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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

Funding
$20.3M
$20,282,680
Awards
41
FY2025 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
47
33 lead a grant here, 14 co-investigators
Department rank
#7
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 Pittsburgh page.

Leads a grant in this department

33 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. H Richard Koerber

    Leads 2 awards · $4,627,355

    • 4RM1NS128775-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining Mechanisms of Pain Relief Associated with Dorsal Root Ganglion and Spinal Cord Stimulation

      Principal investigators: H Richard Koerber (contact PI), Douglas J Weber, Scott F Lempka

      $4,027,413
      award amount
    • 5R01NS096705-10Department: 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

      $599,942
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AR063772-13, led by Sarah Elizabeth Ross.

  2. Christopher James Donnelly

    Leads 1 award · $1,752,943

  3. William Richard Stauffer

    Leads 2 awards · $1,459,896

    • 5U24MH137478-02Department: NIH department code
      The BRAIN-STORRM Network for AAV vector manufacture and distribution

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

      $745,926
      award amount
    • 5R01MH128669-04Department: NIH department code
      Cognitive and reward signals for choices under ambiguity
      $713,970
      award amount

  4. Nicole N Scheff

    Leads 3 awards · $1,187,302

    • 5R01DE033473-02Department: NIH department code
      Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance Through Opioid Antagonism in Head and Neck Cancer
      $571,177
      award amount
    • 5R01DE030892-05Department: NIH department code
      Sympathetic modulation of head and neck cancer pain
      $377,625
      award amount
    • 5R21DE034106-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting TRPV1-containing nerves for radiation-induced pain and oral mucositis

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

      $238,500
      award amount

  5. Sarah Elizabeth Ross

    Leads 2 awards · $1,124,838

    • 5R01AR063772-13Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Neural Circuits of Itch

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

      $621,076
      award amount
    • 5R01NS119410-05Department: NIH department code
      Neural circuit basis for neurovascular coupling

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

      $503,762
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS096705-10, led by H Richard Koerber.

  6. Yan Dong

    Leads 2 awards · $993,538

    • 5R01DA040620-09Department: NIH department code
      Glial-mediated synaptic remodeling in drug addiction

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

      $547,130
      award amount
    • 5R01DA060868-02Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and Behavioral Function of Astrocytic Dopamine Signaling
      $446,408
      award amount

  7. Amantha Thathiah

    Leads 1 award · $724,903

    • 5R01AG058851-07Department: NIH department code
      Cell-type-specific functions of GPR3 in Alzheimer’s disease
      $724,903
      award amount

  8. Maria-Eulalia Rubio-Valero

    Leads 1 award · $706,738

    • 2R01DC013048-11Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of hypersensitivity to sound-induced cochlear damage
      $706,738
      award amount

  9. Anthony A Grace

    Leads 1 award · $705,367

    • 5R01MH057440-27Department: NIH department code
      Gating of Information Flow Within the Nucleus Accumbens
      $705,367
      award amount

  10. Shawn Sorrells

    Leads 1 award · $660,420

    • 5R01MH128745-04Department: NIH department code
      Identity of late-maturing amygdala neurons in humans and mice
      $660,420
      award amount

  11. Caroline Anne Runyan

    Leads 1 award · $616,658

    • 5R01NS135074-02Department: NIH department code
      The functional logic of local circuits in auditory and parietal cortices
      $616,658
      award amount

  12. Rebecca P Seal

    Leads 1 award · $597,999

    • 1R01NS139529-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of Mechanical Allodynia Circuitry by the Nature of the Injury
      $597,999
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32NS086749-11A1, led by Peter Strick.

