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Internal, state, federal and foundation grants and programs

Grants

Jennifer Manly, MD, Neurology,  was awarded $9,227,171 from the National Institute on Aging for Offspring Study of Mechanisms for Racial Disparities in Alzheimer's Disease.

Richard P Mayeux, MD, MSc, was awarded $8,800,813 from the National Institute on Aging for Genetic Epidemiology of Cerebrovascular Factors in Alzheimer's Disease.

Yaakov Stern, PhD, was awarded $7,180,418 from the National Institute on Aging for Exploring Cognitive Aging Using Reference Ability Neural Networks.

Nicole  Schupf, PhD, was awarded $5,747,597 from the National Institute on Aging for Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease in Adults with Down Syndrome.

Jose  Luchsinger, MD, PhD, was awarded $5,294,619 from the National Institute on Aging for Interdisciplinary Research to Understand the Interplay of Diabetes; Cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Jose Luchsinger, MD, PhD General Medicine, was awarded $4,296,110 from the National Institute on Aging for "Metformin in Alzheimer's Dementia Prevention (MAP)."

Elizabeth M Hillman, PhD, was awarded $4,166,051 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Decoding the neural basis of resting-state functional connectivity mapping.

Adam M Brickman, PhD, was awarded $3,810,773 from the National Institute on Aging for Tau PET imaging in racially/ethnically diverse middle-aged adults.

Cristiane S Duarte, PhD, MPH, was awarded $3,407,813 from the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health for Breaking the cycle of intergenerational disadvantage: neurodevelopment among Puerto Rican children.

Lawrence H. Schwartz, MD, DSc, and Binsheng Zhao, DSc, Radiology, were awarded $3,093,235 from the National Cancer Institute for “Integrating Radiomics Into S0819 and Lung-MAP, Biomarker-Driven Clinical Trials for Lung Cancer.”

Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, was awarded $2,678,327 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for “Effects of Flame Retardants on Brain Function and Attentional Deficits in School-Age Children – Brain Imaging, Neurobehavioral, and Gut Microbiome Studies in a Longitudinal Birth Cohort.”

Joseph J. Mann, MD, was awarded $2,629,348 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Antecedents of Suicidal Behavior Related Neurobiology.

Richard P Mayeux, MD, MSc, was awarded $2,553,177 from the National Institute on Aging for Genetic Studies of Alzheimer's Disease in Caribbean Hispanics.

R. Graham Barr, MD, PhD, General Medicine, was awarded $2,391,491 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for "Combined Cardiopulmonary Failure in COPD: Spiromics HF."

Jose  Luchsinger, MD, was awarded $2,373,535 from the National Institute on Aging for Interdisciplinary Research to Understand the Interplay of Diabetes; Cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Davangere P Devanand, MBBS, MD, was awarded $2,372,211 from the National Institute on Aging for Anti-Viral therapy in Alzheimer's disease.

Charles E Schroeder, PhD, was awarded $1,892,182 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Neurobiology and dynamics of Active Sensing.

Cristiane S Duarte, PhD, MPH, Glorisa J Canino, PhD, Catherine E Monk, PhD, and Jonathan E Posner, MD, were awarded $1,604,275 from the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health for "Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Disadvantage: Neurodevelopment Among Puerto Rican Children."

Jose Luchsinger, MD, MPH, was awarded $1,555,003 from the National Institute on Aging for Interdisciplinary Research to Understand the Interplay of Diabetes; Cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Jose Luchsinger, MD, MPH, was awarded $1,471,549 from the National Institute on Aging for Are there ethnic differences in brain amyloid and tau in the seventh decade of life?.

Lawrence H. Schwartz, MD, DSc, Radiology, was awarded $1,345,200 from the National Cancer Institute for “Quantitative Imaging Tools to Derive DW-MRI Oncological Biomarkers.”

Adam M Brickman, PhD, was awarded $1,213,752 from the National Institute on Aging for Resilience Mechanisms Underlying Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Alzheimer?s Disease.

Jose Luchsinger, MD, MPH, was awarded $1,193,897 from the National Institute on Aging for Diabetes Status and Brain Amyloid in Middle Aged Hispanics.

Ray Lee, PhD, Zuckerman Institute; Nim Tottenham, PhD, Psychology, and Paul Sajda, PhD, Biomedical Engineering were awarded $999,834 from ECR (Education and Human Resources Core Research), Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems program of the National Science Foundation for "NCS-FO: Developing dyadic fMRI methodology to quantify and model human brain-to-brain interactions."

Charles E Schroeder, PhD, was awarded $987,918 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Defining Neuronal Circuits and Cellular Processes Underlying Resting fMRI Signals.

Charles E Schroeder, PhD, was awarded $945,540 from the  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for Dynamic Neural Mechanisms of Audiovisual Speech Perception.

Yaakov Stern, PhD, was awarded $942,326 from the National Institute on Aging for Imaging of Cognition; Learning and Memory in Aging.

Bret R Rutherford, MD, was awarded $920,217 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of the Accelerated Aging Phenotype in PTSD.

Daniel C. Javitt, PhD, MD, Psychiatry, was awarded $889,414 from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Early Cortical Processing in Schizophrenia."     

Helen Blair Simpson, MD, PhD, was awarded $857,083 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Identifying Reproducible Brain Signatures of Obsessive-Compulsive Profiles.

Jose Luchsinger, MD, MPH, General Medicine, was awarded $821,822 from the National Institute on Aging for "Auditory, Olfactory, and Motor Correlates of In-Vivo AD Neuropathology and Cognitive Decline in Late-Middle Age."

Jose Gutierrez Contreras, MD, MPH, was awarded $796,592 from the National Institute on Aging for Genetic Contribution to Brain Arterial Dilatation and its Role in Cognition and dementia.

Lawrence S Honig, Md, PhD, FAAN, was awarded $793,886 from the National Institute on Aging for Clinical Core.

Richard P Sloan, PhD, was awarded $788,271 from the National Institute on Aging for Dietary Modulation of Neuroinflammation in Age-Related Memory Disorders.

Yian Gu was awarded $783,391 from the National Institute on Aging for The role of inflammation in the association between diet and Alzheimer's disease

Nim Tottenham, PhD, Psychology, and Michael Peter Milham, PhD, Nathan Kline Institute, were awarded $782,745 from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Predicting Heterogeneous Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in School-aged Children with Early Caregiving Adversities."

Steven J Shea was awarded $771,128 from the  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute  for HLD-mediated cholesterol efflux and plaque inflammation in MESA.

Yian Gu was awarded $767,459  from the National Institute on Aging  for Diet in relation to brain and cognitive health in a middle-aged multiethnic population: nutritional implications for aging and Alzheimer's disease.

Marie-Pierre St-Onge was awarded $763,453 from the  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute  for Effect of long-term sleep restriction on energy balance.

Marie-Pierre St-Onge was awarded $759,752 from the  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute  for Impact of circadian misalignment on energy balance regulation.

Christoph Juchem PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Tommy Vaughan, PhD, Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Zuckerman Institute, and Harish Krishnaswamy PhD, Electrical Engineering, were awarded $751,678 from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a subaward of "Imaging Human Brain Function with Minimal Mobility Restrictions."Davangere P Devanand was awarded $739,075 from the National Institute on Aging for Cognitive Training And Neuroplasticity In Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Nim Tottenham, PhD, Psychology, was awarded $736,672 from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Predicting Heterogeneous Neurodevelopmental Outcomes In School-Age Children With Early Caregiving Adversities."

Guillermo Horga was awarded $745,111 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Deficient Belief Updating as a Convergent Computational Mechanism of Psychosis.

Jennifer Manly, MD, Neurology, was awarded $735,139 from the National Institute on Aging for Offpsring Study of Mechanisms for Racial Disparities in Alzheimer's Disease.

Joanna E Steinglass was awarded $734,744 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Longitudinal Assessment of Neural Circuits in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa.

Scott A Small was awarded $710,930 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Glutamate reducing interventions in schizophrenia.

Mary Dozier and Nim Tottenham, PhD, Psychology, were awarded $702,237 from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Intervening Early with Neglected Children: Key Behavioral and Neurobiological Outcomes in Adolescence."

Marisa N Spann was awarded $692,392 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Intergenerational Transmission of Deficits In Self-Regulatory Control.

Myrna M Weissman was awarded $677,356 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Three Generations at High and Low Risk for Depression Followed Longitudinally.

Nim Tottenham, PhD, Psychology, is a co-investigator with Tanja Jovanovic who was awarded  $657,744 from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Impact Of Trauma Exposure On Critical Periods In Brain Development And Fear Processing In Children."

Elisa E Konofagou was awarded $655,815 from the National Institute on Aging for Assessment of Ultrsound-facilitated Neurotherapeutics in Alzheimer's Disease.

Elisa E Konofagou was awarded $654,835 from the  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute  for Carotid plaque assessment using Pulse Wave Imaging.

Guillermo Horga was awarded $651,817 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Individualized risk prediction in persons at clinical high-risk for psychosis using neuromelanin-sensitive MRI.

Elisa E. Konofagou, PhD, Biomedical Engineering, was awarded $647,578 from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for "Mechanistic Monitoring Of Ultrasound Neuromodulation."

Bret Rutherford, MD, Psychiatry, was awarded $643,238 from the National Institute Of Mental Health for "Targeting Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Slowing to Improve Late Life Depression."

Jonathan E Posner was awarded $642,914 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Effects of prenatal maternal depression and antidepressant exposures on offspring neurodevelopmental trajectories: A birth cohort study.

Bret Rutherford, MD, Psychiatry, was awarded $639,170 from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Targeting Dopaminergic Mechanisms Of Slowing To Improve Late Life Depression."

Christina W. Hoven was awarded $637,556 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for Cognitive Control in Children of SUD Parents: A Longitudinal Multimodal MRI Study.

Franklin R. Schneier was awarded $636,053 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Gaze-contingent music reward therapy for social anxiety.

Richard W Foltin was awarded $625,447 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for Impulsivity In Cocaine Abusers: Relationship to Drug Taking and Treatment Outcome.

Randolph S Marshall was awarded $622,387 from the  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for Carotid Revascularization and Medical Management for Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis Trial - Hemodynamics (CREST-H).

Virginia A. Rauh, ScD, Population and Family Health was awarded $612,890 from the National Institute Of Environmental Health Sciences for "Brain And Behavioral Indicators Of Risk For Parkinsonism Among Adolescents With Early Pesticide Exposure."

Joseph J. Mann was awarded $591,986 from the National Institute of Mental Health for PET Neuroimaging in Vivo in Mood Disorders and Suicidal Behavior.

Eldad Arie Hod, MD, Pathology and Cell Biology, was awarded $590,148 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for "Neurocognitive effects of iron deficiency in blood donors."

Suzette M Evans was awarded $586,571 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Choices to Smoke Cannabis in Cannabis Use Disorder.

Elisa E Konofagou was awarded $580,371 from the National Cancer Institute for An integrated theranostic system for breast cancer.

Jose Gutierrez-Contreras, MD, MPH, Neurology, was awarded $554,226 from the National Institute on Aging for "Accelerated Non-Atherosclerotic Brain Arterial Aging Relationship to Alzheimer's Disease."

Kevin Ochsner, PhD, Psychology, was awarded $541,229 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for "Neural and Mobile Assessment of Behavior Change among Problem Drinkers."

Lila Davachi, PhD, Psychology, was awarded $532,946 from the National Institute Of Mental Health for "Medial Temporal Lobe Contributions To Episodic Memory."

Andrea  Baccarelli was awarded $531,577 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for Effects of Flame Retardants on Brain Function and Attentional Deficits in School-age Children - Brain Imaging; Neurobehavioral; and Gut Microbiome Studies in a Longitudinal Birth Cohort.

Daphna Shohamy, PhD, Zuckerman Institute and Psychology,was awarded $526,341 from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Differentiating Reward Seeking and Loss Avoidance with Reference-Dependent Learning Models." 

Michael Rosenbaum was awarded $525,993 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for Functional imaging and eating behavior among FTO genotypes in pre-obese children

Frederica P Perera was awarded $525,000 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health

Joanna E Steinglass was awarded $523,678 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Neural Mechanisms of Food Choice in Anorexia Nervosa.

Xavier Pi-Sunyer was awarded $480,011 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for Lifestyle Interventions in Overweight and Obese Pregnant Women

Stan Colcombe was awarded $427,701 from the National Institute on Aging for Mapping interindividual variation in the aging connectome.

Yael Cycowicz, PhD, Psychiatry, will receive $498,774 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health for "Multimodal Neuroimaging of Cognitive and Emotional Networks in Young Adults Exposed to 9/11 as Children."

Jose Luchsinger was awarded $498,270 from the National Institute on Aging for Interdisciplinary Research to Understand the Interplay of Diabetes; Cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimers disease.

Andrew J Dwork was awarded $491,148 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Application of Advanced Quantitative Methods to Schizophrenia Research in Macedonia.

Aniruddha Das was awarded $475,643 from the National Eye Institute for Endogenous neural activity: neurophysiology; optical imaging; fMRI; and behavior..

Edward D Huey was awarded $473,900 from the National Institute on Aging for Neuroanatomical associations with the factor structure underlying neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease.

Seonjoo Lee was awarded $448,099 from the National Institute on Aging for Statistical method for neural mechanism mediating and moderating cognitive system in Alzheimer's disease and aging research.

Yuval Y. Neria was awarded $423,903 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Neural Signature of Fear Overgeneralization in Trauma Exposed Adults.

Edward D. Huey, MD, Psychiatry, was awarded $420,500 from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Using RDoC Negative and Positive Valence Paradigms to Investigate the Mechanisms of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms (NPS) in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias."

Bret R Rutherford was awarded $416,191 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of the Accelerated Aging Phenotype in PTSD.

Adam M Brickman was awarded $414,818 from the National Institute on Aging for Tau PET imaging in racially/ethnically diverse middle-aged adults.

Barbara Stanley was awarded $407,072 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Neurobiological Underpinnings of Two Suicidal Subtypes

Richard P Mayeux was awarded $404,166 from the National Institute on Aging for Genetic Studies of Alzheimer's Disease in Caribbean Hispanics.

Vincent P. Ferrera, PhD, Zuckerman Institute and Neuroscience, was awarded $400,000 from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Focused ultrasound for noninvasive brain stimulation."Bret Rutherford, MD, Psychiatry, was awarded $398,756 from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Mechanisms Of Antidepressant Non-Response In Late-Life Depression."

Yaakov Stern was awarded $378,639 from the National Institute on Aging for Exploring Cognitive Aging Using Refernce Ability Neural Networks.

Nicole Schupf was awarded $355,477 from the National Institute on Aging for Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease in Adults with Down Syndrome.

Davangere P Devanand was awarded $353,236 from the National Institute on Aging for Olfactory Impairment In Offspring Study Of Racial Disparities In Alzheimer'S Disease.

Patrick J Brown was awarded $348,334 from the National Institute of Mental Health for 2/5 Neurocognitive and neuroimaging biomarkers: predicting progression towards dementia in patients with treatment resistant late-life depression.

Richard P Sloan was awarded $347,828 from the National Institute on Aging for Dietary Modulation of Neuroinflammation in Age-Related Memory Disorders.

Elizabeth M Hillman was awarded $346,197 from the  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for In-vivo optical imaging of neurovascular coupling and cerebral metabolism.

Nim Tottenham, PhD, Psychology, is a co-investigator with Meital Nehta who was awarded $344,485 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the National Institute of Mental Health for "Functional Brain Networks Mediating Individual Differences in Valence Bias."

Rachel Marsh was awarded $341,078 from the National Institute of Mental Health for 1/2 Task control circuit targets for obsessive compulsive behaviors in children.

Joseph J. Mann was awarded $340,561 from the National Institute of Mental Health for 2/2 - Familial Early-Onset Suicide Attempt Biomarkers.

Sairam Geethanath, PhD, Zuckerman Institute, is the site PI on the sub-contract on the supplementary award with Douglas C. Noll and Jeffrey A. Fessler, who were awarded  $334,663 from the National Institute Of Biomedical Imaging And Bioengineering for "Fast Functional Mri With Sparse Sampling And Model-Based Reconstruction."

Ragy Girgis, MD, Psychiatry, was awarded $329,528 over five years from the National Institute of Mental Health for a subaward of “Individualized Risk Prediction in Persons at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis Using Neuromelanin-Sensitive MRI” and $135,311 plus $592,441 over five years from the National Institute Of Mental Health for "The Neurobiology of Violence in a Psychosis Risk Cohort." 

Mark D Underwood was awarded $291,834 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Neurobiology of Suicide: Childhood Adversity; Neuroinflammation and Genomics

Adam M Brickman was awarded $272,400 from the National Institute on Aging for Tau PET imaging in racially/ethnically diverse middle-aged adults.

Tal Nuriel, PhD, Pathology and Cell Biology, was awarded $243,000 from the National Institute on Aging for "Investigating the Effect of APOE4 Expression on AD-Relevant Tauopathy."

Bret R Rutherford was awarded $241,794 from the National Institute on Aging for Sensation and Psychiatry: Linking Age-Related Hearing Loss toLate-Life Depression and Cognitive Decline.

Gary J Schwartz was awarded $235,505 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for Animal Phenotyping (Core B).

Jennifer Manly, MD, Neurology, was awarded $235,140 from the National Institute on Aging for Diversity Supplement in Offpsring Study of Mechanisms for Racial in Alzheimer's Disease.

Peter Lakatos was awarded $225,635 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Prefrontal/motor control of thalamocortical dynamics in auditory active sensing.

Ralf Jürgen Kayser was awarded $202,500 from the National Institute of Mental Health for MDD Treatment Response and Functional Connectivity of Brain Regions via Reference-free EEG: Further Development and Integration of Biomarkers Using Multisite EMBARC Data

Noam Schneck was awarded $199,800 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Predicting complicated grief from grief processing.

Daniel Kimmel was awarded $197,640 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Neural and behavioral mechanisms of abstraction in humans.

Gaurav H Patel was awarded $197,489 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Neural substrates of attention and social cognition impairment in schizophrenia.

Claudia Lugo-Candelas was awarded $197,373 from the National Institute of Mental Health for A longitudinal study of prenatal maternal obesity and the fetal origins of impulsivity in Puerto Rican children.

Martin Lan, MD, PhD, Psychiatry was awarded $194,400 from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Serotonin 1A Receptor PET Imaging and SSRI Outcome in Bipolar Depression."

Alla Landa was awarded $193,096 from the National Institute on Aging for Early  Interpersonal Adversity and Neural Predisposition to Chronic Pain.

Nasir Naqvi, MD, PhD, Psychiatry was awarded  $189,157 for "The Role Of Neural Systems For Emotion Regulation In Coping With Alcohol Craving."

Spiro Peter Pantazatos was awarded $184,867 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Integrative neuroinformatics to relate genomics to neurocircuitry and psychopathology

Jiook Cha, PhD, Psychiatry, will receive $183,289 from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Neural Correlates of Fear Over-Generalization in Youth with Pathological Anxiety."

Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez was awarded $183,276 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Neural Correlates of Location-Specific Contextual Threat Discrimination in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders.

Adam M Brickman, PhD, Neurology, was awarded $174,880 from the National Institute on Aging for "Hippocampal Circuitry and White Matter Abnormalities in Aging and AD."

Elizabeth Oelsner was awarded $171,612 from the  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for Hypercoagulability and Chronic Lung Disease in Older Adults.

Wendy Vargas, MD, Neurology, was awarded $166,944 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development for "The Educational Impact of Childhood-Onset Multiple Sclerosis."

Richard P Mayeux was awarded $162,000 from the National Institute on Aging for Genetic Studies of Alzheimer's Disease in Caribbean Hispanics.

Marisa N Spann was awarded $160,353 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for Maternal Immune Activation and Fetal-Infant Neurobehavioral Development.

Richard P Mayeux was awarded $158,803 from the National Institute on Aging for Genetic Epidemiology of Alzheimer's Disease in Hispanics.

William Charles Kreisl was awarded $157,842 from the National Institute on Aging for Imaging inflammation and tau in elders with different clinical and biomarker profiles of Alzheimer?s disease.

Michael Peter Milham was awarded $151,770 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Neuroimaging Core.

Todd Ogden was awarded $146,269 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Statistical Models of Suicidal Behavior and Brain Biology Using Large Data Sets

Amy Margolis was awarded $131,309 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for Effects of Prenatal Exposure To Environmental Tobacco Smoke on Brain Function and Academic Skills.

Diana M Martinez was awarded $126,360 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for Using PET to Image the Neurochemistry of Addiction.

Yunglin Gazes was awarded $124,551 from the National Institute on Aging for Longitudinal changes in white matter integrity predicting cognitive changes in reasoning and vocabulary abilities.

Joanna E Steinglass was awarded $123,146 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Training and Mentoring in Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Eating Disorders.

Elizabeth Oelsner was awarded $120,000 from the  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute  for Ventilation and Pulmonary Endothelium Toxicities (VaPE-Tox) of E-cigarettes: A Randomized Crossover Pilot Study.

