Neurosciences at University of Pittsburgh

Leads a grant in this department

42 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. Gold, Michael S

   Leads 2 awards · $2,836,345

   • 4UH3TR003090-02Department: NIH department code

     Joint Pain on a Chip: Mechanistic Analysis Therapeutic Targets and an Empirical Strategy for Personalized Pain Management
     $2,287,391

     award amount
   • 1R01NS122784-01Department: NIH department code

     Mechanisms of Pain Associated with Trigeminal Nerve Injury
     $548,954

     award amount

2. Cohen, Marlene Rochelle

   Leads 1 award · $2,814,033

   • 1RF1NS121913-01Department: NIH department code

     Topological bridges between circuits, models, and behavior
     $2,814,033

     award amount

3. Strick, Peter

   Leads 3 awards · $2,359,715

   • 5R01AT010414-04Department: NIH department code

     The Neural Basis of the Brain-Body Connection
     $1,168,788

     award amount
   • 5P40OD010996-17Department: NIH department code

     Center for Neuroanatomy with Neurotropic Viruses
     $849,519

     award amount
   • 5T32NS086749-08Department: NIH department code

     Training in the Neurobiology of Neurological Disease
     $341,408

     award amount

4. Stauffer, William Richard

   Leads 2 awards · $2,240,921

   • 5UG3MH120094-03Department: NIH department code

     A Massive Library of AAVs to Target Transcriptionally-Defined Primate Cell Types
     $1,759,059

     award amount
   • 1S10MH126994-01Department: NIH department code

     Request for a Brainsight Turnkey Neuro-Navigation System For NHP Research
     $481,862

     award amount

5. Belzil, Veronique

   Leads 1 award · $1,817,770

   • 1R01NS127187-01Department: NIH department code

     Identification of TDP-43 modifiers through single-cell transcriptional and epigenomic dissection of ALS and FTLD-MND
     $1,817,770

     award amount

6. Ross, Sarah Elizabeth

   Leads 2 awards · $1,172,143

   • 5R01AR063772-09Department: NIH department code

     Investigating the Neural Circuits of Itch
     $652,466

     award amount
   • 1R01NS119410-01Department: NIH department code

     Neural circuit basis for neurovascular coupling
     $519,677

     award amount

7. Silva, Afonso C

   Leads 1 award · $1,165,318

   • 1R24AG073190-01Department: NIH department code

     Development and Validation of a Marmoset Model of Late-Onset Alzheimer Disease Based on Tau Seeding
     $1,165,318

     award amount

8. Stocker, Sean D

   Leads 2 awards · $1,148,271

   • 5R01HL152680-02Department: NIH department code

     Identification of mechano versus chemo-sensitive renal sensory neurons in hypertension
     $588,804

     award amount
   • 5R01HL145875-03Department: NIH department code

     Brain NaCl-sensing in salt-sensitive hypertension.
     $559,467

     award amount

9. Albers, Kathryn Marie

   Leads 2 awards · $1,147,640

   • 5R01DK122798-02Department: NIH department code

     Molecular and Functional Analysis of Hirschsprung Defects in Humans and Mouse
     $694,541

     award amount
   • 5R01DK124955-02Department: NIH department code

     Cross-talk between the colon epithelium, colon afferents and sympathetic neurons regulate pain in the normal and inflamed colon
     $453,099

     award amount

10. Seal, Rebecca P

    Leads 2 awards · $944,231

    • 5R01NS107364-03Department: NIH department code

      Dorsal horn circuits for mechanical allodynia
      $516,068

      award amount
    • 5R01NS082650-08Department: NIH department code

      Striatal Neuroplasticity Mechanisms that Preserve Motor Behavior in a model of Parkinson’s Disease
      $428,163

      award amount

11. Johnson, Jon W.

    Leads 2 awards · $924,337

    • 5R01AG065594-02Department: NIH department code

      Ca2+-Dependent Block by Mematine and Selective Inhibition of Overactive NMDA Receptors
      $536,640

