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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at University of Washington

Seattle, WA

Funding
$9.8M
$9,817,654
Awards
26
FY2026 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
26
18 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#25
of 89 · 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 Physiology row of the University of Washington 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. Sharona E Gordon

    Leads 3 awards · $1,341,444

    • 5R01EY037223-02Department: NIH department code
      Chemical Biology Probes to Decipher Regulation of TRPV1 in Living Cells
      $687,144
      award amount
    • 5R35GM145225-05Department: NIH department code
      Conformational Energetics and Heterogeneity to Reveal Gating Mechanisms of TRPV and TRPM Ion Channels
      $404,300
      award amount
    • 3R35GM145225-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Conformational Energetics and Heterogeneity to Reveal Gating Mechanisms of TRPV and TRPM Ion Channels
      $250,000
      award amount
  2. John Tuthill

    Leads 3 awards · $1,305,508

    • 5R01NS145438-02Department: NIH department code
      Proprioceptive Detection of Joint Limits and Its Role in Limb Sensorimotor Control

      Principal investigators: John Tuthill (contact PI), Bingni Wen Brunton

      $598,495
      award amount
    • 5R01NS102333-10Department: NIH department code
      Neural coding of leg proprioception
      $385,455
      award amount
    • 5R01NS128785-03Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting circuit and cellular mechanisms for limb motor control
      $321,558
      award amount
  3. Frederick M Rieke

    Leads 3 awards · $1,276,487

    • 5R01EY036594-03Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic retinal coding in natural environments

      Principal investigators: Frederick M Rieke (contact PI), Gregory Darin Field, Joel Zylberberg

      $460,112
      award amount
    • 1R21EY038886-01Department: NIH department code
      Decoding time-dependent nonlinearities underlying responses to natural stimuli
      $427,625
      award amount
    • 5R01EY028542-09Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms controlling retinal responses to natural stimuli
      $388,750
      award amount
  4. Charles L Asbury

    Leads 2 awards · $819,288

    • 5R35GM134842-07Department: NIH department code
      Reconstitution and biophysical study of chromosome segregation machinery
      $727,855
      award amount
    • 3R35GM134842-07S1Department: NIH department code
      Reconstitution and biophysical study of chromosome segregation machinery
      $91,433
      award amount
  5. Gregory D Horwitz

    Leads 1 award · $801,202

    • 1R01EY037680-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Perisaccadic modulation of vision

      Principal investigators: Gregory D Horwitz (contact PI), Jacob L Yates

      $801,202
      award amount
  6. Nikolai C Dembrow

    Leads 1 award · $645,883

    • 1R01NS150345-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Dissection of Anesthetic Effects on an Arousal-Suppressing Prefrontal Circuit

      Principal investigators: Nikolai C Dembrow (contact PI), Alexander Proekt

      $645,883
      award amount
  7. Jeansok John Kim

    Leads 1 award · $556,975

    • 5R01MH139585-02Department: NIH department code
      Neural Dynamics of Fear Circuits in Ecological Rodent Models of Risk and Trauma
      $556,975
      award amount
  8. Robijanto Soetedjo

    Leads 1 award · $503,525

    • 1R21EY038476-01Department: NIH department code
      Direction-specific processing in the cerebellar oculomotor vermis during saccades
      $503,525
      award amount
  9. Astra Shamgar Bryant

    Leads 1 award · $455,140

    • 5DP2AI184544-03Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the thermosensory biology of soil-transmitted parasitic nematodes
      $455,140
      award amount
  10. Anitha Pasupathy

    Leads 1 award · $418,614

    • 1R01EY040101-01Department: NIH department code
      CRCNS: Texture encoding in nervous systems and deep neural networks

      Principal investigators: Anitha Pasupathy (contact PI), Wyeth Daniel Bair

      $418,614
      award amount
  11. William N Zagotta

    Leads 1 award · $404,300

    • 5R35GM148137-04Department: NIH department code
      Structural energetics of voltage- and ligand-dependent gating in ion channels
      $404,300
      award amount
  12. Claudia Marcela Moreno

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5R01HL162609-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of mechanosensation in the cardiac pacemaker
      $388,750
      award amount
  13. Elizabeth A Buffalo

    Leads 1 award · $311,878

  14. Steve I Perlmutter

    Leads 1 award · $233,250

    • 1R21NS144942-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Electrical stimulation treatment to enhance connectivity between brainstem and spinal defecation centers for improved volitional control of the bowel after spinal cord injury in the rat
      $233,250
      award amount
  15. Yichen Luo

    Leads 2 awards · $176,602

    • 1K99NS146574-01Department: NIH department code
      Adaptive Neural control of Respiration in Drosophila
      $122,769
      award amount
    • 3K99NS146574-01S1Department: NIH department code
      Adaptive Neural control of Respiration in Drosophila
      $53,833
      award amount
  16. Molly Catherine McCloskey

    Leads 1 award · $78,580

    • 5F32NS143770-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating axonal length-dependent pathology in a human stem cell-based model of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (type 2D)
      $78,580
      award amount
  17. Katherine Dana Green

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31NS145435-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The effect of motor-targeted epidural spinal stimulation on neuropathic pain and dorsal horn circuitry
      $50,114
      award amount
  18. Luke Mar Bun

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31EY037124-02Department: NIH department code
      Roles of parvalbumin-expressing neurons in primate cortical processing
      $50,114
      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.

  • Jacob L Yates

    Co-investigator on 1R01EY037680-01A1, led by Gregory D Horwitz

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Alexander Proekt

    Co-investigator on 1R01NS150345-01, led by Nikolai C Dembrow

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Bingni Wen Brunton

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS145438-02, led by John Tuthill

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Gregory Darin Field

    Co-investigator on 5R01EY036594-03, led by Frederick M Rieke

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Joel Zylberberg

    Co-investigator on 5R01EY036594-03, led by Frederick M Rieke

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Wyeth Daniel Bair

    Co-investigator on 1R01EY040101-01, led by Anitha Pasupathy

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Adrienne L Fairhall

    Co-investigator on 5T32MH132518-04, led by Elizabeth A Buffalo

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Eric Todd Shea-Brown

    Co-investigator on 5T32MH132518-04, led by Elizabeth A Buffalo

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.