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Grants paid by The Mcknight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, tax year 2021
EIN 41-1563321 · Minneapolis, MN · Form 990-PF, Part XV
In tax year 2021, The Mcknight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience (EIN 41-1563321) reported 36 grants paid totaling $3,125,000. Dataset version 2026.09.0, built 2026-09-03.
Every grant, 2021
| Tax year | Recipient | Match | Amount | Type | Purpose | Source filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Northwestern University Fineberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL | U | $300,000 | approved, future | Dissecting the Gut-brain Dynamics Underlying Anorexia. Principal Investigator: Lisa Beutler | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA | B | $300,000 | approved, future | Neurotensin Mediated Regulation of Hedonic Feeding Behavior and Obesity. Principal Investigator: Stephan Lammel | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | U of Alabama & Mount Sinai Medical Schools Birmingham, AL | U | $300,000 | approved, future | Leveraging Single-cell Epigenomics for Targeted Manipulation of Drug-activated Ensemble. Principal Investigator: Jeremy Day & Ian Maze | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | St Jude's Research Hospital Memphis, TN | U | $300,000 | approved, future | Identifying Brain Circuits that Connect Respiration and Cognitive State. Principal Investigator: Lindsey Schwarz | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | New York University New York, NY | U | $225,000 | approved, future | Coordinate Transforms in the Mouse Cortex. Principal Investigator: David Schneider | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | U | $225,000 | approved, future | Cellular Mechanisms Controlling Circadian Rythms. Principal Investigator: Swathi Yadlapalli | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Columbia University New York, NY | B | $225,000 | approved, future | Connectrome-constrained Models of Adaptive Behavior. Principal Investigator: Ashok Litwin-Kumar | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | C | $225,000 | approved, future | How Does the Brain Compute Using Activity Distributed Across Populations and Brain Areas? Principal Investigator: Shaul Druckmann | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | U | $225,000 | approved, future | A Feminist Framing of Fruitless: Maleness as a Suppression of Female Neural Programs. Principal Investigator: E. Josie Clowney | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, NY | B | $225,000 | approved, future | Uncovering the Molecular Basis of Microglial Function in the Stimulated Brain. Principal Investigator: Lucas Cheadle | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Boston University Boston, MA | U | $225,000 | approved, future | Linking Neural Circuits and Fluid Dynamics in the Sleeping Brain. Principal Investigator: Laura Lewis | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | University of Colorado School of Medicine Aurora, CO | D | $200,000 | approved, future | A New Technology to Control the Transcriptome. Principal Investigator: Jeffrey Kieft | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC | U | $200,000 | approved, future | Multi-scale Three Dimensional Behavioral Quantification in Individuals and Social Groups. Principal Investigator: Timothy Dunn | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN | U | $200,000 | approved, future | Robot-assisted Brain-wide Recordings in Freely Behaving Mice. Principal Investigator: Suhasa Kodandaramaiah | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC | U | $100,000 | paid | Multi-scale Three Dimensional Behavioral Quantification in Individuals and Social Groups. Principal Investigator: Timothy Dunn | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | University of Colorado School of Medicine Aurora, CO | D | $100,000 | paid | A New Technology to Control the Transcriptome. Principal Investigator: Jeffrey Kieft | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT | U | $100,000 | paid | From Gut to Brain: Understanding the Propagation of Parkinson's Disease. Principal Investigators: Mazen Kheirbek & Jonah Chan | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Uc Berkeley & Nyu Berkeley, CA | U | $100,000 | paid | Photo-activation of Dopamine Receptors in Models of Parkinson's Disease. Principal Investigators: Ehud Isacoff & Dirk Trauner | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Uc Berkeley Berkeley, CA | U | $100,000 | paid | A High-speed Holographic Device for Optogenic Control of Thousands of Neurons. Principal Investigator: Rikky Muller | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Unc Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | U | $100,000 | paid | Elucidating the Neural Basis of Pain Unpleasantness: Circuits and New Therapeutics to End the Dual Epidemic of Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction. Principal Investigator: Gregory Scherrer | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN | U | $100,000 | paid | Robot-assisted Brain-wide Recordings in Freely Behaving Mice. Principal Investigator: Suhasa Kodandaramaiah | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | 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 | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | University of Iowa School of Medicine Iowa City, IA | U | $100,000 | paid | Brain-wide Electrical Connectivity in Migraine: Toward the Development of Network Based Therapeutics. Principal Investigator: Rainbo Hultman | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY | B | $100,000 | paid | Circuit Mechanisms of Memory-Linking. Principal Investigator: Denise Cai | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Uc Sanf Francisco San Francisco, CA | U | $100,000 | paid | New Myelin Formation in Systems Consolidation and Retrieval of Remote Memories. Principal Investigator: | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Texas State University & Northwestern University San Marcos, TX | U | $100,000 | paid | Does Superior Sleep Physiology Contribute to Superior Memory Function? Implications for Counteracting Forgetting. Principal Investigator: | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | B | $100,000 | paid | Modular Enzymatic Barcoding. Principal Investigator: Kai Zinn | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | 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 | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | California Institue of Technology Pasadena, CA | C | $100,000 | paid | Circuit Dynamics and Cognitive Consequences of General Anesthesia. Principal Investigator: | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | 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 | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Georgia Tech & Emory Atlanta, GA | D | $100,000 | paid | Comparing Large-scale Neural Datasets Across Time, Space, and Behavior. Principal Investigator: Eva Dyer | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Van Andel Research Institute Grand Rapids, MI | B | $75,000 | paid | Regulation Mechanism of Thermosensitive Receptors in Nervous System. Principal Investigator: Juan Du | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | University of Georgia Augusta, GA | U | $75,000 | paid | Regeneration of the Central Nervous System in Planarians. Principal Investigator: Rachel Roberts-Galbraith | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Uc Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA | U | $75,000 | paid | Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Maternal Behavior. Principal Investigator: Weizhe Hong | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | C | $75,000 | paid | How Does the Brain Compute Using Activity Distributed Across Populations and Brain Areas? Principal Investigator: Shaul Druckmann | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | New York University New York, NY | U | $75,000 | paid | Coordinate Transforms in the Mouse Cortex. Principal Investigator: David Schneider | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX | B | $75,000 | paid | Cerebellar Computations During Motor Planning. Principal Investigator: Nuo Li | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | U | $75,000 | paid | Mechanistic Insights into Membrane Remodeling at Synapses. Principal Investigator: Shigeki Watanabe | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | U | $75,000 | paid | A Feminist Framing of Fruitless: Maleness as a Suppression of Female Neural Programs. Principal Investigator: E. Josie Clowney | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, NY | B | $75,000 | paid | Uncovering the Molecular Basis of Microglial Function in the Stimulated Brain. Principal Investigator: Lucas Cheadle | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | B | $75,000 | paid | Elucidating Fundamental Mechanisms of Gut-Brain Signaling in C. Elegans. Principal Investigator: Steven Flavell | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | U | $75,000 | paid | Discovering Molecular Identify and Function of Novel Chloride Channels in the Nervous System. Principal Investigator: Zhaozhu Qui | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Nyu School of Medicine New York, NY | U | $75,000 | paid | Cortical Sensory Modulation of Hippocampal Activity and Spatial Representation. Principal Investigator: Jayeeta Basu | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Columbia University New York, NY | B | $75,000 | paid | The Evolution of Gene Modules and Circuit Motifs for Cortical Inhibition. Principal Investigator: Maria Antoinetta Tosches | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Columbia University New York, NY | B | $75,000 | paid | Connectrome-constrained Models of Adaptive Behavior. Principal Investigator: Ashok Litwin-Kumar | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY | B | $75,000 | paid | Accelerating Drug Discovery for Cognitive Disorders Through Structural Studies of a Serotonin Receptor. Principal Investigator: Daniel Wacker | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | U | $75,000 | paid | Cellular Mechanisms Controlling Circadian Rythms. Principal Investigator: Swathi Yadlapalli | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | C | $75,000 | paid | Neuronal Basis of Parental Engrams in the Infant Brain. Principal Investigator: Lauren O'Connell | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Boston University Boston, MA | U | $75,000 | paid | Linking Neural Circuits and Fluid Dynamics in the Sleeping Brain. Principal Investigator: Laura Lewis | 202201749349100320 |
| 2021 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | B | $75,000 | paid | Perturbing Dendritic Compartmentalization to Evaluate Single Neuron Cortical Computations. Principal Investigator: Mark Harnett | 202201749349100320 |
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