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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurology at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$77.8M
$77,847,325
Awards
73
FY2025 NIH awards in Neurology
Principal investigators
58
52 lead a grant here, 6 co-investigators
Department rank
#2
of 71 · 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

52 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. Randall J Bateman

    Leads 4 awards · $29,778,910

    • 5R01AG068319-04Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU: Tau Next Generation Prevention Trial
      $16,269,865
      award amount
    • 3U19AG032438-12S2Department: NIH department code
      Bridge Funding for Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network
      $7,994,551
      award amount
    • 5R01AG061900-12Department: NIH department code
      Blood amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration biomarkers and prediction of clinical onset, cognitive decline, and dementia diagnosis
      $5,409,374
      award amount
    • 3R01AG068319-04S1Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU: Tau Next Generation Prevention Trial
      $105,120
      award amount
  2. Eric Martin McDade

    Leads 10 awards · $17,104,596

    • 5U01AG059798-05Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $15,677,887
      award amount
    • 3U01AG059798-05S4Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $346,607
      award amount
    • 3U01AG059798-05S9Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $185,081
      award amount
    • 3U01AG059798-05S8Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $157,240
      award amount
    • 3U01AG059798-05S3Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $156,353
      award amount
    • 3U01AG059798-05S7Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $131,067
      award amount
    • 3U01AG059798-05S5Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $119,184
      award amount
    • 3U01AG059798-05S1Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $113,450
      award amount
    • 3U01AG059798-05S2Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $113,450
      award amount
    • 3U01AG059798-05S6Department: NIH department code
      DIAN-TU Primary Prevention Trial
      $104,277
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32AG058518-07, led by Barbara Joy Snider.

  3. Christopher Daniel Smyser

    Leads 3 awards · $8,355,821

    • 5U24DA055330-05Department: NIH department code
      Healthy Brain and Child Development National Consortium Data Coordinating Center

      Principal investigators: Christopher Daniel Smyser (contact PI), Anders M Dale, Damien A Fair

      $5,107,815
      award amount
    • 3U24DA055330-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Healthy Brain and Child Development National Consortium Data Coordinating Center

      Principal investigators: Christopher Daniel Smyser (contact PI), Damien A Fair

      $1,728,827
      award amount
    • 3U24DA055330-05S2Department: NIH department code
      Healthy Brain and Child Development National Consortium Data Coordinating Center

      Principal investigators: Christopher Daniel Smyser (contact PI), Anders M Dale, Damien A Fair

      $1,519,179
      award amount
  4. David M. Holtzman

    Leads 2 awards · $3,604,536

    • 2RF1NS090934-25A1Department: NIH department code
      Effect of APOE on CNS Neurons: Role of LRP
      $2,868,920
      award amount
    • 5R01AG085374-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of T cells in tau-mediated neurodegeneration

      Principal investigators: David M. Holtzman (contact PI), Jason D Ulrich

      $735,616
      award amount
  5. David H Gutmann

    Leads 2 awards · $1,827,429

    • 4R01CA261939-04Department: NIH department code
      T Cell Regulation of Low-Grade Glioma
      $950,428
      award amount
    • 1R35NS142919-01Department: NIH department code
      Modeling neurofibromatosis-1 disease heterogeneity to optimize risk assessment and treatment
      $877,001
      award amount
  6. Gregory Wu

    Leads 1 award · $1,365,252

    • 4R01AI165771-04Department: NIH department code
      CAR-T cell treatment of CNS Autoimmunity

      Principal investigators: Gregory Wu (contact PI), Chyi S Hsieh

      $1,365,252
      award amount
  7. Conrad C Weihl

    Leads 3 awards · $1,113,800

    • 5R01AG031867-17Department: NIH department code
      Protein aggregation in inclusion body and myofibrillar myopathies
      $637,415
      award amount
    • 1U24AR085525-01Department: NIH department code
      Curation of Muscular Dystrophy Genes
      $290,137
      award amount
    • 5K24AR073317-08Department: NIH department code
      Clinical and Translational studies in muscle disease
      $186,248
      award amount
  8. Ganesh M Babulal

    Leads 2 awards · $780,006

    • 1R01AG089700-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Life-space, isolation, and functional exposome study in preclinical Alzheimer's disease and cognitive environments (LIFESPACE)
      $730,089
      award amount
    • 1R13AG096982-01Department: NIH department code
      Addressing the Complex Driving Continuum: Needs of an Aging Population
      $49,917
      award amount
  9. Bhooma Aravamuthan

    Leads 2 awards · $778,355

    • 1R01NS140701-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Cortical dystonia of prematurity
      $596,989
      award amount
    • 5K08NS117850-05Department: NIH department code
      Modulation of striatal cholinergic interneuron activity to prevent dystonic cerebral palsy
      $181,366
      award amount
  10. Mohamed (moe) Reza Mahjoub

    Leads 1 award · $761,782

    • 1R01HL180759-01Department: NIH department code
      Loss of Cilia Maintenance in Acquired and Genetic Lung Diseases

      Principal investigators: Mohamed (moe) Reza Mahjoub (contact PI), Steven Brody

      $761,782
      award amount
  11. Chihiro Sato

    Leads 1 award · $728,653

    • 5R01AG086501-02Department: NIH department code
      Staging primary tauopathies with tau proteoforms
      $728,653
      award amount
  12. John R Cirrito

    Leads 1 award · $675,005

    • 5R01AG084717-02Department: NIH department code
      Synaptic activity-driven Abeta generation and aggregation
      $675,005
      award amount
  13. Naresha Saligrama

    Leads 1 award · $649,053

    • 1R01AI182141-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The role of Ly49 family of receptors on CD8 T cells
      $649,053
      award amount
  14. Scott Allen Norris

    Leads 1 award · $550,708

    • 5R01NS124789-04Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons in Dystonia
      $550,708
      award amount
  15. Cindy V Ly

    Leads 1 award · $547,960

    • 5R01NS138499-02Department: NIH department code
      Identifying mechanisms of neurofilament regulation and turnover in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
      $547,960
      award amount
  16. Beau M Ances

    Leads 1 award · $544,074

    • 5R01DA054009-05Department: NIH department code
      Cannabis, HIV and Mental Processing Systems (CHAMPS)

      Principal investigators: Beau M Ances (contact PI), Tricia Helen Burdo

      $544,074
      award amount
  17. Terrance T Kummer

    Leads 1 award · $532,957

    • 5R01NS121612-04Department: NIH department code
      Connecting Alzheimer's Disease to Traumatic Synaptic Neurodegeneration
      $532,957
      award amount
  18. Andrew Findlay

    Leads 1 award · $491,100

    • 5R01NS134506-02Department: NIH department code
      Allele Specific Knockdown for LGMDD1
      $491,100
      award amount
  19. Jin-Moo Lee

    Leads 1 award · $472,491

    • 5R37NS110699-07Department: NIH department code
      Plasticizing the cortex to enhance stroke recovery
      $472,491
      award amount
  20. Eric C Landsness

    Leads 1 award · $470,073

    • 5R01NS133365-03Department: NIH department code
      Torpor for cerebroprotection
      $470,073
      award amount
  21. Erik Steven Musiek

    Leads 1 award · $450,096

    • 5R01AG054517-09Department: NIH department code
      ROLE OF GLIAL CIRCADIAN CLOCK DYSFUNCTION IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
      $450,096
      award amount
  22. Barbara Joy Snider

    Leads 1 award · $427,862

    • 5T32AG058518-07Department: NIH department code
      Multidisciplinary Training in Alzheimer and Related Dementias

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

      $427,862
      award amount
  23. Kristin Guilliams

    Leads 1 award · $426,294

    • 5R01NS121065-05Department: NIH department code
      The role of metabolic and hemodynamic reserve in age-related brain vulnerability in pediatric sickle cell anemia
      $426,294
      award amount
  24. Stefanie Geisler

    Leads 1 award · $419,407

    • 5R37CA267905-04Department: NIH department code
      Developing mechanism-based strategies to treat chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
      $419,407
      award amount
  25. Rajat Raj Dhar

    Leads 2 awards · $389,278

    • 5R01NS121218-04Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Architecture of Cerebral Edema after Stroke
      $358,241
      award amount
    • 3R01NS121218-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Architecture of Cerebral Edema after Stroke
      $31,037
      award amount
  26. Suzanne Elizabeth Schindler

    Leads 1 award · $262,263

    • 5R01AG070941-05Department: NIH department code
      Staging Alzheimer disease with blood-based biomarkers
      $262,263
      award amount
  27. Clara Vila Castelar

    Leads 1 award · $243,684

    • 4R00AG073452-03Department: NIH department code
      Examining the impact of sex and hormones on the progression of autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease
      $243,684
      award amount
  28. Mai T Dang

    Leads 1 award · $238,140

    • 5K08CA273537-03Department: 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
  29. Michael Belloy

    Leads 1 award · $236,497

    • 5R00AG075238-05Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating sex-specific risk for Alzheimer's disease through state-of-the-art genetics and multi-omics
      $236,497
      award amount
  30. Shannon Christine Agner

    Leads 1 award · $234,359

    • 1K08NS136766-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Role of Mertk in pathological neurodevelopment in mice with congenital Zika virus infection
      $234,359
      award amount
  31. Thomas Foutz

    Leads 1 award · $232,981

    • 5K08NS126730-02Department: NIH department code
      Optimization and mechanisms of electrical neurostimulation in mouse models of epilepsy
      $232,981
      award amount
  32. Regina Triplett

    Leads 1 award · $232,870

    • 5K23NS136762-02Department: NIH department code
      Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Risk Stratification in Very Preterm Infants with Intraventricular Hemorrhage
      $232,870
      award amount
  33. Matthew Ryan Brier

    Leads 1 award · $232,410

    • 5K23NS128325-03Department: NIH department code
      PET and MRI Evaluation of Cerebral Inflammation and Metabolic Stress in Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis
      $232,410
      award amount
  34. Miranda Ethel Orr

    Leads 1 award · $213,802

    • 7R01AG068293-06Department: NIH department code
      High Resolution Profiling of Senescent Neurons and Their Microenvironments in Postmortem Human Brain Tissue Spanning Eight Decades of Life
      $213,802
      award amount
  35. Corina Anastasaki

    Leads 1 award · $202,086

    • 2R50CA233164-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Developing Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Precision Oncology Models
      $202,086
      award amount
  36. Asher Jefferson Albertson

    Leads 1 award · $198,676

    • 5K08NS117888-04Department: NIH department code
      Role of Axonal Sprouting Mediated Network Reorganization in Stroke Recovery
      $198,676
      award amount
  37. Yan Wang

    Leads 1 award · $195,846

    • 1K23HL173831-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption on Ischemic Brain Injury and Cognitive Impairment in Sickle Cell Disease
      $195,846
      award amount
  38. Michael Wong

    Leads 1 award · $194,375

    • 5R21NS133508-02Department: NIH department code
      KCC2 and epilepsy in a mouse model of tuberous sclerosis complex
      $194,375
      award amount
  39. Benjamin Paul Kay

    Leads 1 award · $189,516

    • 5K23NS123345-04Department: 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
  40. Baijayanta Maiti

    Leads 1 award · $182,520

    • 5K23NS125107-04Department: NIH department code
      Cerebellar cholinergic connections as a biomarker of dementia and gait impairment in Parkinson disease
      $182,520
      award amount
  41. Yunshuo Caroline Tang

    Leads 1 award · $178,918

    • 5K08NS133966-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Extrinsic and Intrinsic Mechanisms of Vision Loss in Optic Glioma
      $178,918
      award amount
  42. Ashley N Nielsen

    Leads 1 award · $176,638

    • 1K01MH136404-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Unpredictable Parent Behavior in Infancy and Subsequent Emotion Regulation, Brain Function, and Psychopathology
      $176,638
      award amount
  43. Renatta Knox

    Leads 1 award · $175,500

    • 1K08AR086318-01Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Alternative Splicing in FSHD Disease Models
      $175,500
      award amount
  44. Kalen J. Petersen

    Leads 1 award · $170,567

    • 5K01MH136862-02Department: NIH department code
      BIOLOGICAL AGING AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN PERSONS WITH HIV
      $170,567
      award amount
  45. Peter R Millar

    Leads 1 award · $128,373

    • 1K01AG090753-01Department: NIH department code
      Comparing epigenetic, proteomic, and MRI aging clocks in sporadic and autosomal-dominant Alzheimer disease
      $128,373
      award amount
  46. Samira Parhizkar

    Leads 1 award · $125,000

    • 1K99AG090693-01Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic modulations by sleep to mitigate neurodegeneration
      $125,000
      award amount
  47. Jorge Jesus Llibre-Guerra

    Leads 1 award · $102,169

    • 5K01AG073526-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Alzheimer disease heterogeneity in Hispanic populations.
      $102,169
      award amount
  48. Michio Inoue

    Leads 1 award · $98,168

    • 5K99AR084062-02Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Role of DNAJ Proteins in Muscle Disease
      $98,168
      award amount
  49. George Travis Tabor

    Leads 1 award · $54,538

    • 5F30AG081100-03Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating roles of microglial lipid droplets in neurodegeneration
      $54,538
      award amount
  50. Ben David Boros

    Leads 1 award · $53,876

    • 5F30AG082394-02Department: NIH department code
      Boosting protein synthesis using antisense oligonucleotides to treat neurodegeneration
      $53,876
      award amount
  51. Miwei Hu

    Leads 1 award · $35,187

    • 5F31AG084257-02Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing proteasomal activity and tau clearance via USP14 reduction in Alzheimer's Disease mouse models
      $35,187
      award amount
  52. Andrew Aschenbrenner

    Leads 1 award · $12,868

    • 5K01AG071847-05Department: NIH department code
      Within-person dynamics of cognition and personality in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease.
      $12,868
      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.