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Grants paid by The Mcknight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, tax year 2019
EIN 41-1563321 · Minneapolis, MN · Form 990-PF, Part XV
In tax year 2019, The Mcknight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience (EIN 41-1563321) reported 36 grants paid totaling $3,150,000. Dataset version 2026.09.0, built 2026-09-03.
Every grant, 2019
| Tax year | Recipient | Match | Amount | Type | Purpose | Source filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Uc San Francisco San Francisco, CA | U | $300,000 | approved, future | New Myelin Formation in Systems Consolidation and Retrieval of Remote Memories. Principal Investigators: Mazen Kheirbek & Jonah Chan | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Texas State University San Marcos, TX | U | $300,000 | approved, future | Does Superior Sleep Physiology Contribute to Superior Memory Function? Implications for Counteracting Forgetting. Principal Investigators: Carmen Westerberg & Ken Paller | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Uc Berkeley Berkeley, CA | U | $300,000 | approved, future | Photo-activation of Dopamine Receptors in Models of Parkinson's Disease. Principal Investigators: Ehud Isacoff & Dirk Trauner | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | B | $300,000 | approved, future | Circuit Dynamics and Cognitive Consequences of General Anesthesia. Principal Investigator: Athanossios "Thanos" Siapas | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies La Jolla, CA | B | $200,000 | approved, future | Dissecting Striatal Patch and Matrix Compartments for Action Learning. Principal Investigator: Xin Jin | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY | B | $200,000 | approved, future | Circuit Mechanisms of Memory-Linking. Principal Investigator: Denise Cai | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Washington School of Medicine in St Louis St Louis, MO | U | $200,000 | approved, future | The Neuronal Mechanisms of Information Seeking Under Uncertainty. Principal Investigator: Ilya Monosov | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CA | C | $200,000 | approved, future | Using New Approaches for Voltage Imaging to Test How Prefrontal Dopamine Receptors Contribute to Gamma Oscillations and Flexible Behavior. Principal Investigator: Vikaas Sohal | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Nyu School of Medicine New York, NY | U | $150,000 | approved, future | Cortical Sensory Modulation of Hippocampal Activity and Spatial Representation. Principal Investigator: Jayeeta Basu | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Uc Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA | U | $150,000 | approved, future | Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Maternal Behavior. Principal Investigator: Weizhe Hong | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | B | $150,000 | approved, future | Perturbing Dendritic Compartmentalization to Evaluate Single Neuron Cortical Computations. Principal Investigator: Mark Harnett | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Van Andel Research Institute Grand Rapids, MI | C | $150,000 | approved, future | Regulation Mechanism of Thermosensitive Receptors in Nervous System. Principal Investigator: Juan Du | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | U | $150,000 | approved, future | Mechanistic Insights into Membrane Remodeling at Synapses. Principal Investigator: Shigeki Watanabe | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | University of Georgia Athens, GA | B | $150,000 | approved, future | Regeneration of the Central Nervous System in Planarians. Principal Investigator: Rachel Roberts-Galbraith | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Salk Institute and Ucsd La Jolla, CA | U | $100,000 | paid | Using Deep In Vivo Two-Photon CA2+ Imaging to Study Temporal Pattern Separation. Principal Investigators: Fred Gage and Matthew Shtrahman | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Nyu Langone Health New York, NY | C | $100,000 | approved, future | TAPESTRY: A Single-cell Multi-omics Technology for High-resolution Lineage Tracing of the Human Brain. Principal Investigator: Gilad Evrony | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Marquette University Milwaukee, WI | U | $100,000 | paid | Fast Panoptical Imaging of Brain Volumes via Time-tagged Quadrangular Stereoscopy. Principal Investigator: Laroslav "Alex" Savtchouk | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Marquette University Milwaukee, WI | U | $100,000 | approved, future | Fast Panoptical Imaging of Brain Volumes via Time-tagged Quadrangular Stereoscopy. Principal Investigator: Laroslav "Alex" Savtchouk | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY | B | $100,000 | paid | Circuit Mechanisms of Memory-Linking. Principal Investigator: Denise Cai | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA | U | $100,000 | approved, future | Understanding Synaptic Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Principal