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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$13M
$12,979,216
Awards
27
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
24
17 lead a grant here, 7 co-investigators
Department rank
#19
of 75 · 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 Neurosciences row of the Washington University in St. Louis page.

Leads a grant in this department

17 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. Martha W Bagnall

    Leads 3 awards · $2,364,169

    • 5U01NS136458-03Department: NIH department code
      Unmasking neuromodulatory control of locomotion

      Principal investigators: Martha W Bagnall (contact PI), Adam D Douglass, James Murray, Michael R Tadross

      $1,521,852
      award amount
    • 5R01DC016413-07Department: NIH department code
      SYNAPTIC COMPUTATIONS IN CENTRAL VESTIBULAR NEURONS
      $453,567
      award amount
    • 5R01NS130483-04Department: NIH department code
      Longitudinal structure of spinal premotor circuits
      $388,750
      award amount

  2. Camillo Padoa-Schioppa

    Leads 3 awards · $1,464,935

    • 5R01DA032758-13Department: NIH department code
      THE ROLE OF PREFRONTAL REGIONS IN ECONOMIC CHOICE AND CHOICE-GUIDED BEHAVIOR
      $607,742
      award amount
    • 5R01DA055709-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Decision Making in Mice
      $447,244
      award amount
    • 5T32NS115672-07Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary Training in Cognitive, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (CCSN)

      Principal investigators: Camillo Padoa-Schioppa (contact PI), Todd S Braver

      $409,949
      award amount

  3. Yao Chen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,268,286

    • 1R01MH141942-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Spectrally Compatible Sensors and Actuators of In Vivo PKA Activity

      Principal investigators: Yao Chen (contact PI), Jin Zhang

      $799,127
      award amount
    • 2R01NS119821-06Department: NIH department code
      Spatial, temporal, and context-dependent features of protein kinase A activity
      $469,159
      award amount

  4. Qingyun Li

    Leads 2 awards · $1,178,665

    • 1R01AG097819-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Tracking the Dynamism and Plasticity of Disease-Associated Microglia inAlzheimer's Disease
      $625,449
      award amount
    • 5R01AG078512-04Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the origin, regulation and function of microglial subsets in Alzheimer's disease
      $553,216
      award amount

  5. Paul H Taghert

    Leads 3 awards · $1,038,284

    • 5R01NS140408-02Department: NIH department code
      Neuropeptide modulation in circadian neural circuits
      $417,346
      award amount
    • 5R35GM149192-04Department: NIH department code
      The Generation of Multi-Phasic Circadian Output
      $388,750
      award amount
    • 5R25NS130965-04Department: NIH department code
      The WUSTL PREP post-bacc program to enhance doctoral readiness in neuroscience

      Principal investigators: Paul H Taghert (contact PI), Daniel Kerschensteiner, Jose A Moron-Concepcion

      $232,188
      award amount

  6. Valeria Cavalli

    Leads 1 award · $906,945

    • 5R35NS122260-06Department: NIH department code
      Multicellular Mechanisms Driving Axon Regeneration
      $906,945
      award amount

  7. Timothy Holy

    Leads 2 awards · $830,796

    • 5R01DC020034-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of chemosensory recognition
      $430,741
      award amount
    • 5R01DC010381-15Department: NIH department code
      Identity and Neural Encoding of Social Odors
      $400,055
      award amount

  8. Joanna L Jankowsky

    Leads 2 awards · $714,294

    • 5R01AG085751-04Department: NIH department code
      Causes and consequences of differential APP processing in inhibitory and excitatory neurons
      $609,860
      award amount
    • 3R01AG085751-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Causes and consequences of differential APP processing in inhibitory and excitatory neurons
      $104,434
      award amount

  9. Harrison W Gabel

    Leads 1 award · $655,201

    • 5R01MH117405-08Department: NIH department code
      MECHANISMS OF EPIGENETIC REGULATION IN NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
      $655,201
      award amount

  10. Jason J Yi

    Leads 1 award · $641,417

    • 1R01MH144153-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting the stress response in Angelman syndrome
      $641,417
      award amount

  11. Edward Bing Han

    Leads 1 award · $579,247

    • 1R01MH144354-01Department: NIH department code
      Functions of hippocampal dopamine
      $579,247
      award amount

  12. Tom P. Franken

    Leads 1 award · $571,643

    • 1R01EY037720-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms of lightness constancy
      $571,643
      award amount

  13. Adam Kepecs

    Leads 1 award · $556,374

    • 5R01MH137463-03Department: NIH department code
      Basal Forebrain Non-cholinergic Circuit Mechanisms of Sustained Attention
      $556,374
      award amount

  14. Burke Quartman Rosen

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32MH138113-03Department: NIH department code
      Evolutionary expansion of human cerebral cortex: spatial patterns and transcriptional correlates
      $79,348
      award amount

  15. Elizabeth Tilden

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30AG084271-04Department: NIH department code
      The role of wake-associated protein kinase A transients in intrinsic plasticity and learning through aging
      $55,114
      award amount

  16. Haley Jetter

    Leads 1 award · $37,249

    • 1F31NS143355-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining the cellular basis of neurological dysfunction in models of ALG8 Congenital Disorder of Glycosylation
      $37,249
      award amount

  17. Jane-Valeriane Kimberly Boua

    Leads 1 award · $37,249

    • 1F30MH143481-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Feasibility of Gene Therapy for the Treatment of TBRS
      $37,249
      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.