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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

Funding
$8.9M
$8,850,141
Awards
26
FY2024 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
19
18 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
#31
of 81 · 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 Neurosciences row of the University of Utah page.

Leads a grant in this department

18 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. Megan Elise Williams

    Leads 2 awards · $1,059,698

    • 5R01MH134515-02Department: NIH department code
      Inhibitory regulation of hippocampal CA3 neuron activity, learning, and memory

      Principal investigators: Megan Elise Williams (contact PI), James Gerard Heys

      $573,612
      award amount
    • 5R01MH125943-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of target-specific synapse formation
      $486,086
      award amount

  2. Andres Villu Maricq

    Leads 2 awards · $956,892

    • 5R01NS125359-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of NMDAR-Mediated Synaptic Signaling
      $512,609
      award amount
    • 5R01NS123735-04Department: NIH department code
      Peptidergic Modulation of NMDA-Receptor Mediated Neurotransmission
      $444,283
      award amount

  3. James Gerard Heys

    Leads 1 award · $924,000

    • 4DP2MH129958-02Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the neural circuit and synaptic mechanisms underlying interval timing
      $924,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01MH134515-02, led by Megan Elise Williams.

  4. Oleksandr Shcheglovitov

    Leads 4 awards · $769,417

    • 5R01NS123849-04Department: NIH department code
      Assembly and characterization of human cortico-striatal neural networks
      $502,285
      award amount
    • 5R21CA279773-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of glioblastoma cells by GABAergic neurons in human organoid-tumor chimeras
      $170,988
      award amount
    • 3R01NS123849-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Assembly and characterization of human cortico-striatal neural networks
      $72,455
      award amount
    • 3R01NS123849-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Assembly and characterization of human cortico-striatal neural networks
      $23,689
      award amount

  5. Christopher Gregg

    Leads 1 award · $762,219

    • 5R01MH109577-09Department: NIH department code
      The Nature and Function of Genomic Imprinting in Monoaminergic Neurons
      $762,219
      award amount

  6. Monica L Vetter

    Leads 2 awards · $688,752

    • 1R01EY035158-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Retinal Neurogenesis by Foxp1
      $586,269
      award amount
    • 3R01EY030307-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Developmental regulation of retinal microglia
      $102,483
      award amount

  7. Jason D Shepherd

    Leads 2 awards · $594,192

    • 5R01MH112766-07Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the mechanisms of Arc-dependent synaptic plasticity
      $540,295
      award amount
    • 3R01MH112766-07S1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the mechanisms of Arc‐dependent synaptic plasticity
      $53,897
      award amount

  8. Moriel Zelikowsky

    Leads 1 award · $571,982

    • 5R01MH132822-02Department: NIH department code
      Prefrontal Circuit Control of Isolation-Induced Aggression
      $571,982
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R21MH137591-01, led by Sung Jin Park.

  9. Sung Jin Park

    Leads 2 awards · $552,903

    • 5R01DC018814-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms underlying morphogenesis of the tectorial membrane
      $324,063
      award amount
    • 1R21MH137591-01Department: NIH department code
      Revealing the extensive structural features and regulatory process of the brain’s ECM

      Principal investigators: Sung Jin Park (contact PI), Moriel Zelikowsky

      $228,840
      award amount

  10. H. Joseph Yost

    Leads 1 award · $462,452

    • 5T32HD007491-27Department: NIH department code
      Developmental Biology Training Program

      Principal investigators: H. Joseph Yost (contact PI), Kristen M Kwan

      $462,452
      award amount

  11. Adam D Douglass

    Leads 1 award · $372,238

    • 5R01NS125521-03Department: NIH department code
      Functional architecture of dopamine signaling within a zebrafish sensorimotor network
      $372,238
      award amount

  12. Dale M Wachowiak

    Leads 1 award · $324,063

    • 5R01DC019636-04Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics of odor coding and processing by neural circuits in the olfactory bulb
      $324,063
      award amount

  13. Fergil Mills

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00MH121563-03Department: NIH department code
      Determining the role of amygdalostriatal transition zone circuits in associative learning and motivated behaviors
      $249,000
      award amount

  14. Kristen M Kwan

    Leads 1 award · $229,896

    • 5T32GM139805-03Department: NIH department code
      IMSD at the University of Utah (IMSD@U2)

      Principal investigators: Kristen M Kwan (contact PI), Minna Roh

      $229,896
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32HD007491-27, led by H. Joseph Yost.

  15. Jessica Allison Osterhout

    Leads 1 award · $219,241

    • 5R00NS114107-04Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the sickness symptoms
      $219,241
      award amount

  16. Adam Weinbrom

    Leads 1 award · $40,013

    • 1F31MH134619-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism and Synaptic Function of Binding Between Proteins Kirrel3 and IgSF8
      $40,013
      award amount

  17. Kaelan Reinaldo Sullivan

    Leads 1 award · $39,974

    • 1F99NS139545-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating a novel form of intercellular synaptic plasticity
      $39,974
      award amount

  18. Rachel Gatlin

    Leads 1 award · $33,209

    • 5F31MH131359-03Department: NIH department code
      Top‐Down Control of Isolation‐Induced Aggression Through mPFC Tac2+ Interneurons
      $33,209
      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.