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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Psychiatry at University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL

Funding
$12.9M
$12,863,120
Awards
21
FY2026 NIH awards in Psychiatry
Principal investigators
27
18 lead a grant here, 9 co-investigators
Department rank
#32
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 Illinois at Chicago page.

Leads a grant in this department

18 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. Niranjan Subhash Karnik

    Leads 2 awards · $5,285,064

  2. Elizabeth J Glover

    Leads 2 awards · $2,091,679

  3. Subhash C. Pandey

    Leads 2 awards · $2,039,535

  4. Katherine Miles Johnston McMurray

    Leads 2 awards · $1,908,417

  5. Dennis R Grayson

    Leads 1 award · $1,659,417

  6. Mark S Brodie

    Leads 1 award · $1,659,417

  7. Pauline M Maki

    Leads 2 awards · $1,109,646

    • 5K12AR084225-08Department: NIH department code
      UIC Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health Program

      Principal investigators: Pauline M Maki (contact PI), Irina A Buhimschi

      $907,200
      award amount
    • 3K12AR084225-08S1Department: NIH department code
      UIC Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health Program

      Principal investigators: Pauline M Maki (contact PI), Irina A Buhimschi

      $202,446
      award amount
  8. Alex Leow

    Leads 1 award · $745,116

    • 4R33AG087888-03Department: NIH department code
      Connecting Neuronal Hyperexcitability and Sex Differences in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) using biophysically-informed in-silico brain simulations and experimental data from mouse models of AD

      Principal investigators: Alex Leow (contact PI), Liang Zhan, Orly Lazarov

      $745,116
      award amount
  9. Natania A Crane

    Leads 1 award · $726,413

    • 1R01DA066910-01Department: NIH department code
      Neural and computational markers of reward processes as longitudinal risk markers of cannabis use escalation in young adults with anhedonia
      $726,413
      award amount
  10. Colleen Stiles-Shields

    Leads 1 award · $721,485

    • 1R34MH140914-01Department: NIH department code
      Reaching Teens Where They Are: Integrating Digital Low-Intensity Mental Health Treatment into Park District Teen Programming
      $721,485
      award amount
  11. Stevan Merrill Weine

    Leads 3 awards · $379,242

    • 5R25MH125771-05Department: NIH department code
      Mentoring Network for Global Mental Health Research on Social Drivers Of Mental Illnesses across the Lifespan (gmhCONNECT)

      Principal investigators: Stevan Merrill Weine (contact PI), Brandon Alan Kohrt

      $211,457
      award amount
    • 5R34MH136247-03Department: NIH department code
      Nurse and Peer Led Suicide Prevention in Tajikistan

      Principal investigators: Stevan Merrill Weine (contact PI), Gulchekhra Pirova

      $100,447
      award amount
    • 3R34MH136247-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Nurse and Peer Led Suicide Prevention in Tajikistan

      Principal investigators: Stevan Merrill Weine (contact PI), Gulchekhra Pirova

      $67,338
      award amount
  12. Graziano Pinna

    Leads 1 award · $359,775

    • 5R01AA030292-04Department: NIH department code
      Alcohol-induced epigenetic reprogramming of PPAR-α affects allopregnanolone biosynthesis
      $359,775
      award amount
  13. Jennifer Suor

    Leads 1 award · $202,144

    • 5K23MH130724-04Department: NIH department code
      Improving Brain-Behavior Markers of Preschool Executive Function through aGroup-Based Parenting Intervention for Low-Income Families
      $202,144
      award amount
  14. Mary Bunn

    Leads 1 award · $187,096

    • 5K01MH128524-05Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging Implementation Science and Design Methods to Sustain Community-Based Mental Health Services for Refugees
      $187,096
      award amount
  15. Erika Luz Gustafson

    Leads 1 award · $177,012

    • 5K08MD020100-03Department: NIH department code
      Community health worker implementation of a transdiagnostic mental health evidence-based treatment
      $177,012
      award amount
  16. Heidi Mettler

    Leads 1 award · $139,102

    • 1K99DC024195-01Department: NIH department code
      Facilitating Spoken Morphology Development in Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
      $139,102
      award amount
  17. Anisha Nagpal

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30MH138058-03Department: NIH department code
      Sleep as a Mechanism of Premenstrual Exacerbation of Depression and Suicidality
      $55,114
      award amount
  18. Ashley Ross

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 1F30MH144870-01Department: NIH department code
      Idiographic ovarian hormone effects on suicidality in adolescent female psychiatric patients
      $55,114
      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.

  • Antonio A Morgan-Lopez

    Co-investigator on 5UG1DA049467-07, led by Niranjan Subhash Karnik

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

  • Richard S Schottenfeld

    Co-investigator on 5UG1DA049467-07, led by Niranjan Subhash Karnik

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

  • Michelle Hribar

    Co-investigator on 4R33DA057629-02, led by Niranjan Subhash Karnik

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Neeraj Chhabra

    Co-investigator on 4R33DA057629-02, led by Niranjan Subhash Karnik

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Irina A Buhimschi

    Co-investigator on 5K12AR084225-08, led by Pauline M Maki; 3K12AR084225-08S1, led by Pauline M Maki

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

  • Liang Zhan

    Co-investigator on 4R33AG087888-03, led by Alex Leow

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

  • Orly Lazarov

    Co-investigator on 4R33AG087888-03, led by Alex Leow

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Brandon Alan Kohrt

    Co-investigator on 5R25MH125771-05, led by Stevan Merrill Weine

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Gulchekhra Pirova

    Co-investigator on 5R34MH136247-03, led by Stevan Merrill Weine; 3R34MH136247-03S1, led by Stevan Merrill Weine

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