Neurosciences at University of Pittsburgh

Leads a grant in this department

45 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. Byrne, Leah

   Leads 1 award · $6,850,168

   • 1UF1MH130881-01Department: NIH department code

     Cell type specific AAVs to study reward and cognition
     $6,850,168

     award amount

2. Koerber, H Richard

   Leads 2 awards · $6,183,460

   • 1RM1NS128775-01Department: NIH department code

     Defining Mechanisms of Pain Relief Associated with Dorsal Root Ganglion and Spinal Cord Stimulation
     $5,583,518

     award amount
   • 5R01NS096705-07Department: NIH department code

     Comprehensive Phenotyping of Specific Populations of Spinal Neurons Processing Cutaneous Information Before and After Injury
     $599,942

     award amount

3. Carter, Gregory W

   Leads 1 award · $5,845,166

   • 1U19AG074866-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Generation, Characterization, and Validation of Marmoset Models of Alzheimer's Disease
     $5,845,166

     award amount

4. Strick, Peter

   Leads 3 awards · $2,479,602

   • 5R01AT010414-05Department: NIH department code

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

     award amount
   • 5P40OD010996-18Department: NIH department code

     Center for Neuroanatomy with Neurotropic Viruses
     $849,521

     award amount
   • 5T32NS086749-09Department: NIH department code

     Training in the Neurobiology of Neurological Disease
     $461,293

     award amount

5. Belzil, Veronique

   Leads 1 award · $1,662,271

   • 5R01NS127187-02Department: NIH department code

     Identification of TDP-43 modifiers through single-cell transcriptional and epigenomic dissection of ALS and FTLD-MND
     $1,662,271

     award amount

6. Herrup, Karl

   Leads 1 award · $1,398,678

   • 1RF1NS120922-01A1Department: NIH department code

     DNA damage-induced inflammation and its brain-specific consequences
     $1,398,678

     award amount

7. Stocker, Sean D

   Leads 2 awards · $1,155,242

   • 5R01HL152680-03Department: NIH department code

     Identification of mechano versus chemo-sensitive renal sensory neurons in hypertension
     $595,775

     award amount
   • 5R01HL145875-04Department: NIH department code

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

     award amount

8. Albers, Kathryn Marie

   Leads 2 awards · $1,144,653

   • 5R01DK122798-03Department: NIH department code

     Molecular and Functional Analysis of Hirschsprung Defects in Humans and Mouse
     $685,705

     award amount
   • 5R01DK124955-03Department: NIH department code

     Cross-talk between the colon epithelium, colon afferents and sympathetic neurons regulate pain in the normal and inflamed colon
     $458,948

     award amount

9. Silva, Afonso C

   Leads 1 award · $1,105,643

   • 5R24AG073190-02Department: NIH department code

     Development and Validation of a Marmoset Model of Late-Onset Alzheimer Disease Based on Tau Seeding
     $1,105,643

     award amount

10. Ross, Sarah Elizabeth

    Leads 2 awards · $986,544

    • 5R01NS119410-02Department: NIH department code

      Neural circuit basis for neurovascular coupling
      $527,305

      award amount
    • 5R01AR063772-10Department: NIH department code

      Investigating the Neural Circuits of Itch
      $459,239

      award amount

11. Dong, Yan

    Leads 2 awards · $963,274

    • 2R01DA040620-06A1Department: NIH department code

      Glial-mediated synaptic remodeling in drug addiction
      $566,093

      award amount
    • 5R37DA023206-16Department: NIH department code

      Cocaine-induced adaptation in NMDA receptors
      $397,181

      award amount

12. Johnson, Jon W.

    Leads 2 awards · $930,692

    • 5R01AG065594-03Department: NIH department code

      Ca2+-Dependent Block by Mematine and Selective Inhibition of Overactive NMDA Receptors
      $542,736

      award amount
    • 5R01GM128195-29Department: NIH department code

      Channel Block and Gating of NMDA Receptors
      $387,956

      award amount

13. Seal, Rebecca P

    Leads 2 awards · $925,209

    • 5R01NS107364-04Department: NIH department code

      Dorsal horn circuits for mechanical allodynia
      $516,068

      award amount
    • 5R01NS082650-09Department: NIH department code

      Striatal Neuroplasticity Mechanisms that Preserve Motor Behavior in a model of Parkinson’s Disease
      $409,141

      award amount

14. Kandler, Karl

    Leads 2 awards · $910,298

    • 1R01DC019814-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Development of the intrinsic synaptic circuits of the inferior colliculus
      $592,160

      award amount
    • 2T32DC011499-11A1Department: NIH department code

      Training in Auditory and Vestibular Neuroscience
      $318,138

      award amount

15. Stauffer, William Richard

    Leads 1 award · $754,607

    • 1R01MH128669-01Department: NIH department code

      Cognitive and reward signals for choices under ambiguity
      $754,607

      award amount

16. Sorrells, Shawn

    Leads 1 award · $708,993

    • 1R01MH128745-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Identity of late-maturing amygdala neurons in humans and mice
      $708,993

      award amount

17. Pan, Jen Qian

    Leads 1 award · $605,149

    • 5R01MH118298-06Department: NIH department code

      Experience-Dependent Reorganization of Excitatory Synapse Connectivity
      $605,149

      award amount

18. Rubio-Valero, Maria-Eulalia

    Leads 1 award · $579,113

    • 5R01DC013048-09Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of hypersensitivity to sound-induced cochlear damage
      $579,113

      award amount

19. Aizenman, Elias

    Leads 1 award · $569,656

    • 5R01NS043277-20Department: NIH department code

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

      award amount

20. Gold, Michael S

    Leads 1 award · $551,793

    • 5R01NS122784-02Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of Pain Associated with Trigeminal Nerve Injury
      $551,793

      award amount

21. Schwartz, Andrew B.

    Leads 1 award · $541,354

    • 5R01NS111148-03Department: NIH department code

      Motor cortical signaling of impedance during manipulation
      $541,354

      award amount

22. Grace, Anthony A

    Leads 1 award · $536,841

    • 5R01MH057440-25Department: NIH department code

      Gating of Information Flow Within the Nucleus Accumbens
      $536,841

      award amount

23. El Gharbawie, Omar

    Leads 2 awards · $473,550

    • 5R01NS105697-04Department: NIH department code

      Functional and structural organization of motor areas in non-human primates
      $314,758

      award amount
    • 3R01NS105697-04S1Department: NIH department code

      Functional and structural organization of motor areas in non-human primates
      $158,792

      award amount

24. Schaeffer, David J

    Leads 1 award · $427,810

    • 1R21NS125372-01A1Department: NIH department code

      A novel method for transient and repeatable axonal tracing in developing marmosets
      $427,810

      award amount

25. Sadagopan, Srivatsun

    Leads 1 award · $411,378

    • 5R01DC017141-05Department: NIH department code

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

      award amount

26. Cheetham, Claire Elizabeth Jane

    Leads 2 awards · $409,384

    • 5R01DC018516-02Department: NIH department code

      Functional integration of newborn olfactory sensory neurons in the healthy and regenerating olfactory system
      $329,884

      award amount
    • 3R01DC018516-02S1Department: NIH department code

      Functional Integration of Newborn Olfactory Sensory Neurons in the Healthy and Regenerating Olfactory System
      $79,500

      award amount

27. Thathiah, Amantha

    Leads 1 award · $386,478

    • 5R01AG058851-05Department: NIH department code

      Regulation of gamma-secretase function in Alzheimer's disease
      $386,478

      award amount

28. Scheff, Nicole N

    Leads 1 award · $373,849

    • 5R01DE030892-02Department: NIH department code

      Sympathetic modulation of head and neck cancer pain
      $373,849

      award amount

29. Donnelly, Christopher James

    Leads 1 award · $372,163

    • 5R01NS105756-05Department: NIH department code

      An optogenetic approach to establish the interplay between stress granules and TDP-43 proteinopathy in ALS/FTD
      $372,163

      award amount

30. Meriney, Stephen D

    Leads 1 award · $363,111

    • 5T32NS007433-25Department: NIH department code

      Predoctoral Training in Basic Neuroscience
      $363,111

      award amount

31. Schlueter, Oliver

    Leads 1 award · $362,249

    • 5R01NS107604-04Department: NIH department code

      Signaling Scaffolds for Specificity in Neuromodulator Action
      $362,249

      award amount

32. Hooks, Bryan McIver

    Leads 1 award · $342,344

    • 5R01NS103993-05Department: NIH department code

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

      award amount

33. Turner, Robert Sterling

    Leads 1 award · $342,344

    • 5R01NS113817-03Department: NIH department code

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

      award amount

34. Park, Jung Eun

    Leads 1 award · $220,800

    • 1R21OD033666-01Department: NIH department code

      Establishment of Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer as a Universal Platform for Cloning Marmosets
      $220,800

      award amount

35. Runyan, Caroline Anne

    Leads 1 award · $165,984

    • 3DP2MH122404-01S1Department: NIH department code

      Supplement to Communication between Networks: Context, Inhibition, and Neuromodulation
      $165,984

      award amount

36. Badawi, Yomna

    Leads 1 award · $154,870

    • 1R03NS130425-01Department: NIH department code

      Presynaptic degeneration in ALS mouse neuromuscular junctions and a targeted therapeutic approach
      $154,870

      award amount

37. Delalio, Leon Joseph

    Leads 2 awards · $145,174

    • 1K99DK133561-01Department: NIH department code

      Role of TRPV1 renal sensory nerves in chronic kidney disease
      $91,500

      award amount
    • 5F32DK123994-03Department: NIH department code

      Functional and molecular identity of renal sensory nerves in hypertension
      $53,674

      award amount

38. Morrison, Sara

    Leads 1 award · $141,773

    • 5K01DA051662-03Department: NIH department code

      Neural Mechanisms of Habit Formation for Behaviors Motivated by Drugs of Abuse and Natural Reward
      $141,773

      award amount

39. Sheahan, Tayler

    Leads 1 award · $122,202

    • 1K99NS126569-01Department: NIH department code

      Understanding spinal neuropeptide signaling in itch
      $122,202

      award amount

40. Holland, Ruby

    Leads 1 award · $51,752

    • 5F31NS116981-02Department: NIH department code

      Descending facilitation of pain by mu-opioid receptor-expressing neurons in the rostral ventromedial medulla
      $51,752

      award amount

41. Owoc, Maryanna

    Leads 1 award · $51,752

    • 5F30DC018185-04Department: NIH department code

      Cell-based approach for increasing central auditory inhibition
      $51,752

      award amount

42. Duricy, Erin

    Leads 1 award · $46,752

    • 1F31DC020370-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Neural Basis of Math and Aphasia
      $46,752

      award amount

43. Gedeon, Jeremy

    Leads 1 award · $46,752

    • 1F31NS125993-01Department: NIH department code

      Contribution of Local Translation to Nerve Injury-Induced Upregulation of Nav1.1 in Trigeminal Nerves
      $46,752

      award amount

44. Stan, Patricia Lena

    Leads 1 award · $46,752

    • 5F31EY031975-02Department: NIH department code

      The influence of task context on neural population activity during natural scene discrimination
      $46,752

      award amount

45. Viswanathan, Vibha

    Leads 1 award · $33,485

    • 1F32DC020649-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Flexible representation of speech in human auditory cortex
      $33,485

      award amount