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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Psychiatry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Funding
$20.8M
$20,813,049
Awards
50
FY2024 NIH awards in Psychiatry
Principal investigators
61
36 lead a grant here, 25 co-investigators
Department rank
#19
of 92 · 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 North Carolina at Chapel Hill 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. Joseph Piven

    Leads 1 award · $2,296,164

    • 5R01HD055741-18Department: NIH department code
      A Longitudinal Brain and Behavior Study of Autism From Infancy Through Adolescence
      $2,296,164
      award amount
  2. Aysenil Belger

    Leads 3 awards · $1,744,653

    • 1R01MH136102-01Department: NIH department code
      Multisystem Stress Response Biotypes: Deriving Novel Physiological and Neural Risk Factors for Anhedonia in Adolescence

      Principal investigators: Aysenil Belger (contact PI), Danielle S. Roubinov

      $770,483
      award amount
    • 5R01DA057312-02Department: NIH department code
      Developmental Pathophysiology of Adverse Patterns of Substance Use in Adolescents with Anxiety

      Principal investigators: Aysenil Belger (contact PI), Diana H Fishbein, Ty A Ridenour

      $704,440
      award amount
    • 1U01DK140764-01Department: NIH department code
      Mapping Neurocognitive Complications of Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) and Potential Risk and Protective Factors

      Principal investigators: Aysenil Belger (contact PI), Janice Jin Hwang, Nina Jain

      $269,730
      award amount
  3. Cynthia M Bulik

    Leads 1 award · $1,671,213

  4. Guorong Rudy Wu

    Leads 4 awards · $1,314,864

    • 4R01AG068399-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Selectivity Mechanisms of Network Vulnerability and Resilience in Alzheimer's Disease by Establishing a Neurobiological Basis through Network Neuroscience
      $481,086
      award amount
    • 1R21AG084375-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Mechanism of Functional Dynamics Through An Explainable Neural Network Landscape with Geometric Control
      $416,750
      award amount
    • 5R25DA058940-02Department: NIH department code
      Promoting Collaborative Research on Human Connectome Analysis for Substance Use Disorders

      Principal investigators: Guorong Rudy Wu (contact PI), Minjeong Kim, Zhengwu Zhang

      $212,028
      award amount
    • 1R25AG086105-01Department: NIH department code
      Summer Research Education Program for Promoting Computational Neuroimaging Technology in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD)

      Principal investigators: Guorong Rudy Wu (contact PI), Jasleen Kaur, Minjeong Kim

      $205,000
      award amount
  5. Zoe Anastasia McElligott

    Leads 3 awards · $1,240,652

    • 5U01AA020911-13Department: NIH department code
      5/8 INIA Stress and Chronic Alcohol Interactions: Probing brain circuits that regulate alcohol stress interactions

      Principal investigators: Zoe Anastasia McElligott (contact PI), Thomas L. Kash

      $448,712
      award amount
    • 5R01AA026363-05Department: NIH department code
      Probing central amygdala neurotensin neurons in alcohol consumption
      $397,117
      award amount
    • 5R01DA049261-05Department: NIH department code
      Noradrenergic Plasticity in Opioid Withdrawal
      $394,823
      award amount
  6. Flavio Frohlich

    Leads 2 awards · $1,099,635

    • 5R01MH124387-04Department: NIH department code
      Causal investigation of the functional interactions of theta and alpha neural oscillations in output-gating
      $710,130
      award amount
    • 5R01MH122477-05Department: NIH department code
      Targeted circuit modulation to delineate the causal role of oscillatory interactions in top-down networks of cognitive control
      $389,505
      award amount
  7. Gabriel S Dichter

    Leads 2 awards · $987,600

    • 5R01MH128238-03Department: NIH department code
      Examining the Effects of Estradiol on Neural and Molecular Response to Rewards in Perimenopausal-Onset Anhedonia and Psychosis

      Principal investigators: Gabriel S Dichter (contact PI), Crystal Edler Schiller, David S Lalush

      $744,931
      award amount
    • 1R21HD115944-01Department: NIH department code
      Immune Functioning and Reward Processing in Autism
      $242,669
      award amount
  8. Susan Scott Girdler

    Leads 2 awards · $964,290

    • 5R01MH122446-04Department: NIH department code
      Adolescent Girls’ Risk for Suicide Across the Menstrual Cycle: Examining Stress and Negative Valence Systems Longitudinally

      Principal investigators: Susan Scott Girdler (contact PI), Matthew K Nock, Tory Anne Eisenlohr-Moul

      $704,724
      award amount
    • 5T32MH093315-12Department: NIH department code
      Postdoctoral Training in Reproductive Mood Disorders

      Principal investigators: Susan Scott Girdler (contact PI), David R. Rubinow

      $259,566
      award amount
  9. Jerry Guintivano

    Leads 1 award · $772,968

    • 1R01MH135999-01Department: NIH department code
      MomGenes Fight PPD: Expanding to Increase Participation from Diverse Ancestries
      $772,968
      award amount
  10. Donita L Robinson

