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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

Funding
$20.2M
$20,162,073
Awards
54
FY2024 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
49
36 lead a grant here, 13 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 Biology row of the University of Chicago page.

Leads a grant in this department

36 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. Sarah Cobey

    Leads 3 awards · $3,157,662

    • 5R01AI170116-03Department: NIH department code
      Drivers of individual variation in influenza vaccine response and protection from infection

      Principal investigators: Sarah Cobey (contact PI), Benjamin John Cowling, John S Tsang

      $1,417,855
      award amount
    • 5U01AI153700-05Department: NIH department code
      The "Dynamics of the immune responses to repeat influenza vaccination exposures" (DRIVE) Study

      Principal investigators: Sarah Cobey (contact PI), Benjamin John Cowling

      $1,274,523
      award amount
    • 5R01AI149747-05Department: NIH department code
      Longitudinal dynamics of protection after influenza infection and vaccination

      Principal investigators: Sarah Cobey (contact PI), Aubree L Gordon

      $465,284
      award amount
  2. Nicholas G Hatsopoulos

    Leads 3 awards · $2,083,384

    • 5R35NS122333-04Department: NIH department code
      Sensory mechanisms of manual dexterity and their application to neuroprosthetics
      $1,117,736
      award amount
    • 5R01NS125270-03Department: NIH department code
      The interplay between kinematic and force representations in motor and somatosensory cortices during reaching, grasping, and object transport

      Principal investigators: Nicholas G Hatsopoulos (contact PI), Jennifer L. Collinger, Lee Miller, Matthew Tyler Kaufman, Robert A Gaunt

      $602,263
      award amount
    • 5T32NS121763-03Department: NIH department code
      Neural, Computational, and Neuromechanical Approaches to Motor Control

      Principal investigators: Nicholas G Hatsopoulos (contact PI), Melina E Hale

      $363,385
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS134968-02, led by Callum F Ross.

  3. Narayanan Kasthuri

    Leads 1 award · $1,609,558

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS113922-05, led by S. Murray Sherman.

  4. S. Murray Sherman

    Leads 2 awards · $1,115,839

    • 5R01NS094184-08Department: NIH department code
      Thalamocortical interactions

      Principal investigators: S. Murray Sherman (contact PI), Jason Neil MacLean

      $567,218
      award amount
    • 5R01NS113922-05Department: NIH department code
      Connectome of circuits within and between thalamus and cortex

      Principal investigators: S. Murray Sherman (contact PI), Narayanan Kasthuri

      $548,621
      award amount
  5. Joseph W Thornton

    Leads 2 awards · $1,062,149

    • 5R01GM139007-04Department: NIH department code
      Comprehensive analysis of fitness effects and epistasis along a billion-year evolutionary trajectory

      Principal investigators: Joseph W Thornton (contact PI), Daniel N Bolon

      $549,823
      award amount
    • 5R35GM145336-03Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and biophysical causes of historical protein evolution
      $512,326
      award amount
  6. Paschalis Kratsios

    Leads 6 awards · $916,453

    • 5R01NS116365-05Department: NIH department code
      Hox-dependent mechanisms for establishment and maintenance of motor neuron terminal identity
      $398,984
      award amount
    • 5R01NS118078-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of motor neuron terminal identity
      $285,207
      award amount
    • 3R01NS118078-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of motor neuron terminal identity
      $92,905
      award amount
    • 3R01NS118078-05S2Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of motor neuron terminal identity
      $92,905
      award amount
    • 3R01NS118078-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of motor neuron terminal identity
      $23,226
      award amount
    • 3R01NS118078-04S2Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of motor neuron terminal identity
      $23,226
      award amount
  7. David J Freedman

    Leads 2 awards · $846,895

    • 5R01EY019041-16Department: NIH department code
      Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Category Recognition and Learning
      $600,895
      award amount
    • 1R21EY035901-01Department: NIH department code
      Neural Mechanisms of Categorical Decisions and Learning During Saccade-Based Visual Foraging
      $246,000
      award amount
  8. Jason Neil MacLean

    Leads 1 award · $715,111

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS094184-08, led by S. Murray Sherman; 5R90DA060338-02, led by Brent D. Doiron; 5T90DA059109-02, led by Brent D. Doiron.

  9. Callum F Ross

    Leads 1 award · $631,123

    • 5R01NS134968-02Department: NIH department code
      Cortical control and biomechanics of tongue movement

      Principal investigators: Callum F Ross (contact PI), Nicholas G Hatsopoulos

      $631,123
      award amount
  10. Mark E J Sheffield

    Leads 1 award · $617,737

    • 1R01MH136274-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of a thalamic-hippocampal pathway in contextual fear suppression and extinction
      $617,737
      award amount
  11. John E Downey

    Leads 1 award · $610,617

    • 5R01NS130302-02Department: NIH department code
      Improved Brain-Computer Interface Decoding for Activities of Daily Life

      Principal investigators: John E Downey (contact PI), Matthew Tyler Kaufman

      $610,617
      award amount
  12. Xiaoxi Zhuang

    Leads 2 awards · $590,973

    • 5R01NS111122-05Department: NIH department code
      Drosophila and mouse models of PNPO deficiency
      $394,677
      award amount
    • 5R21NS132597-02Department: NIH department code
      Generating mouse models with cell type-specific and reversible GABA deficiency
      $196,296
      award amount
  13. Cara Brook

    Leads 3 awards · $557,191

    • 5DP2AI171120-03Department: NIH department code
      Crossing scales to predict and prevent bat virus zoonoses in a Madagascar ecosystem
      $451,808
      award amount
    • 3DP2AI171120-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Crossing scales to predict and prevent bat virus zoonoses in a Madagascar ecosystem
      $91,090
      award amount
    • 3DP2AI171120-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Crossing scales to predict and prevent bat virus zoonoses in a Madagascar ecosystem
      $14,293
      award amount
  14. Seppe Kuehn

    Leads 2 awards · $534,856

    • 5R01GM151538-02Department: NIH department code
      Environmental modulation of metabolic function in microbial communities
      $337,089
      award amount
    • 3R01GM151538-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Environmental modulation of metabolic function in microbial communities
      $197,767
      award amount
  15. Wei Wei

    Leads 1 award · $517,781

    • 1R01EY035268-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic interactions between synaptic and intrinsic properties of starburst amacrine cells for robust motion detection
      $517,781
      award amount
  16. Brent D. Doiron

    Leads 2 awards · $469,970

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01EY034723-03, led by Marlene Rochelle Cohen.

  17. John H.r. Maunsell

    Leads 1 award · $445,740

    • 5R01EY005911-38Department: NIH department code
      Neurophysiological circuits underlying visual attention
      $445,740
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 4R01NS121772-02, led by Jason Neil MacLean.

  18. Marcus Kronforst

    Leads 1 award · $442,800

    • 2R35GM131828-06Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing the Molecular Basis of Supergene Mimicry in Butterflies
      $442,800
      award amount
  19. Urs C Schmidt-Ott

    Leads 2 awards · $421,214

    • 5R01GM127366-05Department: NIH department code
      Genetic variation and function of body axis determinants in midges and other flies
      $413,084
      award amount
    • 3R01GM127366-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Genetic variation and function of body axis determinants in midges and other flies
      $8,130
      award amount
  20. Marlene Rochelle Cohen

    Leads 1 award · $410,000

    • 5R01EY034723-03Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Heterogeneous effects of cognition on perception: unique leverage on circuit mechanisms

      Principal investigators: Marlene Rochelle Cohen (contact PI), Brent D. Doiron

      $410,000
      award amount
  21. Heather A. Marlow

    Leads 1 award · $401,296

    • 1R35GM155159-01Department: NIH department code
      Evolution of 3D Genome Folding Mechanisms and Gene Regulatory Strategies in Metazoans
      $401,296
      award amount
  22. Matthew Tyler Kaufman

    Leads 1 award · $391,740

    • 5R01NS121535-04Department: NIH department code
      Mapping neural ensemble computations to biological circuitry in motor control and decision making - Resubmission - 1
      $391,740
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS130302-02, led by John E Downey; 5R01NS125270-03, led by Nicholas G Hatsopoulos.

  23. Matthias Steinruecken

    Leads 1 award · $333,003

    • 5R01GM146051-03Department: NIH department code
      Population genetic methods to detect population structure and adaptation using modern and ancient genomic datasets
      $333,003
      award amount
  24. William Green

    Leads 1 award · $261,278

    • 1R21MH134184-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The Roles of the Neurodevelopmental Disease-linked Ube3a Protein in Golgi Satellite Function
      $261,278
      award amount
  25. Christian Robert Hansel

    Leads 1 award · $237,296

    • 1R21NS136954-01Department: NIH department code
      Instructive climbing fiber signals outside the cerebellum
      $237,296
      award amount
  26. Supriya Ghosh

    Leads 1 award · $205,000

    • 5R21MH130911-02Department: NIH department code
      Isolating causal roles of norepinephrine neuromodulation in mediating distinct components of attention control
      $205,000
      award amount
  27. Seetha Lakshmi Krishnan

    Leads 1 award · $136,350

    • 1K01DA060994-01Department: NIH department code
      Hippocampal memory mechanisms in nicotine relapse
      $136,350
      award amount
  28. Ramanujan Srinath

    Leads 1 award · $113,654

    • 5K99EY035362-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural basis of flexible decisions in naturalistic environments
      $113,654
      award amount
  29. Antoine David Madar

    Leads 1 award · $84,364

    • 5F32MH126643-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of dentate gyrus input-output computations in episodic memory
      $84,364
      award amount
  30. Ou Zhu

    Leads 1 award · $53,974

    • 5F30EY033648-03Department: NIH department code
      Neuronal encoding of rapid categorical decisions across primate oculomotor networks
      $53,974
      award amount
  31. Mira N Antonopoulos

    Leads 1 award · $48,974

    • 1F31NS141619-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting transcription and translation of the antisense CCCCGG repeat expansion in C9ORF72 ALS/FTD
      $48,974
      award amount
  32. Olivia Lutz

    Leads 1 award · $48,974

    • 1F31DC021883-01Department: NIH department code
      Spatiotemporal models of neural coding in the vestibular periphery
      $48,974
      award amount
  33. Rory Cooley

    Leads 1 award · $48,974

    • 1F31EY036263-01Department: NIH department code
      How do cortical hierarchies mediate visual categorization
      $48,974
      award amount
  34. Douglas Goodsmith

    Leads 1 award · $25,584

    • 5F32NS124752-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of dentate gyrus mossy cells in coordinating episodic memory formation and retrieval
      $25,584
      award amount
  35. Silas Edward Busch

    Leads 1 award · $8,163

    • 5F31NS129256-03Department: NIH department code
      Dendritic morphology, patterns of input, and calcium signal heterogeneity in a novel subpopulation of cerebellar Purkinje cells
      $8,163
      award amount
  36. Deanna Arsala

    Leads 1 award · $6,396

    • 3F32GM146423-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Assessing the generality of sexual conflict in new gene evolution in Drosophila
      $6,396
      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.

  • Benjamin John Cowling

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI170116-03, led by Sarah Cobey; 5U01AI153700-05, led by Sarah Cobey

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

  • Andrew Maselli

    Co-investigator on 1U01NS136401-01, led by Narayanan Kasthuri

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

  • Gregg Wildenberg

    Co-investigator on 1U01NS136401-01, led by Narayanan Kasthuri

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

  • Kevin Michael Boergens

    Co-investigator on 1U01NS136401-01, led by Narayanan Kasthuri

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

  • John S Tsang

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI170116-03, led by Sarah Cobey

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • David J Heeger

    Co-investigator on 4R01NS121772-02, led by Jason Neil MacLean

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Jennifer L. Collinger

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS125270-03, led by Nicholas G Hatsopoulos

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Lee Miller

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS125270-03, led by Nicholas G Hatsopoulos

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Robert A Gaunt

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS125270-03, led by Nicholas G Hatsopoulos

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

  • Daniel N Bolon

    Co-investigator on 5R01GM139007-04, led by Joseph W Thornton

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

  • Stephanie E Palmer

    Co-investigator on 5R90DA060338-02, led by Brent D. Doiron; 5T90DA059109-02, led by Brent D. Doiron

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

  • Aubree L Gordon

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI149747-05, led by Sarah Cobey

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Melina E Hale

    Co-investigator on 5T32NS121763-03, led by Nicholas G Hatsopoulos

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