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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Neurosciences at Weill Cornell Medicine

New York, NY

Funding
$19M
$19,044,284
Awards
31
FY2026 NIH awards in Neurosciences
Principal investigators
38
25 lead a grant here, 13 co-investigators
Department rank
#9
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 Weill Cornell Medicine page.

Leads a grant in this department

25 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. Zhuhao Wu

    Leads 1 award · $1,611,088

    • 1R01MH142410-01Department: NIH department code
      AlphaFold-Assisted Affinity Probe Resource for Scalable Brain Protein Mapping with Reference Datasets

      Principal investigators: Zhuhao Wu (contact PI), Wenjin Jim Zheng

      $1,611,088
      award amount

  2. Jacqueline Burre

    Leads 2 awards · $1,525,612

    • 5R01NS136423-02Department: NIH department code
      Changes in Synaptic Vesicle-Binding of Alpha-Synuclein as an Early Biomarker for Synucleinopathies

      Principal investigators: Jacqueline Burre (contact PI), Manu Sharma

      $770,652
      award amount
    • 5R01NS126342-03Department: NIH department code
      The Impact of Beta- and Gamma-Synucleins on Alpha-Synuclein's Synaptic Function

      Principal investigators: Jacqueline Burre (contact PI), Manu Sharma

      $754,960
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AG083949-03, led by Manu Sharma.

  3. Giovanni Manfredi

    Leads 2 awards · $1,497,956

    • 5R35NS122209-06Department: NIH department code
      Mitochondrial Integrated Stress Response in Neurological Diseases
      $1,101,750
      award amount
    • 1R21AR087068-01Department: NIH department code
      Modulating ER stress-induced lipotoxicity to ameliorate mitochondrial myopathy

      Principal investigators: Giovanni Manfredi (contact PI), Marilena D'aurelio

      $396,206
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R21AR085715-02, led by Marilena D'aurelio.

  4. Costantino Iadecola

    Leads 2 awards · $1,481,137

    • 5R01NS126467-05Department: NIH department code
      ApoE4, Neurovascular Injury and Cognitive Impairment
      $818,187
      award amount
    • 5R01NS037853-28Department: NIH department code
      Alzheimer Pathology and Neurovascular Dysfunction
      $662,950
      award amount

  5. Susan A Gauthier

    Leads 2 awards · $1,289,670

    • 5R01NS134646-03Department: NIH department code
      Multi-Scale, Multi-Modal Imaging Assessment of Trajectories of Cognitive Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis

      Principal investigators: Susan A Gauthier (contact PI), Amy Frances Kuceyeski

      $663,449
      award amount
    • 5R01NS136864-03Department: NIH department code
      Quantification of the Innate Immune Activity within Chronic Lesions as a Novel Treatment Biomarker in Multiple Sclerosis

      Principal investigators: Susan A Gauthier (contact PI), Thanh D Nguyen

      $626,221
      award amount

  6. Josef Anrather

    Leads 2 awards · $1,117,416

    • 5R01AI174064-04Department: NIH department code
      Immune Privilege, CNS Autoimmunity, and Clostridium perfringens Epsilon Toxin

      Principal investigators: Josef Anrather (contact PI), Yinghua Ma

      $662,275
      award amount
    • 5R01NS132493-04Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Dendritic Cells in Regulating the Gut-Brain Immune Axis in Ischemic Stroke
      $455,141
      award amount

  7. Teresa A Milner

    Leads 2 awards · $878,743

    • 5R01HL136520-08Department: NIH department code
      Contribution of G protein coupled estrogen receptor to changes in hypothalamic plasticity and hypertension susceptibility in mice with accelerated ovarian failure

      Principal investigators: Teresa A Milner (contact PI), Michael J Glass

      $713,974
      award amount
    • 5T32DA039080-09Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and Environmental Influences on Addiction
      $164,769
      award amount

  8. Hibiki Fujita

    Leads 1 award · $808,996

    • 5R01NS139141-03Department: NIH department code
      CHCHD10 Frontotemporal Dementia, Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies

      Principal investigators: Hibiki Fujita (contact PI), David Eliezer

      $808,996
      award amount

  9. Anna Goldshmidt Orr

    Leads 1 award · $754,382

    • 5R01AG095960-02Department: NIH department code
      Complex III-derived reactive oxygen species in mitochondrial-nuclear crosstalk in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

      Principal investigators: Anna Goldshmidt Orr (contact PI), Adam L Orr

      $754,382
      award amount

  10. Wenjie Luo

    Leads 1 award · $711,898

    • 5R01AG096902-02Department: NIH department code
      CH25H mediates microglial neuroinflammation and tau toxicities in AD

      Principal investigators: Wenjie Luo (contact PI), Li Gan, Shiaoching Gong

      $711,898
      award amount

  11. Margaret Elizabeth Ross

    Leads 1 award · $702,941

  12. Manu Sharma

    Leads 1 award · $697,326

    • 5R01AG083949-03Department: NIH department code
      Tau proteostasis by chaperone-complexes in tauopathies including Alzheimer's disease

      Principal investigators: Manu Sharma (contact PI), Jacqueline Burre

      $697,326
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS136423-02, led by Jacqueline Burre; 5R01NS126342-03, led by Jacqueline Burre.

  13. Li Gan

    Leads 1 award · $681,948

    • 5R01AG092462-02Department: NIH department code
      Mapping proteomic changes of tauopathy in human neurons

      Principal investigators: Li Gan (contact PI), Feixiong Cheng, Haiyuan Yu

      $681,948
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01AG096902-02, led by Wenjie Luo.

  14. Peter A Goldstein

    Leads 1 award · $635,074

    • 1R61NS147892-01Department: NIH department code
      Human(h) HCN1-Selective Nanobodies for use in the Development of Novel, Non-Opioid Antihyperalgesics for the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain
      $635,074
      award amount

  15. Dilek Colak

    Leads 1 award · $591,700

    • 5R01MH129797-05Department: NIH department code
      Astrocyte RNA degradation and cognitive function
      $591,700
      award amount

  16. Caroline Alayne Pearson

    Leads 1 award · $582,304

    • 5R01NS138625-02Department: NIH department code
      Determining the Role of Glucose Transporter 1 in Neural Development and Disease
      $582,304
      award amount

  17. Hagen Ulrich Tilgner

    Leads 1 award · $552,384

    • 5R35GM152101-03Department: NIH department code
      Multiome measurements connecting transcription start sites at single-nucleotide resolution, DNA methylation and open chromatin status to splicing outcome across single cells in health and disease
      $552,384
      award amount

  18. Jonathan D Victor

    Leads 1 award · $520,280

    • 5R01EY007977-34Department: NIH department code
      Central Processing of Visual Information
      $520,280
      award amount

  19. Alexander Galkin

    Leads 1 award · $494,970

    • 5R01NS131322-03Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Landscape and Mitochondrial ROS Balance in Brain Ischemia/Reperfusion

      Principal investigators: Alexander Galkin (contact PI), Steven S Gross, Vadim S Ten

      $494,970
      award amount

  20. Giuseppe Faraco

    Leads 1 award · $423,750

    • 5R01NS130045-05Department: NIH department code
      Gut Immunity, Neurovascular Dysregulation and Cognitive Impairment
      $423,750
      award amount

  21. Laibaik Park

    Leads 1 award · $423,750

    • 5R01NS097805-09Department: NIH department code
      tPA and Cerebrovascular Regulation in a Model of ß-amyloid Pathology
      $423,750
      award amount

  22. Natalia Vanesa De Marco Garcia

    Leads 1 award · $423,750

    • 5R01MH110553-10Department: NIH department code
      Neural Mechanism for the assembly of GABAergic in the cerebral cortex
      $423,750
      award amount

  23. Ping Zhou

    Leads 1 award · $423,745

    • 5R01NS128034-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of Prohibitin Nitrosylation in its Neuroprotective Functions
      $423,745
      award amount

  24. Marilena D'aurelio

    Leads 1 award · $171,090

    • 5R21AR085715-02Department: NIH department code
      Targeting GDF15-GFRAL signaling in mitochondrial myopathies

      Principal investigators: Marilena D'aurelio (contact PI), Giovanni Manfredi

      $171,090
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R21AR087068-01, led by Giovanni Manfredi.

  25. Sarah A Naguib

    Leads 1 award · $42,374

    • 5F32AG085960-03Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Cell-Type Specific Neuroprotective Mechanisms in the APOE3 Christchurch Mutation in Alzheimer's Disease
      $42,374
      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.