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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Psychiatry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Funding
$23.3M
$23,343,052
Awards
45
FY2025 NIH awards in Psychiatry
Principal investigators
57
32 lead a grant here, 25 co-investigators
Department rank
#16
of 77 · 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

32 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. Laura G Klinger

    Leads 1 award · $4,283,587

  2. Joseph Piven

    Leads 3 awards · $2,305,763

    • 5R01HD055741-19Department: NIH department code
      A Longitudinal Brain and Behavior Study of Autism From Infancy Through Adolescence
      $2,146,547
      award amount
    • 3R01HD055741-19S2Department: NIH department code
      A Longitudinal Brain and Behavior Study of Autism From Infancy Through Adolescence
      $151,200
      award amount
    • 3R01HD055741-19S1Department: NIH department code
      A Longitudinal Brain and Behavior Study of Autism From Infancy Through Adolescence
      $8,016
      award amount
  3. Aysenil Belger

    Leads 4 awards · $2,119,321

    • 5R01MH136102-02Department: 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

      $757,981
      award amount
    • 5R01DA057312-03Department: 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

      $694,468
      award amount
    • 5U01DK140764-02Department: 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

      $559,306
      award amount
    • 3R01MH136102-01S1Department: 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

      $107,566
      award amount
  4. Gabriel S Dichter

    Leads 3 awards · $1,964,314

    • 3P50HD103573-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Clinical Translational Research Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
      $1,152,823
      award amount
    • 5R01MH128238-04Department: 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

      $621,572
      award amount
    • 5R21HD115944-02Department: NIH department code
      Immune Functioning and Reward Processing in Autism
      $189,919
      award amount
  5. Cynthia M Bulik

    Leads 1 award · $1,634,466

  6. Anthony S. Zannas

    Leads 2 awards · $1,154,478

    • 1R01AG088241-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Interplay between biological aging and neuropsychiatric phenotypes after trauma
      $675,157
      award amount
    • 5R01HL163031-04Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic mechanisms linking psychosocial stress with coronary heart disease
      $479,321
      award amount
  7. Donita L Robinson

    Leads 2 awards · $772,791

    • 5T32AA007573-28Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and Cellular Alcohol Research Training

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

      $588,135
      award amount
    • 5R21AA031415-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of perineuronal nets in adolescent alcohol-induced deficits
      $184,656
      award amount
  8. Brianne Tomaszewski

    Leads 1 award · $703,555

    • 5R01AG076678-03Department: 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

      $703,555
      award amount
  9. Andrea Pelletier Baldelli

    Leads 2 awards · $690,448

    • 5R01MH137698-02Department: 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

      $612,922
      award amount
    • 3R01MH137698-01S1Department: 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

      $77,526
      award amount
  10. Flavio Frohlich

    Leads 1 award · $676,764

    • 5R01MH124387-05Department: NIH department code
      Causal investigation of the functional interactions of theta and alpha neural oscillations in output-gating
      $676,764
      award amount
  11. Jose Rodriguez-Romaguera

    Leads 1 award · $664,011

    • 5R01MH132073-03Department: NIH department code
      Encoding social arousal within prepronociceptin circuits in the extended amygdala
      $664,011
      award amount
  12. Jerry Guintivano

    Leads 1 award · $653,166

    • 5R01MH135999-02Department: NIH department code
      MomGenes Fight PPD: Expanding to Increase Participation from Diverse Ancestries
      $653,166
      award amount
  13. Guorong Rudy Wu

    Leads 2 awards · $621,137

    • 1R21AG091653-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the Selective Mechanism of Tau Propagation in Alzheimer's Disease Through Multi-layer Spreading Pathways
      $420,119
      award amount
    • 5R25AG086105-02Department: 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

      $201,018
      award amount
  14. John Horace Gilmore

    Leads 1 award · $605,469

    • 5R01MH123747-05Department: NIH department code
      The Development of Individual Differences in Adolescent Brain Structure and Risk
      $605,469
      award amount
  15. Elizabeth Helen Andersen

    Leads 1 award · $599,937

  16. Hiroyuki Kato

    Leads 1 award · $468,775

    • 4R01NS128873-02Department: NIH department code
      Cortical circuits for the integration of parallel short-latency auditory pathways

      Principal investigators: Hiroyuki Kato (contact PI), Michael Robert Kasten

      $468,775
      award amount
  17. Zoe Anastasia McElligott

    Leads 1 award · $448,712

    • 5U01AA020911-14Department: 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
  18. Joyce Besheer

    Leads 1 award · $423,258

    • 5R01AA026537-08Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of alcohol interoceptive effects following predator odor exposure: relevance to PTSD
      $423,258
      award amount
  19. Thomas J. McCown

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5R01NS116019-05Department: NIH department code
      AAV capsid-promoter interactions determines CNS cell selective gene expression in vivo
      $388,750
      award amount
  20. Clyde W Hodge

    Leads 1 award · $349,875

    • 5R01AA028782-05Department: NIH department code
      Novel mechanism of alcohol self-administration and relapse
      $349,875
      award amount
  21. Rebecca Lynn Grzadzinski

    Leads 2 awards · $246,039

    • 5K23HD112809-03Department: NIH department code
      Infant arousal as a predictor of functional outcomes in Down syndrome (DS)
      $170,439
      award amount
    • 3K23HD112809-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Infant arousal as a predictor of functional outcomes in Down syndrome (DS)
      $75,600
      award amount
  22. Susan Scott Girdler

    Leads 1 award · $244,638

    • 5T32MH093315-13Department: NIH department code
      Postdoctoral Training in Reproductive Mood Disorders

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

      $244,638
      award amount
  23. Rebekah Potts Nash

    Leads 1 award · $202,595

    • 5K23MH128613-04Department: NIH department code
      Biopsychosocial Risk Factors for Psychiatric Disorders Following Kidney Transplantation
      $202,595
      award amount
  24. Dea Garic

    Leads 2 awards · $202,508

    • 5K01HD109445-04Department: NIH department code
      The Role of CSF Dynamics in Infant Brain and Behavioral Development in Down Syndrome and Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders
      $133,817
      award amount
    • 3K01HD109445-03S1Department: NIH department code
      The Role of CSF Dynamics in Infant Brain and Behavioral Development in Down Syndrome and Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders
      $68,691
      award amount
  25. Cope Feurer

    Leads 1 award · $195,629

    • 5K23MH129564-05Department: NIH department code
      Brain-Behavioral Predictors of Interpersonal Stress Generation and Depression Risk in Adolescent Girls
      $195,629
      award amount
  26. William Rudolph Smith

    Leads 1 award · $194,940

    • 5K23MH135187-02Department: NIH department code
      Behavioral Economics and Financial Incentive-Based Strategies to Optimize Post-CSC Outcomes
      $194,940
      award amount
  27. Lars Fredrik Jarskog

    Leads 1 award · $194,375

    • 5R01MH120253-05Department: NIH department code
      3/7 Clozapine for the Prevention of Violence in Schizophrenia: A Randomized Clinical Trial
      $194,375
      award amount
  28. Zev Nakamura

    Leads 1 award · $178,613

    • 5K23AG086604-02Department: NIH department code
      Memantine and Exercise for Chemotherapy-Related Cognitive Decline in Patients with Breast Cancer
      $178,613
      award amount
  29. Emily Sullivan

    Leads 1 award · $51,229

    • 5F32AA031422-02Department: NIH department code
      Effects of tACS on alcohol-induced cognitive and neurochemical deficits
      $51,229
      award amount
  30. Tamara A Baker

    Leads 1 award · $49,971

  31. Noah William Miller

    Leads 1 award · $40,982

    • 5F31MH138104-02Department: NIH department code
      Interoceptive regulation of pupil-linked arousal by connections in the brain's prominent noradrenaline hubs
      $40,982
      award amount
  32. Sara Yi-Ling Conley

    Leads 1 award · $12,956

    • 5F31AA031177-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating tonic and synaptic excitatory signaling in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis across models of alcohol exposure
      $12,956
      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.

  • Gregory L Wallace

    Co-investigator on 1OT2OD040528-01, led by Laura G Klinger

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

  • Lindsay Lawer Shea

    Co-investigator on 1OT2OD040528-01, led by Laura G Klinger

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Emilio Compte

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH136149-02, 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 5R01MH136149-02, 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 5R01MH136149-02, led by Cynthia M Bulik

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Thomas L. Kash

    Co-investigator on 5T32AA007573-28, led by Donita L Robinson; 5U01AA020911-14, led by Zoe Anastasia McElligott

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Danielle S. Roubinov

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH136102-02, led by Aysenil Belger; 3R01MH136102-01S1, led by Aysenil Belger

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

  • Kara Hume

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG076678-03, 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 5R01AG076678-03, led by Brianne Tomaszewski

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

  • Diana H Fishbein

    Co-investigator on 5R01DA057312-03, 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 5R01DA057312-03, 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 5R01MH137698-02, led by Andrea Pelletier Baldelli; 3R01MH137698-01S1, led by Andrea Pelletier Baldelli

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Crystal Edler Schiller

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH128238-04, 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 5R01MH128238-04, led by Gabriel S Dichter

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

  • Matthew K Nock

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH122446-05, led by Elizabeth Helen Andersen

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Tory Anne Eisenlohr-Moul

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH122446-05, led by Elizabeth Helen Andersen

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

  • Fulton T Crews

    Co-investigator on 5T32AA007573-28, led by Donita L Robinson

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Janice Jin Hwang

    Co-investigator on 5U01DK140764-02, led by Aysenil Belger

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Nina Jain

    Co-investigator on 5U01DK140764-02, led by Aysenil Belger

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

  • Michael Robert Kasten

    Co-investigator on 4R01NS128873-02, led by Hiroyuki Kato

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • David R. Rubinow

    Co-investigator on 5T32MH093315-13, led by Susan Scott Girdler

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

  • Jasleen Kaur

    Co-investigator on 5R25AG086105-02, led by Guorong Rudy Wu

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

  • Minjeong Kim

    Co-investigator on 5R25AG086105-02, 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 5R13AG085949-02, 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 5R13AG085949-02, led by Tamara A Baker

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads