Neurosciences at Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Leads a grant in this department

32 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. Christina S Meade

   Leads 2 awards · $3,730,055

   • 1U01DA063177-01Department: NIH department code

     CASCADE: A North Carolina cohort to address the cascading effects of the HIV and substance use syndemic

     Principal investigators: Christina S Meade (contact PI), Kathryn Elizabeth Lancaster

     $2,528,513

     award amount
   • 5R01DA061952-02Department: NIH department code

     Neuroimmune pathways linking chronic psychosocial stress to co-occurring stimulant use and depression in HIV disease: a mechanistic clinical trial

     Principal investigators: Christina S Meade (contact PI), Adam Wayne Carrico

     $1,201,542

     award amount

2. Samuel Centanni

   Leads 1 award · $2,552,568

   • 1R01AA031477-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Insula-BNST Circuit Regulation of AUD
     $2,552,568

     award amount

3. Michael A Nader

   Leads 2 awards · $1,158,185

   • 5R01DA017763-17Department: NIH department code

     Mechanisms Mediating Cocaine Abuse in Socially Housed Female and Male Monkeys
     $683,838

     award amount
   • 1R01DA061568-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Investigating the Impact of Nicotine and Alcohol Co-Use on the Abuse Potential of Cocaine In Monkey Models
     $474,347

     award amount

4. Paul W. Czoty

   Leads 2 awards · $1,082,404

   • 1R01DA062224-01A1Department: NIH department code

     NOP receptors as targets for novel pharmacotherapies for cocaine use disorder in nonhuman primate models
     $758,218

     award amount
   • 5T32NS115704-05Department: NIH department code

     Neuroscience Training at Wake Forest
     $324,186

     award amount

5. Ryan Michael Drenan

   Leads 3 awards · $1,028,296

   • 5R01DA040626-09Department: NIH department code

     Examining nicotine relapse in the habenulo-interpeduncular system
     $454,086

     award amount
   • 4R33DA054819-03Department: NIH department code

     Cholinergic mechanisms of cocaine reinforcement probed with nicotinic receptor gene editing
     $380,460

     award amount
   • 5R21DA058419-02Department: NIH department code

     Viral vectors for desensitization-resistant nAChRs
     $193,750

     award amount

6. Rong Chen

   Leads 2 awards · $733,448

   • 5R01AA030676-03Department: NIH department code

     Ethanol and mGluR2 signaling

     Principal investigators: Rong Chen (contact PI), Brian A McCool

     $544,223

     award amount
   • 5R21DA059919-02Department: NIH department code

     Drd3 transcript variants and cocaine self-administration
     $189,225

     award amount

7. Merideth A. Addicott

   Leads 1 award · $723,676

   • 1R01DA061863-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Long-term effects of electronic cigarettes on brain health
     $723,676

     award amount

8. Sara Raulerson Jones

   Leads 2 awards · $681,204

   • 5U01AA014091-23Department: NIH department code

     Alcohol/Stress Effects on Kappa Opioid Receptors in the Amygdala and Accumbens

     Principal investigators: Sara Raulerson Jones (contact PI), Katherine Mercedes Holleran

     $465,000

     award amount
   • 5T32DA041349-08Department: NIH department code

     The Neurobiology of Drug Abuse
     $216,204

     award amount

9. Rita P Cervera Juanes

   Leads 1 award · $647,330

   • 1R01AA032162-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Profiling the alcohol-naive primate cortex to understand the functional role of epigenetics in predisposing the brain to risky alcohol use

     Principal investigators: Rita P Cervera Juanes (contact PI), Kip D Zimmerman

     $647,330

     award amount

10. Drew Kiraly

    Leads 1 award · $645,139

    • 5R01DA056592-03Department: NIH department code

      Targeting gut brain-signaling to reduce cocaine seeking behaviors
      $645,139

      award amount

11. Allyn C Howlett

    Leads 1 award · $569,659

    • 5R01DA042157-08Department: NIH department code

      Cannabinoid Receptors and Associated Proteins-Renewal

      Principal investigators: Allyn C Howlett (contact PI), W Todd Lowther

      $569,659

      award amount

12. Terrence R Stanford

    Leads 1 award · $539,498

    • 5R01EY035409-03Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of multisensory rehabilitation in a primate model of hemianopia

      Principal investigators: Terrence R Stanford (contact PI), Benjamin A Rowland

      $539,498

      award amount

13. Brian A McCool

    Leads 1 award · $537,567

    • 5T32AA007565-32Department: NIH department code

      Multidisciplinary Training in the Biology of Alcohol Addiction
      $537,567

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AA030676-03, led by Rong Chen.

14. Jessica M Ellis

    Leads 1 award · $480,924

    • 7R01DK125812-06Department: NIH department code

      Determining the Biological Effects of Mitochondrial Acyl Toxicity
      $480,924

      award amount

15. Mark J Ferris

    Leads 1 award · $421,079

    • 5R01DA052460-05Department: NIH department code

      Circadian Rhythms and Cocaine Use Disorder
      $421,079

      award amount

16. Joost Maier

    Leads 1 award · $396,156

    • 5R01DC020212-03Department: NIH department code

      Development of the multisensory computations underlying flavor processing
      $396,156

      award amount

17. Kimberly Frances Raab-Graham

    Leads 1 award · $344,989

    • 5R01AA029691-03Department: NIH department code

      Biochemical Studies Underlying Acute Ethanol's Antidepressant-like effects during Withdrawal in a Preclinical Model of Ethanol Dependence
      $344,989

      award amount

18. Jordan Thomas Yorgason

    Leads 1 award · $213,502

    • 7R01AA030577-04Department: NIH department code

      Neuroimmune mechanisms of alcohol reward
      $213,502

      award amount

19. Rebecca Hofford

    Leads 1 award · $165,753

    • 5K01DA050906-06Department: NIH department code

      Defining the role of short-chain fatty acids in adolescent opioid reinforcement and epigenetic regulation
      $165,753

      award amount

20. Eva Claudia Bach

    Leads 1 award · $142,646

    • 5K01AA030081-04Department: NIH department code

      Basolateral amygdala to ventral subiculum network plasticity in alcohol dependent male and female rats
      $142,646

      award amount

21. Benjamin M Williams

    Leads 1 award · $52,538

    • 5F31AA031625-02Department: NIH department code

      Role of beta2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the insula-BNST pathway in ethanol consumption and abstinence-induced negative affect.
      $52,538

      award amount

22. Kasey Potts Spry

    Leads 1 award · $52,538

    • 1F31DA063320-01Department: NIH department code

      Evaluation of effort-based decision making in tobacco use disorder, tobacco and opioid use disorder, and tobacco use cessation
      $52,538

      award amount

23. Aditi Buch

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31AA032178-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Role of the BLA-Insula circuit in stress-induced aversive drinking and negative affective states
      $49,538

      award amount

24. Alyson Maeve Curry

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31AA032433-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Role of Dopamine in Alcohol-Enhanced Alzheimer’s Disease Progression
      $49,538

      award amount

25. Bethany Elliott Pierce

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31DA063322-01Department: NIH department code

      Investigating NOP agonists as a novel treatment for chronic pain-associated sleep disruptions
      $49,538

      award amount

26. Delanie Lynch

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31AG086010-02Department: NIH department code

      INVESTigations of Muscle and Bone Health: Developing Automated Approaches for CT-Based Analyses
      $49,538

      award amount

27. Evan Alexander Kattner

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31EY036728-02Department: NIH department code

      Neural Correlates of Spatial Attention Deployment and Perceptual Decision Making
      $49,538

      award amount

28. Monica H Dawes

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31DA057815-03Department: NIH department code

      Characterization of Polysubstance Use: Combined Fentanyl and Methamphetamine
      $49,538

      award amount

29. Olivia Colarusso

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31AA032154-02Department: NIH department code

      Assessing the contributions of the ventral subiculum to the nucleus accumbens shell projection in a novel ethanol self-administration choice paradigm
      $49,538

      award amount

30. Rye Jaffe

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31EY035546-03Department: NIH department code

      The Role of Persistent Activity in Visual Working Memory
      $49,538

      award amount

31. Sarah Elizabeth Colbert

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 5F31DC022149-02Department: NIH department code

      Development of Retronasal Smell Perception in Young Children and Relation with BMI
      $49,538

      award amount

32. Mia Isabel Rough

    Leads 1 award · $37,214

    • 5F31DA060614-02Department: NIH department code

      The effect of ethanol self-administration on cocaine reinforcement in male and female monkeys
      $37,214

      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.

• Kathryn Elizabeth Lancaster

  Co-investigator on 1U01DA063177-01, led by Christina S Meade

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Public Health (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Adam Wayne Carrico

  Co-investigator on 5R01DA061952-02, led by Christina S Meade

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Florida International University · Miscellaneous (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Kip D Zimmerman

  Co-investigator on 1R01AA032162-01A1, led by Rita P Cervera Juanes

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

• W Todd Lowther

  Co-investigator on 5R01DA042157-08, led by Allyn C Howlett

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Biochemistry (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Benjamin A Rowland

  Co-investigator on 5R01EY035409-03, led by Terrence R Stanford

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

• Katherine Mercedes Holleran

  Co-investigator on 5U01AA014091-23, led by Sara Raulerson Jones

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