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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

Funding
$25.2M
$25,235,223
Awards
34
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
37
30 lead a grant here, 7 co-investigators
Department rank
#5
of 75 · 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

30 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. Afonso C Silva

    Leads 1 award · $8,268,849

    Also a principal investigator on 1U01MH140244-01A1, led by William Richard Stauffer.

  2. Gregg E. Homanics

    Leads 1 award · $8,268,849

  3. Gregory W Carter

    Leads 1 award · $8,268,849

  4. Peter Strick

    Leads 1 award · $8,268,849

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32NS086749-12, led by Rebecca P Seal.

  5. Stacey J Rizzo

    Leads 1 award · $8,268,849

  6. William Richard Stauffer

    Leads 3 awards · $5,477,284

    • 1U01MH140244-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Nonhuman Primate-Derived Enhancers for Studying Neural Circuit Functions

      Principal investigators: William Richard Stauffer (contact PI), Afonso C Silva, Andreas Robert Pfenning

      $4,028,357
      award amount
    • 5U24MH137478-03Department: NIH department code
      The BRAIN-STORRM Network for AAV vector manufacture and distribution

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

      $731,616
      award amount
    • 5R01MH128669-05Department: NIH department code
      Cognitive and reward signals for choices under ambiguity
      $717,311
      award amount

  7. Shawn Sorrells

    Leads 2 awards · $1,088,010

    • 5R01MH128745-05Department: NIH department code
      Identity of late-maturing amygdala neurons in humans and mice
      $663,097
      award amount
    • 1R21AG095699-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Human Entorhinal Cortex LAMP5 Interneurons In Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

      Principal investigators: Shawn Sorrells (contact PI), Simon Chamberland

      $424,913
      award amount

  8. Yan Dong

    Leads 2 awards · $995,302

    • 5R01DA040620-10Department: NIH department code
      Glial-mediated synaptic remodeling in drug addiction

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

      $548,894
      award amount
    • 5R01DA060868-03Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and Behavioral Function of Astrocytic Dopamine Signaling
      $446,408
      award amount

  9. Rebecca P Seal

    Leads 2 awards · $853,524

    • 5R01NS139529-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of Mechanical Allodynia Circuitry by the Nature of the Injury
      $608,945
      award amount
    • 5T32NS086749-12Department: NIH department code
      Training in the Neurobiology of Neurological Disease

      Principal investigators: Rebecca P Seal (contact PI), Omar El Gharbawie, Peter Strick

      $244,579
      award amount

  10. Anthony A Grace

    Leads 1 award · $705,367

    • 5R01MH057440-28Department: NIH department code
      Gating of Information Flow Within the Nucleus Accumbens
      $705,367
      award amount

  11. Amantha Thathiah

    Leads 1 award · $705,338

    • 5R01AG058851-08Department: NIH department code
      Cell-type-specific functions of GPR3 in Alzheimer’s disease
      $705,338
      award amount

  12. Maria-Eulalia Rubio-Valero

    Leads 1 award · $672,058

    • 5R01DC013048-12Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of hypersensitivity to sound-induced cochlear damage
      $672,058
      award amount

  13. Omar El Gharbawie

    Leads 1 award · $624,368

    • 1R01NS143962-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The neural basis of brain resting state
      $624,368
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32NS086749-12, led by Rebecca P Seal.

  14. Caroline Anne Runyan

    Leads 1 award · $616,658

    • 5R01NS135074-03Department: NIH department code
      The functional logic of local circuits in auditory and parietal cortices
      $616,658
      award amount

  15. Sarah Elizabeth Ross

    Leads 1 award · $608,268

  16. Stephen D Meriney

    Leads 2 awards · $596,486

    • 5R01AG083078-04Department: NIH department code
      Presynaptic active zone alterations that underlie dynapenia at aged mouse neuromuscular junctions
      $378,874
      award amount
    • 5T32NS141747-02Department: NIH department code
      Predoctoral Training in Basic Neuroscience
      $217,612
      award amount

  17. Karl Kandler

    Leads 1 award · $568,749

    • 5R01DC019814-05Department: NIH department code
      Development of the intrinsic synaptic circuits of the inferior colliculus
      $568,749
      award amount

  18. Nicole N Scheff

    Leads 1 award · $560,904

    • 5R01DE033473-03Department: NIH department code
      Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance Through Opioid Antagonism in Head and Neck Cancer
      $560,904
      award amount

  19. Karl Herrup

    Leads 1 award · $465,646

    • 5R01NS120922-03Department: NIH department code
      DNA damage-induced inflammation and its brain-specific consequences
      $465,646
      award amount

  20. Oliver Schlueter

    Leads 1 award · $399,900

    • 5R01MH131717-03Department: 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

  21. Srivatsun Sadagopan

    Leads 1 award · $387,932

    • 5R01DC022533-03Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Conserved neural computations underlying communication sound recognition in rodents and primates

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

      $387,932
      award amount

  22. MacHiko Obayashi (ohbayashi)

    Leads 1 award · $359,044

    • 5R01NS129551-04Department: NIH department code
      Motor Skill and the Cortical Motor Areas
      $359,044
      award amount

  23. Lingyun Zhao

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00DC020235-04Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms for stopping ongoing speech production
      $249,000
      award amount

  24. Simon Chamberland

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00MH126157-05Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic and cellular mechanisms of neuronal synchronization
      $249,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R21AG095699-01A1, led by Shawn Sorrells.

  25. William Dylan Hale

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00MH132811-03Department: NIH department code
      Structure-guided functional analysis of GluA4-NPTX2 interaction during PVIN homeostatic scaling
      $249,000
      award amount

  26. Harrison James Stratton

    Leads 2 awards · $213,410

    • 1K99NS146440-01Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering spinal circuits recruited by descending facilitation
      $129,330
      award amount
    • 5F32NS136234-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting spinal orexins to treat chronic pain
      $84,080
      award amount

  27. Lee O Vaasjo

    Leads 2 awards · $169,984

    • 5K00MH144710-03Department: NIH department code
      Inhibitory Control of Dendritic Spikes in CA1 Pyramidal Cells
      $90,504
      award amount
    • 1F32MH143401-01Department: NIH department code
      Inhibitory Control of Dendritic Spikes in CA1 Pyramidal Cells
      $79,480
      award amount

  28. Andre Alexander Martel Matos

    Leads 1 award · $50,914

    • 5F31DE034633-02Department: NIH department code
      Sensory-Sympathetic Nerve Interplay in Oral Cancer
      $50,914
      award amount

  29. Lovisa Ljungqvist Brinson

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31MH146175-01Department: NIH department code
      Functionally specialized temporal and frontal lobe regions for identity recognition and updating
      $50,114
      award amount

  30. Mitchell Nicholas Bishop

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31NS135961-02Department: NIH department code
      Modulation of task performance across arousal states by cortical astrocytes
      $50,114
      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.