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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$51.1M
$51,063,515
Awards
82
FY2024 NIH awards in Psychiatry
Principal investigators
90
58 lead a grant here, 32 co-investigators
Department rank
#6
of 92 · 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

58 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. Natasha Marrus

    Leads 3 awards · $5,995,314

    • 1U01HD116463-01Department: NIH department code
      The Infant Down Syndrome Brain and Behavior Study

      Principal investigators: Natasha Marrus (contact PI), Heather Cody Hazlett

      $2,927,457
      award amount
    • 3R01HD088125-05S1Department: NIH department code
      A Longitudinal MRI Study Characterizing Very Early Brain Development in Infants with Down Syndrome
      $2,350,586
      award amount
    • 5R01MH123723-04Department: NIH department code
      Variation in early motor function in autism, cerebellar injury and normal twins

      Principal investigators: Natasha Marrus (contact PI), Catherine Lang, Catherine Limperopoulos

      $717,271
      award amount

  2. Joan L. Luby

    Leads 3 awards · $3,685,130

    • 5R01MH113883-07Department: NIH department code
      Early Life Adversity, Biological Embedding, and Risk for Developmental Precursors of Mental Disorders

      Principal investigators: Joan L. Luby (contact PI), Barbara B Warner, Christopher Daniel Smyser

      $2,499,658
      award amount
    • 5R01MH130621-02Department: NIH department code
      Promoting Emotional Development Among Young Children Facing Adversity: An Effectiveness Implementation Study in St. Louis Schools

      Principal investigators: Joan L. Luby (contact PI), Patricia Lynn Kohl

      $759,275
      award amount
    • 5T32MH100019-12Department: NIH department code
      Developmental Neuroscience and Child Psychopathology

      Principal investigators: Joan L. Luby (contact PI), Deanna Barch

      $426,197
      award amount

  3. Cynthia Elise Rogers

    Leads 2 awards · $3,349,051

    • 5U01DA055367-04Department: NIH department code
      23/24 Healthy Brain and Child Development National Consortium

      Principal investigators: Cynthia Elise Rogers (contact PI), Ryan H Bogdan

      $2,598,227
      award amount
    • 5R37MH113570-08Department: NIH department code
      Trajectories of Cortico-Cerebellar Connectivity, Social Competence, and Internalizing Symptoms in Adolescents Born Very Preterm

      Principal investigators: Cynthia Elise Rogers (contact PI), Christopher Daniel Smyser

      $750,824
      award amount

  4. John R Pruett

    Leads 2 awards · $3,231,142

    • 5R01MH118362-05Department: NIH department code
      MRI Based Presymptomatic Prediction of ASD

      Principal investigators: John R Pruett (contact PI), Joseph Piven

      $2,543,872
      award amount
    • 3R01MH118362-05S1Department: NIH department code
      MRI Based Presymptomatic Prediction of ASD

      Principal investigators: John R Pruett (contact PI), Joseph Piven

      $687,270
      award amount

  5. Carlos Cruchaga

    Leads 2 awards · $2,558,089

    • 5R01AG078964-03Department: NIH department code
      Identification and Characterization of Cell-Specific Transposable Elements Implicated on Alzheimer Disease and Healthy Aging

      Principal investigators: Carlos Cruchaga (contact PI), Andrew Yoo, Bess Frost, Celeste Marie Karch, Ting Wang

      $1,809,944
      award amount
    • 2R01AG058501-02Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Modifiers of TREM2 in Alzheimer's Disease
      $748,145
      award amount

  6. Chad Michael Sylvester

    Leads 3 awards · $2,502,909

    • 1R01MH134966-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Individualized Mechanisms of Neural Plasticity and Response to Interventions in Neonates
      $1,364,085
      award amount
    • 5R01MH131584-02Department: NIH department code
      Attention-Related Neural Circuitry in Pediatric Anxiety and ADHD

      Principal investigators: Chad Michael Sylvester (contact PI), Kirsten Gilbert

      $761,270
      award amount
    • 5R01MH122389-05Department: NIH department code
      Neonatal Brain Activity and Risk for Anxiety Disorders in Early Childhood
      $377,554
      award amount

  7. Ginger E Nicol

    Leads 2 awards · $2,080,626

  8. Pamela Ann Madden

    Leads 1 award · $1,946,272

  9. Eric J Lenze

    Leads 1 award · $1,803,334

    Also a principal investigator on 1UG3MH137353-01, led by Ginger E Nicol.

  10. Diana J Whalen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,797,380

    • 1R01MH135480-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Rejection Sensitivity and Puberty in Mental Health Vulnerability to Social Media Experiences in Early Adolescent Girls

      Principal investigators: Diana J Whalen (contact PI), Katherine Rose Luking

      $1,041,082
      award amount
    • 5R01MH090786-12Department: NIH department code
      Developmental Pathways to Borderline Personality Disorder: Longitudinal Observational, Clinical, and Neural Predictors From Early Childhood to Young Adulthood

      Principal investigators: Diana J Whalen (contact PI), Kirsten Gilbert

      $756,298
      award amount

  11. Adam Kepecs

    Leads 2 awards · $1,714,316

    • 1DP1MH140021-01Department: NIH department code
      The cytokine code and neural circuits for sensing inflammation state
      $1,088,500
      award amount
    • 1R01DA062387-01Department: NIH department code
      Functions of Target-Defined Orbitofrontal Neuron Types in Decision Making
      $625,816
      award amount

  12. Arpana Agrawal

    Leads 3 awards · $1,369,133

    • 5R01DA054869-04Department: NIH department code
      7/7 Psychiatric Genomics Consortium: Advancing Discovery and Impact

      Principal investigators: Arpana Agrawal (contact PI), Howard J Edenberg, Joel Gelernter

      $649,082
      award amount
    • 5T32DA007261-33Department: NIH department code
      Biomedical Research Training in Drug Abuse

      Principal investigators: Arpana Agrawal (contact PI), Jose A Moron-Concepcion

      $486,801
      award amount
    • 1R21DA061592-01Department: NIH department code
      Early cannabis use and later opioid use disorder - the role of adverse childhood experiences, genetic liability and comorbid stimulant use

      Principal investigators: Arpana Agrawal (contact PI), Elliot C Nelson

      $233,250
      award amount

  13. Joseph D Dougherty

    Leads 2 awards · $1,306,210

    • 2R01MH116999-06Department: NIH department code
      HIGHLY PARALLEL ANALYSIS OF 5' AND 3' UTR VARIANTS IN NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
      $775,004
      award amount
    • 5R01NS102272-07Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of local translation in glia
      $531,206
      award amount

  14. Denise Ella Wilfley

    Leads 2 awards · $1,101,011

    • 5R01DK134961-02Department: NIH department code
      Increasing Access to USPSTF-Recommended Obesity Care for Youth and Adults Who Are Recipients of Medicaid: Evaluation of a Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Obesity Care Training Program in FQHCs

      Principal investigators: Denise Ella Wilfley (contact PI), Sarah Elizabeth Hampl

      $648,214
      award amount
    • 5T32HL130357-09Department: NIH department code
      WUSTL Transdisciplinary Pre- and Postdoctoral Training Program in Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease
      $452,797
      award amount

  15. Alexxai V Kravitz

    Leads 2 awards · $999,024

    • 5R01DK136810-02Department: NIH department code
      Dopaminergic control of obesity in mice
      $504,071
      award amount
    • 1R01DK138131-01Department: NIH department code
      Accumbal adaptations that contribute to weight regain after weight loss
      $494,953
      award amount

  16. Sarah Hartz

    Leads 2 awards · $973,504

    • 5R01AG065234-05Department: NIH department code
      Returning Research Results that Indicate Risk of Alzheimer Disease to Healthy Participants in Longitudinal Studies

