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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

Funding
$13.4M
$13,385,065
Awards
31
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
24
21 lead a grant here, 3 co-investigators
Department rank
#17
of 75 · 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 Virginia page.

Leads a grant in this department

21 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. Chia-Yi Kuan

    Leads 5 awards · $4,906,133

    • 1RF1AG096337-01Department: NIH department code
      Microglia in Neurovascular Coupling and Hypertensive Cerebral Small Vessel Disease
      $2,877,249
      award amount
    • 5R01NS135693-04Department: NIH department code
      Treating neurotoxicity and cognitive deficits due to hyperphosphorylated tau.

      Principal investigators: Chia-Yi Kuan (contact PI), Min-Hao Kuo

      $597,655
      award amount
    • 5R01NS125677-05Department: NIH department code
      CMRO2 and Uncoupling of Oxidative-Phosphorylation in Experimental HIE

      Principal investigators: Chia-Yi Kuan (contact PI), Song Hu

      $556,157
      award amount
    • 1R21NS145066-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism and Treatments in Experimental Post-Stroke Seizures
      $444,125
      award amount
    • 5R01NS125788-05Department: NIH department code
      Neutrophils and Monocytes in Pediatric Ischemic Stroke
      $430,947
      award amount

  2. John R Lukens

    Leads 2 awards · $1,142,727

    • 5R01AG087406-03Department: NIH department code
      Making a case for CASS4 in Alzheimer's disease
      $590,989
      award amount
    • 4R01AG078684-02Department: NIH department code
      CLEC7A in microglia biology and Alzheimer's disease
      $551,738
      award amount

  3. Jung-Bum Shin

    Leads 2 awards · $1,004,343

    • 2R01DC018842-06Department: NIH department code
      Significance of Myo7a isoforms in hair cell function
      $550,334
      award amount
    • 5R01DC021176-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanosensor Proteins in Hair Cell Repair
      $454,009
      award amount

  4. Elise C Cope

    Leads 2 awards · $996,759

    • 5R01MH133744-04Department: NIH department code
      Hippocampal adult-born neurons in social memory circuits
      $563,342
      award amount
    • 1R21AG104382-01Department: NIH department code
      Impact of hippocampal perineuronal net complexity on Alzheimer's disease-associated social memory dysfunction
      $433,417
      award amount

  5. Ukpong Bassey Eyo

    Leads 2 awards · $807,500

    • 1R56NS147433-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Microglial Facilitation of Recovery from Status Epilepticus
      $565,250
      award amount
    • 1R21NS147309-01Department: NIH department code
      Myeloid Cell Regulation of Cerebrovascular Basal and Functional Tone
      $242,250
      award amount

  6. Lulu Jiang

    Leads 1 award · $723,086

    • 5R01AG091577-02Department: NIH department code
      Epitranscriptomic Mechanism in pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease
      $723,086
      award amount

  7. Harald W Sontheimer

    Leads 1 award · $709,066

    • 5R01AG085359-03Department: NIH department code
      Extracellular matrix and memory impairments in Alzheimer disease
      $709,066
      award amount

  8. Tajie H. Harris

    Leads 3 awards · $672,842

    • 5R01NS134747-03Department: NIH department code
      Caspase-8 mediated control of CNS infection
      $516,550
      award amount
    • 2T32NS115657-06Department: NIH department code
      Brain, Immunology and Glia Training Program

      Principal investigators: Tajie H. Harris (contact PI), Alban P Gaultier

      $141,792
      award amount
    • 1R13AI202833-01Department: NIH department code
      2026 Woods Hole Immunoparasitology (WHIP)

      Principal investigators: Tajie H. Harris (contact PI), Mark Christopher Siracusa

      $14,500
      award amount

  9. Tsai-Yi Lu

    Leads 1 award · $583,815

    • 1R01AG096593-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Oligodendrocyte Lineage Dyshomeostasis during Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
      $583,815
      award amount

  10. Heather Ferris

    Leads 1 award · $457,526

    • 5R01AG080773-04Department: NIH department code
      Mevalonate Pathway Regulation of Astrocyte ApoE
      $457,526
      award amount

  11. Scott Zeitlin

    Leads 1 award · $403,753

    • 5R01NS124728-05Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the mechanisms that modulate the effects of mutant Huntingtin lowering in aging Huntington's disease model mice
      $403,753
      award amount

  12. Ashley N Brandebura

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00AG081536-04Department: NIH department code
      Astrocyte-secreted proteins as modulators of neurodegeneration in Down Syndrome and Alzheimers Disease
      $249,000
      award amount

  13. Alban P Gaultier

    Leads 1 award · $236,896

    • 1R21NS146869-01Department: NIH department code
      Exploring the Link between Enteric Glial Cells and Multiple Sclerosis Etiology
      $236,896
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32NS115657-06, led by Tajie H. Harris.

  14. William Albert Mills Iii

    Leads 1 award · $131,166

    • 1K99AG093062-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The role of microglia-pericyte signaling in maintaining basal capillary tone in health and Alzheimer's Disease
      $131,166
      award amount

  15. Melissa L Garcia

    Leads 1 award · $88,690

    • 4K00NS139543-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the effects of increasing O-GlcNAcylation in Alzheimer's disease
      $88,690
      award amount

  16. Clint Michael Upchurch

    Leads 1 award · $81,580

    • 5F32HL182385-02Department: NIH department code
      Myeloid cell ferroptosis in hemorrhagic stroke
      $81,580
      award amount

  17. Andrew Faris Paquette

    Leads 1 award · $40,064

    • 1F31DC024478-01Department: NIH department code
      Isoform-Specific Functions of Espin Variants in Auditory and Vestibular Hair Cells
      $40,064
      award amount

  18. Joshua David Samuels

    Leads 1 award · $39,710

    • 5F31AG091926-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of microglial lipid metabolism and immune functions by SHP-1 in Alzheimer's disease
      $39,710
      award amount

  19. Henry De Hoyos

    Leads 1 award · $39,521

    • 5F30DC023139-02Department: NIH department code
      Lipid Flippases in the Function and Degeneration of Sensory Hair Cells
      $39,521
      award amount

  20. Katherine Nimchuk

    Leads 1 award · $39,338

    • 5F31DC022140-03Department: NIH department code
      Phosphatidylserine signaling in neuronal refinement of the cochlea
      $39,338
      award amount

  21. Nick Natale

    Leads 1 award · $31,550

    • 5F31NS135897-03Department: NIH department code
      Exploring the role of hyper-phagocytic microglia and SYK signaling in the aged hippocampus during COVID-19
      $31,550
      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.