Skip to main content

FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurology at University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX

Funding
$46.6M
$46,618,824
Awards
62
FY2024 NIH awards in Neurology
Principal investigators
64
49 lead a grant here, 15 co-investigators
Department rank
#6
of 82 · 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 Neurology row of the University of Texas at Austin page.

Leads a grant in this department

49 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. Chandra L Muller

    Leads 1 award · $25,903,976

    • 5U01AG078533-03Department: NIH department code
      Education and Cognitive Functioning in Later Life: The Nation’s High School Class of 1972

      Principal investigators: Chandra L Muller (contact PI), Eric Grodsky, John Robert Warren

      $25,903,976
      award amount
  2. Eyal J Seidemann

    Leads 3 awards · $2,078,164

    • 5UG3MH133047-02Department: NIH department code
      An optical-genetic toolbox for monitoring and controlling diverse neuromodulatory circuits governing complex behaviors in primates

      Principal investigators: Eyal J Seidemann (contact PI), Karl A. Deisseroth

      $1,183,355
      award amount
    • 5R01EY024071-08Department: NIH department code
      Cortical mechanisms mediating visual function and behavior

      Principal investigators: Eyal J Seidemann (contact PI), Nicholas J Priebe, Thibaud O. Taillefumier

      $506,049
      award amount
    • 5R01EY016454-18Department: NIH department code
      Linking Neural Population Activity and Visual Perception
      $388,760
      award amount
  3. Roy Dayne Mayfield

    Leads 2 awards · $981,732

    • 5U01AA020926-13Department: NIH department code
      2/11 Spatially Resolved, Single Cell, Neuroimmune Transcriptomes in Alcohol Dependence
      $545,194
      award amount
    • 5R01AA012404-24Department: NIH department code
      Gene Expression in the Human Alcoholic Brain
      $436,538
      award amount
  4. Robert O. Messing

    Leads 2 awards · $961,550

    • 5U24AA025479-08Department: NIH department code
      1/11 Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism
      $531,933
      award amount
    • 5R01AA028807-03Department: NIH department code
      PDE4 regulation of GABA-A receptors in alcohol tolerance and consumption
      $429,617
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01AA013520-23, led by Yuri A Blednov.

  5. Alison R Preston

    Leads 2 awards · $928,218

    • 2R01MH100121-11Department: NIH department code
      Hippocampal and frontoparietal mechanisms for knowledge acquisition and inference
      $687,374
      award amount
    • 5T32MH106454-09Department: NIH department code
      Training in Learning and Memory
      $240,844
      award amount
  6. Karen L Fingerman

    Leads 1 award · $792,683

    • 1R01AG087118-01Department: NIH department code
      Daily Experiences and Well-being among Caregivers for Older Adults Experiencing Lewy Body Dementia.
      $792,683
      award amount
  7. Audrey Christine Brumback

    Leads 1 award · $778,590

    • 5R01MH131857-02Department: NIH department code
      Functional architecture of the mediodorsal thalamus
      $778,590
      award amount
  8. Amy Lee

    Leads 3 awards · $760,168

    • 5R01EY026817-08Department: NIH department code
      Calcium channels in retinal photoreceptors
      $476,484
      award amount
    • 1R03TR005086-01Department: NIH department code
      Illuminating the function of CACNA2D4 in inherited retinal dystrophies
      $158,750
      award amount
    • 5T32DA018926-20Department: NIH department code
      Pre-Doctoral Training in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience

      Principal investigators: Amy Lee (contact PI), Nace L Golding

      $124,934
      award amount
  9. Stephanie M Grasso

    Leads 2 awards · $712,048

    • 5R01AG080470-02Department: NIH department code
      Bilingual Factors Associated with Cognitive Reserve and Linguistic Resilience in Hispanics with Primary Progressive Aphasia
      $681,148
      award amount
    • 3R01AG080470-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Bilingual Factors Associated with Cognitive Reserve and Linguistic Resilience in Hispanics with Primary Progressive Aphasia
      $30,900
      award amount
  10. George Davis Bittner

    Leads 2 awards · $669,222

    • 5R01NS128086-02Department: NIH department code
      Translating Novel Peripheral Nerve Allograft Technologies Toward Clinical Use

      Principal investigators: George Davis Bittner (contact PI), Jared Shane Bushman

      $589,701
      award amount
    • 3R01NS128086-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Translating Novel Peripheral Nerve Allograft Technologies Toward Clinical Use

      Principal investigators: George Davis Bittner (contact PI), Jared Shane Bushman

      $79,521
      award amount
  11. Joshua Tsukang Chang

    Leads 2 awards · $626,061

    • 5R33AG069780-04Department: NIH department code
      Cognitive Screening Made Easy for Primary Care Providers

      Principal investigators: Joshua Tsukang Chang (contact PI), Robin C Hilsabeck

      $479,075
      award amount
    • 3R33AG069780-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Cognitive Screening Made Easy for Primary Care Providers

