ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS
Researchers at the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences annually receive generous grants from such organizations as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and various science labs. These funds are used to support important research that can potentially effect individuals throughout the world.
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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI) |
FUNDING AGENCY |
TITLE |
| Burton, Michael | Rita Allen Foundation | Novel Models to Assess Sufficiency of Single Cell Paradigms in CB1R-Analgesia |
| Burton, Michael | Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Inc.-CO-PI with Joe Pancrazio | SRA: High Content Pain Circuit Cell Culture System |
| Burton, Michael | UTD-NRUF | SPIRe: Neuroimmune Circuits in Pain and Sepsis |
| Chapman, Sandra | General Dynamics-Sub | Validation of Cognitive Enhancement Techniques for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (VoCET-mTBI) |
| Dussor, Greg | NIH | Meningeal Prolactin Signaling and Female-Selective Migraine Mechanisms |
| Dussor, Greg | 1910 Genetics-SUB | STTR Phase I: Development of Selective Calpain-1 Inhibitors for Chronic Pain |
| Dussor, Greg | Marine Biological Lab-Sub | Site-Directed RNA Editing of Nav1.7 as a Novel Analgesic |
| Engineer, Crystal | NIH R01-TxBDC | Enhancing Speech Processing In a Rat Model of Autism Using Vagus Nerve Simulation |
| Engineer, Crystal | Eagles Autism Foundation-TxBDC | Restoring Auditory Processing in a Rat Model of Rett Syndrome |
| Filbey, Francesca | NIH | The Role of Motivation and Control in Cannabis Use Disorders: A Cross-Cultural Longitudinal Neuroimaging Study |
| Filbey, Francesca | NIH | Motor Learning Deficits in Cannabis Users |
| Filbey, Francesca | UTSW-Subaward | *Development of Pregnenolone as a Treatment for Depression |
| Filbey, Francesca | Boys Town National Research Hospital-Subaward | *The Cumulative Risk of Substance Exposure and Early Life Adversity on Child Health Development and Outcomes |
| Goffman, Lisa | NIH | Sequential Pattern Learning in Children with Developmental Language Disorder |
| Goffman, Lisa | NIH-R01 | A Developmental Framework For Linking Phonological And Morpho-syntactic Sequential Pattern Rules |
| Hart, John | Congressional Directed Medical Research | Treatment of Memory Disorders in Gulf War Illness with High Definition Transcranial Direct Cortical Stimulation |
| Hart, John | Rainwater Charitable Foundation | Study the Mechanism and Sequence of Pathological Change of How TBI Leads to Dementia in NFL Players |
| Hart, John | US Army MRAA | Multi-Site Confimatory Efficacy Treatment Trial of Combat-related PTSD |
| Hart, John | Congressional Directed Medical Research | *Treatment of Verbal Retrieval Deficits in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury with High Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation |
| Jahn, Kelly | NIH | Neural Signatures of Enhanced Central Auditory Gain in Hyperacusis |
| Kane, Heidi | UTD-NRUF | SEED: SPIRe: Families, Neighborhoods, and Sleep Among Hispanic/Latinx Parents: A Social-Ecological Approach |
| Kennedy, Kristen | NIH-National Institute on Aging | Dopaminergic and Neuroplastic Influences on Longitudinal Change in Cognitive and Brain Aging |
| Kennedy, Kristen | NIH-R21 | *The Effects of Cognitive Map Building on the Development of Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Kennedy, Kristen | Boston College | *Age Differences in When – Not Whether – Sensory Regions are Recruited during Memory Retrieval |
| Kilgard, Michael – TxBDC | Wings for Life | Promoting Recovery from Cervical Spinal Cord Injury by Pairing Rehabilitation with Vagus Nerve Stimulation |
| Kilgard, Michael – TxBDC | International Rett Syndrome Foundation Research Grant | Reversing Speech Sound Processing Deficits in Rett Syndrome |
