FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Physiology at University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
- 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 Physiology row of the University of Southern California page.
Leads a grant in this department
20 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Janos Peti-Peterdi
Leads 4 awards · $2,744,193
- 1S10OD038245-01Department: NIH department codeMultimodal Intravital Microscope for USC Shared Resource$1,131,640award amount
- 2R01DK123564-06Department: NIH department codeNovel regulatory mechanisms of the glomerular endothelium$608,719award amount
- 5R01DK064324-19Department: NIH department codeMultiphoton imaging of the juxtaglomerular apparatus$576,359award amount
- 5R01DK135290-03Department: NIH department codeA new paradigm of glomerular immune cell homing$427,475award amount
Justin Kawika Ichida
Leads 1 award · $1,968,019
- 4R01NS131409-04Department: NIH department codeLeveraging Natural Phenotypic Variations of Heterogenous ALS Populations-in-a-Dish to Enable Scalable Drug Discovery
Principal investigators: Justin Kawika Ichida (contact PI), Hani Goodarzi
$1,968,019award amount
Robert Rissman
Leads 3 awards · $1,672,358
- 5R01AG073979-03Department: NIH department codePrecision Medicine for Inflammatory Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease in Down Syndrome
Principal investigators: Robert Rissman (contact PI), Michael S Rafii
$604,405award amount - 5R01AG088623-02Department: NIH department codeImpact of Ethnicity on the Utility of Plasma Amyloid and Tau to Predict Alzheimer's Disease
Principal investigators: Robert Rissman (contact PI), Charisse N Winston, Melissa Petersen
$582,487award amount - 7R01AG072053-03Department: NIH department codeNovel Systemic Delivery of Peptide-Mediated Anti-Sense Oligonucleotides for Dementia with Lewy Bodies$485,466award amount
Huizhong Whit Tao
Leads 2 awards · $1,302,765
- 5R01AG089756-02Department: NIH department codeUnderstanding Neural Bases for Neuropsychiatric Impairments in Alzheimer's Disease Models
Principal investigators: Huizhong Whit Tao (contact PI), Zhen Zhao
$702,581award amount - 5R01EY019049-18Department: NIH department codeProcessing and transformation of visual signals in the superior colliculus$600,184award amount
Ralf Langen
Leads 2 awards · $1,184,278
- 5R01NS125769-04Department: NIH department codeGenetically Encoded Probes of Huntingtin Misfolding
Principal investigators: Ralf Langen (contact PI), Jeannie Chen, Richard W Roberts
$632,519award amount - 5R01NS120704-05Department: NIH department codeMolecular Mechanism of Huntingtin Misfolding and its Inhibition by Designed and Cellular Proteins
Principal investigators: Ralf Langen (contact PI), Ansgar B Siemer, Jeannie Chen
$551,759award amount
Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS118859-05, led by Ali Khoshnan; 5R21NS137242-02, led by Ali Khoshnan.
Li I Zhang
Leads 2 awards · $1,127,421
- 5R01DC008983-19Department: NIH department codeContribution of striatum to central auditory processing$581,337award amount
- 5R01DC020887-03Department: NIH department codeCell-type basis for auditory processing in the inferior colliculus$546,084award amount
Patrick D Lyden
Leads 1 award · $879,383
- 5U24NS130600-03Department: NIH department codeThe NIH SPAN Coordinating Center$879,383award amount
Ali Khoshnan
Leads 2 awards · $874,488
- 5R01NS118859-05Department: NIH department codeCharacterizing the Conformations and Neurotoxic Species of Huntingtin
Principal investigators: Ali Khoshnan (contact PI), Ralf Langen
$666,988award amount - 5R21NS137242-02Department: NIH department codeDeveloping novel nanobody-based biosensors and therapeutics for Huntington’s Disease
Principal investigators: Ali Khoshnan (contact PI), Ralf Langen
$207,500award amount
Marcelo Pablo Coba
Leads 1 award · $806,232
- 4R01AG076921-02Department: NIH department codePICALM: Role in the pathogenesis and treatment of Alzheimer vascular blood-brain barrier clearance dysfunction, neuronal dysfunction, and amyloid-beta, tau and neurodegenerative disorders$806,232award amount
Zhen Zhao
Leads 2 awards · $797,428
- 5R01NS122060-03Department: NIH department codeA TIMEM252-dependent Microvascular Endophenotype in Alzheimer’s Disease$733,435award amount
- 5R21AG085559-02Department: NIH department codeProbing the heterogeneity of brain pericytes using new genetic tools$63,993award amount
Also a principal investigator on 5R01AG089756-02, led by Huizhong Whit Tao.
Michael Bonaguidi
Leads 1 award · $755,600
- 5R01AG076956-04Department: NIH department codeNeural stem cell rejuvenation through single cell pharmacogenomics$755,600award amount
Ansgar B Siemer
Leads 1 award · $597,888
- 5R01NS133820-02Department: NIH department codeIntrinsically disordered domains of α-synuclein: effect of fibril formation and fibril polymorphs$597,888award amount
Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS120704-05, led by Ralf Langen.
Jeannie Chen
Leads 1 award · $559,584
- 5R01EY012155-23Department: NIH department codePhototransduction in health and disease$559,584award amount
Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS125769-04, led by Ralf Langen; 5R01NS120704-05, led by Ralf Langen.
Alicia A. McDonough
Leads 1 award · $533,911
- 5R01DK083785-13Department: NIH department codeRenal electrolyte handling in females vs. males over life cycle
Principal investigators: Alicia A. McDonough (contact PI), Aurelie Edwards
$533,911award amount
Karen T Chang
Leads 1 award · $502,735
- 2R01NS080946-11Department: NIH department codeRole of DYRK1A/MNB in synaptic growth and function$502,735award amount
Derek Sieburth
Leads 1 award · $412,500
- 5R01NS099414-07Department: NIH department codeStress regulation of neurotransmission$412,500award amount
Tobias Sebastian Ulmer
Leads 1 award · $363,163
- 5R01AG072442-03Department: NIH department codeMechanism of CD33 receptor signaling in Alzheimer disease$363,163award amount
Charisse N Winston
Leads 1 award · $218,435
- 5R00AG070390-04Department: NIH department codeEthnoracial Impact on Blood-Based Biomarker Detection of Alzheimer's in Primary Care Patients$218,435award amount
Also a principal investigator on 5R01AG088623-02, led by Robert Rissman.
Michael Bienkowski
Leads 1 award · $125,766
- 5K01AG066847-05Department: NIH department codeA Translational 3D Map of Hippocampal Cell Types To Drive Investigations of Alzheimer's Disease$125,766award amount
Sayuri Pacheco
Leads 1 award · $49,538
- 5F31NS131011-03Department: NIH department codeIdentifying differences in dynamics and residual structure of intrinsically disordered domains between monomer and fibers: using alpha-synuclein as a model$49,538award 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.
Hani Goodarzi
Co-investigator on 4R01NS131409-04, led by Justin Kawika Ichida
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- University of California, San Francisco · Biochemistry (NIH department code, 1 award)
Richard W Roberts
Co-investigator on 5R01NS125769-04, led by Ralf Langen
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Michael S Rafii
Co-investigator on 5R01AG073979-03, led by Robert Rissman
From the FY2024 awards this person leads
- University of Southern California · Neurology (NIH department code, 1 award)
Melissa Petersen
Co-investigator on 5R01AG088623-02, led by Robert Rissman
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Aurelie Edwards
Co-investigator on 5R01DK083785-13, led by Alicia A. McDonough
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.