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FY2021 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$47.3M
$47,348,733
Awards
77
FY2021 NIH awards in Psychiatry
Principal investigators
55
55 lead a grant here, 0 co-investigators
Department rank
#6
of 89 · 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 Psychiatry row of the Washington University in St. Louis page.

Leads a grant in this department

55 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. Mennerick, Steven J

    Leads 2 awards · $3,035,786

    • 1P50MH122379-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Neuroactive steroids as novel psychiatric treatments: mechanistic studies
      $2,535,717
      award amount
    • 1R01MH123748-01A1Department: NIH department code
      GABAA RECEPTOR POPULATIONS IN HIPPOCAMPUS AND THALAMUS
      $500,069
      award amount
  2. Barch, Deanna

    Leads 3 awards · $3,035,644

    • 5U01DA051038-02Department: NIH department code
      21/21 ABCD-USA CONSORTIUM: RESEARCH PROJECT SITE AT WUSTL
      $1,972,596
      award amount
    • 5R01MH117436-03Department: NIH department code
      The Developmental Psychopathology of Suicidal Ideations and Cognitions in Childhood
      $682,038
      award amount
    • 5T32MH100019-09Department: NIH department code
      Developmental Neuroscience and Child Psychopathology
      $381,010
      award amount
  3. Sung, Yunju

    Leads 1 award · $2,740,705

    • 1RF1AG074007-01Department: NIH department code
      Sex-specific Molecular Profiling to Understand Pathology and Identify Causal Genes and Drug Targets for Alzheimer's Disease
      $2,740,705
      award amount
  4. Piven, Joseph

    Leads 1 award · $2,548,810

    • 5R01MH118362-03Department: NIH department code
      MRI Based Presymptomatic Prediction of ASD
      $2,548,810
      award amount
  5. Karch, Celeste Marie

    Leads 2 awards · $2,382,747

    • 1RF1NS110890-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Tau Proteoforms in Frontotemporal Dementia
      $1,815,043
      award amount
    • 5R01AG062734-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Mechanisms by Which MS4A Genes Regulate TREM2 in Alzheimer Disease
      $567,704
      award amount
  6. Botteron, Kelly N

    Leads 1 award · $2,360,348

    • 5R01HD088125-04Department: NIH department code
      A Longitudinal MRI Study Characterizing Very Early Brain Development in Infants with Down Syndrome
      $2,360,348
      award amount
  7. Agrawal, Arpana

    Leads 3 awards · $2,212,467

    • 5R01DA046436-04Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Genetic Variants Associated with Opioid Overdose Mortality
      $940,438
      award amount
    • 5R01DA042620-05Department: NIH department code
      NON-DEPENDENT OPIOID MISUSERS AS GWAS CONTROLS
      $648,323
      award amount
    • 5R01DA046224-03Department: NIH department code
      Prenatal Cannabis Use (PCU) and Development of Offspring Brain and Behavior During Early Life (0-18 Months)
      $623,706
      award amount
  8. Luby, Joan L.

    Leads 1 award · $2,152,577

    • 5R01MH113883-04Department: NIH department code
      Early Life Adversity, Biological Embedding, and Risk for Developmental Precursors of Mental Disorders
      $2,152,577
      award amount
  9. Diniz, Breno Satler

    Leads 1 award · $1,859,128

    • 1R01AG072694-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Resilience and brain health of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
      $1,859,128
      award amount
  10. Avidan, Michael Simon

    Leads 1 award · $1,575,000

    • 1P50MH122351-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Center for Perioperative Mental Health
      $1,575,000
      award amount
  11. Constantino, John N

    Leads 1 award · $1,252,083

    • 5U01TR002764-02Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing Clinical Genomic Characterization to Accelerate Translational Advances for Patients with IDD
      $1,252,083
      award amount
  12. Anokhin, Andrey P.

    Leads 2 awards · $1,126,555

    • 5R01DA040716-05Department: NIH department code
      NEUROCOGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF ADOLESCENT MARIJUANA USE
      $581,984
      award amount
    • 5R01AA025646-04Department: NIH department code
      CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE AND PROBLEM DRINKING IN WOMEN: NEUROBEHAVIORAL MECHANISMS
      $544,571
      award amount
  13. Wilfley, Denise Ella

    Leads 2 awards · $1,122,450

    • 5U18DP006425-03Department: NIH department code
      Dissemination and Implementation of an Evidence-Based Pediatric Weight Management Program for Use by Low-Income Families: A User-Friendly Package of Family-Based Behavioral Treatment
      $600,000
      award amount
    • 2T32HL130357-06Department: NIH department code
      WUSTL Transdisciplinary Pre- and Postdoctoral Training Program in Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease
      $522,450
      award amount
  14. Hartz, Sarah

    Leads 2 awards · $1,109,770

    • 5R01AG065234-02Department: NIH department code
      Returning Research Results that Indicate Risk of Alzheimer Disease to Healthy Participants in Longitudinal Studies
      $716,020
      award amount
    • 5R01AA029308-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the longitudinal relationship between alcohol use, neurophysiological functioning, and Alzheimer disease biomarkers in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism
      $393,750
      award amount
  15. Agrawal, Arpana

    Leads 3 awards · $1,106,673

    • 1R01DA054869-01Department: NIH department code
      7/7 Psychiatric Genomics Consortium: Advancing Discovery and Impact
      $701,664
      award amount
    • 5T32DA007261-30Department: NIH department code
      Biomedical Research Training in Drug Abuse
      $285,875
      award amount
    • 5K02DA032573-10Department: NIH department code
      DELINEATING THE ROLE OF GENETIC INFLUENCES ON CANNABIS INVOLVEMENT
      $119,134
      award amount
  16. Bogdan, Ryan H

    Leads 1 award · $1,019,425

    • 1U01DA055367-01Department: NIH department code
      23/24 Healthy Brain and Child Development National Consortium
      $1,019,425
      award amount
  17. Freedland, Kenneth E

    Leads 2 awards · $979,172

    • 5R01HL151431-02Department: NIH department code
      Psychosocial Syndemics and Multimorbidity in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure
      $763,325
      award amount
    • 5R25HL149668-02Department: NIH department code
      Innovative Approaches to Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials
      $215,847
      award amount
  18. Dougherty, Joseph D

    Leads 2 awards · $913,376

    • 5R01MH116999-04Department: NIH department code
      Highly parallel analysis of 5' and 3' UTR variants in Autism Spectrum Disorders
      $579,782
      award amount
    • 5R01NS102272-05Department: NIH department code
      LOCAL TRANSLATION IN ASTROCYTES
      $333,594
      award amount
  19. Cavazos-Rehg, Patricia A

    Leads 5 awards · $873,068

    • 5T37MD014218-03Department: NIH department code
      Training LEADers to Accelerate Global Mental Health Disparities in Research (LEAD)
      $278,537
      award amount
    • 5R34DA050453-02Department: NIH department code
      mHealth to help pregnant and postpartum women in recovery for opioid use disorder
      $236,250
      award amount
    • 5R34MH119170-03Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging Social Media to Identify and Connect Teens with Eating Disorders to a Mobile Guided Self-Help Mobile Intervention
      $232,006
      award amount
    • 5K02DA043657-05Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging Social Media for Substance Use Behavioral Insight
      $118,137
      award amount
    • 3R34DA050453-01S1Department: NIH department code
      mHealth to help pregnant and postpartum women in recovery for opioid use disorder
      $8,138
      award amount
  20. Eisenberg, Daniel

    Leads 2 awards · $868,080

    • 5R01MH115128-04Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing Mobile Technology to Reduce Mental Health Disorders in College Populations
      $775,029
      award amount
    • 3R01MH115128-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing Mobile Technology to Reduce Mental Health Disorders in College Populations
      $93,051
      award amount
  21. Lang, Catherine

    Leads 1 award · $857,745

    • 1R01MH123723-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Variation in early motor function in autism, cerebellar injury and normal twins
      $857,745
      award amount
  22. Justice, Anne

    Leads 1 award · $768,936

    • 1R01MH122686-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Discovery and CRISPR validation of genetic factors associated with antipsychotic-induced weight gain and cardiometabolic risk
      $768,936
      award amount
  23. Harari, Oscar

    Leads 1 award · $757,923

    • 5R01AG057777-04Department: NIH department code
      MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION FOR UNBIAS BIOMARKER DISCOVERY FOR AD AND OTHER COMPLEX TRAITS
      $757,923
      award amount
  24. Carney, Robert M

    Leads 1 award · $745,013

    • 5R01HL147862-02Department: NIH department code
      Fatigue, Anhedonia and Cardiac Prognostic Markers in Depressed Patients with Coronary Heart Disease
      $745,013
      award amount
  25. Melhem, Nadine M.

    Leads 1 award · $729,760

    • 5R01MH124266-02Department: NIH department code
      Biological Substrates of Maladaptive Stress Response in Early Childhood
      $729,760
      award amount
  26. Cruchaga, Carlos

    Leads 1 award · $719,094

    • 1R56AG067764-01Department: NIH department code
      Brain Single-nuclei and iPS-derived cells transcriptomic analysis to define the contribution of neuronal and glial pathw
      $719,094
      award amount
  27. Cruchaga, Carlos

    Leads 1 award · $688,713

    • 5U01AG058922-04Department: NIH department code
      The Familial Alzheimer Sequencing (FASe) Project
      $688,713
      award amount
  28. Bierut, Laura J.

    Leads 2 awards · $670,079

    • 5K12DA041449-05Department: NIH department code
      Washington University Career Development Program in Drug Abuse and Addiction
      $433,829
      award amount
    • 1R21DA053424-01Department: NIH department code
      Linking Direct to Consumer Genomics and Electronic Health Records to Accelerate Science
      $236,250
      award amount
  29. Black, Kevin J

    Leads 1 award · $626,493

    • 5R01MH104030-05Department: NIH department code
      The New Tics Study: A Novel Approach to Pathophysiology and Cause of Tic Disorders
      $626,493
      award amount
  30. Mamah, Daniel

    Leads 1 award · $616,105

    • 1R01MH127571-01Department: NIH department code
      Clinical and Biomarker-Based Trajectories of Psychosis-Risk Populations in Kenya
      $616,105
      award amount
  31. Rogers, Cynthia Elise

    Leads 1 award · $587,831

    • 5R01MH113570-05Department: NIH department code
      THE PRETERM BEHAVIORAL PHENOTYPE: TRAJECTORIES OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY & CHANGES IN CEREBRAL CONNECTIVITY
      $587,831
      award amount
  32. Culver, Joseph P

    Leads 1 award · $587,064

    • 5R01NS109487-03Department: NIH department code
      Cortical Network Modulation by Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation
      $587,064
      award amount
  33. Hershey, Tamara G

    Leads 1 award · $583,768

    • 5R01HD070855-09Department: NIH department code
      Tracking Neurodegeneration in Early Wolfram Syndrome
      $583,768
      award amount
  34. Sylvester, Chad Michael

    Leads 1 award · $567,413

    • 5R01MH122389-02Department: NIH department code
      Neonatal Brain Activity and Risk for Anxiety Disorders in Early Childhood
      $567,413
      award amount
  35. Fitzsimmons-Craft, Ellen E.

    Leads 3 awards · $445,811

    • 1R34MH127203-01Department: NIH department code
      Development and Pilot Testing of a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy-Guided Self-Help Mobile App for the Post-Acute Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa
      $212,715
      award amount
    • 5K08MH120341-03Department: NIH department code
      Developing an Optimized Conversational Agent or "Chatbot" to Facilitate Mental Health Services Use in Individuals with Eating Disorders
      $179,096
      award amount
    • 3K08MH120341-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Developing an Optimized Conversational Agent or "Chatbot" to Facilitate Mental Health Services Use in Individuals with Eating Disorders
      $54,000
      award amount
  36. Kepecs, Adam

    Leads 1 award · $344,531

    • 5R01NS075531-10Department: NIH department code
      Cortical VIP interneurons: behavioral recruitment, circuit mechanisms and subtypes
      $344,531
      award amount
  37. Constantino, John N.

    Leads 1 award · $308,443

    • 1U01DD001289-01Department: NIH department code
      Missouri Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) Follow-Up
      $308,443
      award amount
  38. Farber, Nuri B

    Leads 1 award · $213,878

    • 5R25MH112473-04Department: NIH department code
      Washington University Psychiatry Residency Research Education Program
      $213,878
      award amount
  39. Newcomer, John W.

    Leads 1 award · $209,787

    • 5R34MH118395-03Department: NIH department code
      Adaptation of an Evidence-based Interactive Obesity Treatment Approach (iOTA) for Obesity Prevention in Early Serious Mental Illness: iOTA-eSMI
      $209,787
      award amount
  40. Gilbert, Kirsten

    Leads 2 awards · $207,317

    • 5K23MH115074-05Department: NIH department code
      Heightened Performance Monitoring and Overcontrol: Neural Markers and Caregiving Processes in Developmental Risk Trajectories
      $180,317
      award amount
    • 3K23MH115074-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Heightened Performance Monitoring and Overcontrol: Neural Markers and Caregiving Processes in Developmental Risk Trajectories
      $27,000
      award amount
  41. Ramsey, Alex Taylor

    Leads 1 award · $196,875

    • 1R34DA052928-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of behavior change in a genetics-informed smoking cessation intervention
      $196,875
      award amount
  42. Donohue, Meghan Rose

    Leads 1 award · $180,721

    • 1K23MH125023-01Department: NIH department code
      Neurodevelopmental Emergence of Callous-Unemotional Behavior Beginning in Infancy: Neural Markers and Environmental Risk and Protective Factors
      $180,721
      award amount
  43. Hoyniak, Caroline Paige

    Leads 1 award · $179,519

    • 1K23MH127305-01Department: NIH department code
      Sleep Disturbances and Circadian Misalignment as Potential Markers of Early Childhood Depression
      $179,519
      award amount
  44. Lean, Rachel Emma

    Leads 1 award · $165,361

    • 1K01MH122735-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating Links Between Dysfunctional Parenting and Infant Brain Connectivity on Development of Effortful Control
      $165,361
      award amount
  45. Whalen, Diana J

    Leads 1 award · $164,938

    • 5K23MH118426-04Department: NIH department code
      Influence of Physical Activity on Daily Positive Affect & Affective Neural Activity in Preschoolers
      $164,938
      award amount
  46. Karcher, Nicole R.

    Leads 1 award · $162,963

    • 5K23MH121792-02Department: NIH department code
      Cross-sectional and longitudinal predictors of distressing psychotic-like experiences in childhood and adolescence
      $162,963
      award amount
  47. Johnson, Emma Covey

    Leads 1 award · $157,281

    • 1K01DA051759-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Identifying genetic sources of comorbidity between cannabis and schizophrenia using genome-wide and integrative omics data
      $157,281
      award amount
  48. Marrus, Natasha

    Leads 1 award · $131,975

    • 5K08MH112891-05Department: NIH department code
      ADVANCING EARLY BEHAVIORAL AND NEURAL PHENOTYPES OF SOCIAL MOTIVATION IN ASD
      $131,975
      award amount
  49. Ibanez, Laura

    Leads 1 award · $125,096

    • 5K99AG062723-02Department: NIH department code
      Plasma Cell-Free RNA as Non-invasive Biomarker for Neurodegeneration
      $125,096
      award amount
  50. Perino, Michael T

    Leads 1 award · $119,611

    • 1K99HD105002-01Department: NIH department code
      Reward motivations associated with bullying trajectories
      $119,611
      award amount
  51. Fernandez Hernandez, Maria-Victoria

    Leads 1 award · $76,803

    • 3K99AG061281-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Identification and Characterization of Common Pathways across Alzheimer Disease Genotypes using a Multiomic Approach
      $76,803
      award amount
  52. Matikainen-Ankney, Bridget

    Leads 1 award · $68,562

    • 1F32DK126355-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the persistent effects of obesity on effortful behavior and underlying neural circuits
      $68,562
      award amount
  53. Grammer, Anne Claire

    Leads 1 award · $45,520

    • 1F31HL158000-01Department: NIH department code
      A Naturalistic Examination of Dietary Lapses in Low-Income, Treatment-Seeking Families with Obesity
      $45,520
      award amount
  54. Camacho, Maria Catalina

    Leads 1 award · $31,970

    • 1F31HD102156-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Phenotyping irritability in young children using complex, naturalistic emotion processing
      $31,970
      award amount
  55. Lambert, Peter Michael

    Leads 1 award · $31,970

    • 1F30MH126548-01Department: NIH department code
      Hippocampal circuit mechanisms of neurosteroids
      $31,970
      award amount