| Kilgard, Michael – TxBDC | NIH | Vagus Nerve Stimulation Paired with Rehabilitative Training to Enhance Plasticity |
| Kilgard, Michael – TxBDC | DARPA | Targeted Neuroplasticity Training to Accelerate Complex Skill Learning |
| Kilgard, Michael – TxBDC | Wings for Life-TxBDC | Enhancing Recovery in Spinal Cord Injury Patients with Vagus Nerve Stimulation |
| Kilgard, Michael – TxBDC | Flint Rehab | FitMi VNS: The First Automated Home Therapy System for Exercise-Paired Vagus Nerve Stimulation After Stroke |
| Kolber, Ben | Duquesne University | Pain and Neurodegenerative Undergraduate Research Experiences: Interacting With Community Partners to Build Specialized and Enhanced Neurologic Disease Programs for Undergraduates |
| Kolber, Ben | Duquesne University | Pain and Neurodegenerative Undergraduate Research Experiences: Interacting with Community Partners to Build Specialized and Enhanced Neurologic Disease Programs for Undergraduates |
| Kolber, Ben | NIH-R01 | *Impact of Amygdala Lateralization on Processing and Modulation of Bladder Pain |
| Kolber, Ben | Duquesne University | *CNS Drug Discovery from the Ocean: Cyanobacterial Secondary Metabolites to Treat Comorbid Pain and Depression |
| Kolber, Ben | Allegheny Singer Research Institute-Sub | Covalent Naloxone Nanoparticles for Next Generation Fentanyl Contermeasures |
| Kolber, Ben | Communities Foundation of Texas | The University of Texas Foundation Grant Agreement, Enhance Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Experiences at UTD (ENSURE) |
| Kroener, Sven | Vulintus, LLC. | SBIR: HabiTrak: Low-cost, Wireless Home Cage Health and Activity Monitoring |
| Kroener, Sven | NIH-R01 | Synaptic Changes in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in the Development of Compulsive Alcohol Drinking |
| Kroener, Sven | NIH-R01 | Vagus Nerve Stimulation Modulates Synaptic Plasticity in the Rt Prefrontal Cortex During the Extinction of Drug-Seeking |
| Lee, Yune | NIH-R21 | *Investigating the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Language Recovery through Rhythm Therapy in Aphasia |
| Lee, Yune | Digisonic | IPA SRA: Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Using a Novel 3D Sound Therapy |
| Lee, Yune | Neurocience Innovation Foundation | Gift-SLAM Lab |
| Lee, Yune | University of Texas Foundation | TheraBeat: Sound Therapy for Alzheimer’s Patients |
| Le Prell, Colleen | Washington University St. Louis | Pharmaceutical Interventions for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss-Acute Exposure Treatment (PINIHL-AET) |
| Le Prell, Colleen | Henry M. Jackson Foundation | Functional Impairments in Service Members with Normal Audiometric Thresholds |
| Le Prell, Colleen | American Academy of Audiology | Use of In-Ear Dosimetry to Understand Musician’s Unique Sound Exposure (MUSE) |
| Lewter, Lakeisha | NIH-F32 Fellowship | *The Impact of Amygdala CGRP Receptors on the Development of Persistent Bladder Pain |
| Lobarinas, Edward | NIH-1RO1 | Effect of Inner Hair Cell Loss and Afferent Damage on Functional Hearing |
| Maguire, Mandy | UTD-NRUF | *SEED: PREP: Addressing Dialect Differences in Word Learning from Auditory and Written Contexts |
| Maguire, Mandy | UTD-NRUF | SEED: Social: The Contributions of Language and Social Profiles in Developmental Disparities of Young Hispanic, Spanish-Speaking Children from Households Experiencing Low Income |
| Maguire, Mandy | NSF | *REU Site: Culturally Responsive Research in Developmental Science |
| McIntyre Rodriguez, Christa | NIH-R56 | *Vagus Nerve Stimulation Targets Fear Pathways to Enhance Etinction of Conditioned Fear |
| McIntyre, Rodriguez, Christa | NIH-R01 | Vagus Nerve Stimulation Targets Fear Pathways to Enhance Etinction of Conditioned Fear |
| Mills, Candice | NSF | Innovating Developmental Science with an Online, Scalable Meta-Science Platform for Investigating Cognitive Development During Early Childhood |
| Mills, Candice | Duke University-Subaward | The Development of Intellectual Humility |
| Mills, Candice | George Mason University-Subaward | When Honesty is Discourages: Understanding Culturally-Endorsed Parental Lies |
| Motes, Michael | UTSW | Longitudinal Continuation of TARCC Hispanic Cohort |
| O’Toole, Alice | NIH-R01 | Human Face Representation in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks |
| O’Toole, Alice | Oak Ridge National Lab | Automated Identity Masking Experimental Design and Execution for Multi-Modal Sensor Analytics and Learning for Transportation Studies – 56% IDC |
| O’Toole, Alice | National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | Designing Tests for Forensic Facial Identification Experts: Identifying Faces of Different Races |
| O’Toole, Alice | John Hopkins Univ-Subaward | Robust Person Recognition Under Extreme Acquisition Conditions |
| Owen, Margaret | NIH/University of Georgia | Self-Regulation Development and the Transition to Middle School |
| Park, Denise | NIH | Dallas Lifespan Brain Study-Wave 3: Neurodegeneration and Resilience in Cognition |
| Park, Denise | SMU | The Dallas Asthma Brain and Cognition Study |
| Park, Jiyoung | UTD-NRUF | Seed: Social: When Our feelings Leak Out to Influence Others: Cultural Modulation of Affect Contagion |
| Pinkham, Amy | NIH-R01 | Introspective Accuracy, Bias, and Everyday Functioning in Severe Mental Illness |
| Pinkham, Amy | NIH-subaward University of California San Diego | Social Cognition and Suicide in Psychotic Disorders |
| Prager, Karen | Jerry M. Lewis, M.D. Mental Health Research Foundation (Formerly Timberlawn) | Paving the Way to Improved Marital Well-Being |
| Price, Ted | NIH-RO1 | Protease Activated Receptor Type 2 Targeting for Migraine Pain |
| Price, Ted | SRA-Merck Sharp & Dohme | SRA: In Situ Hybridization on Human DRG |
| Price, Ted | NIH-R01 | Sex-specific Regulation of Local Translation and Chronic Pain Mechanisms in Females |
| Price, Ted | NIH-R01 | Translation Control of Pain Plasticity |
| Price, Ted | UTD | Licensing Accelerator Pilot Award-NIH Protease Actived Receptor Type 2 Targeting for Migraine Pain |
| Price, Ted | UTD-NRUF | SEED: SCI award:Center for Advanced Pain Studies |
| Price, Ted | Thomas Jefferson University – Subaward | Extracellular Mechanism Regulating Synaptic Function and Pain Plasticity |
| Price, Ted | Thomas Jefferson University – Subaward | Novel Mechanisms Regulating Protein Interaction and Pain |
| Price, Ted | MD Anderson Cancer Center | Anatomic, Physiologic and Transcriptomic Mechanisms of Neuropathic Pain in Human DRG |
| Price, Ted | MD Anderson Cancer Center-Subaward | *Validation of Fibroblast-derived PI16 as a Novel Target for Pain Treatment |
| Price, Ted | MD Anderson Cancer Center-Subaward | *Nrf2 Activation for Addiction-Free Treatment of Neuropathic Pain |
| Price, Ted | UTSW-subaward | *Mechanisms of Cough in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Transmission |
| Price, Ted | Grunenthal GmbH | *SRA: Advancement of Translational Pain Research Through the Transcriptomic Analysis of the Dorsal Root Ganglia Using Cutting Edge Sequencing Technologies |
| Price, Ted | Grunenthal GmbH | *IPA SRA: Testing Agreement: Insights Into the Function of PRDM12 Through Ranscriptomic Analysis of Human Neuronal Cultures Derived From DRG After Knowck-Down of PRDM12 Using ASOs |
| Price, Ted | 4E Therapeutics | SBIR: Development and Optimization of MNK Inhibitors for the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain |
| Price, Ted | Hoba Therapeutics ApS | IPA SRA: Testing Agreement: Profiling of Human Meteorin (HB-086) Activity in Human DRGs |
| Price, Ted | University of Washington-Subaward | Identifying Novel Therapeutic Targets for Chronic Neck Pain: RNA-Sequencing in Human Painful Atlanto-Axial Arthropathy |
