Psychiatry at University of Pittsburgh

Leads a grant in this department

70 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. Ganguli, Mary

   Leads 2 awards · $2,879,203

   • 5R01AG023651-15Department: NIH department code

     Mild Cognitive Impairment: a Prospective Community Study
     $2,154,423

     award amount
   • 5R01AG058549-03Department: NIH department code

     Risk factors for MCI and Dementia in a Diverse Senior Cohort
     $724,780

     award amount

2. Brent, David A.

   Leads 3 awards · $2,747,485

   • 5P50MH115838-03Department: NIH department code

     The Center for Enhancing Triage and Utilization for Depression and Emergent Suicidality (ETUDES) in Pediatric Primary Care
     $1,305,212

     award amount
   • 5R01MH100155-08Department: NIH department code

     Harnessing Computerized Adaptive Testing, Transdiagnostic Theories of Suicidal Behavior, and Machine Learning to Advance the Emergent Assessment of Suicidal Youth (EASY).
     $721,582

     award amount
   • 5R01MH116652-03Department: NIH department code

     Imaging the Suicide Mind using Neurosemantic Signatures as Markers of Suicidal Ideation and Behavior
     $720,691

     award amount

3. Aizenstein, Howard J

   Leads 1 award · $2,148,033

   • 5P01AG025204-15Department: NIH department code

     Imaging Pathophysiology in Aging and Neurodegeneration
     $2,148,033

     award amount

4. Sweet, Robert A

   Leads 2 awards · $1,586,688

   • 5R01AG027224-14Department: NIH department code

     Prediction of Psychosis in Alzheimer Disease
     $1,268,580

     award amount
   • 5T32MH016804-40Department: NIH department code

     Training for Transformative Discovery in Psychiatry
     $318,108

     award amount

5. Becker, James T.

   Leads 1 award · $1,401,969

   • 5R01AG034852-10Department: NIH department code

     Cardiovascular and HIV/AIDS Effects on Brain Structure/Function and Cognition
     $1,401,969

     award amount

6. Melhem, Nadine M.

   Leads 2 awards · $1,286,164

   • 5R01MH112585-04Department: NIH department code

     Biomarkers in the HPA axis and inflammatory pathways for maladaptive stress response in children
     $647,148

     award amount
   • 5R01MH109493-04Department: NIH department code

     Identifying Predictors in the HPA Axis and Inflammatory Pathways for Suicidal Behavior in Youth
     $639,016

     award amount

7. Hasler, Brant P.

   Leads 2 awards · $1,146,482

   • 5R01AA025626-04Department: NIH department code

     Proximal prospective associations between circadian alignment, reward function and alcohol use in adolescents
     $573,323

     award amount
   • 5R01DA044143-03Department: NIH department code

     Delayed sleep phase and risk for adolescent substance use
     $573,159

     award amount

8. Birmaher, Boris

   Leads 2 awards · $1,116,193

   • 5R01MH059929-20Department: NIH department code

     Course and Outcome of Bipolar Disorder in Youth
     $620,389

     award amount
   • 5R01MH112544-03Department: NIH department code

     1/2 Predicting Adult Outcomes in Bipolar Youth (PROBY)
     $495,804

     award amount

9. Prasad, Konasale M

   Leads 2 awards · $1,099,033

   • 5R01MH115026-03Department: NIH department code

     Synaptic Pruning and Complement Gene in Schizophrenia: Imaging & Cellular Studies
     $576,706

     award amount
   • 5R01MH112584-03Department: NIH department code

     Dimensional outcomes and neural circuitry associated with psychosis risk
     $522,327

     award amount

10. McClung, Colleen A

    Leads 3 awards · $1,057,895

    • 5R01MH111601-03Department: NIH department code

      Identification of molecular rhythm changes in postmortem tissue from individuals with psychiatric illness.
      $556,652

      award amount
    • 5R01MH106460-05Department: NIH department code

      Selective HDAC inhibition and therapeutic target genes: Identification of novel treatments for Bipolar Disorder
      $380,909

      award amount
    • 5K02DA042886-04Department: NIH department code

      Use of in vivo calcium imaging to study addiction.
      $120,334

      award amount

11. Gildengers, Ariel Gerard

    Leads 1 award · $1,009,656

    • 5R01AG055389-04Department: NIH department code

      Evaluation of Brain and Cognitive Changes in Older Adults with MCI Taking Lithium to Prevent Alzheimer Type Dementia
      $1,009,656

      award amount

12. Andreescu, Carmen

    Leads 1 award · $994,946

    • 1R01MH121619-01Department: NIH department code

      2/3: Recurrence markers, cognitive burden and neurobiological homeostasis in late-life depression (REMBRANDT)
      $994,946

      award amount

13. Venditti, Elizabeth Mary

    Leads 2 awards · $977,455

    • 5R01DK114115-03Department: NIH department code

      Reducing cardiometabolic risk and promoting functional health in community-based elders with obesity and pre-diabetes: evaluating sustainable DPP follow-up strategies
      $647,119

      award amount
    • 5U01DK048412-27Department: NIH department code

      21/22 Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS) Phase 3 - Research Project
      $330,336

      award amount

14. Devlin, Bernie

    Leads 2 awards · $943,615

    • 5R37MH057881-23Department: NIH department code

      Genetics Association in Schizophrenia and Other Disorders
      $551,590

      award amount
    • 5U01MH111658-04Department: NIH department code

      3/4 - The Autism Sequencing Consortium: Autism Gene Discovery in >50,000 Exomes
      $392,025

      award amount

15. Aizenstein, Howard J

    Leads 2 awards · $871,472

    • 5R01MH076079-14Department: NIH department code

      Neural Mechanisms of Monoaminergic Engagement in Late-Life Depression Treatment Response (NEMO)
      $615,653

      award amount
    • 5T32MH019986-24Department: NIH department code

      Clinical and Translational Research Training in Geriatric Mental Health
      $255,819

      award amount

16. Levine, Michele D

    Leads 2 awards · $809,909

    • 5R01DK117358-03Department: NIH department code

      The role of impulsive phenotypes on weight trajectories and response to behavioral interventions during pregnancy and the postpartum period
      $444,032

      award amount
    • 5T32MH018269-35Department: NIH department code

      Clinical Research Training for Psychologists
      $365,877

      award amount

17. Bertocci, Michele A

    Leads 1 award · $741,587

    • 1R01MH121451-01Department: NIH department code

      From Manic Symptoms to Bipolar Disorder: Neural-behavioral Markers Using Two Analytic Models
      $741,587

      award amount

18. Luna, Beatriz

    Leads 1 award · $734,571

    • 5R01MH067924-16Department: NIH department code

      Brain Mechanisms Underlying Plasticity in the Specialization of Cognitive Systems through the Adolescent Period
      $734,571

      award amount

19. Lewis, David A

    Leads 1 award · $725,456

    • 5R01MH043784-28Department: NIH department code

      Prefrontal microcircuitry and cognition in schizophrenia
      $725,456

      award amount

20. Torregrossa, Mary M

    Leads 2 awards · $717,893

    • 1R01AA028215-01Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms underlying sex differences in stress-induced alcohol seeking
      $371,393

      award amount
    • 5R01DA042029-05Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms Regulating Cocaine Memory Strength
      $346,500

      award amount

21. Phillips, Mary Louise

    Leads 1 award · $716,525

    • 5R37MH100041-07Department: NIH department code

      Reward, impulsive sensation seeking and emotional dysregulation: neural mechanisms underlying risk for bipolar disorder in young adults
      $716,525

      award amount

22. Hipwell, Alison E

    Leads 1 award · $715,246

    • 5R01MH115466-03Department: NIH department code

      Caregiving effects on the early development of infant brain-behavior relationships
      $715,246

      award amount

23. Scott, Lori N

    Leads 1 award · $702,056

    • 5R01MH115922-02Department: NIH department code

      Multimodal Assessment of Near-term Risk Processes for Suicide Ideation and Behavior
      $702,056

      award amount

24. Ferrarelli, Fabio

    Leads 2 awards · $700,432

    • 5R01MH113827-04Department: NIH department code

      Characterize differences in sleep spindles between Clinical High Risk and healthy controls longitudinally.
      $471,199

      award amount
    • 5R21MH119543-02Department: NIH department code

      Reduced natural oscillatory frequency of DLPFC in early course SCZ: a TMS/EEG study
      $229,233

      award amount

25. Diler, Rasim Somer

    Leads 1 award · $687,420

    • 5R01MH111600-03Department: NIH department code

      Positive Valence Systems and Manic Symptom Trajectories in Adolescent Depression
      $687,420

      award amount

26. De Genna, Natacha

    Leads 1 award · $676,607

    • 5R01DA046401-02Department: NIH department code

      Teen Mothers’ Prenatal Cannabis Use and Co-Use with Tobacco
      $676,607

      award amount

27. Dombrovski, Alexandre Y.

    Leads 1 award · $674,216

    • 5R01MH048463-27Department: NIH department code

      PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR IN BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
      $674,216

      award amount

28. Eack, Shaun M

    Leads 1 award · $667,626

    • 1R01HD100392-01Department: NIH department code

      Change-sensitive Measurement of Adult Functional Outcomes in Developmental Disabilities
      $667,626

      award amount

29. Jones, Neil Patrick

    Leads 1 award · $664,393

    • 5R01MH114875-03Department: NIH department code

      Biological systems underlying the impact of potential threat on cognitive control in mood disorders
      $664,393

      award amount

30. Fournier, Jay C

    Leads 2 awards · $657,233

    • 5R01MH112758-03Department: NIH department code

      Transdiagnostic Neural Mechanisms Underlying Dimensions of Negative Affectivity in Depression and Anxiety
      $544,762

      award amount
    • 1R21MH122674-01Department: NIH department code

      Bottom-Up Mechanisms of Dysfunctional Self Evaluation in Depression
      $112,471

      award amount

31. Kontos, Anthony P

    Leads 1 award · $656,539

    • 5R01MH114881-03Department: NIH department code

      Emotion Regulation Circuitries in Youth with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
      $656,539

      award amount

32. Manelis, Anna

    Leads 1 award · $631,229

    • 5R01MH114870-03Department: NIH department code

      The contribution of aberrant anticipatory processing to spectrum depression and mania, and cognitive and emotional dysfunction in major depressive and bipolar disorders
      $631,229

      award amount

33. Cohen, Ann D.

    Leads 1 award · $628,161

    • 5R01AG052446-05Department: NIH department code

      Role of midlife cardiovascular disease on Alzheimer’s Pathology and cerebrovascular reactivity in the young-old.
      $628,161

      award amount

34. Molina, Brooke S.g.

    Leads 1 award · $592,993

    • 1R01AA027494-01A1Department: NIH department code

      The Pittsburgh ADHD Longitudinal Study: Predicting alcohol misuse, problems and disorder in mid-adulthood
      $592,993

      award amount

35. Kovacs, Maria

    Leads 1 award · $579,953

    • 5R01MH113214-04Department: NIH department code

      “Does getting older signal improved mood repair for people with early-onset mood disorder histories? A longitudinal study of outcomes and mechanisms across middle age.”
      $579,953

      award amount

36. Hasler, Brant P.

    Leads 1 award · $575,102

    • 5R01AA026249-03Department: NIH department code

      Positive and negative reinforcement pathways underlying sleep and alcohol use associations
      $575,102

      award amount

37. Bovbjerg, Dana H.

    Leads 1 award · $571,384

    • 5R01CA211371-04Department: NIH department code

      Experimental study of stress and DNA damage in humans: Mediators and moderators
      $571,384

      award amount

38. Young, Kym

    Leads 1 award · $567,508

    • 5R01MH116943-02Department: NIH department code

      Using fMRI of Autobiographical Memory Recall to Determine Risk and Resilience Endophenotypes in Familial Major Depressive Disorder
      $567,508

      award amount

39. Price, Rebecca

    Leads 1 award · $540,466

    • 5R01MH113857-04Department: NIH department code

      Testing a Synergistic, Neuroplasticity-Based Intervention for Depressive Neurocognition
      $540,466

      award amount

40. Salisbury, Dean F

    Leads 1 award · $536,033

    • 5R01MH108568-05Department: NIH department code

      Auditory attention in first episode psychosis
      $536,033

      award amount

41. Goldstein, Tina R

    Leads 1 award · $517,647

    • 5T32MH018951-30Department: NIH department code

      Child & Adolescent Mental Health Research
      $517,647

      award amount

42. Pedersen, Sarah L

    Leads 1 award · $506,999

    • 5R01AA025617-03Department: NIH department code

      Understanding differences in risk for alcohol problems between Black and White drinkers: Integrating alcohol response, stress, and drinking motives
      $506,999

      award amount

43. Ahmari, Susanne Elizabeth

    Leads 1 award · $477,078

    • 5R01MH119837-02Department: NIH department code

      Dissecting the role of striatal cell types in abnormal repetitive behaviors and treatment response
      $477,078

      award amount

44. Wu, Minjie

    Leads 1 award · $428,262

    • 1R01AG067018-01Department: NIH department code

      A Cerebrovascular Basis for Sex Differences in Alzheimer's Disease Risk
      $428,262

      award amount

45. Pecina, Marta

    Leads 1 award · $416,140

    • 1R01MH122548-01Department: NIH department code

      Neurocomputational mechanisms of antidepressant placebo effects
      $416,140

      award amount

46. Teichert, Tobias

    Leads 1 award · $391,250

    • 5R01MH120117-02Department: NIH department code

      Echoic Memory Function and Physiology in the Rhesus Macaque
      $391,250

      award amount

47. Fish, Kenneth N

    Leads 1 award · $381,539

    • 5R01MH119701-02Department: NIH department code

      Deciphering the GABA neuron alterations in schizophrenia
      $381,539

      award amount

48. Huang, Yanhua H

    Leads 1 award · $352,125

    • 5R01DA046491-02Department: NIH department code

      Sleep regulates drug relapse and addiction
      $352,125

      award amount

49. Siegle, Greg J

    Leads 1 award · $309,292

    • 5R33MH106591-05Department: NIH department code

      Graduated sensory salience as an intervention for intrusive negative thinking
      $309,292

      award amount

50. Forbes, Erika E

    Leads 1 award · $208,242

    • 5R25MH090947-10Department: NIH department code

      Research Career Development Institute for Psychiatry
      $208,242

      award amount

51. Logan, Ryan W

    Leads 1 award · $201,344

    • 5R33DA041872-05Department: NIH department code

      Generating novel mouse tools to investigate brain region and cell-type specific circadian molecular mechanisms of reward and motivation
      $201,344

      award amount

52. Joseph, Heather Marie

    Leads 1 award · $189,760

    • 1K23MH121585-01Department: NIH department code

      Early Signals of Inattention in Neonates and Infants at Familial Risk for ADHD
      $189,760

      award amount

53. Grubisha, Melanie Jean

    Leads 1 award · $189,540

    • 5K08MH118513-02Department: NIH department code

      Enhanced NGR/p75/KAL9 Signaling and Impaired Dendritic Morphogenesis across Development
      $189,540

      award amount

54. Ladouceur, Cecile D.

    Leads 1 award · $189,381

    • 1R21MH122808-01Department: NIH department code

      Neural Systems Underlying Severe Worry in Anxious Adolescents and Young Adults
      $189,381

      award amount

55. McKinney, Brandon C

    Leads 1 award · $187,704

    • 5K23MH112798-04Department: NIH department code

      DNA methylation as a mechanism for reduced dendritic spine density in schizophrenia
      $187,704

      award amount

56. Hafeman, Danella Marie

    Leads 1 award · $186,810

    • 5K23MH110421-04Department: NIH department code

      Compensatory Neural Networks for the Cognitive Control of Emotion in Youth at Risk for Bipolar Disorder
      $186,810

      award amount

57. Edmiston, Elliot Kale

    Leads 1 award · $169,176

    • 5K01MH117290-02Department: NIH department code

      Feed Forward Visual System Function in High Trait Anxiety
      $169,176

      award amount

58. Byrd, Amy L

    Leads 1 award · $169,071

    • 5K01MH119216-02Department: NIH department code

      Neural mechanisms of reactive aggression in adolescence: Altered reactivity during threat and reinforcement conditioning
      $169,071

      award amount

59. Woody, Mary Louise

    Leads 1 award · $168,969

    • 5K23MH119225-02Department: NIH department code

      Visuocortical Dynamics of Affect-Biased Attention in the Development of Adolescent Depression
      $168,969

      award amount

60. Thoma, Brian

    Leads 1 award · $168,276

    • 5K01MH117142-02Department: NIH department code

      Biological Mechanisms of Suicidal Behavior among Sexual Minority Adolescents
      $168,276

      award amount

61. Jalbrzikowski, Maria

    Leads 1 award · $167,643

    • 5K01MH112774-04Department: NIH department code

      Neurodevelopmental variation of intrinsic functional connectivity and its relationship to psychosis risk and gene expression
      $167,643

      award amount

62. Germeroth, Lisa J

    Leads 1 award · $167,454

    • 5K23DK117994-02Department: NIH department code

      A Novel, Memory-Updating Technique to Attenuate Responding to High Calorie Food Cues, Food Intake, and Body Weight among Individuals with Overweight/Obesity
      $167,454

      award amount

63. Smagula, Stephen F

    Leads 1 award · $160,226

    • 5K01MH112683-04Department: NIH department code

      Depression in dementia caregivers: Linking brain structure and sleep-wake risks
      $160,226

      award amount

64. Oppenheimer, Caroline

    Leads 1 award · $154,844

    • 5K01MH109850-05Department: NIH department code

      Predicting Suicide Risk in Sexual Minority and Nonminority Youth: Associations Among Neural Sensitivity to Social Rejection, Peer Rejection, and Suicidality
      $154,844

      award amount

65. Wilckens, Kristine Ann

    Leads 1 award · $121,055

    • 5K01AG049879-05Department: NIH department code

      Slow-wave sleep and executive network function in older adults
      $121,055

      award amount

66. Thurston, Rebecca C

    Leads 1 award · $111,577

    • 5K24HL123565-07Department: NIH department code

      Interdisciplinary Mentoring and Research in Womens Cardiovascular Health
      $111,577

      award amount

67. Depoy, Lauren Marie

    Leads 1 award · $67,446

    • 5F32DA046117-03Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms underlying increased cocaine self-administration in Npas2 knockout mice
      $67,446

      award amount

68. Stringfield, Sierra

    Leads 1 award · $65,310

    • 5F32DA047029-02Department: NIH department code

      Effects of adolescent cannabinoid exposure on cortical development
      $65,310

      award amount

69. Molina, Brooke S.g.

    Leads 1 award · $53,322

    • 5T32AA007453-39Department: NIH department code

      Developmental Alcohol Research Training
      $53,322

      award amount

70. Curtis, Mark T

    Leads 1 award · $45,016

    • 1F31MH119718-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Cortical network underlying executive control of auditory attention in early psychosis
      $45,016

      award amount