      Principal investigators: Sarah Hartz (contact PI), Jessica Mozersky

      $579,754
      award amount
    • 5R01AA029308-05Department: 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

  17. Yunju Sung

    Leads 1 award · $906,053

    • 4R01AG074007-02Department: NIH department code
      Sex-specific Molecular Profiling to Understand Pathology and Identify Causal Genes and Drug Targets for Alzheimer's Disease
      $906,053
      award amount

  18. Daniel Mamah

    Leads 2 awards · $841,425

    • 5R01MH127571-04Department: NIH department code
      Clinical and Biomarker-Based Trajectories of Psychosis-Risk Populations in Kenya
      $647,050
      award amount
    • 5R21MH131962-02Department: NIH department code
      Validation of Diffusion Basis Spectrum Imaging of Neuroinflammation in Schizophrenia

      Principal investigators: Daniel Mamah (contact PI), Yong Wang

      $194,375
      award amount

  19. Kirsten Gilbert

    Leads 1 award · $728,151

    • 5R01MH126984-03Department: NIH department code
      Neural and behavioral trajectories of the overcontrolled phenotype: Associations with development, social context and psychiatric symptoms in early childhood
      $728,151
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01MH131584-02, led by Chad Michael Sylvester; 5R01MH090786-12, led by Diana J Whalen.

  20. Li-Shiun Chen

    Leads 1 award · $707,305

    • 5R01DA056050-03Department: NIH department code
      A multilevel intervention to personalize and improve tobacco treatment in primary care

      Principal investigators: Li-Shiun Chen (contact PI), Alex Taylor Ramsey

      $707,305
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA268030-03, led by Alex Taylor Ramsey.

  21. Andrey P. Anokhin

    Leads 1 award · $699,704

    • 5R01DA058114-02Department: NIH department code
      Neurobehavioral consequences of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and addiction risk: a cotwin-control study
      $699,704
      award amount

  22. Susan B Perlman

    Leads 2 awards · $654,591

    • 5R01MH124266-05Department: NIH department code
      Biological Substrates of Maladaptive Stress Response in Early Childhood

      Principal investigators: Susan B Perlman (contact PI), Nadine M. Melhem

      $645,922
      award amount
    • 3R01MH124266-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Biological Substrates of Maladaptive Stress Response in Early Childhood

      Principal investigators: Susan B Perlman (contact PI), Nadine M. Melhem

      $8,669
      award amount

  23. Kenneth E Freedland

    Leads 1 award · $639,441

    • 5R01HL147862-05Department: NIH department code
      Fatigue, Anhedonia and Cardiac Prognostic Markers in Depressed Patients with Coronary Heart Disease
      $639,441
      award amount

  24. Alex Taylor Ramsey

    Leads 1 award · $610,668

    • 5R01CA268030-03Department: NIH department code
      Precision prevention strategy to increase uptake and engagement in lung cancer screening and smoking cessation treatment

      Principal investigators: Alex Taylor Ramsey (contact PI), Li-Shiun Chen

      $610,668
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DA056050-03, led by Li-Shiun Chen.

  25. Celeste Marie Karch

    Leads 1 award · $575,398

    • 4R01NS110890-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Tau Proteoforms in Frontotemporal Dementia
      $575,398
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AG078964-03, led by Carlos Cruchaga.

  26. Tamara G Hershey

    Leads 1 award · $565,842

    • 5R01NS109487-05Department: NIH department code
      Cortical Network Modulation by Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation

      Principal investigators: Tamara G Hershey (contact PI), Joseph P Culver

      $565,842
      award amount

  27. Kevin J Black

    Leads 1 award · $529,517

    • 1R01MH127187-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Preschool MRI predictors of tic outcomes from a 15-year longitudinal study
      $529,517
      award amount

  28. Steven J Mennerick

    Leads 1 award · $485,067

    • 5R01MH123748-04Department: NIH department code
      GABAA RECEPTOR POPULATIONS IN HIPPOCAMPUS AND THALAMUS
      $485,067
      award amount

  29. Laura J. Bierut

    Leads 1 award · $476,823

    • 5K12DA041449-08Department: NIH department code
      Washington University Career Development Program in Drug Abuse and Addiction

      Principal investigators: Laura J. Bierut (contact PI), Patricia A Cavazos-Rehg

      $476,823
      award amount

  30. Anil G Cashikar

    Leads 1 award · $466,366

    • 5R01AG081419-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of the microglial immune-oxysterol 25-hydroxycholesterol in mediating neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in the P301S tau transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
      $466,366
      award amount

  31. Maria Catalina Camacho

    Leads 2 awards · $436,983

    • 1DP5OD037370-01Department: NIH department code
      A computational model for how risk for anxiety and depression influences affective neurodevelopment
      $388,750
      award amount
    • 5F32MH132185-02Department: NIH department code
      Neonatal predictors of contextualized emotion processing and risk for anxiety
      $48,233
      award amount

  32. Marco Pignatelli

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5R01MH130610-03Department: NIH department code
      A synaptic substrate for ketamine-mediated amelioration of stress-induced anhedonia
      $388,750
      award amount

  33. Vivia V McCutcheon

    Leads 1 award · $351,056

    • 5R01AA030563-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of remission in the intergenerational transmission of alcohol use disorder: Course, context, and offspring outcomes

      Principal investigators: Vivia V McCutcheon (contact PI), Jessica E Salvatore

      $351,056
      award amount

  34. Robert Fitzgerald

    Leads 1 award · $329,593

    • 5U01DD001289-04Department: NIH department code
      Missouri Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) Follow-Up

      Principal investigators: Robert Fitzgerald (contact PI), John N. Constantino

      $329,593
      award amount

  35. Emma Covey Johnson

    Leads 2 awards · $312,781

    • 5K01DA051759-04Department: NIH department code
      Identifying genetic sources of comorbidity between cannabis and schizophrenia using genome-wide and integrative omics data
      $157,281
      award amount
    • 5R03DA059747-02Department: NIH department code
      Using genomics and extensive phenotyping to dissect the relationships between substance use disorders and chronic pain
      $155,500
      award amount

  36. Patricia A Cavazos-Rehg

    Leads 1 award · $266,789

    • 5R34DA054725-03Department: NIH department code
      Testing the feasibility and acceptability of social media and digital therapeutics to decrease vaping behaviors
      $266,789
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5K12DA041449-08, led by Laura J. Bierut.

  37. Rebecca Schwarzlose

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00HD109454-03Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms of sensory over-responsivity in children with and without ASD
      $249,000
      award amount

  38. Timothy Otto Laumann

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00MH129616-03Department: NIH department code
      Precision Functional Mapping in Treatment-Resistant Depression
      $249,000
      award amount

  39. Michael T Perino

    Leads 1 award · $243,326

    • 5R00HD105002-04Department: NIH department code
      Reward motivations associated with bullying trajectories
      $243,326
      award amount

  40. Laura Ibanez

    Leads 1 award · $236,434

    • 5R00AG062723-05Department: NIH department code
      Plasma Cell-Free RNA as Non-invasive Biomarker for Neurodegeneration
      $236,434
      award amount

  41. Rachel Emma Lean

    Leads 2 awards · $219,521

    • 5K01MH122735-04Department: NIH department code
      Investigating Links Between Dysfunctional Parenting and Infant Brain Connectivity on Development of Effortful Control
      $165,521
      award amount
    • 3K01MH122735-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating Links Between Dysfunctional Parenting and Infant Brain Connectivity on Development of Effortful Control
      $54,000
      award amount

  42. Nuri B Farber

    Leads 1 award · $215,000

    • 5R25MH112473-07Department: NIH department code
      Washington University Psychiatry Residency Research Education Program

      Principal investigators: Nuri B Farber (contact PI), Timothy Eric Spiegel

      $215,000
      award amount

  43. Kevin Young Xu

    Leads 1 award · $196,236

    • 1K08DA061258-01Department: NIH department code
      Using Big Data to Optimize Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy
      $196,236
      award amount

  44. Alecia C. Vogel

    Leads 1 award · $193,523

    • 5K23MH131849-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the role of dysregulation in positive affect in developmental psychopathology.
      $193,523
      award amount

  45. Meghan Rose Donohue

    Leads 1 award · $180,721

    • 5K23MH125023-04Department: NIH department code
      Neurodevelopmental Emergence of Callous-Unemotional Behavior Beginning in Infancy: Neural Markers and Environmental Risk and Protective Factors
      $180,721
      award amount

  46. Hannah Szlyk

    Leads 1 award · $180,457

    • 5K01DA058750-02Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging mHealth to Increase Health Equity among Black Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder and Commonly Occurring Mental Health Disorders
      $180,457
      award amount

  47. Caroline Paige Hoyniak

    Leads 1 award · $179,711

    • 5K23MH127305-04Department: NIH department code
      Sleep Disturbances and Circadian Misalignment as Potential Markers of Early Childhood Depression
      $179,711
      award amount

  48. Laura Hennefield

    Leads 1 award · $179,399

    • 5K01MH127412-03Department: NIH department code
      Suicidality in Young Children: Social and Cognitive Developmental Markers of Risk and Resiliency
      $179,399
      award amount

  49. Devin Banks

    Leads 1 award · $166,775

    • 7K08DA058080-02Department: NIH department code
      An Integrated Geospatial and Community-based Model to Prevent Opioid Overdose among Black Americans
      $166,775
      award amount

  50. Nicole R. Karcher

    Leads 1 award · $162,963

    • 5K23MH121792-05Department: NIH department code
      Cross-sectional and longitudinal predictors of distressing psychotic-like experiences in childhood and adolescence
      $162,963
      award amount

  51. Abdallah M Eteleeb

    Leads 1 award · $148,581

    • 5K25AG083057-02Department: NIH department code
      Identification and characterization of molecular subtypes of Alzheimer's disease associated with cognitive function through cross-omics data integration
      $148,581
      award amount

  52. Berenice Anaya

    Leads 2 awards · $138,417

    • 5K00MH135485-04Department: NIH department code
      The neural foundations of regulation in infancy and the role of individual and environmental factors over time
      $88,916
      award amount
    • 3K00MH135485-04S1Department: NIH department code
      The neural foundations of regulation in infancy and the role of individual and environmental factors over time
      $49,501
      award amount

  53. Miguel Minaya

    Leads 1 award · $126,981

    • 5K01AG083215-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular drivers of tauopathies in stem cell models from diverse human populations
      $126,981
      award amount

  54. Ricardo D'oliveira Albanus

    Leads 1 award · $125,896

    • 1K99AG086583-01Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and single-cell multi-omic characterization of Alzheimer's disease risk and resilience pathways
      $125,896
      award amount

  55. Mary Katherine Osborn Ray

    Leads 1 award · $119,598

    • 5K01DK131339-03Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Glucose Variability on Dynamic Cognitive Function in Youth with Type 1 Diabetes
      $119,598
      award amount

  56. Alvin G. Thomas

    Leads 1 award · $77,772

    • 4K00AG073565-03Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and Environmental Drivers of Cognitive Resilience in Aging Populations
      $77,772
      award amount

  57. Peter Michael Lambert

    Leads 1 award · $53,974

    • 5F30MH126548-04Department: NIH department code
      Hippocampal circuit mechanisms of neurosteroids
      $53,974
      award amount

  58. Justin G Wang

    Leads 1 award · $35,482

    • 1F31DK138755-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Interrogating Ventral Pallidal Circuits as a Therapeutic Target for Obesity
      $35,482
      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.