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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Funding
$26.5M
$26,494,210
Awards
37
FY2025 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
35
28 lead a grant here, 7 co-investigators
Department rank
#3
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 Pennsylvania page.

Leads a grant in this department

28 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. Michael L Platt

    Leads 4 awards · $5,246,711

    • 2RF1MH118203-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Neurogenomics of Vulnerability and Resilience to Mental Health Syndromes in Response to Extreme Life Events

      Principal investigators: Michael L Platt (contact PI), Michael James Montague, Noah Snyder-MacKler

      $3,263,217
      award amount
    • 5R01MH108627-10Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms Regulating Complex Social Behavior

      Principal investigators: Michael L Platt (contact PI), Scott Allen Huettel

      $734,348
      award amount
    • 5R37MH109728-10Department: NIH department code
      Neural Circuit Mechanisms Mediating TMS and Oxytocin Effects on Social Cognition
      $726,269
      award amount
    • 5R01NS123054-04Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing Optogenetics for Cell-type-specific Control in Freely-moving Primates
      $522,877
      award amount
  2. Konrad P. Kording

    Leads 1 award · $3,508,840

    • 5UC2NS128361-03Department: NIH department code
      Grassroots Rigor: making rigorous research practices accessible, meaningful, and building a community around them
      $3,508,840
      award amount
  3. Marc V Fuccillo

    Leads 2 awards · $3,420,286

    • 1RF1MH138591-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Striatal Interneuron Contributions to Behavioral Control
      $2,693,038
      award amount
    • 5R01MH136354-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and Circuit Mechanisms of Neurexin1-Mediated Goal-Directed Dysfunction
      $727,248
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32NS105607-08, led by Minghong Ma; 5R01NS117061-05, led by Minghong Ma.

  4. Shinjae Chung

    Leads 1 award · $2,444,583

    • 4RF1MH136491-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural basis underlying the impact of stress on sleep
      $2,444,583
      award amount
  5. Minghong Ma

    Leads 2 awards · $1,130,558

    • 5T32NS105607-08Department: NIH department code
      Graduate Training in Neuroscience

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

      $645,372
      award amount
    • 5R01NS117061-05Department: NIH department code
      Novel Role of a Ventral Striatal Circuit in Motor Control

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

      $485,186
      award amount
  6. Joshua I Gold

    Leads 2 awards · $1,104,971

    • 5R01MH127566-04Department: NIH department code
      LC-ACC interactions supporting adaptive, feedback-driven decisions
      $568,139
      award amount
    • 4R01NS128974-02Department: NIH department code
      Locus coeruelus-prefrontal interactions for flexible decision-making
      $536,832
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01EY034640-02, led by Long Ding.

  7. Greg J. Bashaw

    Leads 2 awards · $1,031,709

    • 1R01NS140161-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Dcc Receptor Signaling in Neuronal Morphogenesis
      $576,841
      award amount
    • 5R01HD105946-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of axon guidance receptor trafficking in the developing mammalian central nervous system
      $454,868
      award amount
  8. Guo-Li Ming

    Leads 1 award · $985,026

    • 1R35NS137480-01Department: NIH department code
      Epitranscriptomic regulation in the mammalian nervous system
      $985,026
      award amount
  9. Wenqin Luo

    Leads 2 awards · $959,985

    • 5R01NS131209-03Department: NIH department code
      Determine Functions of the Lateral Habenular and Trigeminal High Threshold Mechanoreceptors in Mediating Scratching-induced Responses
      $513,110
      award amount
    • 1R21NS142656-01Department: NIH department code
      Generating NTRK3-FlpO Mice for Genetically Intersecting A-beta Nociceptors
      $446,875
      award amount
  10. Hongjun Song

    Leads 1 award · $940,919

    • 5R35NS116843-06Department: NIH department code
      Continuous Neurogenesis in the Mammalian Hippocampus
      $940,919
      award amount
  11. Franz L Weber

    Leads 2 awards · $835,231

    • 5R01HL172283-02Department: NIH department code
      Cortical Regulation of REM Sleep
      $485,266
      award amount
    • 5R01AT013188-02Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Mechanisms and consequences of infraslow oscillations in sleep

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

      $349,965
      award amount
  12. Vera Ursula Ludwig

    Leads 1 award · $683,983

    • 5R01HD114578-02Department: NIH department code
      Developing and Validating a Multi-Dimensional Scale of Sexual Health
      $683,983
      award amount
  13. Long Ding

    Leads 1 award · $617,002

    • 5R01EY034640-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms of flexible visual-oculomotor decision rules

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

      $617,002
      award amount
  14. Michael P Nusbaum

    Leads 1 award · $610,366

    • 5R01NS029436-33Department: NIH department code
      Hormonal Tuning of Specific Circuit States from a Well-Defined Connectome
      $610,366
      award amount
  15. Jonathan A Raper

    Leads 1 award · $554,382

    • 5R01DC012854-12Department: NIH department code
      Targeting of sensory axons in the olfactory bulb
      $554,382
      award amount
  16. John A. Dani

    Leads 1 award · $535,555

    • 5R37DA053296-05Department: NIH department code
      Altered Midbrain GABAergic Circuitry Drives Greater Cocaine Self-administration
      $535,555
      award amount
  17. Julie A Williams

    Leads 1 award · $454,288

    • 5R01NS124698-04Department: 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
  18. Amita Sehgal

    Leads 1 award · $396,442

    • 5R01NS048471-20Department: NIH department code
      Interaction between circadian and sleep circuits
      $396,442
      award amount
  19. Timothy Aloysius MacHado

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00NS116122-05Department: NIH department code
      Brainwide Computations Underlying Future Action Plans
      $249,000
      award amount
  20. Sandra L. Maday

    Leads 1 award · $196,875

    • 5R21AG088697-02Department: NIH department code
      Astrocyte-neuron regulation of autophagy and lysosomal pathways in proteotoxic stress associated with alpha-synucleinopathies
      $196,875
      award amount
  21. Juan Manuel Inclan Rico

    Leads 1 award · $184,680

    • 1K99AI187730-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Contributions of itch-sensing neurons to skin anti-helminth immunity
      $184,680
      award amount
  22. Daniel Maxim Iascone

    Leads 1 award · $91,500

    • 1K99DK142063-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Circadian-metabolic crosstalk in tanycyte endocrine signaling and neurogenesis
      $91,500
      award amount
  23. Nathan Nowalk

    Leads 1 award · $87,964

    • 1F32HL182221-01Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Endpoints for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Following Twelfth Cranial Nerve Stimulation (MET12)
      $87,964
      award amount
  24. Marc Jaskir

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31NS145529-01Department: NIH department code
      Tract-based benchmarking of limbic abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsy
      $49,538
      award amount
  25. Margaret Gardner

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31MH136691-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Brain charts of sex as a biological variable for precision structural neuroimaging of the psychosis spectrum
      $49,538
      award amount
  26. Mia Sherer

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31NS143309-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of SCN3A-neurodevelopmental disorder in a mouse model
      $49,538
      award amount
  27. Evan Alexander Iliakis

    Leads 1 award · $37,370

    • 5F30MH136699-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Role of GABAergic Interneurons in the Dorsomedial Striatum in Goal-Directed Behavior
      $37,370
      award amount
  28. Margaret Kasey Pecsok

    Leads 1 award · $37,370

    • 5F30MH136690-02Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging Ultra-High Field MRI to Elucidate Glutamatergic Mechanisms of rTMS in Depression
      $37,370
      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.

  • Michael James Montague

    Co-investigator on 2RF1MH118203-06A1, led by Michael L Platt

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

  • Noah Snyder-MacKler

    Co-investigator on 2RF1MH118203-06A1, led by Michael L Platt

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

  • Scott Allen Huettel

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH108627-10, led by Michael L Platt

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

  • Daniel W Wesson

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS117061-05, led by Minghong Ma

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Nirmala Nirinjini Naidoo

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS124698-04, led by Julie A Williams

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Cecilia Diniz Behn

    Co-investigator on 5R01AT013188-02, 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 5R01AT013188-02, led by Franz L Weber

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