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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurology at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$90.7M
$90,685,015
Awards
87
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurology
Principal investigators
87
77 lead a grant here, 10 co-investigators
Department rank
#3
of 83 · 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 Neurology row of the Washington University in St. Louis page.

Leads a grant in this department

77 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. Carlos Cruchaga

    Leads 4 awards · $27,118,288

  2. Chengjie Xiong

    Leads 4 awards · $26,433,225

  3. Randall J Bateman

    Leads 3 awards · $22,825,929

    • 5R01AG068319-05Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU: Tau Next Generation Prevention Trial
      $16,532,036
      award amount
    • 5R01AG061900-13Department: NIH department code
      Blood amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration biomarkers and prediction of clinical onset, cognitive decline, and dementia diagnosis
      $6,188,773
      award amount
    • 3R01AG068319-05S1Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU: Tau Next Generation Prevention Trial
      $105,120
      award amount

  4. Richard Justin Perrin

    Leads 3 awards · $20,391,101

  5. Tammie Lee Smith Benzinger

    Leads 2 awards · $15,937,877

  6. Celeste Marie Karch

    Leads 2 awards · $14,016,814

  7. Eric Martin McDade

    Leads 10 awards · $11,728,582

    • 1U19AG102728-01Department: NIH department code
      Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network

      Principal investigators: Carlos Cruchaga (contact PI), Celeste Marie Karch (contact PI), Chengjie Xiong (contact PI), Eric Martin McDade (contact PI), Jason J Hassenstab (contact PI), Jorge Jesus Llibre-Guerra (contact PI), Laura Ibanez (contact PI), Richard Justin Perrin (contact PI), Tammie Lee Smith Benzinger (contact PI)

      $9,563,590
      award amount
    • 2R01AG059798-06Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $1,569,500
      award amount
    • 3R01AG059798-06S8Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $142,039
      award amount
    • 3R01AG059798-06S6Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $131,067
      award amount
    • 3R01AG059798-06S5Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $104,277
      award amount
    • 3R01AG059798-06S7Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $96,089
      award amount
    • 3R01AG059798-06S2Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $68,373
      award amount
    • 3R01AG059798-06S1Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $30,407
      award amount
    • 3R01AG059798-06S3Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $17,276
      award amount
    • 3R01AG059798-06S4Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $5,964
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32AG058518-08, led by Barbara Joy Snider.

  8. Jason J Hassenstab

    Leads 7 awards · $11,675,900

    • 1U19AG102728-01Department: NIH department code
      Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network

      Principal investigators: Carlos Cruchaga (contact PI), Celeste Marie Karch (contact PI), Chengjie Xiong (contact PI), Eric Martin McDade (contact PI), Jason J Hassenstab (contact PI), Jorge Jesus Llibre-Guerra (contact PI), Laura Ibanez (contact PI), Richard Justin Perrin (contact PI), Tammie Lee Smith Benzinger (contact PI)

      $9,563,590
      award amount
    • 5R01AG081394-03Department: NIH department code
      DS-ARC: A Remote Digital Cognitive Assessment for Down Syndrome-Associated Alzheimer's Disease
      $1,341,298
      award amount
    • 3R01AG081394-03S1Department: NIH department code
      DS-ARC: A Remote Digital Cognitive Assessment for Down Syndrome-Associated Alzheimer's Disease
      $166,428
      award amount
    • 3R01AG081394-03S2Department: NIH department code
      DS-ARC: A Remote Digital Cognitive Assessment for Down Syndrome-Associated Alzheimer's Disease
      $166,428
      award amount
    • 3R01AG081394-03S3Department: NIH department code
      DS-ARC: A Remote Digital Cognitive Assessment for Down Syndrome-Associated Alzheimer's Disease
      $166,428
      award amount
    • 3R01AG081394-03S4Department: NIH department code
      DS-ARC: A Remote Digital Cognitive Assessment for Down Syndrome-Associated Alzheimer's Disease
      $166,428
      award amount
    • 3R01AG081394-03S5Department: NIH department code
      DS-ARC: A Remote Digital Cognitive Assessment for Down Syndrome-Associated Alzheimer's Disease
      $105,300
      award amount

  9. John Morris

    Leads 2 awards · $10,827,511

  10. Jorge Jesus Llibre-Guerra

    Leads 3 awards · $10,316,794

  11. Laura Ibanez

    Leads 1 award · $9,563,590

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01AG103221-01, led by Jorge Jesus Llibre-Guerra.

  12. Paul T Kotzbauer

    Leads 4 awards · $8,293,202

    • 5U19AG071754-05Department: NIH department code
      North American Prodromal Synucleinopathy Consortium for RBD, Stage 2 (NAPS2)

      Principal investigators: Aleksandar Videnovic (contact PI), Bradley F Boeve (contact PI), Chengjie Xiong (contact PI), Erik Kent St. Louis (contact PI), Kejal Kantarci (contact PI), Paul T Kotzbauer (contact PI), Ronald Postuma (contact PI), Yo-El S Ju (contact PI)

      $6,042,124
      award amount
    • 4R01NS110436-07Department: NIH department code
      Structural Biology of Alpha-Synuclein in Lewy Body Dementia

      Principal investigators: Paul T Kotzbauer (contact PI), Elizabeth R Wright

      $1,390,777
      award amount
    • 5R01NS097799-09Department: NIH department code
      Protein Aggregation and Neurotransmitter Deficits in Parkinson Disease
      $712,576
      award amount
    • 3R01NS097799-09S1Department: NIH department code
      Protein Aggregation and Neurotransmitter Deficits in Parkinson Disease
      $147,725
      award amount

  13. Beau M Ances

    Leads 2 awards · $7,504,661

  14. Michael P Harms

    Leads 2 awards · $7,504,661

  15. Daniel Scott Marcus

    Leads 1 award · $6,727,187

  16. David H Salat

    Leads 1 award · $6,727,187

    Also a principal investigator on 3U19AG073585-05S1, led by Beau M Ances and Matthew Frederick Glasser and Michael P Harms.

  17. Helen Lavretsky

    Leads 1 award · $6,727,187

  18. Pauline M Maki

    Leads 1 award · $6,727,187

  19. Steven E Arnold

    Leads 1 award · $6,727,187

  20. Yo-El S Ju

    Leads 4 awards · $6,395,332

  21. Suzanne Elizabeth Schindler

    Leads 1 award · $6,374,287

  22. Aleksandar Videnovic

    Leads 1 award · $6,042,124

  23. Bradley F Boeve

    Leads 1 award · $6,042,124

    Also a principal investigator on 3U19AG071754-05S1, led by Yo-El S Ju; 3U19AG071754-05S2, led by Yo-El S Ju; 3U19AG071754-05S3, led by Yo-El S Ju.

  24. Erik Kent St. Louis

    Leads 1 award · $6,042,124

  25. Kejal Kantarci

    Leads 1 award · $6,042,124

  26. Ronald Postuma

    Leads 1 award · $6,042,124

    Also a principal investigator on 3U19AG071754-05S1, led by Yo-El S Ju; 3U19AG071754-05S2, led by Yo-El S Ju; 3U19AG071754-05S3, led by Yo-El S Ju.

  27. David M. Holtzman

    Leads 2 awards · $5,203,852

  28. Andrea Denny

    Leads 1 award · $4,453,224

  29. Joyce E. Balls-Berry

    Leads 1 award · $4,453,224

  30. Susan Lynn Stark

    Leads 1 award · $4,453,224

  31. Christopher Daniel Smyser

    Leads 1 award · $4,301,103

  32. John R Cirrito

    Leads 2 awards · $2,078,820

    • 4RF1AG079867-02Department: NIH department code
      The convergence of stress and sex on Abeta and tau metabolism and pathology
      $1,390,039
      award amount
    • 5R01AG084717-03Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic activity-driven Abeta generation and aggregation
      $688,781
      award amount

  33. Barbara Joy Snider

    Leads 2 awards · $1,897,600

    • 5R01AG080551-03Department: NIH department code
      Effect of Suvorexant on Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers

      Principal investigators: Barbara Joy Snider (contact PI), Brendan Patrick Lucey (contact PI)

      $1,466,791
      award amount
    • 5T32AG058518-08Department: NIH department code
      Multidisciplinary Training in Alzheimer and Related Dementias

      Principal investigators: Barbara Joy Snider (contact PI), Eric Martin McDade

      $430,809
      award amount

  34. Brendan Patrick Lucey

    Leads 1 award · $1,466,791

    • 5R01AG080551-03Department: NIH department code
      Effect of Suvorexant on Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers

      Principal investigators: Barbara Joy Snider (contact PI), Brendan Patrick Lucey (contact PI)

      $1,466,791
      award amount

  35. Naresha Saligrama

    Leads 2 awards · $1,281,451

    • 5R01AI182141-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of Ly49 family of receptors on CD8 T cells
      $657,151
      award amount
    • 1R01AI190421-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Myelin and non-myelin immune responses in Multiple sclerosis
      $624,300
      award amount

  36. Bhooma Aravamuthan

    Leads 2 awards · $1,262,110

    • 1R01HD120421-01Department: NIH department code
      Caregiver Reported Dystonia Impact in Cerebral Palsy: CARDI-CP
      $667,506
      award amount
    • 5R01NS140701-02Department: NIH department code
      Cortical dystonia of prematurity
      $594,604
      award amount

  37. Conrad C Weihl

    Leads 3 awards · $1,126,715

    • 5R01AG031867-18Department: NIH department code
      Protein aggregation in inclusion body and myofibrillar myopathies
      $650,424
      award amount
    • 5U24AR085525-02Department: NIH department code
      Curation of Muscular Dystrophy Genes
      $290,043
      award amount
    • 5K24AR073317-09Department: NIH department code
      Clinical and Translational studies in muscle disease
      $186,248
      award amount

  38. Erik Steven Musiek

    Leads 2 awards · $1,039,820

    • 2R01AG063743-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Role of REV-ERBa Proteins in Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's Disease

      Principal investigators: Erik Steven Musiek (contact PI), Thomas Papouin

      $580,537
      award amount
    • 5R01AG054517-10Department: NIH department code
      ROLE OF GLIAL CIRCADIAN CLOCK DYSFUNCTION IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
      $459,283
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R21AG103462-01, led by Albert A Davis.

  39. Albert A Davis

    Leads 2 awards · $977,152

    • 4R01AG083753-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of APOE in endosomal processing of alpha-synuclein
      $549,527
      award amount
    • 1R21AG103462-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting orexin signaling to prevent synucleinopathies

      Principal investigators: Albert A Davis (contact PI), Erik Steven Musiek

      $427,625
      award amount

  40. David H Gutmann

    Leads 1 award · $869,826

    • 5R35NS142919-02Department: NIH department code
      Modeling neurofibromatosis-1 disease heterogeneity to optimize risk assessment and treatment
      $869,826
      award amount

  41. Matthew Frederick Glasser

    Leads 1 award · $777,474

  42. Chihiro Sato

    Leads 1 award · $745,783

    • 5R01AG086501-03Department: NIH department code
      Staging primary tauopathies with tau proteoforms
      $745,783
      award amount

  43. Andria Lee Ford

    Leads 1 award · $733,760

    • 2R01HL129241-11Department: NIH department code
      Ischemic and neurometabolomic contributors to cognitive brain health in sickle cell anemia

      Principal investigators: Andria Lee Ford (contact PI), Hongyu An, Robert A Campbell

      $733,760
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 3UF1NS125512-02S1, led by Jin-Moo Lee.

  44. Ashley N Nielsen

    Leads 1 award · $693,901

    • 4K01MH136404-02Department: NIH department code
      Unpredictable Parent Behavior in Infancy and Subsequent Emotion Regulation, Brain Function, and Psychopathology
      $693,901
      award amount

  45. Cyril Pottier

    Leads 1 award · $642,991

    • 1R01AG100673-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating genetic drivers of phenotypic variability in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease using a multi-omics approach
      $642,991
      award amount

  46. Scott Allen Norris

    Leads 1 award · $611,310

    • 5R01NS124789-05Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons in Dystonia
      $611,310
      award amount

  47. Meghan C Campbell

    Leads 1 award · $596,537

    • 5R01NS097437-08Department: NIH department code
      Parkinson Disease Clinical Subtypes: Validation, Clinical Utility, and Biological Correlates
      $596,537
      award amount

