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Edward Daniel Levin

Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
Box 104790, Durham, NC 27710
323 Foster St, Durham, NC 27701

Selected Grants


Microglial sculpting of dopamine receptors in adolescence: implications for opioid use disorders

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute on Drug Abuse · 2022 - 2027

Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

Impacts of MAO Inhibiting Tobacco Constituents on Nicotine Reinforcement in Rats

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Philip Morris Products S.A. · 2022 - 2024

Paternal Preconception Pesticide Exposure Effects on Neurodevelopmental Impairment in Their Offspring

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Autism Research Institute · 2023 - 2024

Infection Fighting Polymer Strengthened Biologic Grafts for Abdominal Wall Repair

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by BioAesthetics Corporation · 2023 - 2024

Microglial sculpting of dopamine receptors in adolescence: implications for opioid use disorders

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute on Drug Abuse · 2022 - 2027

Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

Impacts of MAO Inhibiting Tobacco Constituents on Nicotine Reinforcement in Rats

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Philip Morris Products S.A. · 2022 - 2024

Paternal Preconception Pesticide Exposure Effects on Neurodevelopmental Impairment in Their Offspring

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Autism Research Institute · 2023 - 2024

Infection Fighting Polymer Strengthened Biologic Grafts for Abdominal Wall Repair

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by BioAesthetics Corporation · 2023 - 2024

PTPRD phosphatase inhibitors for stimulant use disorders

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Maryland, Baltimore · 2022 - 2024

Duke University Program in Environmental Health

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024

EPA Support for the 2023 International Neurotoxicology Association Convention in Durham

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency · 2023 - 2024

International Neurotoxicology Association (INA) Conference

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2023

Mechanisms of Nicotine-induced Cognitive Improvement in Rats

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Philip Morris Products S.A. · 2022 - 2023

Receptor-type protein in tyrosine phosphatase D (PTPRD) treatment with 7-BIA to reduce nicotine self-adminstration

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Biomedical Research Institute of New Mexico · 2019 - 2022

HAB toxin exposure and Alzheimer's disease susceptibility

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution · 2019 - 2022

Paternal Transgenerational Epigenetic Legacy from Use of Cannabis

ResearchCo-Project Leader · Awarded by John Templeton Foundation · 2017 - 2022

Using Zebrafish to Help Identify Which Environmental Toxicants Could Increase Autism Risk

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Autism Research Institute · 2019 - 2021

Alzheimer's Disease, Genes, and Pesticide Use in the Agricultural Health Study

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2021

Reinforcing effect of nicotine alone vs. nicotine plus other chemicals in tobacco

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Rose Research Center, LLC · 2019 - 2020

Pharmacological Sciences Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEParticipating Faculty Member · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1975 - 2020

Study of Novel Treatment to Prevent Acquisition of Opiate Self-Administration in Rats

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Amygdala Neurosciences Inc. · 2017 - 2019

Duke University Program in Environmental Health

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · 2013 - 2019

Advancing Mechanistic Understanding of Neurotoxic Contributors to Autism

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2018

Establishing an AOP for the Role of the Vitamin D Receptor in Developmental Neurotoxicity

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2013 - 2018

Acute and chronic nicotine modulation of reinforcement learning

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2017

Pilot Project: Effects of Cannabis on the Epigenome of Humans and Rats

ResearchCo-Project Leader · Awarded by John Templeton Foundation · 2016 - 2017

Screening for Potential Persisting Neurobehavioral Effects in Zebrafish following Developmental Exposure to Classes of Compounds: Flame Retardants, A Case Example

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · 2015 - 2017

Complementary Neurotoxicological Insights from Fish, Flies, Bees and Worms Symposium

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2016

Nicotinic Receptor Desensitization to Reduce Drug Self-Administration: Project 2

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Georgetown University · 2010 - 2015

Atrazine Effects in the Brain: Pilot Study

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency · 2011 - 2012

Role of HPA Axis in Adolescent Vulnerability to Drug Addiction

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2011

Neurobehavioral Teratology Society: Zebrafish Symposium

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2011

Adolescence: A Sensitive Period for Nicotine Addiction

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2004 - 2010

MARCKS Peptides and Memory

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2010

Neuroimaging Attentional Impairment During Abstinence

ResearchConsultant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2004 - 2009

Nicotinic-Antipsychotic Drug Interactions and Cognition

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2001 - 2006

Marine Toxin Impacts on Neurobehavioral Function

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2004

Non-Monotonic Dose-Toxicity Functions, Multiple Mechanisms of Effect: Impacts on Health & Public Policy

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency · 2002 - 2004

Collaberative Research Training In Enviromental Toxicology

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency · 1998 - 2003

Behavioral Genetics and Toxic Response

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2003

Chronic Nicotine-Infusion Induced Memory Improvement

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1998 - 2002

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ResearchAdministrative Assistant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1997 - 1999

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ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency · 1998 - 1999

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ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1999 - 1999

Integrated Toxicology

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1995 - 1999

Drive To Smoke And Dopamine Blockade

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1994 - 1997

The Effect Of Pfiesteriaon Learning And Memory In Rats

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency · 1997 - 1997

Neurobehavioral Effects Of Dinoflagellate Toxins In Rat

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 1996 - 1997

Cholinergic-Dopaminergic Interactions And The Foundations

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1992 - 1997

Scaling The Reinforcing Value Of Cigarette Smoke

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1993 - 1994

Cholinergic-Dopaminergic Interactions & The Foundations Of

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1993 - 1994