      award amount
    • 5R01GM128195-28Department: NIH department code

      Channel Block and Gating of NMDA Receptors
      $387,697

      award amount

12. Pan, Jen Qian

    Leads 1 award · $630,641

    • 7R01MH118298-05Department: NIH department code

      Experience-Dependent Reorganization of Excitatory Synapse Connectivity
      $630,641

      award amount

13. Dong, Yan

    Leads 2 awards · $605,228

    • 5R37DA023206-15Department: NIH department code

      Cocaine-induced adaptation in NMDA receptors
      $409,343

      award amount
    • 5R21DA051010-02Department: NIH department code

      Interaction of Glutamatergic Inputs to Nucleus Accumbens
      $195,885

      award amount

14. Grace, Anthony A

    Leads 1 award · $594,923

    • 5R01MH057440-24Department: NIH department code

      Gating of Information Flow Within the Nucleus Accumbens
      $594,923

      award amount

15. Koerber, H Richard

    Leads 1 award · $592,081

    • 2R01NS096705-06Department: NIH department code

      Comprehensive Phenotyping of Specific Populations of Spinal Neurons Processing Cutaneous Information Before and After Injury
      $592,081

      award amount

16. Rubio-Valero, Maria-Eulalia

    Leads 1 award · $589,359

    • 5R01DC013048-08Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of hypersensitivity to sound-induced cochlear damage
      $589,359

      award amount

17. Schwartz, Andrew B.

    Leads 1 award · $588,024

    • 5R01NS111148-02Department: NIH department code

      Motor cortical signaling of impedance during manipulation
      $588,024

      award amount

18. Aizenman, Elias

    Leads 1 award · $569,656

    • 5R01NS043277-19Department: NIH department code

      Liberation of Intracellular Zinc and Neuronal Cell Death
      $569,656

      award amount

19. Cohen, Marlene Rochelle

    Leads 2 awards · $440,155

    • 5R01EY022930-09Department: NIH department code

      Neuronal population coding: from vision to decision
      $368,552

      award amount
    • 3R01EY022930-09S1Department: NIH department code

      Neuronal population coding: from vision to decision
      $71,603

      award amount

20. Sadagopan, Srivatsun

    Leads 1 award · $411,378

    • 5R01DC017141-04Department: NIH department code

      Neural mechanisms underlying vocalization perception in realistic listening conditions
      $411,378

      award amount

21. El Gharbawie, Omar

    Leads 2 awards · $398,114

    • 5R01NS105697-03Department: NIH department code

      Functional and structural organization of motor areas in non-human primates
      $386,302

      award amount
    • 3R01NS105697-02S1Department: NIH department code

      Functional and structural organization of motor areas in non-human primates
      $11,812

      award amount

22. Meriney, Stephen D

    Leads 1 award · $393,991

    • 5T32NS007433-24Department: NIH department code

      Predoctoral Training in Basic Neuroscience
      $393,991

      award amount

23. Thathiah, Amantha

    Leads 1 award · $386,617

    • 5R01AG058851-04Department: NIH department code

      Regulation of gamma-secretase function in Alzheimer's disease
      $386,617

      award amount

24. Donnelly, Christopher James

    Leads 1 award · $372,719

    • 5R01NS105756-04Department: NIH department code

      An optogenetic approach to establish the interplay between stress granules and TDP-43 proteinopathy in ALS/FTD
      $372,719

      award amount

25. Scheff, Nicole N

    Leads 1 award · $371,688

    • 1R01DE030892-01Department: NIH department code

      Sympathetic modulation of head and neck cancer pain
      $371,688

      award amount

26. Agnihotri, Sameer

    Leads 1 award · $367,548

    • 5R01NS115831-02Department: NIH department code

      Targeting extracellular signaling-regulated kinase 5 (ERK5) in brain tumors and their microenvironment
      $367,548

      award amount

27. Schlueter, Oliver

    Leads 1 award · $362,249

    • 5R01NS107604-03Department: NIH department code

      Signaling Scaffolds for Specificity in Neuromodulator Action
      $362,249

      award amount

28. Hooks, Bryan McIver

    Leads 1 award · $342,344

    • 5R01NS103993-04Department: NIH department code

      Motor Cortex Microcircuitry Underlying Movement Control and Learning
      $342,344

      award amount

29. Turner, Robert Sterling

    Leads 1 award · $342,344

    • 5R01NS113817-02Department: NIH department code

      Motor sequences and basal ganglia-cortical circuits
      $342,344

      award amount

30. Cheetham, Claire Elizabeth Jane

    Leads 1 award · $327,760

    • 1R01DC018516-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Functional integration of newborn olfactory sensory neurons in the healthy and regenerating olfactory system
      $327,760

      award amount

31. Morrison, Sara

    Leads 1 award · $142,304

    • 5K01DA051662-02Department: NIH department code

      Neural Mechanisms of Habit Formation for Behaviors Motivated by Drugs of Abuse and Natural Reward
      $142,304

      award amount

32. Smith-Edwards, Kristen Michelle

    Leads 2 awards · $121,055

    • 1K99DK129708-01Department: NIH department code

      Neural interactions with the microbiome and immune system that produce inflammation in Hirschsprung disease models
      $91,500

      award amount
    • 5F32DK120115-03Department: NIH department code

      Identifying Defects in the ENS Connectome of Hirschsprung Disease Models
      $29,555

      award amount

33. Ni, Amy Meesun

    Leads 1 award · $119,021

    • 5K99NS118117-02Department: NIH department code

      Using multiple species, stimuli, and tasks to study the neural basis of visually guided behavior
      $119,021

      award amount

34. Sheahan, Tayler

    Leads 1 award · $102,099

    • 5F32NS110155-03Department: NIH department code

      Understanding the spinal circuitry of cold
      $102,099

      award amount

35. Moy, Jamie Katherine

    Leads 2 awards · $100,036

    • 5F32NS110148-03Department: NIH department code

      Activity-Dependent Nociceptor Sensitization
      $69,458

      award amount
    • 3F32NS110148-03S1Department: NIH department code

      Activity-Dependent Nociceptor Sensitization
      $30,578

      award amount

36. Kunkhyen, Tenzin

    Leads 1 award · $70,458

    • 1F32DC018431-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Determinants of selective vulnerability and functional replacement of olfactory bulb dopaminergic neurons
      $70,458

      award amount

37. Delalio, Leon Joseph

    Leads 1 award · $65,994

    • 5F32DK123994-02Department: NIH department code

      Functional and molecular identity of renal sensory nerves in hypertension
      $65,994

      award amount

38. Owoc, Maryanna

    Leads 1 award · $51,036

    • 5F30DC018185-03Department: NIH department code

      Cell-based approach for increasing central auditory inhibition
      $51,036

      award amount

39. Stan, Patricia Lena

    Leads 1 award · $46,036

    • 1F31EY031975-01A1Department: NIH department code

      The influence of task context on neural population activity during natural scene discrimination
      $46,036

      award amount

40. Salsovic, Joseph J

    Leads 1 award · $37,080

    • 5F31NS111793-03Department: NIH department code

      Identification of the specific low-threshold primary afferents that elicit aversive behavior after neuropathic injury in mice
      $37,080

      award amount

41. Wright, William James

    Leads 1 award · $25,814

    • 5F31DA043940-04Department: NIH department code

      Fast-spiking interneurons in the Nucleus Accumbens and cue-induced cocaine seeking
      $25,814

      award amount

42. Nguyen, Eileen

    Leads 1 award · $1

    • 5F31NS113371-03Department: NIH department code

      Cellular basis for morphine-induced itch
      $1

      award amount