Suzette M Evans was awarded $117,816 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Choices to Smoke Cannabis in Cannabis Use Disorder.

Joseph J. Mann was awarded $104,336 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Antecedents of Suicidal Behavior Related Neurobiology.

Patrick Brown, PhD, Psychiatry, will receive $86,343 from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Neurocognitive and Neuroimaging Biomarkers: Predicting Progression Towards Dementia in Patients with Treatment Resistant Late-life Depression."

Richard P Mayeux was awarded $75,317 from the National Institute on Aging for Genetic Epidemiology of Cerebrovascular Factors in Alzheimer's Disease.

Charles E Schroeder was awarded $53,693 from the National Institute of Mental Health for ConProject-008.

Daniel C. Javitt was awarded $45,279 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Early Cortical Processing in Schizophrenia.

Christina W. Hoven was awarded $9,504 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for Cognitive Control in Children of SUD Parents: A Longitudinal Multimodal MRI Study.

Elisa E. Konofagou was awarded $690,640 from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for A Theranostic System for Ultrasound-Facilitated Blood-Brain Barrier Opening.

Jose A. Luchsinger was awarded $180,895 from the National Institute on Aging for Midcareer Award for Research in Dementia Risk Factors and Prevention.

Jonathan Posner was awarded $587,272 from the National Institute of Mental Health for Maternal Adversity, Inflammation, and Neurodevelopment: How Intergenerational Processes Perpetuate Disadvantage in a Low-Resource Setting.

Francesca Zanderigo was awarded $463,448 from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for Noninvasive Quantification of Brain Glucose Metabolism Using a Portable Positron Emission Tomography Camera.
 

 

Foundations

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Honors and Awards

Jia Guo's graduate student Haoran Sun is on the list of finalists for the ISBI 2020 Best Paper Award for her paper Substituting Gadolinium In Brain MRI Using Deepcontrast.

Mickey Goldberg has been awarded the Distinguished Career Award from the Society for the Neural Control of Movement. The Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) is an international community of scientists, clinician-investigators and students all engaged in research whose common goal is to understand how the brain controls movement. He will accept the award at the Society for the Neural Control of Movement's Annual Meeting on May 1, 2020. More information can be found here

Richard Axel is a 2019 recipient of funding from The American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing engineering and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people. Richard Mayeux, Michael Shadlen, and Paul Sajda are past recipients of AAAS funding.

Ragy Girgis, MD, Psychiatry, is the 2016 recipient of The Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award which provides grants to junior physician scientists that facilitate their transition to independent clinical research careers.

Elisa Konofagou, PhD, was named a Fulbright Scholar in 2018. The program is part of the United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and offers over 500 teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries.

Jennifer Manly, MD, Neurology, was awarded The Ford Foundation Fellowship, a program that seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s university faculties to maximize the educational benefits of diversity.

The National Academy of Medicine elects members in recognition of distinguished professional achievement in a field related to medicine and health. Members include Columbia MR Research Center investigators Eric Kandel, Richard Mayeux, Michael Shadlen, and Myrna Weissman

The National Academy of Sciences recognizes members for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original scientific research. Members include Columbia MR Research Center investigators Richard Axel, Michael Goldberg, and Eric Kandel.

The NIH Director's Pioneer Award supports scientists who propose pioneering approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research. Awardees include Columbia MR Research Center investigator Jonathan Posner.

The NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is awarded in support of the early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education. Winners include Columbia MR Research Center investigators X. Edward Guo, Elizabeth HillmanElisa KonofagouNima MesgaraniPaul Sajda, and Daphna Shohamy.

Nima Mesgarani, PhD, SEAS, was named in The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences which provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health.

Sloan Research Fellowships, which seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise, have been awarded to Columbia MR Research Center investigators Vincent FerreraJacqueline Gottlieb, and Liam Paninski.

Guillermo Horga, MD, PhD, Psychiatry, was selected as an Irving Scholar for “Investigating the Use of Neuromelanin-Sensitive MRI for Risk Staging of Psychosis”. 

Christopher Boyce, PhD, SEAS, was selected as a 2020 Columbia University RISE awardee for "Take a look inside – Magnetic Resonance Imaging of magma analogues to study volcanic eruptions".

 

Sponsored Research Agreements (SRAs)

 

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