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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Psychiatry at University of South Florida

Tampa, FL

Funding
$17.6M
$17,572,361
Awards
13
FY2026 NIH awards in Psychiatry
Principal investigators
7
7 lead a grant here, 0 co-investigators
Department rank
#24
of 87 · 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 Psychiatry row of the University of South Florida page.

Leads a grant in this department

7 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. Jennifer Lee O'Brien

    Leads 2 awards · $13,201,379

    • 5R01AG070349-05Department: NIH department code
      Cognitive training to reduce incidence of cognitive impairment in older adults
      $10,342,517
      award amount
    • 3R01AG070349-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Cognitive training to reduce incidence of cognitive impairment in older adults
      $2,858,862
      award amount

  2. Yong Xu

    Leads 5 awards · $2,842,258

    • 7R01DK136479-04Department: NIH department code
      Neurobiology for Lac-Phe Hypophagia
      $623,224
      award amount
    • 5R01AG080392-05Department: NIH department code
      5-HT 2C Receptor and Alzheimer's Disease
      $578,595
      award amount
    • 7R01DK138123-03Department: NIH department code
      Forebrain Proenkaphalin Neurons Regulate Feeding
      $568,922
      award amount
    • 5R01HD114146-04Department: NIH department code
      Trpc5-activated neural circuits and maternal behavior
      $540,865
      award amount
    • 7R01DK139583-03Department: NIH department code
      Ano4 and Metabolic Health
      $530,652
      award amount

  3. Longlong Tu

    Leads 2 awards · $679,719

    • 1R01DK148810-01Department: NIH department code
      PNNs enhance excitatory synaptic strength onto GABAergic neurons in the PeFAH to promote food intake and weight gain
      $555,930
      award amount
    • 7K01DK143207-02Department: NIH department code
      The Ano4 channel in the AP is required for orexigenic action of asprosin
      $123,789
      award amount

  4. Brendan M Walker

    Leads 1 award · $556,061

    • 5R01AA031171-04Department: NIH department code
      Oprk1-regulated neurocircuitry and phenotypes of alcohol use disorder
      $556,061
      award amount

  5. Mengjie Wang

    Leads 1 award · $114,237

    • 1K99HD118173-01A1Department: NIH department code
      apMPOA neurons coordinate nutrition and sexual behavior
      $114,237
      award amount

  6. Yongxiang Li

    Leads 1 award · $89,970

    • 1K99DK146110-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Imprinted Grb10 in dopamine neurons and transgenerational transmission of hedonic feeding
      $89,970
      award amount

  7. Kristine Marie McDermott

    Leads 1 award · $88,737

    • 1K99DK146121-01A1Department: NIH department code
      A cortex-midbrain circuit regulates energy balance
      $88,737
      award amount