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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

Funding
$17.1M
$17,134,422
Awards
39
FY2025 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
40
31 lead a grant here, 9 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

31 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 2 awards · $2,617,983

    • 5R01AI170116-04Department: NIH department code
      Drivers of individual variation in influenza vaccine response and protection from infection

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

      $1,391,997
      award amount
    • 1U01AI187063-01Department: NIH department code
      Computational Models of Adaptive Immunity to Influenza
      $1,225,986
      award amount

  2. Narayanan Kasthuri

    Leads 2 awards · $1,751,394

    • 5U01NS136401-02Department: NIH department code
      BRAIN CONNECTS: Photoemission Electron Microscopy for Connectomics

      Principal investigators: Narayanan Kasthuri (contact PI), Andrew Maselli, Gregg Wildenberg, Kevin Michael Boergens

      $1,300,394
      award amount
    • 1R21EY037490-01Department: NIH department code
      The Development of the RGC Projectome
      $451,000
      award amount

  3. David J Freedman

    Leads 3 awards · $1,494,777

    • 1R01EY037119-01Department: NIH department code
      Multiregional Neuronal Computations Underlying Rapid and Flexible Visual Categorical Decisions

      Principal investigators: David J Freedman (contact PI), Brent D. Doiron

      $688,882
      award amount
    • 5R01EY019041-17Department: NIH department code
      Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Category Recognition and Learning
      $600,895
      award amount
    • 5R21EY035901-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural Mechanisms of Categorical Decisions and Learning During Saccade-Based Visual Foraging
      $205,000
      award amount

  4. Mark E J Sheffield

    Leads 2 awards · $1,201,926

    • 5R01MH136274-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of a thalamic-hippocampal pathway in contextual fear suppression and extinction
      $617,737
      award amount
    • 4R01NS127123-02Department: NIH department code
      From synapses to neural representations: The role of neuromodulatory circuits in shaping contextual memories in the hippocampus
      $584,189
      award amount

  5. Nicholas G Hatsopoulos

    Leads 2 awards · $920,123

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS134968-03, led by Callum F Ross.

  6. Jason Neil MacLean

    Leads 1 award · $650,548

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS094184-09, led by S. Murray Sherman; 5R90DA060338-03, led by Brent D. Doiron; 5T90DA059109-03, led by Brent D. Doiron.

  7. John E Downey

    Leads 1 award · $633,180

    • 5R01NS130302-03Department: NIH department code
      Improved Brain-Computer Interface Decoding for Activities of Daily Life

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

      $633,180
      award amount

  8. Callum F Ross

    Leads 1 award · $630,168

    • 5R01NS134968-03Department: NIH department code
      Cortical control and biomechanics of tongue movement

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

      $630,168
      award amount

  9. Christian Robert Hansel

    Leads 2 awards · $629,888

    • 1R21NS140563-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Ramping time scale synaptic plasticity in the in vivo cerebellum
      $433,592
      award amount
    • 5R21NS136954-02Department: NIH department code
      Instructive climbing fiber signals outside the cerebellum
      $196,296
      award amount

  10. Joseph W Thornton

    Leads 1 award · $576,339

    • 5R35GM145336-04Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and biophysical causes of historical protein evolution
      $576,339
      award amount

  11. S. Murray Sherman

    Leads 1 award · $526,286

  12. Wei Wei

    Leads 1 award · $517,781

    • 5R01EY035268-02Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic interactions between synaptic and intrinsic properties of starburst amacrine cells for robust motion detection
      $517,781
      award amount

  13. Gregg Wildenberg

    Leads 1 award · $464,903

    • 1R21EY036568-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic development of the retinogeniculate pathway
      $464,903
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01NS136401-02, led by Narayanan Kasthuri.

  14. Brent D. Doiron

    Leads 2 awards · $463,406

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01EY037119-01, led by David J Freedman.

  15. John H.r. Maunsell

    Leads 1 award · $445,740

    • 5R01EY005911-39Department: NIH department code
      Neurophysiological circuits underlying visual attention
      $445,740
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS121772-03, led by Jason Neil MacLean.

  16. Marcus Kronforst

    Leads 1 award · $442,800

    • 5R35GM131828-07Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing the Molecular Basis of Supergene Mimicry in Butterflies
      $442,800
      award amount

  17. Urs C Schmidt-Ott

    Leads 1 award · $413,436

    • 5R01GM127366-06Department: NIH department code
      Genetic variation and function of body axis determinants in midges and other flies
      $413,436
      award amount

  18. Matthew Tyler Kaufman

    Leads 1 award · $403,856

    • 5R01NS121535-05Department: NIH department code
      Mapping neural ensemble computations to biological circuitry in motor control and decision making - Resubmission - 1
      $403,856
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS130302-03, led by John E Downey; 5R01NS125270-04, led by Nicholas G Hatsopoulos.

  19. Heather A. Marlow

    Leads 1 award · $401,296

    • 5R35GM155159-02Department: NIH department code
      Evolution of 3D Genome Folding Mechanisms and Gene Regulatory Strategies in Metazoans
      $401,296
      award amount

  20. Seppe Kuehn

    Leads 1 award · $337,089

    • 5R01GM151538-03Department: NIH department code
      Environmental modulation of metabolic function in microbial communities
      $337,089
      award amount

  21. Matthias Steinruecken

    Leads 1 award · $333,003

    • 5R01GM146051-04Department: NIH department code
      Population genetic methods to detect population structure and adaptation using modern and ancient genomic datasets
      $333,003
      award amount

  22. Lucas Pinto

    Leads 1 award · $314,315

    • 7R34NS138022-03Department: NIH department code
      Inferring causality with spatiotemporally stochastic optogenetics
      $314,315
      award amount

  23. Sumin Jang

    Leads 1 award · $224,101

    • 4R00MH130892-03Department: NIH department code
      Identifying human-specific neural progenitors and their role in neurodevelopment
      $224,101
      award amount

  24. William Green

    Leads 1 award · $204,278

    • 5R21MH134184-02Department: NIH department code
      The Roles of the Neurodevelopmental Disease-linked Ube3a Protein in Golgi Satellite Function
      $204,278
      award amount

  25. Seetha Lakshmi Krishnan

    Leads 1 award · $135,054

    • 5K01DA060994-02Department: NIH department code
      Hippocampal memory mechanisms in nicotine relapse
      $135,054
      award amount

  26. Jayson Javell Smith

    Leads 1 award · $121,230

    • 1K99NS140549-01Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering terminal selector functions in motor neurons: from worms to humans
      $121,230
      award amount

  27. Emily Lau

    Leads 1 award · $75,052

    • 1F32GM161102-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms underlying functional evolution of bioluminescent proteins from haloalkane dehalogenases
      $75,052
      award amount

  28. Ou Zhu

    Leads 1 award · $54,538

    • 5F30EY033648-04Department: NIH department code
      Neuronal encoding of rapid categorical decisions across primate oculomotor networks
      $54,538
      award amount

  29. Cara Brook

    Leads 1 award · $50,856

    • 3DP2AI171120-03S2Department: NIH department code
      Crossing scales to predict and prevent bat virus zoonoses in a Madagascar ecosystem
      $50,856
      award amount

  30. Drew Sheets

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31NS134290-02Department: NIH department code
      The neural basis of stereognosis and its application to neuroprosthetics
      $49,538
      award amount

  31. Rory Cooley

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31EY036263-02Department: NIH department code
      How do cortical hierarchies mediate visual categorization
      $49,538
      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.