Neurosciences at University of Pennsylvania

Leads a grant in this department

29 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. Konrad P. Kording

   Leads 1 award · $3,235,196

   • 5UC2NS128361-04Department: NIH department code

     Grassroots Rigor: making rigorous research practices accessible, meaningful, and building a community around them
     $3,235,196

     award amount

2. Wenqin Luo

   Leads 6 awards · $3,151,194

   • 4U19NS135528-02Department: NIH department code

     The Penn Human Precision Pain Center (HPPC): Discovery and Functional Evaluation of Human Primary Somatosensory Neuron Types at Normal and Chronic Pain Conditions

     Principal investigators: Hao Wu (contact PI), Mingyao Li (contact PI), Wenqin Luo (contact PI), Håkan Olausson

     $1,848,910

     award amount
   • 5R01NS131209-04Department: NIH department code

     Determine Functions of the Lateral Habenular and Trigeminal High Threshold Mechanoreceptors in Mediating Scratching-induced Responses
     $519,914

     award amount
   • 3U19NS135528-01S2Department: NIH department code

     The Penn Human Precision Pain Center (HPPC): Discovery and Functional Evaluation of Human Primary Somatosensory Neuron Types at Normal and Chronic Pain Conditions

     Principal investigators: Wenqin Luo (contact PI), Håkan Olausson, Hao Wu, Mingyao Li

     $278,036

     award amount
   • 3U19NS135528-02S2Department: NIH department code

     The Penn Human Precision Pain Center (HPPC): Discovery and Functional Evaluation of Human Primary Somatosensory Neuron Types at Normal and Chronic Pain Conditions

     Principal investigators: Wenqin Luo (contact PI), Håkan Olausson, Hao Wu, Mingyao Li

     $278,036

     award amount
   • 3U19NS135528-01S1Department: NIH department code

     The Penn Human Precision Pain Center (HPPC): Discovery and Functional Evaluation of Human Primary Somatosensory Neuron Types at Normal and Chronic Pain Conditions

     Principal investigators: Wenqin Luo (contact PI), Håkan Olausson, Hao Wu, Mingyao Li

     $113,149

     award amount
   • 3U19NS135528-02S1Department: NIH department code

     The Penn Human Precision Pain Center (HPPC): Discovery and Functional Evaluation of Human Primary Somatosensory Neuron Types at Normal and Chronic Pain Conditions

     Principal investigators: Wenqin Luo (contact PI), Håkan Olausson, Hao Wu, Mingyao Li

     $113,149

     award amount

3. Hao Wu

   Leads 1 award · $1,848,910

   • 4U19NS135528-02Department: NIH department code

     The Penn Human Precision Pain Center (HPPC): Discovery and Functional Evaluation of Human Primary Somatosensory Neuron Types at Normal and Chronic Pain Conditions

     Principal investigators: Hao Wu (contact PI), Mingyao Li (contact PI), Wenqin Luo (contact PI), Håkan Olausson

     $1,848,910

     award amount

   Also a principal investigator on 3U19NS135528-01S2, led by Wenqin Luo; 3U19NS135528-02S2, led by Wenqin Luo; 3U19NS135528-01S1, led by Wenqin Luo; 3U19NS135528-02S1, led by Wenqin Luo.

4. Mingyao Li

   Leads 1 award · $1,848,910

   • 4U19NS135528-02Department: NIH department code

     The Penn Human Precision Pain Center (HPPC): Discovery and Functional Evaluation of Human Primary Somatosensory Neuron Types at Normal and Chronic Pain Conditions

     Principal investigators: Hao Wu (contact PI), Mingyao Li (contact PI), Wenqin Luo (contact PI), Håkan Olausson

     $1,848,910

     award amount

   Also a principal investigator on 3U19NS135528-01S2, led by Wenqin Luo; 3U19NS135528-02S2, led by Wenqin Luo; 3U19NS135528-01S1, led by Wenqin Luo; 3U19NS135528-02S1, led by Wenqin Luo.

5. Franz L Weber

   Leads 3 awards · $1,410,917

   • 2R01HL149133-06Department: NIH department code

     Medullary Control of REM Sleep
     $551,052

     award amount
   • 5R01HL172283-03Department: NIH department code

     Cortical Regulation of REM Sleep
     $475,561

     award amount
   • 5R01AT013188-03Department: NIH department code

     CRCNS: Mechanisms and consequences of infraslow oscillations in sleep

     Principal investigators: Franz L Weber (contact PI), Cecilia Diniz Behn, Victoria Booth

     $384,304

     award amount

6. Joshua I Gold

   Leads 2 awards · $1,051,288

   • 5R01MH127566-05Department: NIH department code

     LC-ACC interactions supporting adaptive, feedback-driven decisions
     $568,139

     award amount
   • 5R01NS128974-03Department: NIH department code

     Locus coeruelus-prefrontal interactions for flexible decision-making
     $483,149

     award amount

   Also a principal investigator on 5R01EY034640-03, led by Long Ding.

7. Guo-Li Ming

   Leads 1 award · $985,026

   • 5R35NS137480-02Department: NIH department code

     Epitranscriptomic regulation in the mammalian nervous system
     $985,026

     award amount

8. Hongjun Song

   Leads 1 award · $940,919

   • 5R35NS116843-07Department: NIH department code

     Continuous Neurogenesis in the Mammalian Hippocampus
     $940,919

     award amount

9. Amita Sehgal

   Leads 2 awards · $919,215

   • 2T32HL007953-26Department: NIH department code

     Training in Sleep & Sleep Disorders

     Principal investigators: Amita Sehgal (contact PI), Amy M Sawyer, David Menassah Raizen

     $522,773

     award amount
   • 5R01NS048471-21Department: NIH department code

     Interaction between circadian and sleep circuits
     $396,442

     award amount

10. Marc V Fuccillo

    Leads 1 award · $727,248

    • 5R01MH136354-03Department: NIH department code

      Molecular and Circuit Mechanisms of Neurexin1-Mediated Goal-Directed Dysfunction
      $727,248

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32NS105607-09, led by Minghong Ma.

11. Vera Ursula Ludwig

    Leads 1 award · $682,911

    • 5R01HD114578-03Department: NIH department code

      Developing and Validating a Multi-Dimensional Scale of Sexual Health
      $682,911

      award amount

12. Michael P Nusbaum

    Leads 1 award · $610,366

    • 5R01NS029436-34Department: NIH department code

      Hormonal Tuning of Specific Circuit States from a Well-Defined Connectome
      $610,366

      award amount

13. Long Ding

    Leads 1 award · $606,539

    • 5R01EY034640-03Department: NIH department code

      Neural mechanisms of flexible visual-oculomotor decision rules

      Principal investigators: Long Ding (contact PI), Joshua I Gold

      $606,539

      award amount

14. Greg J. Bashaw

    Leads 1 award · $576,841

    • 5R01NS140161-02Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of Dcc Receptor Signaling in Neuronal Morphogenesis
      $576,841

      award amount

15. Jonathan A Raper

    Leads 1 award · $554,382

    • 5R01DC012854-13Department: NIH department code

      Targeting of sensory axons in the olfactory bulb
      $554,382

      award amount

16. Minghong Ma

    Leads 1 award · $546,296

    • 5T32NS105607-09Department: NIH department code

      Graduate Training in Neuroscience

      Principal investigators: Minghong Ma (contact PI), Marc V Fuccillo

      $546,296

      award amount

17. John A. Dani

    Leads 1 award · $485,446

    • 4R37DA053296-06Department: NIH department code

      Altered Midbrain GABAergic Circuitry Drives Greater Cocaine Self-administration
      $485,446

      award amount

18. Michael L Platt

    Leads 1 award · $469,168

    • 5R01NS123054-05Department: NIH department code

      Optimizing Optogenetics for Cell-type-specific Control in Freely-moving Primates
      $469,168

      award amount

19. Julie A Williams

    Leads 1 award · $454,288

    • 5R01NS124698-05Department: NIH department code

      Interactions between the immune response and lipid homeostasis in regulating sleep during sickness

      Principal investigators: Julie A Williams (contact PI), Nirmala Nirinjini Naidoo

      $454,288

      award amount

20. Allan I Pack

    Leads 1 award · $243,750

    • 1R21NS142864-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Single-nucleus gene expression and chromatin accessibility profiling of sleep and wake driven changes in murine hypothalamus

      Principal investigators: Allan I Pack (contact PI), Xiaofeng Guo

      $243,750

      award amount

21. Rebecca Sydney Moore

    Leads 1 award · $128,115

    • 1K99NS149278-01Department: NIH department code

      Defining the mechanisms underlying generational memory inheritance
      $128,115

      award amount

22. Daniel Maxim Iascone

    Leads 1 award · $90,000

    • 5K99DK142063-02Department: NIH department code

      Circadian-metabolic crosstalk in tanycyte endocrine signaling and neurogenesis
      $90,000

      award amount

23. Lyndsay Hastings

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31NS149542-01Department: NIH department code

      Whole Circuit Optical Interrogation of the Neural Mechanisms Mediating Force Production
      $50,114

      award amount

24. Marc Jaskir

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31NS145529-02Department: NIH department code

      Tract-based benchmarking of limbic abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsy
      $50,114

      award amount

25. Margaret Gardner

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31MH136691-02Department: NIH department code

      Brain charts of sex as a biological variable for precision structural neuroimaging of the psychosis spectrum
      $50,114

      award amount

26. Mia Sherer

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31NS143309-02Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of SCN3A-neurodevelopmental disorder in a mouse model
      $50,114

      award amount

27. Misgana Ghidewon

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31DK146676-01Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms for oral-hypothalamic sugar detection
      $50,114

      award amount

28. Margaret Kasey Pecsok

    Leads 1 award · $38,097

    • 5F30MH136690-03Department: NIH department code

      Leveraging Ultra-High Field MRI to Elucidate Glutamatergic Mechanisms of rTMS in Depression
      $38,097

      award amount

29. Evan Alexander Iliakis

    Leads 1 award · $37,946

    • 5F30MH136699-03Department: NIH department code

      Investigating the Role of GABAergic Interneurons in the Dorsomedial Striatum in Goal-Directed Behavior
      $37,946

      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.

• Håkan Olausson

  Co-investigator on 4U19NS135528-02, led by Hao Wu and Mingyao Li and Wenqin Luo; 3U19NS135528-01S2, led by Wenqin Luo; 3U19NS135528-02S2, led by Wenqin Luo; 3U19NS135528-01S1, led by Wenqin Luo; 3U19NS135528-02S1, led by Wenqin Luo

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

• Amy M Sawyer

  Co-investigator on 2T32HL007953-26, led by Amita Sehgal

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

• David Menassah Raizen

  Co-investigator on 2T32HL007953-26, led by Amita Sehgal

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • University of Pennsylvania · Neurology (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Nirmala Nirinjini Naidoo

  Co-investigator on 5R01NS124698-05, led by Julie A Williams

  From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • University of Pennsylvania · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Cecilia Diniz Behn

  Co-investigator on 5R01AT013188-03, led by Franz L Weber

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

• Victoria Booth

  Co-investigator on 5R01AT013188-03, led by Franz L Weber

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

• Xiaofeng Guo

  Co-investigator on 1R21NS142864-01A1, led by Allan I Pack

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