  48. Andrew Findlay

    Leads 1 award · $527,611

    • 5R01NS134506-03Department: NIH department code
      Allele Specific Knockdown for LGMDD1
      $527,611
      award amount

  49. Cindy V Ly

    Leads 1 award · $520,144

    • 5R01NS138499-03Department: NIH department code
      Identifying mechanisms of neurofilament regulation and turnover in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
      $520,144
      award amount

  50. Eric C Landsness

    Leads 1 award · $459,596

    • 5R01NS133365-04Department: NIH department code
      Torpor for cerebroprotection
      $459,596
      award amount

  51. Timothy M. Miller

    Leads 1 award · $427,625

    • 1R21NS148869-01Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating iPSC-Derived Models to Study and Treat Mitchell Syndrome
      $427,625
      award amount

  52. Stefanie Geisler

    Leads 1 award · $377,467

    • 5R37CA267905-05Department: NIH department code
      Developing mechanism-based strategies to treat chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
      $377,467
      award amount

  53. Mai T Dang

    Leads 1 award · $238,140

    • 5K08CA273537-04Department: NIH department code
      Contribution of myeloid cells to the anti-tumor adaptive immune response after radiation in a pediatric brain tumor
      $238,140
      award amount

  54. Helen Hwang

    Leads 1 award · $236,836

    • 1K23NS151025-01Department: NIH department code
      CSF and Skin Biomarkers of Cognitive Decline in Parkinson Disease and Lewy Body Dementia
      $236,836
      award amount

  55. Clara Vila Castelar

    Leads 1 award · $235,517

    • 5R00AG073452-04Department: NIH department code
      Examining the impact of sex and hormones on the progression of autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease
      $235,517
      award amount

  56. Shannon Christine Agner

    Leads 1 award · $234,303

    • 5K08NS136766-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of Mertk in pathological neurodevelopment in mice with congenital Zika virus infection
      $234,303
      award amount

  57. Thomas Foutz

    Leads 1 award · $232,981

    • 5K08NS126730-03Department: NIH department code
      Optimization and mechanisms of electrical neurostimulation in mouse models of epilepsy
      $232,981
      award amount

  58. Regina Triplett

    Leads 1 award · $232,767

    • 5K23NS136762-03Department: NIH department code
      Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Risk Stratification in Very Preterm Infants with Intraventricular Hemorrhage
      $232,767
      award amount

  59. Matthew Ryan Brier

    Leads 1 award · $231,872

    • 5K23NS128325-04Department: NIH department code
      PET and MRI Evaluation of Cerebral Inflammation and Metabolic Stress in Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis
      $231,872
      award amount

  60. Destiny Hooper

    Leads 1 award · $231,264

    • 1K23NS146687-01Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptomic Signatures of Ischemic Stroke: Unlocking Human-Specific Targets for Cerebroprotection
      $231,264
      award amount

  61. Miranda Ethel Orr

    Leads 1 award · $206,994

    • 7R21AG087907-03Department: NIH department code
      The pathogenic effects of senescent cells on their microenvironments and their role in human brain aging
      $206,994
      award amount

  62. Rajat Raj Dhar

    Leads 2 awards · $205,604

    • 5R01NS121218-05Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Architecture of Cerebral Edema after Stroke
      $177,052
      award amount
    • 3R01NS121218-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Architecture of Cerebral Edema after Stroke
      $28,552
      award amount

  63. Corina Anastasaki

    Leads 1 award · $202,086

    • 5R50CA233164-07Department: NIH department code
      Developing Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Precision Oncology Models
      $202,086
      award amount

  64. Asher Jefferson Albertson

    Leads 1 award · $198,676

    • 5K08NS117888-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of Axonal Sprouting Mediated Network Reorganization in Stroke Recovery
      $198,676
      award amount

  65. Yan Wang

    Leads 1 award · $197,106

    • 5K23HL173831-02Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption on Ischemic Brain Injury and Cognitive Impairment in Sickle Cell Disease
      $197,106
      award amount

  66. Benjamin Paul Kay

    Leads 1 award · $189,516

    • 5K23NS123345-05Department: NIH department code
      Concussion and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Investigating the relationship between cognitive outcome, prescription stimulants, and functional MRI biomarkers in the ABCD study.
      $189,516
      award amount

  67. Baijayanta Maiti

    Leads 1 award · $181,812

    • 5K23NS125107-05Department: NIH department code
      Cerebellar cholinergic connections as a biomarker of dementia and gait impairment in Parkinson disease
      $181,812
      award amount

  68. Yunshuo Caroline Tang

    Leads 1 award · $178,860

    • 5K08NS133966-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Extrinsic and Intrinsic Mechanisms of Vision Loss in Optic Glioma
      $178,860
      award amount

  69. Kalen J. Petersen

    Leads 1 award · $173,130

    • 5K01MH136862-03Department: NIH department code
      BIOLOGICAL AGING AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN PERSONS WITH HIV
      $173,130
      award amount

  70. Kellen K Petersen

    Leads 1 award · $151,480

    • 1K25AG095391-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Predicting symptom onset and clinical progression with blood biomarkers of Alzheimer disease
      $151,480
      award amount

  71. Peter R Millar

    Leads 1 award · $128,373

    • 5K01AG090753-02Department: NIH department code
      Comparing epigenetic, proteomic, and MRI aging clocks in sporadic and autosomal-dominant Alzheimer disease
      $128,373
      award amount

  72. Hao Hu

    Leads 1 award · $125,712

    • 1K99AG097908-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Antigen-Specific T Cells in Tau-Driven Neurodegeneration
      $125,712
      award amount

  73. Samira Parhizkar

    Leads 1 award · $124,797

    • 5K99AG090693-02Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic modulations by sleep to mitigate neurodegeneration
      $124,797
      award amount

  74. Jin-Moo Lee

    Leads 1 award · $104,185

    • 3UF1NS125512-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Washington University University of Texas Southwestern VCID Consortium Site

      Principal investigators: Jin-Moo Lee (contact PI), Andria Lee Ford, Hongyu An

      $104,185
      award amount

  75. Jonathan Nulman

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AG099281-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of astrocytic Interferon-gamma signaling in tau-mediated neurodegeneration
      $50,114
      award amount

  76. Ben David Boros

    Leads 1 award · $36,570

    • 5F30AG082394-03Department: NIH department code
      Boosting protein synthesis using antisense oligonucleotides to treat neurodegeneration
      $36,570
      award amount

  77. Miwei Hu

    Leads 1 award · $35,763

    • 5F31AG084257-03Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing proteasomal activity and tau clearance via USP14 reduction in Alzheimer's Disease mouse models
      $35,763
      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.

  • Essa Yacoub

    Co-investigator on 5U19AG073585-05, led by Beau M Ances and Carlos Cruchaga and Daniel Scott Marcus and David H Salat and Helen Lavretsky and Michael P Harms and Pauline M Maki and Steven E Arnold; 3U19AG073585-05S1, led by Beau M Ances and Matthew Frederick Glasser and Michael P Harms

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Robert C. Welsh

    Co-investigator on 5U19AG073585-05, led by Beau M Ances and Carlos Cruchaga and Daniel Scott Marcus and David H Salat and Helen Lavretsky and Michael P Harms and Pauline M Maki and Steven E Arnold; 3U19AG073585-05S1, led by Beau M Ances and Matthew Frederick Glasser and Michael P Harms

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Anders M Dale

    Co-investigator on 4U24DA055330-06, led by Christopher Daniel Smyser

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Damien A Fair

    Co-investigator on 4U24DA055330-06, led by Christopher Daniel Smyser

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Elizabeth R Wright

    Co-investigator on 4R01NS110436-07, led by Paul T Kotzbauer

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Hongyu An

    Co-investigator on 2R01HL129241-11, led by Andria Lee Ford; 3UF1NS125512-02S1, led by Jin-Moo Lee

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Jason D Ulrich

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG085374-03, led by David M. Holtzman

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

  • Robert A Campbell

    Co-investigator on 2R01HL129241-11, led by Andria Lee Ford

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Soumya Mukherjee

    Co-investigator on 1R01AG103221-01, led by Jorge Jesus Llibre-Guerra

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

  • Thomas Papouin

    Co-investigator on 2R01AG063743-06A1, led by Erik Steven Musiek

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads