Extramural Grants (A total of $2,334,345 grant funding)

1. Title: Behavioral mechanisms of antipsychotic action

Role: Principal Investigator
Agency: DHHS-Nat Inst Mental Health
Type: R01MH085635
Period: 03/22/2010-01/31/2015
Total cost: $1,447,532

2. Title: Iptakalim for nicotine use in schizophrenia: A preclinical test

Role: Principal Investigator
Agency: Nebraska Health and Human Services
Type: Research grant
Period: 07/01/2010-06/30/2011
Total cost: $40,000

3. Title: Anxiolytic Property of Atypical Antipsychotics

Role: Principal Investigator
Agency: DHHS-Nat Inst Mental Health
Type: R21 (RMH079894A)
Period: 01/01/2008-12/31/2010
Total cost: $362,145

4. Title: Antipsychotic Drugs and Maternal Behavior: A Preclinical Investigation

Role: Principal Investigator
Agency: DHHS-Nat Inst Mental Health
Type: R03 (RMH080822A)
Period: 09/15/2007-07/31/2010
Total cost: $132,750

5. Title: Iptakalim: A Potential Antipsychotic Drug with Novel Mechanisms

Role: Principal Investigator
Agency: Stanley Medical Research Institute
Type: Research grant
Period: 08/2007-07/2010
Total cost: $150,000

6. Title: Behavioral Mechanisms of Action of Atypical Antipsychotics: A Preclinical Investigation

Role: Principal Investigator
Agency: National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD)
Type: Young Investigator Award
Period: 07/2007-06/2010
Total cost: $60,000

7. Title: Nicotine Effects in Adolescent and Adult Rats

Role: Principal Investigator
Agency: Nebraska Health and Human Services
Type: Research grant (2008-03B)
Period: 07/01/2008-06/30/2009
Total cost: $40,000

Intramural Grants

1. UNL Life Sciences Competitive Grants (Role: co-PI: 07/2011-06/2013): Gene Therapy Against Neurodegenerative Disorders Associated with Pesticide Exposure, $72,000

2. Faculty seed grant (PI, 2006-2007): How Antipsychotic Drugs Work Psychologically?------An Animal Behavioral Investigation, $9,980

3. UNL Layman award (PI, co-I: Dr. Bevins, June 2006-May 2007): Persistent Avoidance Responding as an Animal Model of Schizophrenia, $9,995

4. Faculty seed grant (PI, 2008- 2009): Characterizing Reconsolidation of Persistent Avoidance Responding, $9,943