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What your support makes possible
Federal grants fund specific, established projects. Philanthropy does something different: it lets us chase bold, early-stage ideas before they are fundable, support talented trainees, and sustain the tools and colony infrastructure our science depends on. A gift is an investment in curiosity-driven discovery about how the brain and body shape behavior and health across life.
Early-life brain development
How the infant and adolescent brain builds the circuits for social behavior, attachment, and emotional health.
Body, brain & food allergy
How the immune system and body signal to the brain — reframing food allergy as a systems problem, not only an immune one.
Comparative biology of the armadillo
A one-of-a-kind research colony probing embryonic diapause and the origins of individuality from a single genome.
Trainees & open tools
Training the next generation of scientists and building open-source tools, like VocalMat, that the whole field can use.
Make a gift
Gifts to the Dietrich Lab are made through Yale School of Medicine and directly support trainees, pilot projects, and research tools. To talk about how your support can make a difference, get in touch.
Supported by
Funding partners
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Food Allergy Science Initiative (FASI)
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)
Yale School of Medicine
Current grants & awards
The lab’s work is supported by federal grants from the National Institutes of Health, foundation awards, and institutional support from Yale School of Medicine.
Regulation of infant social behaviors and learning by the zona incerta
Dysregulation of the opioid system in early-life adversity
Cellular and circuit investigation of age-dependent social behaviors
Neuro-immune mechanisms involved in behavioral and physiological responses to food allergens
Robert T. McCloskey Scholar — endowed award
Dr. Dietrich also contributes to an NIH/NIA Program Project on FGF21, healthspan, and longevity (P01 AG051459).
Past support
Completed grants and awards that have supported the lab over the years.
NIH · NIMH2020–2025
R01 — Hypothalamic control of neonatal vocalizations · PI
FASI / FARE / Broad Institute Consortium2020–2024
Untangling neuroimmune communication in food allergy (with R. Medzhitov) · PI
Smith Family Foundation2021–2024
Odyssey Award — opioid-producing neurons in infant attachment · PI
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative2020–2023
Single-cell analysis of inflammation (with N. Palm & A. Wang) · Co-PI
HHMI2019–2022
Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Studies · Advisor
Foundation for Prader-Willi Research2019–2021
Development of hunger neurons in Prader-Willi syndrome · PI
CAPES (Brazil)2018–2021
Neuroendocrine mechanisms of metabolism and behavior · Co-PI
Yale School of Medicine2019–2020
Reginald & Michiko Spector Award in Neuroscience · PI
NIH · NIDDK2015–2020
R01 — Intracellular dynamics of AgRP neurons across metabolic states · PI
CAPES (Brazil)2015–2019
Interoceptive hypothalamic neurons and cognition · PI
Whitehall Foundation2015–2018
Dissecting interoceptive circuits for cognition · PI
Yale Diabetes Research Center (P30)2016–2018
AgRP neurons in exercise-induced adaptation (pilot) · PI
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation2015–2017
NARSAD Young Investigator Award — AgRP neurons & dopamine · PI
Charles H. Hood Foundation2015–2017
Child Health Research Award — hypothalamic circuits in development · PI
Yale Center for Clinical Investigation2014–2016
Scholar Award — AgRP neurons in anorexia nervosa · PI
CNPq (Brazil)2013–2016
Hypothalamic regulation of cognition & behavior · PI
Modern Diet & Physiology Research Center2016–2017
Circuit linking homeostatic-need neurons to brainstem (pilot) · Co-PI
Awarded and declined: European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (2021).
We are grateful to every agency, foundation, and donor whose support makes this science possible — and especially to the donors behind the Robert T. McCloskey Scholar fund and the Reginald & Michiko Spector Award in Neuroscience, whose generous gifts to Yale School of Medicine directly support the lab.