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Grants paid by The Mcknight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, tax year 2023
EIN 41-1563321 · Minneapolis, MN · Form 990-PF, Part XV
In tax year 2023, The Mcknight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience (EIN 41-1563321) reported 42 grants paid totaling $3,207,413. Dataset version 2026.09.0, built 2026-09-03.
Every grant, 2023
| Tax year | Recipient | Match | Amount | Type | Purpose | Source filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, WA | D | $300,000 | approved, future | Adipocyte-brain mitochondrial signaling and its impacts on brain function. Principal Investigator: Akhila Rajan,Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Stanford University School of Medicine Palo Alto, CA | U | $300,000 | approved, future | Neuron-to-OPC synapses in adaptive and maladaptive myelination. Principal Investigator: Juliet K. Knowles, MD, PhD | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Brigham and Women's Hospitalharvard Medical School Boston, MA | U | $300,000 | approved, future | The Neurobiology of Glioma: Understanding Malignant Neural Circuits Instructing Tumor Growth. Principal Investigator: Humsa Venkatesh,Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Yale University New Haven, CT | U | $300,000 | approved, future | Mechanism and functions of repeat expansion self-exonization in C9orf72 ALS/FTD. Principal Investigator: Junjie Guo, Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT | C | $150,000 | approved, future | Neuropeptidergic Cortical Control of Social Isolation. Principal Investigator: Dr. Moriel Zelikowsky | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Oregon Health & Science University Portland, OR | U | $150,000 | approved, future | Mechanosensation for guiding cellular morphology. Principal Investigator: Dr. Swetha Murthy | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Columbia University New York, NY | B | $150,000 | approved, future | Skin-brain axis for rewarding touch behaviors. Principal Investigator: Dr. Ishmail Abdus-Saboor | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Columbia University New York, NY | B | $150,000 | approved, future | Cortical circuits for perceiving visual form. Principal Investigator: Dr. Yasmine El-Shamayleh | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | C | $150,000 | approved, future | Machine Learning Methods for Discovering Structure in Neural and Behavioral Data. Principal Investigator: Dr. Scott Linderman | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Columbia University New York, NY | B | $150,000 | approved, future | Neural Mechanisms of Courtship and Monogamy. Principal Investigator: Dr. Vikram Gadagkar | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | New York University New York, NY | U | $150,000 | approved, future | Modulation of striatal cells and synapses by dopamine movement signals. Principal Investigator: Dr. Tanya Sippy | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Max Planck Florida Institute Jupiter, FL | D | $150,000 | approved, future | Synaptic mechanisms and network dynamics underlying motor learning. Principal Investigator: Dr. Hidehiko Inagaki | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, NY | B | $150,000 | approved, future | Unravelling the mechanisms of synapse development, from molecules to behavior. Principal Investigator: Dr. Peri Kurshan | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | The Regents of the University of California Berkeley, CA | U | $150,000 | approved, future | Evolution of neural diversity and patterning in the visual system. Principal Investigator: Dr. Karthik Shekhar | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL | B | $100,000 | paid | Leveraging Single-cell Epigenomics for Targeted Manipulation of Drug-activated Ensemble. Principal Investigator: Jeremy Day & Ian Maze | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Syracuse University 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 | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL | U | $100,000 | paid | Dissecting the Gut-brain Dynamics Underlying Anorexia. Principal Investigator: Lisa Beutler | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, WA | D | $100,000 | paid | Adipocyte-brain mitochondrial signaling and its impacts on brain function. Principal Investigator: Akhila Rajan,Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | St Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, TN | C | $100,000 | paid | Identifying Brain Circuits that Connect Respiration and Cognitive State. Principal Investigator: Lindsey Schwarz | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | University of North Carolina - 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 | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | The Regents of the University of California Berkeley, CA | U | $100,000 | paid | Neurotensin mediated regulation of hedonic feeding behavior and obesity. Principal Investigator: Stephan Lammel Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Stanford University School of Medicine Palo Alto, CA | U | $100,000 | paid | Neuron-to-OPC synapses in adaptive and maladaptive myelination. Principal Investigator: Juliet K. Knowles, MD, PhD | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | 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 | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Brigham and Women's Hospitalharvard Medical School Boston, MA | U | $100,000 | paid | The Neurobiology of Glioma: Understanding Malignant Neural Circuits Instructing Tumor Growth. Principal Investigator: Humsa Venkatesh,Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Yale University New Haven, CT | U | $100,000 | paid | Mechanism and functions of repeat expansion self-exonization in C9orf72 ALS/FTD. Principal Investigator: Junjie Guo, Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | University of Washington Seattle, WA | B | $100,000 | paid | Massively parallel, high throughput engineering of optogenetic biosensors for neuronal signaling. Principal Investigator: Andre Berndt, Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | University of Iowa Iowa City, IA | U | $100,000 | paid | Brain-wide Electrical Connectivity in Migraine: Toward the Development of Network Based Therapeutics. Principal Investigator: Rainbo Hultman | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | 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. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Columbia University New York, NY | B | $75,000 | paid | Neural Mechanisms of Courtship and Monogamy. Principal Investigator: Dr. Vikram Gadagkar | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | B | $75,000 | paid | Linking Neural Circuits and Fluid Dynamics in the Sleeping Brain. Principal Investigator: Laura Lewis | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Columbia University New York, NY | B | $75,000 | paid | Skin-brain axis for rewarding touch behaviors. Principal Investigator: Dr. Ishmail Abdus-Saboor | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | The Regents of the University of California Berkeley, CA | U | $75,000 | paid | Evolution of neural diversity and patterning in the visual system. Principal Investigator: Dr. Karthik Shekhar | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Columbia University New York, NY | B | $75,000 | paid | Cortical circuits for perceiving visual form. Principal Investigator: Dr. Yasmine El-Shamayleh | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Max Planck Florida Institute Jupiter, FL | D | $75,000 | paid | Synaptic mechanisms and network dynamics underlying motor learning. Principal Investigator: Dr. Hidehiko Inagaki | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | The Regents of the University of California Berkeley, CA | U | $75,000 | paid | Illuminating Oxytocin Signaling in the Brain with Near-Infrared Fluorescent Nanosensors. Principal Investigator: Markita Landry, Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Ut Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX | U | $75,000 | paid | Understanding the Construction and Function of Glycinergic Post-Synaptic Assemblies. Principal Investigator: Weiwei Wang, Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | New York University New York, NY | U | $75,000 | paid | Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Inference. Principal Investigator: Christine Constantinople, Ph.D | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | New York University New York, NY | U | $75,000 | paid | Coordinate Transforms in the Mouse Cortex. Principal Investigator: David Schneider | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | New York University New York, NY | U | $75,000 | paid | Modulation of striatal cells and synapses by dopamine movement signals. Principal Investigator: Dr. Tanya Sippy | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, NY | B | $75,000 | paid | Unravelling the mechanisms of synapse development, from molecules to behavior. Principal Investigator: Dr. Peri Kurshan | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | The Trustees of Princeton University Princeton, NJ | U | $75,000 | paid | Proportional-Integral Feedback in a Biological 'Gyroscope'. Principal Investigator: Bradley Dickerson, Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | C | $75,000 | paid | Development, Function, and Dysfunction of Somatosensory and Viscerosensory Systems in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Principal Investigator: Lauren Orefice, Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Oregon Health & Science University Portland, OR | U | $75,000 | paid | Mechanosensation for guiding cellular morphology. Principal Investigator: Dr. Swetha Murthy | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT | C | $75,000 | paid | Neuropeptidergic Cortical Control of Social Isolation. Principal Investigator: Dr. Moriel Zelikowsky | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | 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 | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Columbia University New York, NY | B | $75,000 | paid | Connectrome-constrained Models of Adaptive Behavior. Principal Investigator: Ashok Litwin-Kumar | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | C | $75,000 | paid | Machine Learning Methods for Discovering Structure in Neural and Behavioral Data. Principal Investigator: Dr. Scott Linderman | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | U | $75,000 | paid | Cellular Mechanisms Controlling Circadian Rythms. Principal Investigator: Swathi Yadlapalli | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | 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 | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Harvard Medical School Boston, MA | D | $75,000 | paid | Multiscale Neural Network Models to Infer Functional Motifs in the Brain. Principal Investigator: Kanaka Rajan, Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | U | $74,913 | paid | A Feminist Framing of Fruitless: Maleness as a Suppression of Female Neural Programs. Principal Investigator: E. Josie Clowney | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | The Regents of the University of California Berkeley, CA | U | $16,500 | paid | McKnight Pecot Fellowship 2023. Principal Investigator: Isacoff, Dr. Ehud Y., Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Texas State University Department of Psychology San Marcos, TX | U | $16,500 | paid | McKnight Pecot Fellowship 2023. Principal Investigator: Westerberg, Carmen, Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | U | $16,500 | paid | McKnight Pecot Fellowship 2023. Principal Investigator: Watanabe, Dr. Shigeki, Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | Columbia University New York, NY | B | $16,500 | paid | McKnight Pecot Fellowship 2023. Principal Investigator: Behnia, Rudy, Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
| 2023 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | B | $16,500 | paid | McKnight Pecot Fellowship 2023. Principal Investigator: Zinn, Dr. Kai, Ph.D. | 202433029349100908 |
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