      Principal investigators: Joshua Tsukang Chang (contact PI), Robin C Hilsabeck

      $146,986
      award amount
  12. J Liberty S Hamilton

    Leads 2 awards · $614,707

    • 5R01DC018579-04Department: NIH department code
      Electrophysiological Approaches to Understanding Functional Organization of Speech in the Brain
      $546,570
      award amount
    • 3R01DC018579-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Electrophysiological Approaches to Understanding Functional Organization of Speech in the Brain
      $68,137
      award amount
  13. Caitlin Anne Orsini

    Leads 1 award · $547,810

    • 5R01DA055676-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying estradiol-mediated risk aversion in females
      $547,810
      award amount
  14. Sara J Hussain

    Leads 2 awards · $522,336

    • 1R03HD114188-01Department: NIH department code
      Towards real-time personalized brain state-dependent TMS to enhance poststroke hand rehabilitation
      $317,119
      award amount
    • 1R21NS133605-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Developing real-time personalized TMS to target residual corticospinal connections after stroke
      $205,217
      award amount
  15. Jasper Smits

    Leads 1 award · $516,606

    • 5R01CA273221-02Department: NIH department code
      Efficacy and implementation of exercise-based smoking cessation treatment for adults with high anxiety sensitivity

      Principal investigators: Jasper Smits (contact PI), Marshall Cheney, Michael J. Zvolensky

      $516,606
      award amount
  16. Lori L Holt

    Leads 1 award · $500,377

    • 7R01DC017734-05Department: NIH department code
      Behavioral outcomes and neurobiological mechanisms of sustained auditory selective attention
      $500,377
      award amount
  17. Andrew David Gaudet

    Leads 1 award · $475,813

    • 5R01NS131806-02Department: NIH department code
      Circadian control of neuroinflammation after spinal cord injury
      $475,813
      award amount
  18. Kristen M Harris

    Leads 1 award · $466,757

    • 1R56MH139176-01Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic plasticity mechanisms that protect and refine local circuits

      Principal investigators: Kristen M Harris (contact PI), Karen Zito

      $466,757
      award amount
  19. Lauren K Dobbs

    Leads 1 award · $464,464

    • 5R01DA054329-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of striatal microcircuits by endogenous opioids as a novel mechanism underlying cocaine seeking
      $464,464
      award amount
  20. Yuri A Blednov

    Leads 1 award · $454,375

    • 5U01AA013520-23Department: NIH department code
      7/11 Biochemical and Genetic Determinants of Alcohol Consumption

      Principal investigators: Yuri A Blednov (contact PI), Robert O. Messing

      $454,375
      award amount
  21. Robbe L Goris

    Leads 1 award · $398,502

    • 5R01EY032999-03Department: NIH department code
      Uncertainty, inference, and introspection in the primate visual system
      $398,502
      award amount
  22. Jeffrey Gross

    Leads 1 award · $398,444

    • 1R01EY035888-01Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic Regulation of Retinal Regeneration
      $398,444
      award amount
  23. Huiliang Wang

    Leads 1 award · $396,250

    • 5R35GM147408-03Department: NIH department code
      Non-Invasive and Non-Viral Sono-Optogenetics
      $396,250
      award amount
  24. Ku-Lung Hsu

    Leads 1 award · $380,466

    • 7R01AI169412-02Department: NIH department code
      Chemical proteomic investigation of lipid kinase specificity and druggability
      $380,466
      award amount
  25. Tanya T Paull

    Leads 1 award · $377,837

    • 5R01NS126747-03Department: NIH department code
      Origins of DNA damage driving pathology in human neurodegeneration
      $377,837
      award amount
  26. MacKenzie A Howard

    Leads 1 award · $356,742

    • 5R01NS112500-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of altered synaptic integration and plasticity underlying cellular and circuit dysfunction in genetic epilepsy disorders
      $356,742
      award amount
  27. Hitoshi Morikawa

    Leads 1 award · $356,625

    • 5R01DA054274-03Department: NIH department code
      Experience-Dependent Regulation of Reward Learning and Addiction Vulnerability
      $356,625
      award amount
  28. Hongjoo Joanne Lee

    Leads 1 award · $353,582

    • 5R01AA029386-03Department: NIH department code
      Reducing alcohol-seeking behavior in a rat model of alcohol dependence
      $353,582
      award amount
  29. Theresa A Jones

    Leads 1 award · $330,631

    • 5R37NS056839-22Department: NIH department code
      NEURAL MECHANISMS OF COMPENSATING FOR BRAIN DAMAGE
      $330,631
      award amount
  30. Edison Thomaz

    Leads 1 award · $282,311

    • 5R01AG077017-03Department: NIH department code
      SCH: Digital Biomarker and Analytics for Cognitive Impairment with Mobile and Wearable Sensing
      $282,311
      award amount
  31. Catherine Cubbin

