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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurology at University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX

Funding
$25.5M
$25,540,174
Awards
49
FY2025 NIH awards in Neurology
Principal investigators
56
41 lead a grant here, 15 co-investigators
Department rank
#14
of 71 · 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

41 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 · $6,872,614

    • 5U01AG078533-04Department: 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

      $6,872,614
      award amount

  2. Eyal J Seidemann

    Leads 2 awards · $1,678,125

    • 5UG3MH133047-03Department: 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

      $1,172,076
      award amount
    • 5R01EY024071-09Department: 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

  3. Maya Henry

    Leads 2 awards · $1,402,594

    • 1R61AG089318-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Intervention to promote communication quality of life for persons with language‐led dementia and their partners: A randomized pilot trial

      Principal investigators: Maya Henry (contact PI), Stephanie M Grasso

      $856,024
      award amount
    • 5R01DC018579-05Department: NIH department code
      Electrophysiological Approaches to Understanding Functional Organization of Speech in the Brain

      Principal investigators: Maya Henry (contact PI), J Liberty S Hamilton

      $546,570
      award amount

  4. Franco Pestilli

    Leads 1 award · $1,213,341

    • 1U24NS140384-01Department: NIH department code
      BRAIN CONNECTS: The Axonal Projectome EXchange (APEX)

      Principal investigators: Franco Pestilli (contact PI), Anastasia Yendiki

      $1,213,341
      award amount

  5. Roy Dayne Mayfield

    Leads 2 awards · $981,732

    • 5U01AA020926-14Department: NIH department code
      2/11 Spatially Resolved, Single Cell, Neuroimmune Transcriptomes in Alcohol Dependence
      $545,194
      award amount
    • 5R01AA012404-25Department: NIH department code
      Gene Expression in the Human Alcoholic Brain
      $436,538
      award amount

  6. Robert O. Messing

    Leads 2 awards · $898,784

    • 5U24AA025479-09Department: NIH department code
      1/11 Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism
      $469,167
      award amount
    • 5R01AA028807-04Department: NIH department code
      PDE4 regulation of GABA-A receptors in alcohol tolerance and consumption
      $429,617
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01AA013520-24, led by Yuri A Blednov.

  7. Alison R Preston

    Leads 2 awards · $870,330

    • 5R01MH100121-12Department: NIH department code
      Hippocampal and frontoparietal mechanisms for knowledge acquisition and inference
      $668,468
      award amount
    • 5T32MH106454-10Department: NIH department code
      Training in Learning and Memory
      $201,862
      award amount

  8. Amy Lee

    Leads 2 awards · $831,280

    • 5R01EY026817-09Department: NIH department code
      Calcium channels in retinal photoreceptors
      $476,484
      award amount
    • 2T32DA018926-21Department: NIH department code
      Pre-Doctoral Training in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience

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

      $354,796
      award amount

  9. Jeffrey Gross

    Leads 2 awards · $828,497

    • 2R01EY029410-07Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Molecular Underpinnings of Endogenous RPE Regeneration
      $430,819
      award amount
    • 5R01EY035888-02Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic Regulation of Retinal Regeneration
      $397,678
      award amount

  10. Audrey Christine Brumback

    Leads 1 award · $769,593

    • 5R01MH131857-03Department: NIH department code
      Functional architecture of the mediodorsal thalamus
      $769,593
      award amount

  11. Karen L Fingerman

    Leads 1 award · $760,902

    • 5R01AG087118-02Department: NIH department code
      Daily Experiences and Well-being among Caregivers for Older Adults Experiencing Lewy Body Dementia.
      $760,902
      award amount

  12. Stephanie M Grasso

    Leads 2 awards · $666,441

    • 5R01AG080470-03Department: NIH department code
      Bilingual Factors Associated with Cognitive Reserve and Linguistic Resilience in Hispanics with Primary Progressive Aphasia
      $480,523
      award amount
    • 3R01AG080470-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Bilingual Factors Associated with Cognitive Reserve and Linguistic Resilience in Hispanics with Primary Progressive Aphasia
      $185,918
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R61AG089318-01A1, led by Maya Henry.

  13. Lauren Ilyse Richie Ehrlich

    Leads 1 award · $604,148

    • 2R01AI104870-11A1Department: NIH department code
      Discriminating the contributions of CCR4 and CCR7 to thymic central tolerance
      $604,148
      award amount

  14. Joshua Tsukang Chang

    Leads 1 award · $468,250

    • 5R33AG069780-05Department: NIH department code
      Cognitive Screening Made Easy for Primary Care Providers

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

      $468,250
      award amount

  15. Lauren K Dobbs

    Leads 1 award · $464,464

    • 5R01DA054329-04Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of striatal microcircuits by endogenous opioids as a novel mechanism underlying cocaine seeking
      $464,464
      award amount

  16. Yuri A Blednov

    Leads 1 award · $454,375

    • 5U01AA013520-24Department: 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

  17. Andrew David Gaudet

    Leads 1 award · $441,476

    • 5R01NS131806-03Department: NIH department code
      Circadian control of neuroinflammation after spinal cord injury
      $441,476
      award amount

  18. Lyndsey M Kirk

    Leads 1 award · $438,625

    • 1R21AG096582-01Department: NIH department code
      Decoding the Heterogeneity of Interneuron Vulnerability in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: An Ultraplex CLEM Approach
      $438,625
      award amount

  19. Xuexin Wei

    Leads 1 award · $407,382

    • 1R01DA060742-01Department: NIH department code
      Representational geometry: evaluating brain-computational models with neural activity data

      Principal investigators: Xuexin Wei (contact PI), Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

      $407,382
      award amount

  20. Robbe L Goris

    Leads 1 award · $398,502

    • 5R01EY032999-04Department: NIH department code
      Uncertainty, inference, and introspection in the primate visual system
      $398,502
      award amount

  21. Huiliang Wang

    Leads 1 award · $396,250

    • 5R35GM147408-04Department: NIH department code
      Non-Invasive and Non-Viral Sono-Optogenetics
      $396,250
      award amount

  22. Hitoshi Morikawa

    Leads 1 award · $356,625

    • 5R01DA054274-04Department: NIH department code
      Experience-Dependent Regulation of Reward Learning and Addiction Vulnerability
      $356,625
      award amount

  23. Ku-Lung Hsu

    Leads 1 award · $354,866

    • 5R01AI169412-03Department: NIH department code
      Chemical proteomic investigation of lipid kinase specificity and druggability
      $354,866
      award amount

  24. Hongjoo Joanne Lee

    Leads 1 award · $353,582

    • 5R01AA029386-04Department: NIH department code
      Reducing alcohol-seeking behavior in a rat model of alcohol dependence
      $353,582
      award amount

  25. Johann K Eberhart

    Leads 1 award · $352,628

    • 5R01AA023426-07Department: NIH department code
      Genetic screens in zebrafish to identify gene-ethanol interactions
      $352,628
      award amount

  26. Tanya T Paull

    Leads 1 award · $350,570

    • 5R01NS126747-04Department: NIH department code
      Origins of DNA damage driving pathology in human neurodegeneration
      $350,570
      award amount

  27. Catherine Cubbin

    Leads 1 award · $340,981

    • 5T32HL140290-08Department: 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

      $340,981
      award amount

  28. Edison Thomaz

    Leads 1 award · $266,518

    • 5R01AG077017-04Department: NIH department code
      SCH: Digital Biomarker and Analytics for Cognitive Impairment with Mobile and Wearable Sensing
      $266,518
      award amount

  29. Ayland Cash Letsinger

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00DA058974-02Department: NIH department code
      ENDOCANNABINOID REINFORCEMENT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
      $249,000
      award amount

  30. Hiroshi Nishiyama

    Leads 1 award · $191,632

    • 5R21NS137118-02Department: NIH department code
      The organization of cerebello-thalamo-cortical circuit in the motor system
      $191,632
      award amount

  31. Hsin-Chih Yeh

    Leads 1 award · $181,740

    • 5R21DA060543-02Department: 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

      $181,740
      award amount

  32. Michela (micky) Marinelli

    Leads 1 award · $159,625

    • 1R03DA062825-01Department: NIH department code
      Age and sex-differences in reward responding after punishment
      $159,625
      award amount

  33. Nihal A Salem

    Leads 1 award · $149,875

    • 1K99AA032053-01Department: NIH department code
      Dysregulated cell-type specific gene regulatory networks underlying alcohol dependence
      $149,875
      award amount

  34. Caitlin Anne Orsini

    Leads 1 award · $99,641

    • 3R01DA055676-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying estradiol-mediated risk aversion in females
      $99,641
      award amount

  35. Samantha Lauby

    Leads 1 award · $82,428

    • 5F32ES035254-03Department: NIH department code
      Interactive Effects of Prenatal Bisphenol Exposure and Postnatal Maternal Care on DNA Methylation in the Developing Brain
      $82,428
      award amount

  36. Jerry Tang

    Leads 1 award · $75,052

    • 5F32DC022178-02Department: NIH department code
      Assessing semantic encoding and decoding models in stroke-induced aphasia
      $75,052
      award amount

  37. Kanako Matsumura

    Leads 1 award · $46,335

    • 5F31DA058522-02Department: NIH department code
      Recruitment of striatal enkephalin by cocaine as a substrate for striatopallidal circuit adaptations and cocaine seeking
      $46,335
      award amount

  38. Matthew Joseph Lohr

    Leads 1 award · $41,266

    • 1F31HL176137-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Computational Models of Mechanical Thrombectomy in Acute Ischemic Stroke Treatment
      $41,266
      award amount

  39. Katherine May Motovilov

    Leads 1 award · $40,103

    • 1F31AA032720-01Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the role of the gut microbiome in a rodent model of alcohol use disorder
      $40,103
      award amount

  40. Jasper Smits

    Leads 1 award · $1

    • 5R01CA273221-03Department: 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

      $1
      award amount

  41. Sara J Hussain

    Leads 1 award · $1

    • 5R21NS133605-02Department: NIH department code
      Developing real-time personalized TMS to target residual corticospinal connections after stroke
      $1
      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.