    Leads 2 awards · $753,166

    • 5T32AA007573-27Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and Cellular Alcohol Research Training

      Principal investigators: Donita L Robinson (contact PI), Fulton T Crews, Thomas L. Kash

      $529,635
      award amount
    • 1R21AA031415-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Role of perineuronal nets in adolescent alcohol-induced deficits
      $223,531
      award amount
  11. John Horace Gilmore

    Leads 1 award · $730,004

    • 5R01MH123747-04Department: NIH department code
      The Development of Individual Differences in Adolescent Brain Structure and Risk
      $730,004
      award amount
  12. Brianne Tomaszewski

    Leads 1 award · $727,406

    • 5R01AG076678-02Department: NIH department code
      A Stage 1 Pilot Test for Feasibility and Efficacy of a Multi-Level Intervention To Increase Physical Activity in Adults with Intellectual Disability: Step it Up +

      Principal investigators: Brianne Tomaszewski (contact PI), Kara Hume, Melissa Noel Savage

      $727,406
      award amount
  13. Jose Rodriguez-Romaguera

    Leads 1 award · $655,071

    • 5R01MH132073-02Department: NIH department code
      Encoding social arousal within prepronociceptin circuits in the extended amygdala
      $655,071
      award amount
  14. Andrea Pelletier Baldelli

    Leads 1 award · $612,712

    • 1R01MH137698-01Department: NIH department code
      Peripubertal Social Motivation as a Novel Risk Factor Linking Childhood Threat Exposure and Suicidal Ideation and Behavior in Preteen Girls.

      Principal investigators: Andrea Pelletier Baldelli (contact PI), Adam Bryant Miller

      $612,712
      award amount
  15. Anthony S. Zannas

    Leads 2 awards · $540,753

    • 5R01HL163031-03Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic mechanisms linking psychosocial stress with coronary heart disease
      $483,450
      award amount
    • 3R01HL163031-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic mechanisms linking discrimination stress with coronary heart disease in minoritized individuals
      $57,303
      award amount
  16. Patrick Josey Smith

    Leads 1 award · $508,385

    • 5R61AG080615-02Department: NIH department code
      Assessing the feasibility and acceptability of a Time Restricted Feeding intervention among older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
      $508,385
      award amount
  17. Bradley N Gaynes

    Leads 2 awards · $485,561

    • 5D43TW011794-05Department: NIH department code
      Malawian Program for Mental Health Research Training (WARMHEART)

      Principal investigators: Bradley N Gaynes (contact PI), Kazione Kulisewa

      $247,798
      award amount
    • 5R34MH130232-03Department: NIH department code
      HIV Engagement and Adolescent Depression Support (HEADS-UP)

      Principal investigators: Bradley N Gaynes (contact PI), Nivedita L Bhushan

      $237,763
      award amount
  18. Joyce Besheer

    Leads 1 award · $427,456

    • 5R01AA026537-07Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of alcohol interoceptive effects following predator odor exposure: relevance to PTSD
      $427,456
      award amount
  19. Ryan Peter Vetreno

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5R01AG072894-05Department: NIH department code
      Adolescent Alcohol in 5xFAD Mouse Model Accelerates Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's Disease Pathology Across Aging
      $388,750
      award amount
  20. Thomas J. McCown

    Leads 1 award · $377,088

    • 5R01NS116019-04Department: NIH department code
      AAV capsid-promoter interactions determines CNS cell selective gene expression in vivo
      $377,088
      award amount
  21. Clyde W Hodge

    Leads 1 award · $349,875

    • 5R01AA028782-04Department: NIH department code
      Novel mechanism of alcohol self-administration and relapse
      $349,875
      award amount
  22. Cope Feurer

    Leads 2 awards · $249,629

    • 5K23MH129564-04Department: NIH department code
      Brain-Behavioral Predictors of Interpersonal Stress Generation and Depression Risk in Adolescent Girls
      $195,629
      award amount
    • 3K23MH129564-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Brain-Behavioral Predictors of Interpersonal Stress Generation and Depression Risk in Adolescent Girls
      $54,000
      award amount
  23. Rebekah Potts Nash

    Leads 1 award · $202,592

    • 5K23MH128613-03Department: NIH department code
      Biopsychosocial Risk Factors for Psychiatric Disorders Following Kidney Transplantation
      $202,592
      award amount
  24. William Rudolph Smith

    Leads 1 award · $194,940

    • 1K23MH135187-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Behavioral Economics and Financial Incentive-Based Strategies to Optimize Post-CSC Outcomes
      $194,940
      award amount
  25. Lars Fredrik Jarskog

    Leads 1 award · $194,375

    • 5R01MH120253-04Department: NIH department code
      3/7 Clozapine for the Prevention of Violence in Schizophrenia: A Randomized Clinical Trial
      $194,375
      award amount
  26. Robert G Mealer

    Leads 1 award · $189,538

    • 7K08MH128712-06Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic dysglycosylation caused by the schizophrenia-risk variant in SLC39A8
      $189,538
      award amount
  27. Zev Nakamura