    Leads 1 award · $273,174

    • 5T32HL140290-07Department: NIH department code
      Research Training to Promote Scientist Diversity & Health Equity in Cardiovascular & Lung Disease

      Principal investigators: Catherine Cubbin (contact PI), Elizabeth C. Matsui, Yessenia Castro

      $273,174
      award amount
  32. Spencer Smith

    Leads 2 awards · $267,565

    • 5R21DC020562-03Department: NIH department code
      Efferent Auditory Measurements during Continuous Attended Speech in Normal Hearing Listeners With and Without Speech-in-Noise Deficits
      $190,539
      award amount
    • 3R21DC020562-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Efferent Auditory Measurements during Continuous Attended Speech in Normal Hearing Listeners With and Without Speech-in-Noise Deficits
      $77,026
      award amount
  33. Matthew Farina

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00AG076964-03Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic Mechanisms Linking Lifetime Social and Environmental Exposures to Cognitive Aging
      $249,000
      award amount
  34. Robert William Newberry

    Leads 1 award · $241,530

    • 5R00NS116679-05Department: NIH department code
      Biophysical Determinants of Physiological and Pathological alpha-Synuclein Membrane Interactions
      $241,530
      award amount
  35. Rosemary Anne Lester-Smith

    Leads 1 award · $238,500

    • 1R56DC021972-01Department: NIH department code
      Differentiating the Physiological Sources of Modulated Voice
      $238,500
      award amount
  36. Hiroshi Nishiyama

    Leads 1 award · $231,257

    • 1R21NS137118-01Department: NIH department code
      The organization of cerebello-thalamo-cortical circuit in the motor system
      $231,257
      award amount
  37. Nigel S Atkinson

    Leads 1 award · $227,844

    • 5R21AA030833-02Department: NIH department code
      Identification of the protein:protein interactions of a non-nuclear NFKB that modulates ethanol sensitivity.
      $227,844
      award amount
  38. Hsin-Chih Yeh

    Leads 1 award · $221,843

    • 1R21DA060543-01Department: NIH department code
      Studying synaptic transmission under opioid exposure using hiPSC-derived midbrain model and hyperspectral fluorescence lifetime imaging

      Principal investigators: Hsin-Chih Yeh (contact PI), Stephanie Kristin Seidlits

      $221,843
      award amount
  39. James Patrick Curley

    Leads 1 award · $198,551

    • 5R21MH132981-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural processing of status signals in social hierarchies

      Principal investigators: James Patrick Curley (contact PI), Brian C Trainor

      $198,551
      award amount
  40. Elizabeth Munoz

    Leads 1 award · $194,652

    • 5R21AG078846-02Department: NIH department code
      Perceived Ethnic Discrimination and Cognitive Function in Mexican-origin Adults
      $194,652
      award amount
  41. Esther Melamed

    Leads 1 award · $194,184

    • 5K08AA027837-05Department: NIH department code
      Alcohol's Impact on the Gut-Brain Axis in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis
      $194,184
      award amount
  42. Sae Hwang Han

    Leads 1 award · $192,022

    • 5R21AG079122-02Department: NIH department code
      Helping Behaviors and Cognitive Functioning in Later Life: Linkages with Genetic Risks for Alzheimer's Disease and Disadvantaged Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status
      $192,022
      award amount
  43. Laura Brockway Ferguson

    Leads 1 award · $126,309

    • 5K99AA030821-02Department: NIH department code
      RNA biomarkers for alcohol use disorder
      $126,309
      award amount
  44. Nihal A Salem

    Leads 1 award · $91,481

    • 5K00AA029955-05Department: NIH department code
      From FASD to AUDs: Strategies for Preventing Alcohol Addictions
      $91,481
      award amount
  45. Samantha Lauby

    Leads 1 award · $78,960

    • 5F32ES035254-02Department: NIH department code
      Interactive Effects of Prenatal Bisphenol Exposure and Postnatal Maternal Care on DNA Methylation in the Developing Brain
      $78,960
      award amount
  46. Jerry Tang

    Leads 1 award · $73,408

    • 1F32DC022178-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Assessing semantic encoding and decoding models in stroke-induced aphasia
      $73,408
      award amount
  47. Courtney T Byrd

    Leads 1 award · $60,000

    • 1R13DC021874-01Department: NIH department code
      11th World Congress on Stuttering and Cluttering
      $60,000
      award amount
  48. Kanako Matsumura

    Leads 1 award · $45,771

    • 1F31DA058522-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Recruitment of striatal enkephalin by cocaine as a substrate for striatopallidal circuit adaptations and cocaine seeking
      $45,771
      award amount
  49. Leah Marie Truckenbrod

    Leads 1 award · $25,726

    • 5F31DA057112-03Department: NIH department code
      Neurobiology of risk taking in females: hormonal modulation of basolateral amygdala function
      $25,726
      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.