  13. Karl Kandler

    Leads 1 award · $568,749

    • 5R01DC019814-04Department: NIH department code
      Development of the intrinsic synaptic circuits of the inferior colliculus
      $568,749
      award amount

  14. Michael S Gold

    Leads 1 award · $562,608

    • 5R01NS122784-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Pain Associated with Trigeminal Nerve Injury

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

      $562,608
      award amount

  15. Peter Strick

    Leads 1 award · $540,054

  16. Stephen D Meriney

    Leads 2 awards · $480,347

    • 5R01AG083078-03Department: NIH department code
      Presynaptic active zone alterations that underlie dynapenia at aged mouse neuromuscular junctions
      $371,285
      award amount
    • 1T32NS141747-01Department: NIH department code
      Predoctoral Training in Basic Neuroscience
      $109,062
      award amount

  17. Karl Herrup

    Leads 1 award · $465,646

    • 4R01NS120922-02Department: NIH department code
      DNA damage-induced inflammation and its brain-specific consequences
      $465,646
      award amount

  18. Oliver Schlueter

    Leads 1 award · $399,900

    • 5R01MH131717-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Silent Synapse Maturation for Excitatory Network Refinement

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

      $399,900
      award amount

  19. Srivatsun Sadagopan

    Leads 1 award · $387,611

    • 5R01DC022533-02Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Conserved neural computations underlying communication sound recognition in rodents and primates

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

      $387,611
      award amount

  20. Claire Elizabeth Jane Cheetham

    Leads 2 awards · $378,920

    • 5R01DC018516-05Department: NIH department code
      Functional integration of newborn olfactory sensory neurons in the healthy and regenerating olfactory system
      $332,860
      award amount
    • 3R01DC018516-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Functional integration of newborn olfactory sensory neurons in the healthy and regenerating olfactory system
      $46,060
      award amount

  21. MacHiko Obayashi (ohbayashi)

    Leads 1 award · $326,713

    • 5R01NS129551-03Department: NIH department code
      Motor Skill and the Cortical Motor Areas
      $326,713
      award amount

  22. Lingyun Zhao

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00DC020235-03Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms for stopping ongoing speech production
      $249,000
      award amount

  23. Simon Chamberland

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00MH126157-04Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic and cellular mechanisms of neuronal synchronization
      $249,000
      award amount

  24. Lee O Vaasjo

    Leads 1 award · $90,504

    • 8K00MH144710-02Department: NIH department code
      Inhibitory Control of Dendritic Spikes in CA1 Pyramidal Cells
      $90,504
      award amount

  25. Harrison James Stratton

    Leads 1 award · $80,540

    • 1F32NS136234-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Targeting spinal orexins to treat chronic pain
      $80,540
      award amount

  26. Alexander Zinsmaier

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31DA056213-03Department: NIH department code
      Astrocyte-mediated regulation of cocaine-generated synapses during cocaine seeking
      $49,538
      award amount

  27. Devin Harsch

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31NS147786-01Department: NIH department code
      Distinct roles in motor sequence learning for cortico-basal ganglia circuits
      $49,538
      award amount

  28. Erin Duricy

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31DC020370-03Department: NIH department code
      Neural Basis of Math and Aphasia
      $49,538
      award amount

  29. Mitchell Nicholas Bishop

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31NS135961-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Modulation of task performance across arousal states by cortical astrocytes
      $49,538
      award amount

  30. Talia Adi

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31NS129207-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of meningeal immune cells in the efficacy of CGRP-based migraine therapies
      $49,538
      award amount

  31. Isabel Bleimeister

    Leads 1 award · $49,528

    • 5F31NS134315-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the functional anatomy of nociceptive spinal output neurons
      $49,528
      award amount

  32. Maria Fernanda Juarez Anaya

    Leads 1 award · $32,745

    • 5F31NS132422-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the mechanism by which Tacr1 Neurons Regulate Neurovascular Coupling
      $32,745
      award amount

  33. Yomna Badawi

    Leads 1 award · $15,168

    • 5R21NS131752-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of a novel optical probe to study functional heterogeneity of individual neurotransmitter release sites at the neuromuscular junction
      $15,168
      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.