Investigator: Nanthia Suthana | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Uc Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA | U | $100,000 | paid | Wireless and Programmable Recording and Stimulation of Deep Brain Activity in Freely Moving Humans Immersed in Virtual (or Augmented) Reality. Principal Investigator: Nanthia Suthana | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Rutgers University Newark, NJ | C | $100,000 | approved, future | The Regulation of Negative Autobiographical Memories via Positive Emotion-focused Strategies. Principal Investigator: Mauricio Delgado | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | U of Texas Austin Austin, TX | U | $100,000 | paid | Prefrontal Dysfunction in Fragile X Syndrome. Principal Investigators: Boris Zemelman and Daniel Johnston | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Nyu Langone Health New York, NY | C | $100,000 | paid | TAPESTRY: A Single-cell Multi-omics Technology for High-resolution Lineage Tracing of the Human Brain. Principal Investigator: Gilad Evrony | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA | U | $100,000 | paid | Understanding Synaptic Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Principal Investigator: Bruce Herring | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Boston University Dept of Psych & Brain Sci Boston, MA | U | $100,000 | approved, future | Artificially Modulating Positive and Negative Memories to Alleviate Maladaptive Fear Responses. Principal Investigator: Steve Ramirez | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Emory University and Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA | U | $100,000 | paid | Flexible electrode arrays for large-scale recordings of spikes from muscle fibers in freely behaving mice and songbirds. Principal Investigators: Sam Sober and Muhannad Bakir | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Boston University Dept of Psych & Brain Sci Boston, MA | U | $100,000 | paid | Artificially Modulating Positive and Negative Memories to Alleviate Maladaptive Fear Responses. Principal Investigator: Steve Ramirez | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Brain & Cognitive Scis Cambridge, MA | U | $100,000 | paid | New technologies for imaging and analyzing neural state-space trajectories in freely-behaving small animals. Principal Investigator: Michale S. Fee | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies La Jolla, CA | B | $100,000 | paid | Dissecting Striatal Patch and Matrix Compartments for Action Learning. Principal Investigator: Xin Jin | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Uc Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA | U | $100,000 | approved, future | Wireless and Programmable Recording and Stimulation of Deep Brain Activity in Freely Moving Humans Immersed in Virtual (or Augmented) Reality. Principal Investigator: Nanthia Suthana | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Rutgers University Newark, NJ | C | $100,000 | paid | The Regulation of Negative Autobiographical Memories via Positive Emotion-focused Strategies. Principal Investigator: Mauricio Delgado | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | University of Maryland Medical School Baltimore, MD | C | $100,000 | paid | Individual Differences in Attention Signaling in Amygdala Circuits. Principal Investigator: Donna J. Calu | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Childrens Hospital Boston Boston, MA | U | $100,000 | paid | How Episodic Memory Guides Decisions: Neural Mechanisms and Implications for Memory Loss. Principal Investigator: Gabriel Kreiman | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Washington School of Medicine in St Louis St Louis, MO | U | $100,000 | paid | The Neuronal Mechanisms of Information Seeking Under Uncertainty. Principal Investigator: Ilya Monosov | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Northwestern University Evanston, IL | B | $100,000 | paid | Re-wiring connections in the living brain. Principal Investigator: Marco Gallio | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | University of Washington Medical School Seattle, WA | U | $100,000 | paid | Neural Dynamics of Memory and Cognition in the Primate Hippocampal Formation. Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Buffalo | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | University of Washington Medical School Seattle, WA | U | $100,000 | approved, future | Neural Dynamics of Memory and Cognition in the Primate Hippocampal Formation. Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Buffalo | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CA | C | $100,000 | paid | Using New Approaches for Voltage Imaging to Test How Prefrontal Dopamine Receptors Contribute to Gamma Oscillations and Flexible Behavior. Principal Investigator: Vikaas Sohal | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | B | $75,000 | paid | Thalamocortical Mechanisms of Flexible Motor Timing. Principal Investigator: Mehrdad Jazayeri | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CA | U | $75,000 | paid | The Establishment and Regulation of Rod and Cone Vision. Principal Investigator: Felice Dunn | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX | B | $75,000 | approved, future | Function and Mechanism of Input-specific Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity In Vivo. Principal Investigator: Mingshan Xue | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Harvard Medical School Boston, MA | D | $75,000 | paid | Defining the Transcriptional Logic Underlying Neural Network Assembly in the Drosophila Visual System. Principal Investigator: Matthew Pecot | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Columbia University New York, NY | B | $75,000 | paid | State-dependent Neuromodulation of a Circuit for Motion Vision. Principal Investigator: Rudy Behnia | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Salk Institute La Jolla, CA | U | $75,000 | approved, future | Spinal Circuits Controlling Dexterous Forelimb Movement. Principal Investigator: Eiman Azim | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX | B | $75,000 | paid | Function and Mechanism of Input-specific Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity In Vivo. Principal Investigator: Mingshan Xue | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Van Andel Research Institute Grand Rapids, MI | C | $75,000 | paid | Regulation Mechanism of Thermosensitive Receptors in Nervous System. Principal Investigator: Juan Du | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | C | $75,000 | paid | Mechanisms of Myelin Membrane Growth and Wrapping. Principal Investigator: Bradley Zuchero | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Uc Los Angeles Dept of Biological Chemistry Los Angeles, CA | U | $75,000 | paid | Neural Circuit Mechanisms of maternal behavior. Principal Investigator: Weizhe Hong | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CA | U | $75,000 | approved, future | The Establishment and Regulation of Rod and Cone Vision. Principal Investigator: Felice Dunn | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Washington University in St Louis St Louis, MO | U | $75,000 | paid | Sensory and motor computations underlying postural control. Principal Investigator: Martha Bagnall | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | University of Georgia Athens, GA | B | $75,000 | paid | Regeneration of the Central Nervous System in Planarians. Principal Investigator: Rachel Roberts-Galbraith | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | U of California Berkeley Bioengineering Berkeley, CA | U | $75,000 | paid | Neurobiological Basis of Vocal Production Learning in the Developing Mammalian Brain. Principal Investigator: Michael Yartsev | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | University of Washington Seattle, WA | B | $75,000 | approved, future | Proprioceptive Feedback Control of Locomotion in Drosophila. Principal Investigator: John Tuthill | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | New York University New York, NY | C | $75,000 | paid | Neural Mechanisms Underlying Olfactory Search Behavior in Drosophila Melanogaster. Principal Investigator: Katherine Nagel | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Stanford University Palo Alto, CA | C | $75,000 | approved, future | Mechanisms of Myelin Membrane Growth and Wrapping. Principal Investigator: Bradley Zuchero | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Uc Berkeley Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology Berkeley, CA | U | $75,000 | paid | Mechanisms of Biological Force Sensation. Principal Investigator: Stephen Brohawn | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Nyu School of Medicine New York, NY | U | $75,000 | paid | Cortical Sensory Modulation of Hippocampal Activity and Spatial Representation. Principal Investigator: Jayeeta Basu | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Columbia University New York, NY | B | $75,000 | approved, future | State-dependent Neuromodulation of a Circuit for Motion Vision. Principal Investigator: Rudy Behnia | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | U | $75,000 | paid | Mechanistic Insights into Membrane Remodeling at Synapses. Principal Investigator: Shigeki Watanabe | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | University of Washington Seattle, WA | B | $75,000 | paid | Proprioceptive Feedback Control of Locomotion in Drosophila. Principal Investigator: John Tuthill | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Salk Institute La Jolla, CA | U | $75,000 | paid | Spinal Circuits Controlling Dexterous Forelimb Movement. Principal Investigator: Eiman Azim | 202031629349100943 |
| 2019 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | B | $75,000 | paid | Perturbing Dendritic Compartmentalization to Evaluate Single Neuron Cortical Computations. Principal Investigator: Mark Harnett | 202031629349100943 |
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