Research Funding

Research Funding

Extramural Awards

o 2025-2028. The Chuck Noll Foundation for Brain Injury Research. Proposal, entitled “Measuring clinical silent injury in contact sports using in vivo measures of strain concentration”. 2025-2028. $125,000.

o 2024-2028 R01-NINDS 2R01NS089609. Representational similarity spaces for objects and actions before and after brain surgery. Lead PI on MPI Grant: Bradford Mahon; MPI Webster Pilcher; MPI Costas Hadjipanayis. $2,550,790

o 2019-2024. R01 NEI EY028535. Access to parietal action representations after stroke lesions in visual cortex. Lead PI on Multi-PI grant, Bradford Mahon; MPI at Rochester: Bogachan Sahin. $1,708,580 ($1,439,660 direct)

o 2015-2020. R01-NINDS. NS089609. Cortical organization of action knowledge before and after brain surgery. PI Bradford Mahon. $1,794,507.00 ($1,174,812.00 direct).

o 2014-2017. NSF Linguistics, BCS. “Mechanisms of word retrieval in spoken language production.” PI Bradford Mahon; Co-PIs: Drs. Eduardo Navarrete and Francesca Peressotti, University of Padova. $230,158.

o 2012–2014. R21-NINDS “Cortical organization of object knowledge before and after brain surgery”. PI Bradford Mahon. $420,750 (275,000 Direct).

Intramural Awards

o 2017-2018. Wilmot Cancer Institute grant to spur NCI funding. Pilot study to demonstrate feasibility and preliminary efficacy of advanced MRI mapping in improving outcome in patients with Glioblastoma. PI Bradford Mahon; Co-I: Dr. Kevin Walter $50,000

o 2016-2019. Department of Neurology and Department of Neurosurgery grant for FLOURESCE (Fluoxetine for visual recovery after acute ischemic stroke). PI Bogachan Sahin, Co-I Bradford Mahon. $60,000

o 2015-2017. Schmitt Program on Integrative Brain Research (University of Rochester).  “A randomized pilot trial of fluoxetine in acute stroke.” PI Bogachan Sahin, Co-I Bradford Mahon $50,000.                

o 2014-2015. Schmitt Program on Integrative Brain Research (University of Rochester). “Visual and haptic representations of objects.”  PI: Robert Jacobs, Co-I Bradford Mahon. $40,000.                

o 2014-2015. University of Rochester – Pump Primer II. “Visual, Haptic, and Visual-Haptic Object Perception.” PI: Robert Jacobs, Co-I Bradford Mahon. $30,000.

o 2014-2015 Rochester Center for Brain Imaging. PI Jacobs, Co-I Bradford Mahon. $10,000.

Extramural Grants to trainees

• E.G. Gaffin-Cahn. NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

• Alena Stasenko. NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

• Colleen Schneider. NIH F30. Neurovascular and Neuroplastic Contributions to Visual Recovery After Stroke. 

• Arka Mallela. NIH F32. Exploring the expressive language function of the supplementary motor area. 

• Raouf Belkhir. NIH F30. Temporal dynamics and network mechanisms of articulatory feature encoding during speech production.

Research Funding to MindTrace Technologies Inc.

o 2025-2027. NSF SBIR Phase II: A cognitive dashboard to support clinical decision-making in neurosurgery. Max Sims (lead), Bradford Z. Mahon (Co-I). $1,018,600. MindTrace Technologies Inc.

o 2022-2024. SBIR Phase I, Award 2213231. A cognitive dashboard to support clinical decision making in neurosurgery. PI Max Sims, CEO MindTrace Technologies; Co-I Bradford Mahon, CSO MindTrace.  $276,000.00. 

o 2023-2025 (Under NCE). NIH Direct to Phase II SBIR R44. 1R44MH135726-01.  Development of an innovative neurosurgical planning tool for awake craniotomy. PI Max Sims, CEO MindTrace Technologies; Co-I Bradford Mahon, CSO MindTrace. $1,900,000.

o 2019-2020. NSF I-Corps. StrongBrain: An Integrated Hardware/Software System to Predict Cognitive Outcome in Neurosurgery Patients. Fall San Francisco Cohort. Entrepreneurial lead: Max Sims; PI/Technical Lead Bradford Mahon; Industry Mentor: Jamie Cole. $50,000.