FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Anesthesiology at University of Washington
Seattle, WA
- 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 Anesthesiology row of the University of Washington page.
Leads a grant in this department
17 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Michael R. Bruchas
Leads 3 awards · $1,567,768
- 5U01NS128537-04Department: NIH department codeNext Generation Opto-GPCRs for Neuromodulatory Control
Principal investigators: Michael R. Bruchas (contact PI), Andre Berndt, Moran Shalev-Benami, Ofer Yizhar
$717,923award amount - 5R01MH112355-11Department: NIH department codeDecoding Locus Coeruleus Neural Circuits and Signaling In Negative Affect$518,012award amount
- 3U01NS128537-04S1Department: NIH department codeNext Generation Opto-GPCRs for Neuromodulatory Control
Principal investigators: Michael R. Bruchas (contact PI), Andre Berndt, Moran Shalev-Benami, Ofer Yizhar
$331,833award amount
Megan Moore
Leads 1 award · $850,000
- 5R49CE003565-03Department: NIH department codeRFA-CE-24-001, Achieving Injury-related Health Equity Across the Lifespan$850,000award amount
Daniel Raftery
Leads 1 award · $680,391
- 1S10OD040220-01Department: NIH department codeAdvanced Multiplexed UPLC-MS/MS System for Target Metabolomics$680,391award amount
Michele Curatolo
Leads 1 award · $680,290
- 2R01AR078192-06Department: NIH department codeIdentifying novel therapeutic targets for chronic neck pain: RNA-sequencing in human painful atlanto-axial arthropathy
Principal investigators: Michele Curatolo (contact PI), Christoph Paul Hofstetter, Theodore J. Price
$680,290award amount
Nita Khandelwal
Leads 1 award · $654,899
- 5R01HL162831-05Department: NIH department codeFinancial Hardship among Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure and their Family Member Caregivers: Understanding the Impact on Patient- and Family- Centered Outcomes$654,899award amount
C. Michael Crowder
Leads 1 award · $645,466
- 5R01NS128769-04Department: NIH department codeDEFINING RAPTOR-MEDIATED MECHANISMS OF HYPOXIC INJURY$645,466award amount
Dustin R Long
Leads 1 award · $427,625
- 1R35GM165694-01Department: NIH department codeTargeting the preoperative microbiome for the prevention of surgical site infection and prophylactic antibiotic resistance$427,625award amount
Mitra Heshmati
Leads 1 award · $388,750
- 5R35GM146751-05Department: NIH department codeMechanisms of emergence from general anesthesia$388,750award amount
Tonya M Palermo
Leads 1 award · $294,553
- 5T32GM086270-18Department: NIH department codeAnesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine Training Grant$294,553award amount
Kelly Michaelsen
Leads 2 awards · $262,324
- 5K08GM153069-03Department: NIH department codeIntelligent wearable system for preventing medication errors in anesthesiology$186,724award amount
- 3K08GM153069-03S1Department: NIH department codeIntelligent wearable system for preventing medication errors in anesthesiology$75,600award amount
Sean Christopher Piantadosi
Leads 1 award · $148,403
- 5K99DA062328-02Department: NIH department codeThe role of valence encoding amygdala ensembles in avoidance behavior$148,403award amount
Kushang Patel
Leads 1 award · $135,634
- 5R25HD094336-09Department: NIH department codeThe Pediatric Injury and Violence Prevention Student Internship Training Program (INSIGHT)$135,634award amount
Carlie Neiswanger
Leads 1 award · $79,300
- 1F32GM163495-01Department: NIH department codePain State Modulation of Emergence from Anesthesia$79,300award amount
Cassidy Taylor Burke
Leads 1 award · $55,114
- 5F30DA061559-03Department: NIH department codeImpact of chronic, voluntary fentanyl intake on single-cell gene expression and brain-wide neuronal activity patterns$55,114award amount
Amanda Loren Pasqualini
Leads 1 award · $50,114
- 1F31DA066112-01Department: NIH department codeCharacterizing the role of endogenous nociceptin opioid release from the central amygdala in reward outcome encoding$50,114award amount
Madison Margaret Martin
Leads 1 award · $50,114
- 5F31MH136670-03Department: NIH department codeCharacterizing the function of locus coeruleus and pericoerulear zone activity during avoidance behavior$50,114award amount
Kaylin Ellioff
Leads 1 award · $46,825
- 5F31DA061576-03Department: NIH department codeInvestigating the role of THC in mediating pain signaling in the BLA$46,825award 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.
Andre Berndt
Co-investigator on 5U01NS128537-04, led by Michael R. Bruchas; 3U01NS128537-04S1, led by Michael R. Bruchas
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Washington · Engineering (NIH department code, 3 awards)
Moran Shalev-Benami
Co-investigator on 5U01NS128537-04, led by Michael R. Bruchas; 3U01NS128537-04S1, led by Michael R. Bruchas
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Ofer Yizhar
Co-investigator on 5U01NS128537-04, led by Michael R. Bruchas; 3U01NS128537-04S1, led by Michael R. Bruchas
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Christoph Paul Hofstetter
Co-investigator on 2R01AR078192-06, led by Michele Curatolo
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Theodore J. Price
Co-investigator on 2R01AR078192-06, led by Michele Curatolo
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Texas Dallas · Neurosciences (NIH department code, 1 award)
Also counted toward University of Washington in the Anesthesiology ranking
Department rankings count awards at these organizations toward University of Washington. With University of Washington's own 20 awards (R&D contracts left out), they make up its ranking row: #6, $14,009,817, 29 awards. Each organization's page lists its investigators.