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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at Colorado State University

Fort Collins, CO

Funding
$16.1M
$16,071,496
Awards
31
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
39
27 lead a grant here, 12 co-investigators
Department rank
#27
of 119 · Ranking
  • NIH names only the principal investigators on an award, so this page lists only them. The department is the award's: it is where ScienceDex counts the award, not a list of the department's members.
  • These are the awards in the Microbiology & Immunology row of the Colorado State University page.

Leads a grant in this department

27 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.

  1. William A Schountz

    Leads 2 awards · $2,630,731

    • 5U24AI165424-04Department: NIH department code
      Establishment of a Bat Resource for Infectious Disease Research
      $2,178,256
      award amount
    • 5R01AI189388-02Department: NIH department code
      Adaptive immune responses in bats
      $452,475
      award amount

  2. Karen Marie Dobos

    Leads 1 award · $2,556,793

    • 5UC7AI180308-04Department: NIH department code
      Research Resources and Workforce Development for the Rocky Mountain Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at Colorado State University

      Principal investigators: Karen Marie Dobos (contact PI), Raymond Paul Goodrich (contact PI), Rebecca Moritz (contact PI)

      $2,556,793
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM132057-08, led by Carol J Wilusz.

  3. Raymond Paul Goodrich

    Leads 1 award · $2,556,793

    • 5UC7AI180308-04Department: NIH department code
      Research Resources and Workforce Development for the Rocky Mountain Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at Colorado State University

      Principal investigators: Karen Marie Dobos (contact PI), Raymond Paul Goodrich (contact PI), Rebecca Moritz (contact PI)

      $2,556,793
      award amount

  4. Rebecca Moritz

    Leads 1 award · $2,556,793

    • 5UC7AI180308-04Department: NIH department code
      Research Resources and Workforce Development for the Rocky Mountain Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at Colorado State University

      Principal investigators: Karen Marie Dobos (contact PI), Raymond Paul Goodrich (contact PI), Rebecca Moritz (contact PI)

      $2,556,793
      award amount

  5. Amanda L. Woerman

    Leads 3 awards · $1,889,410

    • 5R01AG082349-03Department: NIH department code
      Untangling the bidirectional relationship between the spread of pathological protein aggregates, sleep, and circadian clock disruption in neurodegenerative disease

      Principal investigators: Amanda L. Woerman (contact PI), Ilia Nicholas Karatsoreos

      $741,821
      award amount
    • 1R01NS151727-01Department: NIH department code
      Effect of fibril structure on the disease pathogenesis of a novel alpha-synuclein strain
      $635,317
      award amount
    • 5R01NS121294-06Department: NIH department code
      Effect of Agent and Host Factors on Alpha-Synuclein Strain Pathogenesis
      $512,272
      award amount

  6. Miriam S. Braunstein

    Leads 2 awards · $1,206,371

    • 5R01AI176834-03Department: NIH department code
      In vivo assessment and optimization of phage PK/PD for the treatment of pulmonary Mycobacterium abscessus infection

      Principal investigators: Miriam S. Braunstein (contact PI), Gauri G Rao

      $782,871
      award amount
    • 1R21AI202189-01Department: NIH department code
      Bacteriophage interactions with nontuberculous mycobacteria in the intracellular environment of mammalian cells
      $423,500
      award amount

  7. Andres Obregon

    Leads 1 award · $949,073

    • 1R01AI202797-01Department: NIH department code
      Diversifying Tuberculosis Vaccine Pipeline with Multivalent Subunit Particle Vaccines

      Principal investigators: Andres Obregon (contact PI), Hilliard Kutscher

      $949,073
      award amount

  8. Glenn C Telling

    Leads 1 award · $882,535

    • 5R35NS132226-04Department: NIH department code
      Maximizing research success in studies of naturally-occurring prion diseases
      $882,535
      award amount

  9. Gregg A Dean

    Leads 2 awards · $865,683

    • 5T34GM140958-05Department: NIH department code
      MARC at Colorado State University

      Principal investigators: Gregg A Dean (contact PI), Mark D Zabel, Sandra L Quackenbush

      $468,955
      award amount
    • 5R38AI188565-02Department: NIH department code
      Colorado State University StARR Program in Infectious Disease and Immunology
      $396,728
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32OD010437-25, led by Kelly S Santangelo.

  10. Mercedes Gonzalez-Juarrero

    Leads 1 award · $789,217

  11. Brian David Foy

    Leads 3 awards · $742,640

  12. James David Dziura

    Leads 3 awards · $742,640

  13. Jean Bosco Ouedraogo

    Leads 3 awards · $742,640

  14. Roch Kounbobr Dabire

    Leads 3 awards · $742,640

  15. Brendan Podell

    Leads 1 award · $722,099

    • 5R01AI162746-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of vitamin A-dependent risk for tuberculosis progression and prevention
      $722,099
      award amount

  16. Gregory David Ebel

    Leads 2 awards · $648,599

    • 5R01AI067380-20Department: NIH department code
      Quasispecies dynamics in arbovirus persistence emergence and fitness
      $456,099
      award amount
    • 1R21AI202005-01Department: NIH department code
      Role of distinct midgut cell types in the Cx. tarsalis - WNV interaction
      $192,500
      award amount

  17. Kelly S Santangelo

    Leads 1 award · $519,698

    • 5T32OD010437-25Department: NIH department code
      Biomedical Research Training for Veterinarians

      Principal investigators: Kelly S Santangelo (contact PI), Gregg A Dean

      $519,698
      award amount

  18. Brian Geiss

    Leads 2 awards · $518,496

    • 5R61AI181052-03Department: NIH department code
      Development of a robust HIV-1 diagnostic system (HIV-eCaDI) for at-home testing

      Principal investigators: Brian Geiss (contact PI), Charles S Henry, David S Dandy

      $454,761
      award amount
    • 3R61AI181052-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Development of a robust HIV-1 diagnostic system (HIV-eCaDI) for at-home testing: SUPPLEMENT

      Principal investigators: Brian Geiss (contact PI), Charles S Henry, David S Dandy

      $63,735
      award amount

  19. Mark D. Stenglein

    Leads 1 award · $420,193

    • 5R01AI177711-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and Fitness Barriers to Bunyavirus Reassortment
      $420,193
      award amount

  20. Carol J Wilusz

    Leads 1 award · $372,905

  21. Laura Ann Pulscher

    Leads 1 award · $146,459

    • 1K99AI199130-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Impact of Cadmium on Immune Function and Viral Dynamics in Jamaican Fruit Bats (Artibeus jamaicensis)
      $146,459
      award amount

  22. Clara G Reasoner

    Leads 1 award · $45,195

    • 1F30AI200349-01Department: NIH department code
      Bat T cells responses to SARS-CoV-2
      $45,195
      award amount

  23. Chase Reza Khedmatgozar

    Leads 1 award · $44,153

    • 5F31NS139652-02Department: NIH department code
      A transcriptomics-based approach to identify quantitative biomarkers for multiple system atrophy
      $44,153
      award amount

  24. Christian Robert Cherry

    Leads 1 award · $43,523

    • 1F30AI191651-01A1Department: NIH department code
      A novel oral vaccine targeting T cell responses to overcome oral vaccine failure
      $43,523
      award amount

  25. Andrea Russell Serrano

    Leads 1 award · $43,423

    • 1F31AI203071-01Department: NIH department code
      Functional Analysis of Mycobacterium abscessus Electron Transport Enzymes in Host-Relevant Conditions
      $43,423
      award amount

  26. Kristy Pabilonia

    Leads 1 award · $26,800

    • 5U18FD006153-10Department: NIH department code
      CVM Vet-LIRN Veterinary DiagnosticLaboratory Program (U18) Clinical TrialsNot Allowed
      $26,800
      award amount

  27. Rushika Perera

    Leads 1 award · $7,500

    • 5R13AI186419-03Department: NIH department code
      24th Annual Rocky Mountain Virology Association Conference
      $7,500
      award amount

Co-investigators

Named as principal investigators on these awards, which someone else leads. They may belong to another department or institution: their own, below, comes from the awards they lead.

  • Hilliard Kutscher

    Co-investigator on 1R01AI202797-01, led by Andres Obregon

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Bernd Meibohm

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI178885-03, led by Mercedes Gonzalez-Juarrero

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Sara Elizabeth Maloney

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI178885-03, led by Mercedes Gonzalez-Juarrero

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Gauri G Rao

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI176834-03, led by Miriam S. Braunstein

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Sunil Parikh

    Co-investigator on 5U19AI181595-03, led by Brian David Foy and James David Dziura and Jean Bosco Ouedraogo and Roch Kounbobr Dabire; 3U19AI181595-03S1, led by Brian David Foy and James David Dziura and Jean Bosco Ouedraogo and Roch Kounbobr Dabire; 3U19AI181595-03S2, led by Brian David Foy and James David Dziura and Jean Bosco Ouedraogo and Roch Kounbobr Dabire

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Ilia Nicholas Karatsoreos

    Co-investigator on 5R01AG082349-03, led by Amanda L. Woerman

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Charles S Henry

    Co-investigator on 5R61AI181052-03, led by Brian Geiss; 3R61AI181052-03S1, led by Brian Geiss

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • David S Dandy

    Co-investigator on 5R61AI181052-03, led by Brian Geiss; 3R61AI181052-03S1, led by Brian Geiss

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Mark D Zabel

    Co-investigator on 5T34GM140958-05, led by Gregg A Dean

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Sandra L Quackenbush

    Co-investigator on 5T34GM140958-05, led by Gregg A Dean

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Brian Munsky

    Co-investigator on 5T32GM132057-08, led by Carol J Wilusz

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Daniel Benjamin Sloan

    Co-investigator on 5T32GM132057-08, led by Carol J Wilusz

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads