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FY2017 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurology at University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

Funding
$55.3M
$55,326,578
Awards
112
FY2017 NIH awards in Neurology
Principal investigators
79
79 lead a grant here, 0 co-investigators
Department rank
#1
of 71 · 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, San Francisco 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. Miller, Bruce L

    Leads 4 awards · $4,940,452

    • 2P01AG019724-16Department: NIH department code
      Frontotemporal Dementia: Genes, Images, and Emotions
      $2,395,580
      award amount
    • 5P50AG023501-14Department: NIH department code
      New Approaches to Dementia Heterogeneity
      $2,026,428
      award amount
    • 5T32AG023481-13Department: NIH department code
      Multidisciplinary Fellowship in Dementia Research
      $452,503
      award amount
    • 3P50AG023501-14S1Department: NIH department code
      New Approaches to Dementia Heterogeneity
      $65,941
      award amount
  2. Boxer, Adam L.

    Leads 2 awards · $4,414,662

    • 5R01AG038791-07Department: NIH department code
      The Four Repeat Tauopathy Neuroimaging Initiative
      $3,164,662
      award amount
    • 5U54NS092089-04Department: NIH department code
      The Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Clinical Research Consortium
      $1,250,000
      award amount
  3. Prusiner, Stanley B

    Leads 2 awards · $2,563,284

    • 5P01AG002132-36Department: NIH department code
      Degenerative and Dementing Diseases of Aging
      $1,917,639
      award amount
    • 5R37AG031220-10Department: NIH department code
      Towards Therapeutics for Neurodegenerative Diseases
      $645,645
      award amount
  4. Juul, Sandra E

    Leads 1 award · $2,512,822

    • 5U01NS092764-02Department: NIH department code
      High-dose Erythropoietin for Asphyxia and Encephalopathy (HEAL) CCC
      $2,512,822
      award amount
  5. Ron, Dorit

    Leads 3 awards · $2,156,922

    • 5P50AA017072-11Department: NIH department code
      Alcohol Center for Translational Genetics (ACTG)
      $1,404,047
      award amount
    • 5R37AA016848-10Department: NIH department code
      BDNF and Alcohol Addiction
      $396,250
      award amount
    • 5U01AA023489-04Department: NIH department code
      Pathway-specific Fyn signaling in the striatum and ethanol drinking
      $356,625
      award amount
  6. Possin, Katherine Laurel

    Leads 2 awards · $2,032,983

    • 1R01AG056715-01Department: NIH department code
      The Care Ecosystem: Navigating patients and caregivers through stages of dementia care
      $1,168,825
      award amount
    • 1UG3NS105557-01Department: NIH department code
      The UCSF Brain Health Assessment for the Detection of Cognitive Impairment Among Diverse Populations in Primary Care
      $864,158
      award amount
  7. Fu, Ying-Hui

    Leads 1 award · $1,981,250

    • 1RF1AG054606-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The role of DEC2 and sleep in prevention of Alzheimer like pathology
      $1,981,250
      award amount
  8. Hauser, Stephen L

    Leads 3 awards · $1,860,980

    • 5R25NS070680-08Department: NIH department code
      Educating Physician-Neuroscientists: The R25 at UCSF
      $943,772
      award amount
    • 5R01NS092835-03Department: NIH department code
      Disease relevance of CD20 expression on T cells in multiple sclerosis patients
      $492,230
      award amount
    • 5R01NS026799-27Department: NIH department code
      Gene linkage study of multiple sclerosis sibling pairs
      $424,978
      award amount
  9. Kramer, Joel H

    Leads 3 awards · $1,822,480

    • 2R01AG022983-11Department: NIH department code
      Decision-Making in Genetic FTD
      $631,512
      award amount
    • 5R01AG032289-08Department: NIH department code
      Biological predictors of brain aging trajectories
      $596,607
      award amount
    • 5R01AG048234-03Department: NIH department code
      Effects of chronic inflammation on brain structure and function
      $594,361
      award amount
  10. Sturm, Virginia Emily

    Leads 2 awards · $1,395,251

    • 1R01AG057204-01Department: NIH department code
      Neurobiological Basis of Emotion Regulation Trajectories in Early Alzheimer's Disease
      $788,637
      award amount
    • 1R01AG052496-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Emotion network dysfunction and decline in early frontotemporal dementia
      $606,614
      award amount
  11. Fernandez-Vina, Marcelo

    Leads 1 award · $1,371,719

    • 5U19NS095774-03Department: NIH department code
      Immunogenetic Determinants of Disease Risk in Neurological Disease
      $1,371,719
      award amount
  12. Bender, Kevin J

    Leads 3 awards · $1,136,252

    • 1R01MH112729-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and circuit mechanisms of antipsychotics
      $546,597
      award amount
    • 5R01DA035913-05Department: NIH department code
      Cellular mechanisms for dopaminergic control of learning in prefrontal cortex
      $351,905
      award amount
    • 5R21MH112117-02Department: NIH department code
      Development and physiology of axo-axonic synapses
      $237,750
      award amount
  13. Fullerton, Heather J

    Leads 2 awards · $1,077,665

    • 1R01NS104094-01Department: NIH department code
      The Vascular effects of Infection in Pediatric Stroke (VIPS II) Study
      $731,071
      award amount
    • 5K12NS001692-19Department: NIH department code
      Translating discoveries in neurological diseases of infancy and childhood
      $346,594
      award amount
  14. Balmain, Allan

    Leads 1 award · $1,065,613

    • 1U01CA217864-01Department: NIH department code
      Integrating targeted and immunotherapy to treat genetically heterogeneous cancers
      $1,065,613
      award amount
  15. Pohl, Kilian Maria

    Leads 1 award · $1,064,206

    • 1R01MH113406-01Department: NIH department code
      Machine learning to distinguish HAND from Alzheimer's disease in HIV over age 60
      $1,064,206
      award amount
  16. Decarli, Charles

    Leads 1 award · $1,016,315

    • 5UH2NS100608-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel imaging and endothelial biomarkers of small vessel cerebrovascular disease
      $1,016,315
      award amount
  17. Chan, Jonah R

    Leads 3 awards · $982,953

    • 5R01NS095889-02Department: NIH department code
      Functional Screening of GPCR Small Molecule Libraries for Remyelination Therapies
      $346,719
      award amount
    • 5R01NS062796-10Department: NIH department code
      The establishment of Schwann cell polarity and the initiation of myelination
      $344,750
      award amount
    • 5R01NS097428-02Department: NIH department code
      Somatodendritic Inhibition of Oligodendrocyte Myelination
      $291,484
      award amount
  18. Gorno Tempini, Maria Luisa

    Leads 2 awards · $978,972

    • 2R01NS050915-13Department: NIH department code
      Primary Progressive Aphasia: Cognition, Anatomy and Progression
      $792,435
      award amount
    • 5K24DC015544-02Department: NIH department code
      Training program in the neurology of language and neurodegenerative aphasias
      $186,537
      award amount
  19. Ptacek, Louis J.

    Leads 2 awards · $925,518

    • 1R01NS099333-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Probing genetics and biology of human circadian function
      $578,799
      award amount
    • 5R01NS091276-03Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and molecular pathophysiology of ATS
      $346,719
      award amount
  20. Baranzini, Sergio E

    Leads 2 awards · $923,520

    • 1R01NS099240-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The genetic basis of progression in multiple sclerosis
      $516,273
      award amount
    • 5R01NS088155-04Department: NIH department code
      Post GWAS approach to identify cell-specific genetic pathways underlying MS risk
      $407,247
      award amount
  21. Kao, Aimee

    Leads 2 awards · $850,790

    • 1R56AG057342-01Department: NIH department code
      Systematic profiling of lysosomes with age to improve proteostasis in Alzheimer's
      $503,415
      award amount
    • 5R01NS095257-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the molecular functions of progranulin and granulin in FTLD
      $347,375
      award amount
  22. Edwards, Robert H

    Leads 2 awards · $779,025

    • 5R37MH050712-25Department: NIH department code
      Transport of Neurotransmitter Into Synaptic Vesicles
      $396,250
      award amount
    • 1R01NS103938-01Department: NIH department code
      Neurotransmitter Corelease
      $382,775
      award amount
  23. Geschwind, Michael D

    Leads 2 awards · $722,721

    • 5R01AG031189-10Department: NIH department code
      Predicting progression of human prion disease
      $586,201
      award amount
    • 3R01AG031189-10S1Department: NIH department code
      Predicting progression of human prion disease
      $136,520
      award amount
  24. Ganguly, Karunesh

    Leads 2 awards · $704,508

    • 5R01MH111871-02Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing peripheral stimulation parameters to modulate the sensorimotor cortex for post-stroke motor recovery
      $498,779
      award amount
    • 5K02NS093014-03Department: NIH department code
      Development of circuit-based therapies for motor recovery after stroke
      $205,729
      award amount
  25. Price, Richard W

    Leads 1 award · $692,820

    • 5R01NS094067-03Department: NIH department code
      Compartmentalized CSF viral escape and the CNS HIV reservoir
      $692,820
      award amount
  26. Dobyns, William B

    Leads 1 award · $677,869

    • 5R01NS058721-09Department: NIH department code
      ACC: Callosal Agenesis as a Window into Common Neurodevelopmental Disorders
      $677,869
      award amount
  27. Stegmaier, Kimberly

    Leads 1 award · $675,172

    • 5R01NS088355-03Department: NIH department code
      Targeting BET-bromodomains in neuroblastoma
      $675,172
      award amount
  28. Moskowitz, Judith T.

    Leads 1 award · $671,128

    • 5R01NR015223-04Department: NIH department code
      Interventions for Symptom Management in Older Patients with HAND
      $671,128
      award amount
  29. Hollenbach, Jill Allison

    Leads 1 award · $667,694

    • 1R01NS102153-01Department: NIH department code
      MHC variation at high resolution in multiple sclerosis
      $667,694
      award amount
  30. Chiong, Winston

    Leads 2 awards · $663,977

    • 1R01MH114860-01Department: NIH department code
      Achieving ethical integration in the development of novel neurotechnologies
      $465,117
      award amount
    • 5K23AG043553-05Department: NIH department code
      Neuroeconomics of Framing Effects and Risk Attitudes in Early Dementia
      $198,860
      award amount
  31. Gestwicki, Jason E

    Leads 2 awards · $646,511

    • 5R01NS059690-10Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Chaperones and Small Molecules
      $419,489
      award amount
    • 5R21AG053619-02Department: NIH department code
      Activation of the 20S Proteasome to Normalize Tau Homeostasis
      $227,022
      award amount
  32. Rabinovici, Gil Dan

    Leads 1 award · $617,005

    • 5R01AG045611-04Department: NIH department code
      Early Age-of-Onset AD: Clinical Heterogeneity and Network Degeneration
      $617,005
      award amount
  33. Ruggero, Davide

    Leads 1 award · $603,492

    • 5R01NS089868-04Department: NIH department code
      MYCN, mTOR and translation control in medulloblastoma
      $603,492
      award amount
  34. Vexler, Zinaida S

    Leads 2 awards · $590,628

    • 5R01NS044025-14Department: NIH department code
      Neonatal Stroke: The Role of Microglia
      $395,428
      award amount
    • 5R21NS098514-02Department: NIH department code
      Leukocyte trafficking through the choroid plexus as modulator of neonatal focal stroke
      $195,200
      award amount
  35. Arean, Patricia A.

    Leads 1 award · $495,227

    • 5R01AG049424-03Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing Cognitive Control in Older Adults with Complementary Interventions
      $495,227
      award amount
  36. Smith, Wade S

    Leads 2 awards · $479,797

    • 5U10NS086494-05Department: NIH department code
      NorCal - Coordinating Stroke Center
      $368,847
      award amount
    • 3U10NS086494-04S1Department: NIH department code
      NorCal - Coordinating Stroke Center
      $110,950
      award amount
  37. Pleasure, Samuel Jeremy

    Leads 2 awards · $463,334

    • 5R01MH077694-11Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of cortical progenitors by Sufu and Shh signaling
      $396,250
      award amount
    • 3R01MH077694-11S1Department: NIH department code
      Determining the role of Sufu in adult neurogenesis
      $67,084
      award amount
  38. Hollenbach, Jill Allison

    Leads 1 award · $435,900

    • 9R01AI128775-04Department: NIH department code
      Integrated Exchange and Storage of Current- and Future-Generation Immunogenomic Data
      $435,900
      award amount
  39. Rankin, Katherine P

    Leads 1 award · $397,597

    • 5R01AG029577-09Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of bvFTD-affected networks in socioemotional behavior
      $397,597
      award amount
  40. Berke, Joshua D

    Leads 1 award · $396,250

    • 5R01MH101697-05Department: NIH department code
      Basal Ganglia Pathways for Stopping and Switching
      $396,250
      award amount
  41. Kayser, Andrew S

    Leads 1 award · $396,250

    • 5R01EY024554-04Department: NIH department code
      Higher-Order Visual Decision Making Networks and Mechanisms
      $396,250
      award amount
  42. Chow, Felicia C.

    Leads 2 awards · $368,425

    • 1K23NS105575-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Effects of the neural and inflammatory response to stress on cerebrovascular risk in HIV infection
      $200,052
      award amount
    • 5R21TW010148-02Department: NIH department code
      Cerebrovascular mechanisms of HIV-associated cognitive impairment in China
      $168,373
      award amount
  43. Margolis, Elyssa

    Leads 1 award · $356,625

    • 1R01DA042025-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The role of the VTA-lateral habenula circuit in opioid mediated behaviors
      $356,625
      award amount
  44. Hopf, Frederic Woodward

    Leads 1 award · $352,221

    • 5R01AA024109-02Department: NIH department code
      Insula Circuitry and Compulsive Alcohol Drinking
      $352,221
      award amount
  45. Dubal, Dena Bou

    Leads 1 award · $350,897

    • 5R01NS092918-02Department: NIH department code
      Klotho and Neurodegenerative Disease
      $350,897
      award amount
  46. Kato, Saul S

    Leads 1 award · $346,750

    • 1R35GM124735-01Department: NIH department code
      Emergence of Functional Network Dynamics from Single Cell Properties
      $346,750
      award amount
  47. Kokel, David

    Leads 1 award · $317,000

    • 5R01AA022583-06Department: NIH department code
      Behavior-based chemical screening for GABAergic and startle modifying drugs
      $317,000
      award amount
  48. Southworth, Daniel Ryland

    Leads 1 award · $313,038

    • 7R01GM110001-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining the conformational cycle of nitric oxide synthases
      $313,038
      award amount
  49. Kampmann, Martin

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00CA181494-04Department: NIH department code
      Stress response networks in cancer: systematic mapping and therapeutic potential
      $249,000
      award amount
  50. San Luciano, Marta

    Leads 1 award · $199,962

    • 1K23NS099441-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing Phenogenotypic and Neuromodulation Predictors in Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Isolated Dystonia
      $199,962
      award amount
  51. Paredes, Mercedes

    Leads 1 award · $199,904

    • 5K08NS091537-03Department: NIH department code
      Late-migrating interneurons in the postnatal brain
      $199,904
      award amount
  52. Wilson, Michael R

    Leads 1 award · $199,737

    • 1K08NS096117-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Next-Generation Diagnostics for Acute Encephalitis
      $199,737
      award amount
  53. Hellmuth, Joanna

    Leads 1 award · $198,882

    • 1K23MH114724-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining the clinical utility of CSF biomarkers of neurodegeneration in HIV+ elders
      $198,882
      award amount
  54. Perry, David C

    Leads 1 award · $197,640

    • 5K23AG045289-04Department: NIH department code
      Reward processing in frontotemporal dementia
      $197,640
      award amount
  55. Miller, Zachary A

    Leads 1 award · $195,828

    • 5K23AG048291-03Department: NIH department code
      Neurodevelopmental Trajectories Towards Neurodegenerative Disease
      $195,828
      award amount
  56. Waung, Maggie W

    Leads 1 award · $187,393

    • 1K08NS097632-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Mesencephalic Circuits in Migraine
      $187,393
      award amount
  57. Rosen, Howard J

    Leads 1 award · $181,120

    • 5K24AG045333-05Department: NIH department code
      Multimodal imaging in frontotemporal degeneration
      $181,120
      award amount
  58. Spina, Salvatore

    Leads 1 award · $180,479

    • 5K08AG052648-02Department: NIH department code
      Neuropathological basis of brain network dysfunction
      $180,479
      award amount
  59. Yabut, Odessa

    Leads 1 award · $177,012

    • 5K01CA201068-02Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Suppressor of Fused in Neural Stem Cells and its Implications in Tumorigenesis
      $177,012
      award amount
  60. Tsai, Richard

    Leads 1 award · $175,645

    • 1K23AG055688-01Department: NIH department code
      Clinical and imaging biomarker evolution of early progressive supranuclear palsy
      $175,645
      award amount
  61. Valcour, Victor

    Leads 1 award · $175,207

    • 5K24MH098759-05Department: NIH department code
      Midcareer Mentoring Award for Patient-Oriented Research in HIV and Cognition
      $175,207
      award amount
  62. Gardner, Raquel C.

    Leads 1 award · $173,880

    • 5K23NS095755-03Department: NIH department code
      Traumatic Brain Injury and The Aging Brain: Predictors of Clinical Trajectories
      $173,880
      award amount
  63. Grinberg, Lea Tenenholz

    Leads 1 award · $164,900

    • 5K24AG053435-02Department: NIH department code
      Neuropathological changes underlying clinical heterogeneity in Alzheimer disease
      $164,900
      award amount
  64. Huang, Miller

    Leads 1 award · $160,773

    • 5K99CA197484-02Department: NIH department code
      Identification of novel cooperating partners of MYCN in neuroblastoma tumorigenesis
      $160,773
      award amount
  65. Brown, Jesse Aaron

    Leads 1 award · $130,211

    • 1K01AG055698-01Department: NIH department code
      Patient-tailored network prediction of neurodegenerative disease progression
      $130,211
      award amount
  66. Theofilas, Panagiotis

    Leads 1 award · $130,211

    • 1K01AG053433-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The role of cell death pathways in mediating neuronal loss during the earliest stages of Alzheimer disease
      $130,211
      award amount
  67. Yokoyama, Jennifer S

    Leads 1 award · $129,600

    • 5K01AG049152-03Department: NIH department code
      RNA signatures of frontotemporal dementia and ALS due to C9ORF72 expansion
      $129,600
      award amount
  68. Mayoral, Sonia R

    Leads 1 award · $93,420

    • 1K22NS104234-01Department: NIH department code
      Uncoupling oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination: axon signaling not required
      $93,420
      award amount
  69. Gulati, Tanuj

    Leads 1 award · $88,020

    • 1K99NS097620-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Closed-loop Brain Stimulation for Motor Recovery Post Stroke
      $88,020
      award amount
  70. Glass, Hannah Cranley

    Leads 1 award · $83,862

    • 1R03HD090298-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Comparison of Bayley-III and WIDEA-FS for the assessment of children at risk for disability
      $83,862
      award amount
  71. Ranasinghe, Kamalini Gayathree

    Leads 1 award · $65,276

    • 5F32AG050434-02Department: NIH department code
      Spatiotemporal Patterns of Network Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease
      $65,276
      award amount
  72. Lopez, Timothy Peter

    Leads 1 award · $63,479

    • 5F32NS095587-02Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing the Cellular Biology of Prion Strains and the Factors that Drive Prion Pathogenesis
      $63,479
      award amount
  73. Ben-Shalom, Roy

    Leads 2 awards · $58,014

    • 5F32NS095580-02Department: NIH department code
      Towards a unified model of action potential generation
      $57,066
      award amount
    • 3F32NS095580-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Towards a unified model of action potential generation
      $948
      award amount
  74. Whistler, Jennifer L

    Leads 1 award · $56,348

    • 5R01DA037963-03Department: NIH department code
      Dopamine receptor trafficking in drug sensitization and behavioral flexibility
      $56,348
      award amount
  75. Aery Jones, Emily Aster

    Leads 1 award · $35,786

    • 1F31AG057150-01Department: NIH department code
      Determining How Alzheimer's Disease Alters Hippocampal Network Signatures of Memory in Mouse Models
      $35,786
      award amount
  76. Sayed, Faten

    Leads 1 award · $35,786

    • 1F31AG058505-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Role of TREM2 on Microglial Functions and Regulation of Tau Pathology
      $35,786
      award amount
  77. Taubes, Alice Lorraine

    Leads 1 award · $35,749

    • 1F31AG058439-01Department: NIH department code
      Drug Repositioning for ApoE4-Mediated Alzheimer's Disease
      $35,749
      award amount
  78. Sakhai, Samuel Aaron

    Leads 2 awards · $29,451

    • 5F32AA025258-02Department: NIH department code
      Alcohol and BDNF signaling in corticostriatal circuits
      $27,851
      award amount
    • 3F32AA025258-01S1Department: NIH department code
      Alcohol and BDNF signaling in corticostriatal circuits
      $1,600
      award amount
  79. Roseberry, Thomas

    Leads 1 award · $17,533

    • 5F31NS092253-03Department: NIH department code
      The circuit basis for basal ganglia control of locomotion
      $17,533
      award amount