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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Anesthesiology at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$29.6M
$29,570,454
Awards
53
FY2026 NIH awards in Anesthesiology
Principal investigators
44
37 lead a grant here, 7 co-investigators
Department rank
#2
of 52 · 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 Anesthesiology row of the Washington University in St. Louis page.

Leads a grant in this department

37 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. Susruta Majumdar

    Leads 3 awards · $3,770,698

    • 5UG3DA063363-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of negative allosteric modulators at the mu opioid receptor

      Principal investigators: Susruta Majumdar (contact PI), Bingfa Sun, Brian K Kobilka, Jay P. McLaughlin

      $2,524,095
      award amount
    • 5R01DA057790-05Department: NIH department code
      Targeting the allosteric sodium site with novel probes for delta opioid receptor

      Principal investigators: Susruta Majumdar (contact PI), Jay P. McLaughlin, Tao Che, Vsevolod Katritch

      $661,841
      award amount
    • 5R01DA059978-03Department: NIH department code
      Efficacy and signaling modulation by targeting the sodium site at mu opioid receptor
      $584,762
      award amount

  2. Robert W Gereau

    Leads 3 awards · $3,653,735

    • 5U19NS130607-05Department: NIH department code
      INTERCEPT: Integrated Research Center for human Pain Tissues

      Principal investigators: Bryan Copits (contact PI), Jeffrey D Milbrandt (contact PI), Robert W Gereau (contact PI), Sheng Chih Jin (contact PI), Valeria Cavalli (contact PI)

      $2,330,157
      award amount
    • 5R01DK116178-09Department: NIH department code
      CNS Mechanisms of IC/BPS
      $663,288
      award amount
    • 5R01DA064355-02Department: NIH department code
      Analgesic potential of novel peripherally-restricted CB1 ligands
      $660,290
      award amount

  3. Bryan Copits

    Leads 2 awards · $2,842,966

    • 5U19NS130607-05Department: NIH department code
      INTERCEPT: Integrated Research Center for human Pain Tissues

      Principal investigators: Bryan Copits (contact PI), Jeffrey D Milbrandt (contact PI), Robert W Gereau (contact PI), Sheng Chih Jin (contact PI), Valeria Cavalli (contact PI)

      $2,330,157
      award amount
    • 5R01NS130046-04Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic mechanisms of somatosensory circuit assembly
      $512,809
      award amount

  4. Jeffrey D Milbrandt

    Leads 1 award · $2,330,157

  5. Sheng Chih Jin

    Leads 1 award · $2,330,157

  6. Valeria Cavalli

    Leads 1 award · $2,330,157

  7. Meaghan C Creed

    Leads 3 awards · $2,056,016

    • 5R01DA056829-04Department: NIH department code
      Ventral pallidal transcriptional adaptations underlying punishment-resistant opioid intake

      Principal investigators: Meaghan C Creed (contact PI), Vijay K Samineni

      $809,238
      award amount
    • 5R01DA062509-02Department: NIH department code
      Mesolimbic adaptations underlying altered reward sensitivity in neuropathic pain
      $628,021
      award amount
    • 5R01DA058755-04Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting ventral pallidal plasticity in punishment-resistant opioid self-administration
      $618,757
      award amount

  8. Aaron J Norris

    Leads 3 awards · $2,027,061

    • 1R01MH139879-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Neural Mechanisms of Threat Learning and Avoidance: Adaptive and MaladaptiveBehaviors
      $735,920
      award amount
    • 1R01DK141555-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Neural Circuits in Preoptic Hypothalamus Regulating Energy Expenditure and Metabolism
      $720,353
      award amount
    • 5T32GM108539-13Department: NIH department code
      TRAINING PROGRAM IN ANESTHESIOLOGY RESEARCH
      $570,788
      award amount

  9. Jose A Moron-Concepcion

    Leads 3 awards · $1,742,036

    • 5R01DA063220-02Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the mechanisms underlying fentanyl-induced cardiorespiratory depression
      $663,256
      award amount
    • 5R01DA054900-05Department: NIH department code
      Sex-specific mechanisms underlying the effects of pain on opioid seeking
      $557,264
      award amount
    • 5R01DA058613-03Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the role of dorsal hippocampus to nucleus accumbens circuits in opioid seeking behavior
      $521,516
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01DA066955-01, led by Jordan G. McCall.

  10. Burel R. Goodin

    Leads 4 awards · $1,725,770

    • 5R01MD017565-04Department: NIH department code
      Racial and Socioeconomic Differences in Chronic Low Back Pain
      $667,061
      award amount
    • 5R01MD021001-02Department: NIH department code
      Healthy Behaviors for Insomnia Prevention in People with HIV and Ongoing Pain (the HIP HOP study)
      $533,418
      award amount
    • 5T90NR021683-03Department: NIH department code
      PRomoting Excellence through Pain and Addiction Research Enhancement (PREPARE)
      $339,144
      award amount
    • 5R90NR021799-03Department: NIH department code
      PRomoting Excellence through Pain and Addiction Research Enhancement (PREPARE)
      $186,147
      award amount

  11. Hadas Nahman-Averbuch

    Leads 3 awards · $1,439,622

    • 5R01NS129742-04Department: NIH department code
      Migraine Onset in Adolescent Girls
      $627,859
      award amount
    • 5R01NS134986-03Department: NIH department code
      Migraine Prognosis in Adolescents
      $617,388
      award amount
    • 5R21HD115568-02Department: NIH department code
      Peripheral and central mechanisms of endometriosis pain

      Principal investigators: Hadas Nahman-Averbuch (contact PI), Whitney Trotter Ross

      $194,375
      award amount

  12. Vijay K Samineni

    Leads 2 awards · $1,300,868

    • 5R01DK139386-03Department: NIH department code
      Spinal Mechanisms Underlying Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndromes (IC/BPS)
      $665,080
      award amount
    • 5R01DK140445-03Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating Roles of Distinct Spinal Cord Cell types in Mediating Interstitial Cystitis (IC)/Bladder Pain Syndrome (BPS)
      $635,788
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DA056829-04, led by Meaghan C Creed.

  13. Jordan G. McCall

    Leads 2 awards · $1,175,674

    • 1R01DA066955-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining the role of locus coeruleus mu opioid receptors in fentanyl seeking behaviors

      Principal investigators: Jordan G. McCall (contact PI), Jose A Moron-Concepcion, Ream Al-Hasani

      $682,262
      award amount
    • 5R01NS135401-03Department: NIH department code
      Endogenous opioid regulation of locus coeruleus-mediated analgesia

      Principal investigators: Jordan G. McCall (contact PI), Ream Al-Hasani

      $493,412
      award amount

  14. Ream Al-Hasani

    Leads 2 awards · $1,086,706

    • 1U01DA064170-01Department: NIH department code
      Long term impact of maternal opioid use and management strategies on neurodevelopment in rodent offspring
      $733,457
      award amount
    • 5R01NS123070-05Department: NIH department code
      Peripheral Mechanisms of Kappa Opioid Receptor-Mediated Cold Hypersensitivity
      $353,249
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01DA066955-01, led by Jordan G. McCall; 5R01NS135401-03, led by Jordan G. McCall.

  15. Baron Chanda

    Leads 1 award · $985,337

    • 5R35NS116850-08Department: NIH department code
      Biophysical mechanisms of gating and modulation in voltage-gated ion channel superfamily
      $985,337
      award amount

  16. Tao Che

    Leads 2 awards · $884,680

    • 5R01DA058020-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and Regulations of kappa Opioid Receptor Signaling
      $457,055
      award amount
    • 2R35GM143061-06Department: NIH department code
      Structural Determinants of Kappa Opioid Receptor Signaling
      $427,625
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DA057790-05, led by Susruta Majumdar.

