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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester

Worcester, MA

Funding
$6M
$6,028,555
Awards
20
FY2025 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
18
17 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
#41
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 Neurosciences row of the University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester page.

Leads a grant in this department

17 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. Dorothy Patricia Schafer

    Leads 2 awards · $961,336

    • 5R01MH113743-09Department: NIH department code
      Microglia-Astrocyte Crosstalk Regulating SynapseRemodeling
      $540,608
      award amount
    • 5R01NS117533-05Department: NIH department code
      How Do Synaptic Connections Change in Demyelinating Disease?
      $420,728
      award amount
  2. Danny G. Winder

    Leads 2 awards · $936,643

    • 5R01AA031269-02Department: NIH department code
      Ethanol modulation of a NE-astrocyte-DA arousal pathway
      $506,099
      award amount
    • 5R01DA042475-10Department: NIH department code
      Noradrenergic Regulation in the BNST
      $430,544
      award amount
  3. Patrick Emery

    Leads 1 award · $917,403

    • 5R35GM145253-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms and sleep in Drosophila
      $917,403
      award amount
  4. Kensuke Futai

    Leads 1 award · $522,143

    • 5R01MH130582-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the sex-Depended Maturation of Modulatory Systems.
      $522,143
      award amount
  5. Andrew R Tapper

    Leads 1 award · $471,980

    • 5R01DA041482-09Department: NIH department code
      Interpeduncular circuitry in stress-responsive behaviors and nicotine dependence
      $471,980
      award amount
  6. Michael M Francis

    Leads 1 award · $444,098

    • 5R01NS064263-14Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Analysis of Neural Circuit Excitation and Inhibition
      $444,098
      award amount
  7. Travis Thomson

    Leads 1 award · $418,750

    • 5R01NS126821-03Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neuronal Type-specific Axon Regeneration
      $418,750
      award amount
  8. Yang Xiang

    Leads 1 award · $368,500

    • 5R01DK136013-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanical regulation of intestine stem cell-mediated tissue homeostasis in Drosophila
      $368,500
      award amount
  9. Lina Marcela Carmona

    Leads 1 award · $224,100

    • 4R00NS127857-03Department: NIH department code
      Dissection of Cell Type Specific Contributions to Motor Learning Circuits
      $224,100
      award amount
  10. Haley E Melikian

    Leads 1 award · $209,375

    • 5R21DA058804-02Department: NIH department code
      Mesolimbic Nociceptin Signaling and Cocaine Reward Suppression
      $209,375
      award amount
  11. Mark Alkema

    Leads 1 award · $203,438

    • 5R21AG086903-02Department: NIH department code
      Metabolomic interrogation of gut mechanosensing in Drosophila

      Principal investigators: Mark Alkema (contact PI), Ye He

      $203,438
      award amount
  12. Marie Althea Doyle

    Leads 1 award · $156,204

    • 1K99AA031509-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The role of BNST PKCdelta neurons in compulsive ethanol intake
      $156,204
      award amount
  13. Rebecca Marie Beiter

    Leads 2 awards · $81,520

    • 5F32NS134683-02Department: NIH department code
      A Comparative Analysis of OPC and Microglia Phagocytosis and its Relevance to Neurodegenerative Disease
      $78,520
      award amount
    • 3F32NS134683-01S1Department: NIH department code
      A comparative analysis of OPC and microglia phagocytosis and its relevance to neurodegenerative disease
      $3,000
      award amount
  14. Jacob Maxwell Stillman

    Leads 1 award · $36,933

    • 5F31NS139677-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Role of Endosomal Toll-Like Receptors in Remyelination
      $36,933
      award amount
  15. Sam Liu

    Leads 1 award · $36,824

    • 5F31NS132495-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Role of cnb-1 and chpf-1 in GABA DD Motor Neuron Remodeling and Synapse Maintenance
      $36,824
      award amount
  16. Caitlyn Marie Edwards

    Leads 1 award · $29,713

    • 5F32AA031404-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of PrRP+ projections to BNST in ethanol withdrawal and negative affective behavior
      $29,713
      award amount
  17. Eli Min

    Leads 1 award · $9,595

    • 1F31NS139608-01A1Department: NIH department code
      How are Regenerating Axons Guided in the Adult Nervous System
      $9,595
      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.

  • Ye He

    Co-investigator on 5R21AG086903-02, led by Mark Alkema

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