    Leads 1 award · $181,626

    • 1K23AG086604-01Department: NIH department code
      Memantine and Exercise for Chemotherapy-Related Cognitive Decline in Patients with Breast Cancer
      $181,626
      award amount
  28. Rebecca Lynn Grzadzinski

    Leads 1 award · $169,475

    • 5K23HD112809-02Department: NIH department code
      Infant arousal as a predictor of functional outcomes in Down syndrome (DS)
      $169,475
      award amount
  29. Jessica Bullins Girault

    Leads 1 award · $165,711

    • 5K01MH122779-05Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Liability for Autism and Infant Brain and Behavioral Development
      $165,711
      award amount
  30. Elizabeth Helen Andersen

    Leads 1 award · $156,847

    • 5K01MH121575-05Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Neuropathophysiological Mechanisms Linking Ovarian Hormone Variability with Depression Risk in Peripubertal Girls
      $156,847
      award amount
  31. Dea Garic

    Leads 1 award · $134,023

    • 5K01HD109445-03Department: NIH department code
      The Role of CSF Dynamics in Infant Brain and Behavioral Development in Down Syndrome and Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders
      $134,023
      award amount
  32. Benjamin Edwards Buck

    Leads 1 award · $118,142

    • 7K23MH122504-06Department: NIH department code
      User-centered design of a mobile health intervention to promote help-seeking and reduce duration of untreated illness among young adults with early psychosis
      $118,142
      award amount
  33. Roza Vlasova

    Leads 1 award · $77,750

    • 5R03HD111798-02Department: NIH department code
      Does prenatal immune challenge result in increased extra-axial CSF volume?
      $77,750
      award amount
  34. Tamara A Baker

    Leads 1 award · $49,971

  35. Sara Yi-Ling Conley

    Leads 1 award · $40,100

    • 5F31AA031177-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating tonic and synaptic excitatory signaling in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis across models of alcohol exposure
      $40,100
      award amount
  36. Noah William Miller

    Leads 1 award · $40,064

    • 1F31MH138104-01Department: NIH department code
      Interoceptive regulation of pupil-linked arousal by connections in the brain's prominent noradrenaline hubs
      $40,064
      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.

  • Emilio Compte

    Co-investigator on 1R01MH136149-01, led by Cynthia M Bulik

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

  • Eva Maria Trujillo Chi Vacuan

    Co-investigator on 1R01MH136149-01, led by Cynthia M Bulik

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

  • Laura Marianne Huckins

    Co-investigator on 1R01MH136149-01, led by Cynthia M Bulik

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Thomas L. Kash

    Co-investigator on 5T32AA007573-27, led by Donita L Robinson; 5U01AA020911-13, led by Zoe Anastasia McElligott

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Danielle S. Roubinov

    Co-investigator on 1R01MH136102-01, led by Aysenil Belger

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

  • Crystal Edler Schiller

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH128238-03, led by Gabriel S Dichter

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

  • David S Lalush

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH128238-03, led by Gabriel S Dichter

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

  • Kara Hume

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG076678-02, led by Brianne Tomaszewski

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

  • Melissa Noel Savage

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG076678-02, led by Brianne Tomaszewski

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

  • Matthew K Nock

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH122446-04, led by Susan Scott Girdler

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Tory Anne Eisenlohr-Moul

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH122446-04, led by Susan Scott Girdler

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

  • Diana H Fishbein

    Co-investigator on 5R01DA057312-02, led by Aysenil Belger

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

  • Ty A Ridenour

    Co-investigator on 5R01DA057312-02, led by Aysenil Belger

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

  • Adam Bryant Miller

    Co-investigator on 1R01MH137698-01, led by Andrea Pelletier Baldelli

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Fulton T Crews

    Co-investigator on 5T32AA007573-27, led by Donita L Robinson

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Minjeong Kim

    Co-investigator on 5R25DA058940-02, led by Guorong Rudy Wu; 1R25AG086105-01, led by Guorong Rudy Wu

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

  • Janice Jin Hwang

    Co-investigator on 1U01DK140764-01, led by Aysenil Belger

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Nina Jain

    Co-investigator on 1U01DK140764-01, led by Aysenil Belger

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

  • David R. Rubinow

    Co-investigator on 5T32MH093315-12, led by Susan Scott Girdler

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

  • Kazione Kulisewa

    Co-investigator on 5D43TW011794-05, led by Bradley N Gaynes

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

  • Nivedita L Bhushan

    Co-investigator on 5R34MH130232-03, led by Bradley N Gaynes

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

  • Zhengwu Zhang

    Co-investigator on 5R25DA058940-02, led by Guorong Rudy Wu

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

  • Jasleen Kaur

    Co-investigator on 1R25AG086105-01, led by Guorong Rudy Wu

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

  • Candidus Nwakasi

    Co-investigator on 1R13AG085949-01, led by Tamara A Baker

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

  • Darlingtina Esiaka

    Co-investigator on 1R13AG085949-01, led by Tamara A Baker

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads