigators: Colin A. Depp (contact PI), Adriana H Tremoulet

      $1,612,278
      award amount
    • 5R33MH129379-04Department: NIH department code
      iTEST: Introspective Accuracy as a Novel Target for Functioning in Psychotic Disorders

      Principal investigators: Colin A. Depp (contact PI), Amy Pinkham

      $792,160
      award amount
    • 5R01MH130396-04Department: NIH department code
      Transdiagnostic Reward System Dynamics and Social Disconnection in Suicide

      Principal investigators: Colin A. Depp (contact PI), Charles Taylor

      $770,556
      award amount
    • 5R01MH132112-04Department: NIH department code
      Social Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Disclosure and Help Seeking Behavior in Late-Life Suicide
      $750,155
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R33MH126094-04, led by Eric L Granholm.

  5. Susan F. Tapert

    Leads 3 awards · $3,243,573

    • 5U01DA041089-12Department: NIH department code
      5/21 ABCD-USA Consortium: Research Project Site at UC San Diego

      Principal investigators: Susan F. Tapert (contact PI), Joanna Jacobus

      $2,026,085
      award amount
    • 5U01AA021692-15Department: NIH department code
      National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA): San Diego Research Project Site
      $715,938
      award amount
    • 5U24AA021695-15Department: NIH department code
      National Consortium on Alcohol and NeuroDevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA): Administrative Resource

      Principal investigators: Susan F. Tapert (contact PI), Sandra A Brown

      $501,550
      award amount

  6. Gregory Aarons

    Leads 3 awards · $3,065,112

    • 5P50MH126231-05Department: NIH department code
      Center for Team Effectiveness to Accelerate EBP Implementation in Children's Mental Health Services

      Principal investigators: Gregory Aarons (contact PI), Lauren Brookman-Frazee (contact PI)

      $2,275,017
      award amount
    • 3U01CA275118-05S1Department: NIH department code
      ACCESS: Accelerating Cervical Cancer Elimination through the integration of Screen-and-treat Services

      Principal investigators: Gregory Aarons (contact PI), Echezona Edozie Ezeanolue

      $458,179
      award amount
    • 5U01CA275118-05Department: NIH department code
      ACCESS: Accelerating Cervical Cancer Elimination through the integration of Screen-and-treat Services

      Principal investigators: Gregory Aarons (contact PI), Echezona Edozie Ezeanolue

      $331,916
      award amount

  7. Nick Garber Hollon

    Leads 2 awards · $3,004,288

  8. Christine Cheng

    Leads 2 awards · $2,986,943

    • 5U01DA056006-05Department: NIH department code
      Single Cell Transcriptomics of the Cocaine Use Disorder in the Context of HIV

      Principal investigators: Christine Cheng (contact PI), David J Moore

      $1,599,188
      award amount
    • 1R01DA065090-01Department: NIH department code
      Mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in substance use disorder and HIV

      Principal investigators: Christine Cheng (contact PI), Giordano De Guglielmo

      $1,387,755
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01DA045300-07, led by Giordano De Guglielmo.

  9. Jennifer E Iudicello

    Leads 3 awards · $2,946,280

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01DA065256-01, led by Jerel Adam Fields; 2T32DA031098-16A1, led by David J Moore.

  10. Lieselot Leen Georges Carrette

    Leads 2 awards · $2,782,239

  11. William Ellerbe Pelham Iii

    Leads 5 awards · $2,747,507

    • 1R01DA064669-01Department: NIH department code
      The acute effects of cannabis use on parenting
      $730,649
      award amount
    • 1R01AA032542-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Boosting treatment effects on teenage binge drinking with a mechanistic understanding of parental monitoring
      $704,000
      award amount
    • 5R01HD117285-02Department: NIH department code
      Smartphone-based location tracking during adolescence
      $682,528
      award amount
    • 1R21DA062923-01A1Department: NIH department code
      An episode-based paradigm for studying family dynamics in adolescent substance use
      $439,500
      award amount
    • 5K08DA055935-05Department: NIH department code
      Family processes underlying adolescent substance use and conduct problems: disentangling correlation and causation
      $190,830
      award amount

  12. Mariana Cherner

    Leads 2 awards · $2,745,703

  13. Jerel Adam Fields

    Leads 3 awards · $2,653,203

    • 1R01DA065256-01Department: NIH department code
      Translational and cross-species studies of the impact of cannabis use and HIV on mitochondrial homeostasis in brain macrophages

      Principal investigators: Jerel Adam Fields (contact PI), Jared William Young, Jennifer E Iudicello

      $1,500,942
      award amount
    • 5R01AG092255-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of TREM2 in Alzheimer's disease related neuropathogenesis in people with HIV
      $757,261
      award amount
    • 5R01MH128108-05Department: NIH department code
      The role of TFAM alterations in HIV- and ART-induced mitochondrial dysfunction in the brain
      $395,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DA058405-04, led by Jennifer E Iudicello.

