FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Physiology 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.
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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.
Sharona E Gordon
Leads 3 awards · $1,341,444
- 5R01EY037223-02Department: NIH department codeChemical Biology Probes to Decipher Regulation of TRPV1 in Living Cells$687,144award amount
- 5R35GM145225-05Department: NIH department codeConformational Energetics and Heterogeneity to Reveal Gating Mechanisms of TRPV and TRPM Ion Channels$404,300award amount
- 3R35GM145225-05S1Department: NIH department codeConformational Energetics and Heterogeneity to Reveal Gating Mechanisms of TRPV and TRPM Ion Channels$250,000award amount
John Tuthill
Leads 3 awards · $1,305,508
- 5R01NS145438-02Department: NIH department codeProprioceptive Detection of Joint Limits and Its Role in Limb Sensorimotor Control
Principal investigators: John Tuthill (contact PI), Bingni Wen Brunton
$598,495award amount - 5R01NS102333-10Department: NIH department codeNeural coding of leg proprioception$385,455award amount
- 5R01NS128785-03Department: NIH department codeDissecting circuit and cellular mechanisms for limb motor control$321,558award amount
Frederick M Rieke
Leads 3 awards · $1,276,487
- 5R01EY036594-03Department: NIH department codeDynamic retinal coding in natural environments
Principal investigators: Frederick M Rieke (contact PI), Gregory Darin Field, Joel Zylberberg
$460,112award amount - 1R21EY038886-01Department: NIH department codeDecoding time-dependent nonlinearities underlying responses to natural stimuli$427,625award amount
- 5R01EY028542-09Department: NIH department codeMechanisms controlling retinal responses to natural stimuli$388,750award amount
Charles L Asbury
Leads 2 awards · $819,288
- 5R35GM134842-07Department: NIH department codeReconstitution and biophysical study of chromosome segregation machinery$727,855award amount
- 3R35GM134842-07S1Department: NIH department codeReconstitution and biophysical study of chromosome segregation machinery$91,433award amount
Gregory D Horwitz
Leads 1 award · $801,202
- 1R01EY037680-01A1Department: NIH department codePerisaccadic modulation of vision
Principal investigators: Gregory D Horwitz (contact PI), Jacob L Yates
$801,202award amount
Nikolai C Dembrow
Leads 1 award · $645,883
- 1R01NS150345-01Department: NIH department codeMechanistic Dissection of Anesthetic Effects on an Arousal-Suppressing Prefrontal Circuit
Principal investigators: Nikolai C Dembrow (contact PI), Alexander Proekt
$645,883award amount
Jeansok John Kim
Leads 1 award · $556,975
- 5R01MH139585-02Department: NIH department codeNeural Dynamics of Fear Circuits in Ecological Rodent Models of Risk and Trauma$556,975award amount
Robijanto Soetedjo
Leads 1 award · $503,525
- 1R21EY038476-01Department: NIH department codeDirection-specific processing in the cerebellar oculomotor vermis during saccades$503,525award amount
Astra Shamgar Bryant
Leads 1 award · $455,140
- 5DP2AI184544-03Department: NIH department codeDissecting the thermosensory biology of soil-transmitted parasitic nematodes$455,140award amount
Anitha Pasupathy
Leads 1 award · $418,614
- 1R01EY040101-01Department: NIH department codeCRCNS: Texture encoding in nervous systems and deep neural networks
Principal investigators: Anitha Pasupathy (contact PI), Wyeth Daniel Bair
$418,614award amount
William N Zagotta
Leads 1 award · $404,300
- 5R35GM148137-04Department: NIH department codeStructural energetics of voltage- and ligand-dependent gating in ion channels$404,300award amount
Claudia Marcela Moreno
Leads 1 award · $388,750
- 5R01HL162609-05Department: NIH department codeMolecular mechanisms of mechanosensation in the cardiac pacemaker$388,750award amount
Elizabeth A Buffalo
Leads 1 award · $311,878
- 5T32MH132518-04Department: NIH department codeTraining in theoretical and computational approaches to neural circuits of cognition
Principal investigators: Elizabeth A Buffalo (contact PI), Adrienne L Fairhall, Eric Todd Shea-Brown
$311,878award amount
Steve I Perlmutter
Leads 1 award · $233,250
- 1R21NS144942-01A1Department: NIH department codeElectrical 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$233,250award amount
Yichen Luo
Leads 2 awards · $176,602
- 1K99NS146574-01Department: NIH department codeAdaptive Neural control of Respiration in Drosophila$122,769award amount
- 3K99NS146574-01S1Department: NIH department codeAdaptive Neural control of Respiration in Drosophila$53,833award amount
Molly Catherine McCloskey
Leads 1 award · $78,580
- 5F32NS143770-02Department: NIH department codeInvestigating axonal length-dependent pathology in a human stem cell-based model of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (type 2D)$78,580award amount
Katherine Dana Green
Leads 1 award · $50,114
- 1F31NS145435-01A1Department: NIH department codeThe effect of motor-targeted epidural spinal stimulation on neuropathic pain and dorsal horn circuitry$50,114award amount
Luke Mar Bun
Leads 1 award · $50,114
- 5F31EY037124-02Department: NIH department codeRoles of parvalbumin-expressing neurons in primate cortical processing$50,114award 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
- University of California, Berkeley (no department on record, 1 award)
Alexander Proekt
Co-investigator on 1R01NS150345-01, led by Nikolai C Dembrow
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Pennsylvania · Anesthesiology (NIH department code, 1 award)
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
- University of California, Los Angeles · Ophthalmology (NIH department code, 4 awards)
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.