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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$43.3M
$43,289,071
Awards
69
FY2025 NIH awards in Psychiatry
Principal investigators
75
49 lead a grant here, 26 co-investigators
Department rank
#7
of 77 · 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

49 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. Joan L. Luby

    Leads 3 awards · $5,410,145

    • 5R01MH113883-08Department: 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

      $2,684,011
      award amount
    • 4RF1MH130621-03Department: 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

      $2,200,459
      award amount
    • 5T32MH100019-13Department: NIH department code
      Developmental Neuroscience and Child Psychopathology

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

      $525,675
      award amount

  2. Cynthia Elise Rogers

    Leads 3 awards · $4,500,560

    • 5U01DA055367-05Department: NIH department code
      23/24 Healthy Brain and Child Development National Consortium

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

      $2,229,582
      award amount
    • 2R01DA046224-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Prenatal Cannabis Exposure (PreCE) and Immune-Endocannabinoid Pathways to Development of Offspring Brain and Behavior up to Age 6

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

      $1,532,611
      award amount
    • 5R37MH113570-09Department: 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

      $738,367
      award amount

  3. Carlos Cruchaga

    Leads 3 awards · $3,228,179

    • 5R01AG078964-04Department: 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

      $1,773,745
      award amount
    • 5R01AG058501-03Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Modifiers of TREM2 in Alzheimer's Disease
      $745,139
      award amount
    • 4R01AG071706-02Department: NIH department code
      Multimodal Characterization of the Role of Circular RNAs in Alzheimer's Disease
      $709,295
      award amount

  4. Chad Michael Sylvester

    Leads 3 awards · $2,815,157

    • 5R01MH134966-02Department: NIH department code
      Individualized Mechanisms of Neural Plasticity and Response to Interventions in Neonates
      $1,404,012
      award amount
    • 2R01MH122389-06Department: NIH department code
      Longitudinal Development of Attention-Related Brain Networks from Birth to School-Age and Risk for Anxiety Disorders
      $777,315
      award amount
    • 5R01MH131584-03Department: NIH department code
      Attention-Related Neural Circuitry in Pediatric Anxiety and ADHD

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

      $633,830
      award amount

  5. Li-Shiun Chen

    Leads 2 awards · $2,274,265

    • 1UG3CA305777-01Department: NIH department code
      Implementation science to scale and sustain tobacco treatment leveraging point of care paradigm and health information technology

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

      $1,594,797
      award amount
    • 5R01DA056050-04Department: 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

      $679,468
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA268030-04, led by Alex Taylor Ramsey.

  6. Pamela Ann Madden

    Leads 1 award · $1,933,883

  7. Eric J Lenze

    Leads 1 award · $1,802,239

  8. Diana J Whalen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,763,685

    • 5R01MH135480-02Department: 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

      $1,029,312
      award amount
    • 5R01MH090786-13Department: 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

      $734,373
      award amount

  9. Adam Kepecs

    Leads 2 awards · $1,745,912

    • 5DP1MH140021-02Department: NIH department code
      The cytokine code and neural circuits for sensing inflammation state
      $1,088,500
      award amount
    • 5R01DA062387-02Department: NIH department code
      Functions of Target-Defined Orbitofrontal Neuron Types in Decision Making
      $657,412
      award amount

  10. Arpana Agrawal

    Leads 4 awards · $1,731,979

    • 5R01DA054869-05Department: NIH department code
      7/7 Psychiatric Genomics Consortium: Advancing Discovery and Impact

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

      $640,318
      award amount
    • 5T32DA007261-34Department: NIH department code
      Biomedical Research Training in Drug Abuse

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

      $546,216
      award amount
    • 5R01AA030563-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of remission in the intergenerational transmission of alcohol use disorder: Course, context, and offspring outcomes

      Principal investigators: Arpana Agrawal (contact PI), Jessica E Salvatore

      $351,070
      award amount
    • 5R21DA061592-02Department: 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

      $194,375
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2R01DA046224-06A1, led by Cynthia Elise Rogers.

  11. Joseph D Dougherty

    Leads 2 awards · $1,203,784

    • 5R01MH116999-07Department: NIH department code
      HIGHLY PARALLEL ANALYSIS OF 5' AND 3' UTR VARIANTS IN NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
      $658,755
      award amount
    • 5R01NS102272-08Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of local translation in glia
      $545,029
      award amount

  12. Alexxai V Kravitz

    Leads 2 awards · $1,027,546

    • 5R01DK136810-03Department: NIH department code
      Dopaminergic control of obesity in mice
      $530,596
      award amount
    • 5R01DK138131-02Department: NIH department code
      Accumbal adaptations that contribute to weight regain after weight loss
      $496,950
      award amount

  13. Denise Ella Wilfley

    Leads 2 awards · $915,316

    • 5R01DK134961-03Department: 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

      $640,230
      award amount
    • 5T32HL130357-10Department: NIH department code
      WUSTL Transdisciplinary Pre- and Postdoctoral Training Program in Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease
      $275,086
      award amount

  14. Yunju Sung

    Leads 1 award · $887,932

    • 5R01AG074007-03Department: NIH department code
      Sex-specific Molecular Profiling to Understand Pathology and Identify Causal Genes and Drug Targets for Alzheimer's Disease
      $887,932
      award amount

  15. Ellen E. Fitzsimmons-Craft

    Leads 1 award · $841,469

    • 1R01MH138735-01Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing an automated chatbot to achieve efficient, scalable treatment for eating disorders
      $841,469
      award amount

  16. Alex Taylor Ramsey

    Leads 1 award · $793,080

    • 5R01CA268030-04Department: 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

      $793,080
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1UG3CA305777-01, led by Li-Shiun Chen; 5R01DA056050-04, led by Li-Shiun Chen.

  17. Nicole R. Karcher

    Leads 1 award · $738,037

    • 1R01MH139880-01Department: NIH department code
      Predicting Attenuated Psychotic Symptoms Amongst Youth Endorsing Persistent Distressing Psychotic-like Experiences
      $738,037
      award amount

  18. Andrey P. Anokhin

    Leads 1 award · $695,967

    • 5R01DA058114-03Department: NIH department code
      Neurobehavioral consequences of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and addiction risk: a cotwin-control study
      $695,967
      award amount

  19. Daniel Mamah

    Leads 2 awards · $681,035

    • 5R01MH127571-05Department: NIH department code
      Clinical and Biomarker-Based Trajectories of Psychosis-Risk Populations in Kenya
      $457,496
      award amount
    • 3R01MH127571-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Clinical and Biomarker-Based Trajectories of Psychosis-Risk Populations in Kenya
      $223,539
      award amount

  20. Kirsten Gilbert

    Leads 1 award · $612,784

    • 5R01MH126984-04Department: NIH department code
      Neural and behavioral trajectories of the overcontrolled phenotype: Associations with development, social context and psychiatric symptoms in early childhood
      $612,784
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01MH090786-13, led by Diana J Whalen; 5R01MH131584-03, led by Chad Michael Sylvester.

  21. Ginger E Nicol

    Leads 1 award · $606,127

    • 5R01MH122686-05Department: NIH department code
      Discovery and CRISPR validation of genetic factors associated with antipsychotic-induced weight gain and cardiometabolic risk

      Principal investigators: Ginger E Nicol (contact PI), Anne Justice

      $606,127
      award amount

  22. Robert Fitzgerald

    Leads 2 awards · $589,361

    • 5U01DD001289-05Department: NIH department code
      Missouri Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) Follow-Up

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

      $339,361
      award amount
    • 6U01DD001289-05M002Department: NIH department code
      Missouri Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) Follow-Up

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

      $250,000
      award amount

  23. Natasha Marrus

    Leads 1 award · $577,990

  24. Kevin J Black

    Leads 2 awards · $560,571

    • 5R01MH127187-02Department: NIH department code
      Preschool MRI predictors of tic outcomes from a 15-year longitudinal study
      $490,565
      award amount
    • 3R01MH127187-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Preschool MRI predictors of tic outcomes from a 15-year longitudinal study
      $70,006
      award amount

  25. Steven J Mennerick

    Leads 1 award · $485,067

    • 5R01MH123748-05Department: NIH department code
      GABAA RECEPTOR POPULATIONS IN HIPPOCAMPUS AND THALAMUS
      $485,067
      award amount

  26. Laura J. Bierut

    Leads 1 award · $476,823

    • 5K12DA041449-09Department: 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

  27. Anil G Cashikar

    Leads 1 award · $447,211

    • 5R01AG081419-03Department: 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
      $447,211
      award amount

  28. Marco Pignatelli

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5R01MH130610-04Department: NIH department code
      A synaptic substrate for ketamine-mediated amelioration of stress-induced anhedonia
      $388,750
      award amount

  29. Maria Catalina Camacho

    Leads 1 award · $388,750

    • 5DP5OD037370-02Department: NIH department code
      A computational model for how risk for anxiety and depression influences affective neurodevelopment
      $388,750
      award amount

  30. Timothy Otto Laumann

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00MH129616-04Department: NIH department code
      Precision Functional Mapping in Treatment-Resistant Depression
      $249,000
      award amount

  31. Rebecca Schwarzlose

    Leads 1 award · $242,838

    • 5R00HD109454-04Department: NIH department code
      Neural mechanisms of sensory over-responsivity in children with and without ASD
      $242,838
      award amount

  32. Michael T Perino

    Leads 1 award · $240,160

    • 5R00HD105002-05Department: NIH department code
      Reward motivations associated with bullying trajectories
      $240,160
      award amount

  33. Hannah Szlyk

    Leads 1 award · $196,992

    • 5K01DA058750-03Department: NIH department code
      Leveraging mHealth to Promote Recovery from Opioid Use Disorder and Commonly Occurring Mental Health Disorders among Residents of a Medium-Sized Midwestern City
      $196,992
      award amount

  34. Kevin Young Xu

    Leads 1 award · $196,236

    • 5K08DA061258-02Department: NIH department code
      Using Big Data to Optimize Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy
      $196,236
      award amount

  35. Berenice Anaya

    Leads 1 award · $194,477

    • 4K00MH135485-05Department: NIH department code
      The neural foundations of regulation in infancy and the role of individual and environmental factors over time
      $194,477
      award amount

  36. Alecia C. Vogel

    Leads 1 award · $193,523

    • 5K23MH131849-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the role of dysregulation in positive affect in developmental psychopathology.
      $193,523
      award amount

  37. Emma Covey Johnson

    Leads 1 award · $186,408

    • 5K01DA051759-05Department: NIH department code
      Identifying genetic sources of comorbidity between cannabis and schizophrenia using genome-wide and integrative omics data
      $186,408
      award amount

  38. Meghan Rose Donohue

    Leads 1 award · $180,721

    • 5K23MH125023-05Department: NIH department code
      Neurodevelopmental Emergence of Callous-Unemotional Behavior Beginning in Infancy: Neural Markers and Environmental Risk and Protective Factors
      $180,721
      award amount

  39. Caroline Paige Hoyniak

    Leads 1 award · $179,711

    • 5K23MH127305-05Department: NIH department code
      Sleep Disturbances and Circadian Misalignment as Potential Markers of Early Childhood Depression
      $179,711
      award amount

  40. Laura Hennefield

    Leads 1 award · $179,399

    • 5K01MH127412-04Department: NIH department code
      Suicidality in Young Children: Social and Cognitive Developmental Markers of Risk and Resiliency
      $179,399
      award amount

  41. Devin Banks

    Leads 1 award · $166,775

    • 5K08DA058080-03Department: NIH department code
      An Integrated Geospatial and Community-based Model to Prevent Opioid Overdose among Black Americans
      $166,775
      award amount

  42. Rachel Emma Lean

    Leads 1 award · $165,521

    • 5K01MH122735-05Department: NIH department code
      Investigating Links Between Dysfunctional Parenting and Infant Brain Connectivity on Development of Effortful Control
      $165,521
      award amount

  43. Abdallah M Eteleeb

    Leads 1 award · $148,581

    • 5K25AG083057-03Department: 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

  44. Miguel Minaya

    Leads 1 award · $126,981

    • 5K01AG083215-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular drivers of tauopathies in stem cell models from diverse human populations
      $126,981
      award amount

  45. Ricardo D'oliveira Albanus

    Leads 1 award · $125,776

    • 5K99AG086583-02Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and single-cell multi-omic characterization of Alzheimer's disease risk and resilience pathways
      $125,776
      award amount

  46. Mary Katherine Osborn Ray

    Leads 1 award · $119,648

    • 5K01DK131339-04Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Glucose Variability on Dynamic Cognitive Function in Youth with Type 1 Diabetes
      $119,648
      award amount

  47. Lisa Gorham

    Leads 1 award · $36,673

    • 1F30HD119918-01Department: NIH department code
      Very Preterm Birth and Cortical Expansion in Early Life
      $36,673
      award amount

  48. Justin G Wang

    Leads 1 award · $36,046

    • 5F31DK138755-02Department: NIH department code
      Interrogating Ventral Pallidal Circuits as a Therapeutic Target for Obesity
      $36,046
      award amount

  49. Nuri B Farber

    Leads 1 award · $1

    • 5R25MH112473-08Department: NIH department code
      Washington University Psychiatry Residency Research Education Program

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

      $1
      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.