  14. Ana Cristina Llorente Izquierdo

    Leads 1 award · $2,543,114

  15. Kathleen Marie Fisch

    Leads 1 award · $2,543,114

  16. Lauren Brookman-Frazee

    Leads 1 award · $2,275,017

    • 5P50MH126231-05Department: NIH department code
      Center for Team Effectiveness to Accelerate EBP Implementation in Children's Mental Health Services

      Principal investigators: Gregory Aarons (contact PI), Lauren Brookman-Frazee (contact PI)

      $2,275,017
      award amount

  17. David J Moore

    Leads 2 awards · $1,975,045

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01DA056006-05, led by Christine Cheng; 5R25MH108389-09, led by Scott L Letendre.

  18. Abraham A Palmer

    Leads 2 awards · $1,906,940

    • 5P30DA060810-03Department: NIH department code
      Center for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats

      Principal investigators: Abraham A Palmer (contact PI), Leah Catherine Solberg Woods (contact PI), Oksana O Polesskaya (contact PI)

      $1,387,498
      award amount
    • 5R01AA029688-05Department: NIH department code
      A Framework for Translating Polygenic Findings Related to Alcohol Use Disorder Across Species

      Principal investigators: Abraham A Palmer (contact PI), Hae Kyung Im

      $519,442
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01DA045300-07, led by Giordano De Guglielmo; 5U01DA044451-10, led by Olivier George; 2U01DA050239-06A1, led by Francesca Telese; 5U01DA043799-11, led by Olivier George; 3U01DA043799-11S1, led by Olivier George.

  19. Eric L Granholm

    Leads 2 awards · $1,717,718

    • 4R33MH132859-03Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training with Executive Function Training for Older Adults with Schizophrenia

      Principal investigators: Eric L Granholm (contact PI), Tarek Khalil Rajji

      $975,704
      award amount
    • 5R33MH126094-04Department: NIH department code
      Context-Aware Mobile Intervention for Social Recovery in Serious Mental Illness

      Principal investigators: Eric L Granholm (contact PI), Colin A. Depp

      $742,014
      award amount

  20. Florin Vaida

    Leads 1 award · $1,509,144

  21. Jessica Lynette Montoya

    Leads 1 award · $1,509,144

  22. Sara Gianella Weibel

    Leads 1 award · $1,509,144

  23. Jeremy A Elman

    Leads 1 award · $1,419,307

  24. Leah Catherine Solberg Woods

    Leads 1 award · $1,387,498

  25. Oksana O Polesskaya

    Leads 1 award · $1,387,498

  26. Jessica Bomyea

    Leads 2 awards · $1,339,326

    • 1R01MH141088-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering neurocognitive mechanisms and enhancement of exposure-based fear learning with cognitive training
      $684,740
      award amount
    • 5R33MH127005-05Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing transdiagnostic mechanisms of cognitive dyscontrol using computer-based training
      $654,586
      award amount

  27. Tamar Gollan

    Leads 2 awards · $1,338,526

    • 5R01AG074928-04Department: NIH department code
      Assessment of Language and Cognition in Older Deaf Signers
      $722,549
      award amount
    • 5R01AG076415-04Department: NIH department code
      Language Switching with Alzheimer's Disease
      $615,977
      award amount

  28. Ronald J. Ellis

    Leads 1 award · $1,233,586

    • 1R01DA066096-01Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetics of the neuroimmune axis in HIV and cannabis use

      Principal investigators: Ronald J. Ellis (contact PI), Michael Jay Corley

      $1,233,586
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2P30MH062512-26, led by David J Moore and Florin Vaida and Jennifer E Iudicello and Jessica Lynette Montoya and Sara Gianella Weibel.

  29. Kelsey R Thomas

    Leads 1 award · $1,185,917

    • 4RF1AG082726-02Department: NIH department code
      Heterogeneity of subtle cognitive decline phenotypes in community-dwelling older adults
      $1,185,917
      award amount

  30. Jyoti Mishra

    Leads 1 award · $889,216

    • 4R33MH136135-03Department: NIH department code
      Mindfulness Engaged Neurostimulation for Depression (MEND)

      Principal investigators: Jyoti Mishra (contact PI), Dhakshin Ramanathan

      $889,216
      award amount

  31. Guido Kw Frank

    Leads 1 award · $879,294

    • 4R33MH134909-03Department: NIH department code
      Ketogenic Diet in Weight Recovered Anorexia Nervosa to Target Metabolism and Normalize Persistent Eating Disorder Psychopathology
      $879,294
      award amount

  32. Sandra Sanchez Roige

    Leads 2 awards · $874,987

    • 5R01DA061977-02Department: NIH department code
      Multivariate genome-wide association analysis of opioid-related traits in half a million diverse individuals
      $715,572
      award amount
    • 3R01DA061977-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Multivariate genome-wide association analysis of opioid-related traits in half a million diverse individuals
      $159,415
      award amount

  33. Zafiris J. Daskalakis

    Leads 2 awards · $845,155

    • 4R33MH129471-03Department: NIH department code
      Frequency and E-field Enhancement of iTBS for Depression (FREED)

      Principal investigators: Zafiris J. Daskalakis (contact PI), Paul Fitzgerald

      $557,314
      award amount
    • 3R33MH129471-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Frequency and E-field Enhancement of iTBS for Depression (FREED)

      Principal investigators: Zafiris J. Daskalakis (contact PI), Paul Fitzgerald

      $287,841
      award amount

  34. Jared William Young

    Leads 1 award · $790,000

    • 4RF1MH134175-04Department: NIH department code
      Optimization of the 5-choice continuous performance test to reveal a parietal-anterior cingulate-claustrum circuit underlying cognitive control and attention
      $790,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01DA065256-01, led by Jerel Adam Fields.

  35. Caroline M Nievergelt

    Leads 1 award · $785,216

  36. Barbara L Parry

    Leads 1 award · $781,233

    • 5R01MH134120-03Department: NIH department code
      Chronobiological Basis of Depression during the Menopause Transition
      $781,233
      award amount

  37. Fiza Singh

    Leads 1 award · $776,811

    • 1R01MH139831-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Confirmatory Efficacy Trial to Confirm the Effects of Gamma EEG-neurofeedback on Working Memory in Schizophrenia
      $776,811
      award amount

  38. Ellen Eun-Ok Lee

    Leads 1 award · $759,302

    • 5R01MH135147-03Department: NIH department code
      Cognitive Consequences of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Schizophrenia: An Investigation of Inflammatory Mechanisms
      $759,302
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T35AG026757-22, led by Benjamin Hyun Han.

  39. Michael A. Taffe

    Leads 2 awards · $755,000

    • 5R01DA042211-09Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the Abuse Liability of Cathinone and Amphetamine Stimulants
      $395,000
      award amount
    • 5R01DA057423-03Department: NIH department code
      Explicating Vulnerability and Resilience in Opioid Self-Administration in Middle Aged Rats
      $360,000
      award amount

  40. Natasha E Wade

    Leads 1 award · $734,188

    • 1R01DA063599-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Sex Differences in Mechanisms of Withdrawal and Recovery of Function in Emerging Adults with Heavy Cannabis Use
      $734,188
      award amount

  41. Christina E Wierenga

    Leads 1 award · $713,191

    • 5R01MH125880-05Department: NIH department code
      Incentive Processing and Learning in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
      $713,191
      award amount

  42. Eric Lee Garland

    Leads 1 award · $628,612

    • 5R01AT011772-06Department: NIH department code
      Analgesic and Opioid Sparing Brain Mechanisms of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement for Chronic Low Back Pain

      Principal investigators: Eric Lee Garland (contact PI), Fadel Zeidan

      $628,612
      award amount

  43. Catherine Ayers

    Leads 1 award · $608,432

    • 5R01MH127056-05Department: NIH department code
      Cognitive Rehabilitation and Exposure Therapy for Geriatric Hoarding
      $608,432
      award amount

  44. Lilia M Iakoucheva

    Leads 1 award · $607,486

    • 5R01ES033636-05Department: NIH department code
      Investigating neurodevelopmental toxicity of perfluoroalkyl acids and their derivatives in human brain organoids models

      Principal investigators: Lilia M Iakoucheva (contact PI), Alysson R. Muotri

      $607,486
      award amount

  45. Kelly Elizabeth Courtney

    Leads 1 award · $564,681

    • 5R01DA058665-03Department: NIH department code
      Advancing VR-based attentional bias as a biomarker for tobacco use disorder
      $564,681
      award amount

  46. Nicole A Stadnick

    Leads 1 award · $553,700

    • 5R01MD017222-05Department: NIH department code
      Scaling and Sustaining COVID-19 Vaccination through Meaningful Community Engagement and Care Coordination for Underserved Communities

      Principal investigators: Nicole A Stadnick (contact PI), Adrienn Borsika Rabin

      $553,700
      award amount

  47. Xianjin Zhou

    Leads 2 awards · $515,918

    • 5R01NS135620-03Department: NIH department code
      Effects of Different Isotypes of Anti-NMDAR1 Autoantibodies on Cognitive Function and Neuroprotection

      Principal investigators: Xianjin Zhou (contact PI), Victoria B Risbrough

      $504,262
      award amount
    • 3R01NS135620-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Effects of Different Isotypes of Anti-NMDAR1 Autoantibodies on Cognitive Function and Neuroprotection

      Principal investigators: Xianjin Zhou (contact PI), Victoria B Risbrough

      $11,656
      award amount

  48. Jeffrey Edwin Max

    Leads 1 award · $442,724

    • 5R01HD105338-05Department: NIH department code
      Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and the ABCD Study: A Prospective Behavioral, Psychiatric, Neurocognitive, Imaging, and Genetic Investigation
      $442,724
      award amount

  49. Elizabeth W Twamley

    Leads 1 award · $439,437

    • 5T32MH019934-32Department: NIH department code
      Fellowship in Geriatric Mental Health
      $439,437
      award amount

  50. Chuchu Li

    Leads 1 award · $428,367

    • 5R01HD116841-02Department: NIH department code
      Language Control across Comprehension and Production in Unimodal and Bimodal Bilinguals
      $428,367
      award amount

  51. Samuel Alan Barnes

    Leads 1 award · $415,664

    • 1R01MH139819-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Dissociable roles of distinct orbitostriatal circuits in value-based decision-making
      $415,664
      award amount

  52. Kristin S. Cadenhead

    Leads 1 award · $400,000

    • 5R01MH134901-03Department: NIH department code
      5/5 Biomarkers to Enhance Early Schizophrenia Treatment (BEEST)
      $400,000
      award amount

  53. Samantha Chalker

    Leads 1 award · $396,907

    • 1R01MH144654-01Department: NIH department code
      Development of a Recovery-Oriented Suicide Prevention Intervention with Peers for Clinical High Risk for Psychosis
      $396,907
      award amount

  54. Neal Doran

    Leads 1 award · $316,000

    • 5R01DA054980-05Department: NIH department code
      Vaping in Childhood and Adolescence: Cognitive and Behavioral Consequences

      Principal investigators: Neal Doran (contact PI), Joanna Jacobus

      $316,000
      award amount

  55. Carolina Makowski

    Leads 1 award · $247,442

    • 5R00MH132886-04Department: NIH department code
      Towards an etiological model of adolescent eating disorders through neuroimaging, genetics, and behavior
      $247,442
      award amount

  56. Pei-An (betty) Shih

    Leads 1 award · $235,463

    • 5T32MH018399-40Department: NIH department code
      Fellowship in Biological Psychiatry and Neuroscience
      $235,463
      award amount

  57. Neal R Swerdlow

    Leads 1 award · $215,128

    • 5R25MH101072-14Department: NIH department code
      Psychiatry Research Residency Training Track
      $215,128
      award amount

  58. Scott L Letendre

    Leads 1 award · $209,974

    Also a principal investigator on 1RM1DA066307-01, led by Mariana Cherner; 2P30MH062512-26, led by David J Moore and Florin Vaida and Jennifer E Iudicello and Jessica Lynette Montoya and Sara Gianella Weibel.

  59. Alannah Miranda

    Leads 1 award · $201,437

    • 1K01DA063744-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging an ecological mobile health approach to quantify digital biomarkers for cannabis abuse risk
      $201,437
      award amount

  60. Kevin Kuehn

    Leads 1 award · $200,040

    • 5K23MH137367-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of PRECISE: A Data Driven Personalized Suicide Prevention Intervention
      $200,040
      award amount

  61. Jean-Philippe Miron

    Leads 1 award · $199,271

    • 1K23MH144148-01Department: NIH department code
      Spaced Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression: a Home-Based Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial and Biomarkers of Response
      $199,271
      award amount

  62. Laika Aguinaldo

    Leads 1 award · $199,271

    • 1K23MH141460-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Measurement-Informed Machine Learning for Generalizable Suicide Risk Prediction in Youth
      $199,271
      award amount

  63. Cory R Weissman

    Leads 1 award · $197,521

    • 5K23MH138746-03Department: NIH department code
      Cortical Inhibition as a Biomarker of Response in a Comparison of Bilateral versus Unilateral Accelerated Theta Burst Stimulation for Suicidal Ideation in Treatment-Resistant Depression -COMBAT-SI
      $197,521
      award amount

  64. Marsida Kallupi

    Leads 1 award · $190,000

    • 1R21AA032100-01Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Therapeutic Potential of Cannabidiol (CBD) in Alcohol Dependence: Targeting Neuroadaptations in the Basolateral Amygdala
      $190,000
      award amount

  65. Alexander Laverne Wallace

    Leads 1 award · $187,777

    • 5K08DA062011-02Department: NIH department code
      The Interactive Effects of Caffeine and Cannabis Use on Neurocognitive Outcomes in Adolescents and Young Adults
      $187,777
      award amount

  66. Judith Diane Lobo

    Leads 1 award · $180,235

    • 5K01DA060092-03Department: NIH department code
      Brain Age of People with HIV and History of Methamphetamine Use
      $180,235
      award amount

  67. Benjamin Hyun Han

    Leads 1 award · $168,832

    • 5T35AG026757-22Department: NIH department code
      U C San Diego Medical Student Summer Aging Research Training

      Principal investigators: Benjamin Hyun Han (contact PI), Ellen Eun-Ok Lee

      $168,832
      award amount

  68. Samantha M Ayoub

    Leads 1 award · $165,669

    • 1K99DA064776-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Identifying the behavioral and neural markers of opioid withdrawal induced risk taking and their relationship with relapse vulnerability.
      $165,669
      award amount

  69. Crystal Xiaolu Wang

    Leads 1 award · $163,867

    • 1K23AG102190-01Department: NIH department code
      Discovery and Machine Learning Classification of Metabolite Biomarkers of Neurocognitive Impairment in Older People with HIV
      $163,867
      award amount

  70. Herry Patel

    Leads 1 award · $158,246

    • 5K99DA060978-02Department: NIH department code
      From Childhood to Adulthood: the Co-occurrence of Trauma, Substance Use, and Additional Stressors
      $158,246
      award amount

  71. Tyler Reed Bell

    Leads 1 award · $123,450

    • 5K01AG081559-04Department: NIH department code
      Chronic Pain and Risk of Alzheimer's-Related Neurodegeneration
      $123,450
      award amount

  72. Joanna Jacobus

    Leads 1 award · $101,900

    • 3R01DA054106-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Cannabis and Nicotine Co-Use Influences on Protracted Development of Neural Structure and Function
      $101,900
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01DA041089-12, led by Susan F. Tapert; 5R01DA054980-05, led by Neal Doran.

  73. Elizabeth Sneddon

    Leads 1 award · $92,029

    • 5K00DA057923-06Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of how sex steroids and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors promote cocaine self-administration
      $92,029
      award amount

  74. Ryan Michael Sullivan

    Leads 1 award · $76,780

    • 5F32DA064409-02Department: NIH department code
      Developmental Brain Connectomes and Substance Use in Adolescence
      $76,780
      award amount

  75. McKenna E Williams

    Leads 1 award · $75,880

    • 1F32AG094154-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Novel diffusion MRI signature for early detection of Alzheimer's disease
      $75,880
      award amount

  76. Sarah E Goodale

    Leads 1 award · $50,900

    • 7K00AG079810-05Department: NIH department code
      Longitudinal effects of aging and neurodegeneration on structure-function and brain-behavior relationships
      $50,900
      award amount

  77. Kyle Mastropietro

    Leads 1 award · $47,579

    • 1F31DA065472-01Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Cannabis Use on Visual Functioning and Visuospatial Neuropsychological Performance in Cannabis Users with and without HIV
      $47,579
      award amount

  78. Shane Desfor

    Leads 1 award · $46,558

    • 5F31DA063338-02Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating the Multiscale Effects of Fentanyl-Induced Dependence and Abstinence within the Mouse Basolateral Amygdala
      $46,558
      award amount

  79. Everett Lee Delfel

    Leads 1 award · $45,541

    • 5F31DA061618-03Department: NIH department code
      Traumatic Brain Injury, Mental Health Functioning, and Substance Misuse Among Youth from the ABCD Cohort.
      $45,541
      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.