  17. Pratik Sinha

    Leads 1 award · $703,376

    • 5R01HL173531-02Department: NIH department code
      Clinical Implementation of Molecular Phenotypes of Critical Illness
      $703,376
      award amount

  18. Brian M Fuller

    Leads 1 award · $641,432

    • 5R01HL162721-04Department: NIH department code
      Awareness with Paralysis and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Mechanically Ventilated Emergency Department Survivors: The ED-AWARENESS-2 Study
      $641,432
      award amount

  19. Bahaa Elgendy

    Leads 1 award · $596,641

  20. Richard Samuel Hotchkiss

    Leads 1 award · $575,370

    • 5R35GM126928-09Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Improve Sepsis Survival
      $575,370
      award amount

  21. Alex S. Evers

    Leads 1 award · $552,219

    • 5R35GM149287-04Department: NIH department code
      Neurosteroid and Cholesterol Binding to Integral Membrane Proteins
      $552,219
      award amount

  22. Qin Liu

    Leads 1 award · $464,776

    • 5R01EY035261-04Department: NIH department code
      Neural Circuits Controlling Lacrimation
      $464,776
      award amount

  23. Amynah Amir Ali Pradhan

    Leads 1 award · $463,474

    • 5R01NS130882-09Department: NIH department code
      The role of delta opioid receptors in trigeminovascular pain
      $463,474
      award amount

  24. Yuqing Cao

    Leads 1 award · $462,244

    • 5R01NS128080-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of migraine chronification and reversal
      $462,244
      award amount

  25. Wayland Wing-Lun Cheng

    Leads 1 award · $427,625

    • 5R35GM137957-07Department: NIH department code
      Lipid Modulation of Ligand-Gated Ion Channels
      $427,625
      award amount

  26. Joanna Abraham

    Leads 1 award · $399,999

    • 5R01HS029324-04Department: NIH department code
      EnhanCed HandOffs (ECHO)
      $399,999
      award amount

  27. Thomas George Kannampallil

    Leads 1 award · $399,999

    • 5R01HS029020-05Department: NIH department code
      Integrating real-time clinical activity and behavioral responses for characterizing cognitive load and errors (IGNITE)
      $399,999
      award amount

  28. Enyo Ablordeppey

    Leads 1 award · $272,125

    • 1R34HL180904-01A1Department: NIH department code
      STOP (Strategies to Optimize Practices)
      $272,125
      award amount

  29. Mark Joseph Arcario

    Leads 1 award · $185,953

    • 5K08GM152844-04Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling how Lipophilic Modulators Alter pLGIC Function via Interactions with the M4 Transmembrane Helix
      $185,953
      award amount

  30. Brandon Kyle Tan

    Leads 1 award · $185,830

    • 1K08GM166861-01Department: NIH department code
      Structural Mechanism and Discovery of Allosteric Modulators for 5-HT3 Receptor
      $185,830
      award amount

  31. Umeshkumar Athiraman

    Leads 1 award · $174,360

    • 5K08NS125038-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms underlying isoflurane conditioning-induced neurovascular protection in subarachnoid hemorrhage
      $174,360
      award amount

  32. Sunny S. Lou

    Leads 1 award · $173,609

    • 5K23HL166880-03Department: NIH department code
      Intelligent Clinical Decision Support for Perioperative Blood Management
      $173,609
      award amount

  33. Lea Becker

    Leads 1 award · $165,915

    • 1K99DA064781-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Determining the role of myelin and oligodendrocytes in fentanyl withdrawal-induced negative affect
      $165,915
      award amount

  34. Mohammadmehdi Kafashan

    Leads 1 award · $157,962

    • 5K01MH128663-05Department: NIH department code
      Disruptions of Brain Networks and Sleep by Electroconvulsive Therapy
      $157,962
      award amount

  35. Felicitas Huber

    Leads 1 award · $129,882

    • 1K99NS149277-01Department: NIH department code
      Quantifying Stigma and Its Consequences as a Driver of Migraine Disability
      $129,882
      award amount

  36. Samantha Speyer Dunn

    Leads 1 award · $39,339

    • 1F31DA065440-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of locus coeruleus mu opioid receptors in fentanyl drug seeking
      $39,339
      award amount

  37. Bailey Wellen Osweiler

    Leads 1 award · $37,312

    • 1F31DA066305-01Department: NIH department code
      OPioid use disorder Team structure In emergency Medicine: Associations with short- and Long-term outcomes (OPTIMAL)
      $37,312
      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.