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Grants paid by The Mcknight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, tax year 2022
EIN 41-1563321 · Minneapolis, MN · Form 990-PF, Part XV
In tax year 2022, The Mcknight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience (EIN 41-1563321) reported 36 grants paid totaling $3,120,612. Dataset version 2026.09.0, built 2026-09-03.
Every grant, 2022
| Tax year | Recipient | Match | Amount | Type | Purpose | Source filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | New York University New York, NY | U | $225,000 | approved, future | Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Inference. Principal Investigator: Christine Constantinople, Ph.D | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA | B | $225,000 | approved, future | Illuminating Oxytocin Signaling in the Brain with Near-Infrared Fluorescent Nanosensors. Principal Investigator: Markita Landry, Ph.D. | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX | D | $225,000 | approved, future | Understanding the Construction and Function of Glycinergic Post-Synaptic Assemblies. Principal Investigator: Weiwei Wang, Ph.D. | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY | B | $225,000 | approved, future | Multiscale Neural Network Models to Infer Functional Motifs in the Brain. Principal Investigator: Kanaka Rajan, Ph.D. | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Massachusetts General Hospitalharvard Medical School Boston, MA | U | $225,000 | approved, future | Development, Function, and Dysfunction of Somatosensory and Viscerosensory Systems in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Principal Investigator: Lauren Orefice, Ph.D. | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ | C | $225,000 | approved, future | Proportional-Integral Feedback in a Biological 'Gyroscope'. Principal Investigator: Bradley Dickerson, Ph.D. | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL | U | $200,000 | approved, future | Sub-10 nm spatial profiling of synaptic proteins and RNA transcripts with high-isotropy expansion microscopy using a highly homogenous hydrogel constructed from tetrahedron-like monomers. Principal Investigator: Ruixuan Gao, Ph.D. | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Syracuse Uninversity Syracuse, NY | U | $200,000 | approved, future | Two-photon tracking technology to read and manipulate neural patterns in freely moving animals. Principal Investigator: Mirna Mihovilovic Skanata | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of Washington West Bend, WI | U | $200,000 | approved, future | Massively parallel, high throughput engineering of optogenetic biosensors for neuronal signaling. Principal Investigator: Andre Berndt, Ph.D. | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | 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 | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Evanston, IL | U | $100,000 | paid | Dissecting the Gut-brain Dynamics Underlying Anorexia. Principal Investigator: Lisa Beutler | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of Alabama & Mount Sinai Medical Schools Tuscaloosa, AL | D | $100,000 | paid | Leveraging Single-cell Epigenomics for Targeted Manipulation of Drug-activated Ensemble. Principal Investigator: Jeremy Day & Ian Maze | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Syracuse Uninversity Syracuse, NY | U | $100,000 | paid | Two-photon tracking technology to read and manipulate neural patterns in freely moving animals. Principal Investigator: Mirna Mihovilovic Skanata | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Duke University Druhan, NC | C | $100,000 | paid | Multi-scale Three Dimensional Behavioral Quantification in Individuals and Social Groups. Principal Investigator: Timothy Dunn | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL | U | $100,000 | paid | Sub-10 nm spatial profiling of synaptic proteins and RNA transcripts with high-isotropy expansion microscopy using a highly homogenous hydrogel constructed from tetrahedron-like monomers. Principal Investigator: Ruixuan Gao, Ph.D. | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Uc Berkeley & Nyu Berkeley, CA | U | $100,000 | paid | Photo-activation of Dopamine Receptors in Models of Parkinson's Disease. Principal Investigator: Ehud Isacoff & Dirk Trauner | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN | U | $100,000 | paid | Robot-assisted Brain-wide Recordings in Freely Behaving Mice. Principal Investigator: Suhasa Kodandaramaiah | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | California Institue of Technology Pasadena, CA | C | $100,000 | paid | Circuit Dynamics and Cognitive Consequences of General Anesthesia. Principal Investigator: Thanos Siapas | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | St Jude's Research Hospital Memphis, TN | U | $100,000 | paid | Identifying Brain Circuits that Connect Respiration and Cognitive State. Principal Investigator: Lindsey Schwarz | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT | U | $100,000 | paid | From Gut to Brain: Understanding the Propagation of Parkinson's Disease. Principal Investigator: Rui Chang & Sreeganga Chandra | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | 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 | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of Colorado School of Medicine Aurora, CO | D | $100,000 | paid | A New Technology to Control the Transcriptome. Principal Investigator: Jeffrey Kieft | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Uc San Francisco San Francisco, CA | U | $100,000 | paid | New Myelin Formation in Systems Consolidation and Retrieval of Remote Memories. Principal Investigator: Mazen Kheirbek & Jonah Chan | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | 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: Carmen Westerberg & Ken Paller | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of Washington West Bend, WI | U | $100,000 | paid | Massively parallel, high throughput engineering of optogenetic biosensors for neuronal signaling. Principal Investigator: Andre Berndt, Ph.D. | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA | B | $100,000 | paid | Neurotensin Mediated Regulation of Hedonic Feeding Behavior and Obesity. Principal Investigator: Stephan Lammel | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX | B | $75,000 | paid | Cerebellar Computations During Motor Planning. Principal Investigator: Nuo Li | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | 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 | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA | B | $75,000 | paid | Illuminating Oxytocin Signaling in the Brain with Near-Infrared Fluorescent Nanosensors. Principal Investigator: Markita Landry, Ph.D. | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | 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 | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Massachusetts General Hospitalharvard Medical School Boston, MA | U | $75,000 | paid | Development, Function, and Dysfunction of Somatosensory and Viscerosensory Systems in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Principal Investigator: Lauren Orefice, Ph.D. | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | 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 | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | 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 | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Boston University Boston, MA | U | $75,000 | paid | Linking Neural Circuits and Fluid Dynamics in the Sleeping Brain. Principal Investigator: Laura Lewis | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | 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 | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | C | $75,000 | paid | Neuronal Basis of Parental Engrams in the Infant Brain. Principal Investigator: Lauren O'Connell | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | B | $75,000 | paid | Elucidating Fundamental Mechanisms of Gut-Brain Signaling in C. Elegans. Principal Investigator: Steven Flavell | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ | C | $75,000 | paid | Proportional-Integral Feedback in a Biological 'Gyroscope'. Principal Investigator: Bradley Dickerson, Ph.D. | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY | B | $75,000 | paid | Multiscale Neural Network Models to Infer Functional Motifs in the Brain. Principal Investigator: Kanaka Rajan, Ph.D. | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | New York University New York, NY | U | $75,000 | paid | Coordinate Transforms in the Mouse Cortex. Principal Investigator: David Schneider | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Columbia University New York, NY | B | $75,000 | paid | Connectrome-constrained Models of Adaptive Behavior. Principal Investigator: Ashok Litwin-Kumar | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | New York University New York, NY | U | $75,000 | paid | Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Inference. Principal Investigator: Christine Constantinople, Ph.D | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | U | $75,000 | paid | Cellular Mechanisms Controlling Circadian Rythms. Principal Investigator: Swathi Yadlapalli | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX | D | $75,000 | paid | Understanding the Construction and Function of Glycinergic Post-Synaptic Assemblies. Principal Investigator: Weiwei Wang, Ph.D. | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | U | $70,612 | paid | Discovering Molecular Identify and Function of Novel Chloride Channels in the Nervous System. Principal Investigator: Zhaozhu Qui | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | The Regents of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | C | $16,500 | approved, future | McKnight Pecot Fellowship 2022. Principal Investigator: Dr. Eleanor Clowney | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of Georgia Augusta, GA | U | $16,500 | approved, future | McKnight Pecot Fellowship 2022. Principal Investigator: Dr. Rachel Roberts - Galbraith | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | University of Washington West Bend, WI | U | $16,500 | approved, future | McKnight Pecot Fellowship 2022. Principal Investigator: Dr. John Tuthill | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | New York University New York, NY | U | $16,500 | approved, future | McKnight Pecot Fellowship 2022. Principal Investigator: Dr. David Schneider | 202312369349100716 |
| 2022 | Boston University Boston, MA | U | $16,500 | approved, future | McKnight Pecot Fellowship 2022. Principal Investigator: Dr. Steve Ramirez | 202312369349100716 |
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