| Price, Ted | Allergan Inc. | IPA SRA: Evaluation of Novel Recombinant Molecules in Primary Human DRGs |
| Price, Ted | Bellus Helath Cough Inc. | SRA: P2RX2 and P2RX3 Expression in Human Gustatory Neurons |
| Rennaker, Robert — TxBDC | NIH-R01 | Enhancing Recovery after Chronic Bilateral Cervical Spinal Cord Injury with Targeted Plasticity Therapy |
| Rennaker, Robert — TxBDC | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Closed-loop Neuromodulation to Treat PTSD |
| Rincón-Cortés, Millie | NIH-K01 | Environmental Modulation of Maternal Behavior and Mesolimbic DA Function |
| Rodrigue, Karen | NIH | Mechanisms and Predictors of Brain Aging in Healthy Aging, Preclinical AD and MCI |
| Rojas, Raul | Jerry M. Lewis, M.D. Mental Health Research Foundation (Formerly Timberlawn) | Tracking the Early Bilingual Language Growth of Spanish-speaking Children in Dallas: Impact of Exogenous and Endogenous Factors |
| Rojas, Raul | Momentous Institute-MOU | Research on Bilingual Language Development and Academic Achievement in Early Childhood Program at Momentous School |
| Rojas, Raul | University of Georgia-Sub | *The Role of Fathering in the Language Development of Young, Low-Income African American and Latino Children |
| Rollins, Pam | THECB | FY21 Autism grant Program-Innovative Treatment Models |
| Rugg, Michael | NIH-R01 | Relationship Between Neural Correlates of Episodic Memory, Age, Memory Performance |
| Rugg, Michael | NSF | Effects of Age on Specificity and Control of Recollected Content |
| Rugg, Michael | UTSW-Subaward | *Using Deep Brain Stimulation of the Parietal Cortex to Investigate the Electrophysiology of Human Episodic Memory |
| Rugg, Michael | University of Notre Dame-Subaward | *Investigating the Mechanisms and Functional Consequences of Age-Related Neural Dedifferentiation |
| Rugg, Michael | University of Arizona-Subaward | *Precision and Binding as Two Dimensions of Medial Temporal Lobe Amnesia |
| Rugg, Michael | NIH-R21 | *Effects of Age on Control of Recollected Content |
| Rugg, Michael | UTSW-Subaward | Aging and Disease Course: Contributions to Lifespan Neurobiology of Schizophrenia |
| Rugg, Michael | UTSW-Subaward | Behavioral and Pharmacological Manipulation of Time Cell Activity in the Human Mesial Temporal Lobe |
| Rypma, Bart | NIH | Resting State Brain Connectivity Conference |
| Rypma, Bart | UTD-NRUF | *SEED: Workshop: Resting-State Brain Connectivity Conference at UT-Dallas in 2021 |
| Sasson, Noah | University of Edinburgh | Collaborative Agreement: Investing Information and Skill Transfer in Neurodiverse Groups Using Diffusion Chain Mehtodology: A Reolication Study |
| Seaman, Kendra | NSF | Psychological Mechanisms of Skewed Decision Making Across Adulthood |
| Shembel, Adrianna | UTD-NRUF | SEED: SPIRe: Motion Capture Metric Development for the Study of Vocal Muscle Strain |
| Small, Steven | NIH | Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting |
| Small, Steven | NSF | An Open Science Platform for the Neurobiology of Language Community |
| Swanson, Meghan | NIH-R00 | Early Social Communication Environment and Brain Development in Infants at Risk for Autism |
| Swanson, Meghan | NIH-R01 | Caregiver Speech and Brain-Behavior Development in Infants At-Risk for ASD |
| Thibodeau, Linda | NIH-R01-coPI | *Smartphone-Based Open Research Platform for Hearing Improvement Studies |
| Thorn, Catherine | UTD-NRUF | SPIRe: Inferring Effective Connectivity of Sparsely Sampled Neuronal Networks |
| Thorn, Catherine | NIH-R01 | Noradrenergic Mechanisms of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Mediated Stroke Rehabilitation |
| Wig, Gagan | James McDonnell Foundation | Autism Grant Program |
| Wig, Gagan | NIH-R01 | Socioeconomic Mediators of Adult Brain Network Resilience and Vulnerability to Cognitive Decline |
*Awarded between September 2020 and August 2021