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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

Funding
$18.9M
$18,853,022
Awards
44
FY2024 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
43
32 lead a grant here, 11 co-investigators
Department rank
#13
of 81 · 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 Pittsburgh 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. William Richard Stauffer

    Leads 3 awards · $2,972,044

    • 5UH3MH120094-05Department: NIH department code
      A Massive Library of AAVs to Target Transcriptionally-Defined Primate Cell Types
      $1,317,353
      award amount
    • 1U24MH137478-01Department: NIH department code
      The BRAIN-STORRM Network for AAV vector manufacture and distribution

      Principal investigators: William Richard Stauffer (contact PI), Shaochung Victor Hsia

      $886,789
      award amount
    • 5R01MH128669-03Department: NIH department code
      Cognitive and reward signals for choices under ambiguity
      $767,902
      award amount

  2. Christopher James Donnelly

    Leads 1 award · $1,818,953

  3. Afonso C Silva

    Leads 2 awards · $1,759,259

    • 5R24AG073190-04Department: NIH department code
      Development and Validation of a Marmoset Model of Late-Onset Alzheimer Disease Based on Tau Seeding
      $1,106,921
      award amount
    • 4R01NS117486-02Department: NIH department code
      Preclinical investigation of common mechanistic links between aberrant protein aggregation and blood-brain barrier dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's related dementias (AD/ADRD)
      $652,338
      award amount

  4. Nicole N Scheff

    Leads 5 awards · $1,246,006

    • 1R01DE033473-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance Through Opioid Antagonism in Head and Neck Cancer
      $581,147
      award amount
    • 5R01DE030892-04Department: NIH department code
      Sympathetic modulation of head and neck cancer pain
      $370,073
      award amount
    • 1R21DE034106-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting TRPV1-containing nerves for radiation-induced pain and oral mucositis

      Principal investigators: Nicole N Scheff (contact PI), Yvonne Marie Mowery

      $198,750
      award amount
    • 3R01DE030892-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Sympathetic modulation of head and neck cancer pain
      $48,018
      award amount
    • 3R01DE030892-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Sympathetic modulation of head and neck cancer pain
      $48,018
      award amount

  5. Sarah Elizabeth Ross

    Leads 2 awards · $1,131,201

    • 5R01AR063772-12Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Neural Circuits of Itch

      Principal investigators: Sarah Elizabeth Ross (contact PI), H Richard Koerber

      $621,076
      award amount
    • 5R01NS119410-04Department: NIH department code
      Neural circuit basis for neurovascular coupling

      Principal investigators: Sarah Elizabeth Ross (contact PI), Alberto L Vazquez

      $510,125
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS096705-09, led by H Richard Koerber.

  6. Yan Dong

    Leads 2 awards · $991,805

    • 5R01DA040620-08Department: NIH department code
      Glial-mediated synaptic remodeling in drug addiction

      Principal investigators: Yan Dong (contact PI), Eric J. Nestler

      $545,397
      award amount
    • 1R01DA060868-01Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and Behavioral Function of Astrocytic Dopamine Signaling
      $446,408
      award amount

  7. Anthony A Grace

    Leads 1 award · $705,367

    • 2R01MH057440-26A1Department: NIH department code
      Gating of Information Flow Within the Nucleus Accumbens
      $705,367
      award amount

  8. Shawn Sorrells

    Leads 1 award · $705,312

    • 5R01MH128745-03Department: NIH department code
      Identity of late-maturing amygdala neurons in humans and mice
      $705,312
      award amount

  9. Stephen D Meriney

    Leads 2 awards · $650,172

    • 5R01AG083078-02Department: NIH department code
      Presynaptic active zone alterations that underlie dynapenia at aged mouse neuromuscular junctions
      $400,172
      award amount
    • 3R01AG083078-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Presynaptic active zone alterations that underlie dynapenia at aged mouse neuromuscular junctions
      $250,000
      award amount

  10. Amantha Thathiah

    Leads 1 award · $607,300

    • 2R01AG058851-06Department: NIH department code
      Cell-type-specific functions of GPR3 in Alzheimer’s disease
      $607,300
      award amount

  11. Jon W. Johnson

    Leads 2 awards · $605,266

    • 5R01AG065594-05Department: NIH department code
      Ca2+-Dependent Block by Mematine and Selective Inhibition of Overactive NMDA Receptors
      $542,179
      award amount
    • 3R01AG065594-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Ca2+-Dependent Block by Mematine and Selective Inhibition of Overactive NMDA Receptors
      $63,087
      award amount

  12. Caroline Anne Runyan

    Leads 1 award · $594,286

    • 1R01NS135074-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The functional logic of local circuits in auditory and parietal cortices
      $594,286
      award amount

  13. H Richard Koerber

    Leads 1 award · $581,944

    • 5R01NS096705-09Department: NIH department code
      Comprehensive Phenotyping of Specific Populations of Spinal Neurons Processing Cutaneous Information Before and After Injury

      Principal investigators: H Richard Koerber (contact PI), Sarah Elizabeth Ross

      $581,944
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AR063772-12, led by Sarah Elizabeth Ross.

  14. Karl Kandler

    Leads 1 award · $568,749

    • 5R01DC019814-03Department: NIH department code
      Development of the intrinsic synaptic circuits of the inferior colliculus
      $568,749
      award amount

  15. Michael S Gold

    Leads 1 award · $542,249

    • 5R01NS122784-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Pain Associated with Trigeminal Nerve Injury

      Principal investigators: Michael S Gold (contact PI), Raymond F Sekula

      $542,249
      award amount

  16. Andrew B. Schwartz

    Leads 1 award · $503,457

    • 5R01NS111148-05Department: NIH department code
      Motor cortical signaling of impedance during manipulation
      $503,457
      award amount

  17. Oliver Schlueter

    Leads 1 award · $414,650

    • 1R01MH131717-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Silent Synapse Maturation for Excitatory Network Refinement

      Principal investigators: Oliver Schlueter (contact PI), Weifeng Xu, Wilhelm Haas

      $414,650
      award amount

  18. Srivatsun Sadagopan

    Leads 1 award · $398,554

    • 1R01DC022533-01Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Conserved neural computations underlying communication sound recognition in rodents and primates

      Principal investigators: Srivatsun Sadagopan (contact PI), Yi Zhou

      $398,554
      award amount

  19. Claire Elizabeth Jane Cheetham

    Leads 2 awards · $373,049

    • 5R01DC018516-04Department: NIH department code
      Functional integration of newborn olfactory sensory neurons in the healthy and regenerating olfactory system
      $332,860
      award amount
    • 3R01DC018516-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Functional integration of newborn olfactory sensory neurons in the healthy and regenerating olfactory system
      $40,189
      award amount

  20. MacHiko Obayashi (ohbayashi)

    Leads 1 award · $352,122

    • 5R01NS129551-02Department: NIH department code
      Motor Skill and the Cortical Motor Areas
      $352,122
      award amount

  21. Robert Sterling Turner

    Leads 1 award · $332,074

    • 5R01NS113817-05Department: NIH department code
      Motor sequences and basal ganglia-cortical circuits
      $332,074
      award amount

  22. Simon Chamberland

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00MH126157-03Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic and cellular mechanisms of neuronal synchronization
      $249,000
      award amount

  23. Yomna Badawi

    Leads 1 award · $234,370

    • 1R21NS131752-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Development of a novel optical probe to study functional heterogeneity of individual neurotransmitter release sites at the neuromuscular junction
      $234,370
      award amount

  24. Sara Morrison

    Leads 1 award · $140,665

    • 5K01DA051662-05Department: NIH department code
      Neural Mechanisms of Habit Formation for Behaviors Motivated by Drugs of Abuse and Natural Reward
      $140,665
      award amount

  25. Andre Alexander Martel Matos

    Leads 1 award · $49,774

    • 1F31DE034633-01Department: NIH department code
      Sensory-Sympathetic Nerve Interplay in Oral Cancer
      $49,774
      award amount

  26. Alexander Zinsmaier

    Leads 1 award · $48,974

    • 5F31DA056213-02Department: NIH department code
      Astrocyte-mediated regulation of cocaine-generated synapses during cocaine seeking
      $48,974
      award amount

  27. Erin Duricy

    Leads 1 award · $48,974

    • 5F31DC020370-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural Basis of Math and Aphasia
      $48,974
      award amount

  28. Isabel Bleimeister

    Leads 1 award · $48,974

    • 5F31NS134315-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the functional anatomy of nociceptive spinal output neurons
      $48,974
      award amount

  29. Jordan Duran Gregory

    Leads 1 award · $48,974

    • 5F31DC021353-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the effects of olfactory critical period odorant exposure on the trace amine-associated receptor4 olfactory circuit
      $48,974
      award amount

  30. Maria Fernanda Juarez Anaya

    Leads 1 award · $48,974

    • 5F31NS132422-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the mechanism by which Tacr1 Neurons Regulate Neurovascular Coupling
      $48,974
      award amount

  31. Talia Adi

    Leads 1 award · $48,974

    • 5F31NS129207-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of meningeal immune cells in the efficacy of CGRP-based migraine therapies
      $48,974
      award amount

  32. Jeremy Gedeon

    Leads 1 award · $31,550

    • 5F31NS125993-03Department: NIH department code
      Contribution of Local Translation to Nerve Injury-Induced Upregulation of Nav1.1 in Trigeminal Nerves
      $31,550
      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.