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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at Trustees of Indiana University

Bloomington, IN

Funding
$12.8M
$12,823,123
Awards
32
FY2026 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
35
28 lead a grant here, 7 co-investigators
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • 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 Biology row of the Trustees of Indiana University page.

Leads a grant in this department

28 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. Jason Michael Tennessen

    Leads 2 awards · $1,156,864

    • 2R35GM119557-11Department: NIH department code
      A Drosophila Model for the Regulation of Aerobic Glycolysis
      $580,471
      award amount
    • 5R01DK136945-04Department: NIH department code
      Investigating metabolic responses to high sugar diets and the onset of diabetic phenotypes

      Principal investigators: Jason Michael Tennessen (contact PI), Angelo D'alessandro, Norbert Perrimon

      $576,393
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5P40OD018537-13, led by Annette L. Parks and Cale Whitworth and Kevin R Cook.

  2. Annette L. Parks

    Leads 1 award · $1,115,629

  3. Cale Whitworth

    Leads 1 award · $1,115,629

  4. Kevin R Cook

    Leads 1 award · $1,115,629

  5. Irene Newton

    Leads 2 awards · $796,332

    • 5R01AI178815-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining the molecular interface of Wolbachia Ankyrin-host interaction
      $409,926
      award amount
    • 5R01AI144430-08Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Wolbachia effectors that facilitate host infection
      $386,406
      award amount

  6. Andrew Zelhof

    Leads 1 award · $681,125

    • 5P40OD010949-22Department: NIH department code
      DROSOPHILA GENOMICS RESOURCE CENTER
      $681,125
      award amount

  7. Malcolm E. Winkler

    Leads 1 award · $666,807

    • 5R35GM131767-08Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics and Regulation of Peptidoglycan Cell Wall Synthesis in the Superbug Streptococcus pneumoniae
      $666,807
      award amount

  8. Gregory E Demas

    Leads 1 award · $641,943

    • 5R01MH139864-02Department: NIH department code
      A Seasonal Switch: Alternative Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Regulating Aggression

      Principal investigators: Gregory E Demas (contact PI), Aaron M Jasnow

      $641,943
      award amount

  9. Adarsh Dharan

    Leads 1 award · $617,374

    • 1R01AI200600-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining Nuclear Pore Complex Subsets and Import Pathways that Regulate the Fate of HIV-1 Integration and Gene Expression
      $617,374
      award amount

  10. Mengting Han

    Leads 1 award · $475,500

    • 1DP1DA066437-01Department: NIH department code
      Interrogating RNA localization and local translation during synaptic plasticity induced by opioid use disorder
      $475,500
      award amount

  11. Ankur Dalia

    Leads 1 award · $468,179

    • 5R35GM128674-09Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and regulation of horizontal gene transfer by natural transformation in Vibrio cholerae
      $468,179
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R13AI186224-03, led by Julia C. Van Kessel.

  12. Daniel B Kearns

    Leads 1 award · $463,599

    • 5R35GM131783-08Department: NIH department code
      Swarming motility and the regulation of flagellar biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis
      $463,599
      award amount

  13. Heather Ann Hundley

    Leads 2 awards · $447,828

    • 5R35GM156459-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms that regulate ADAR target recognition and RNA editing
      $412,525
      award amount
    • 3R35GM156459-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms that regulate ADAR target recognition and RNA editing
      $35,303
      award amount

  14. Julia C. Van Kessel

    Leads 3 awards · $440,688

    • 5R35GM124698-10Department: NIH department code
      Quorum sensing regulation of bacterial development
      $416,063
      award amount
    • 1R13AI202927-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Conference

      Principal investigators: Julia C. Van Kessel (contact PI), Briana M. Burton, Kenneth C Keiler

      $17,125
      award amount
    • 5R13AI186224-03Department: NIH department code
      30th Annual Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference (MMPC)

      Principal investigators: Julia C. Van Kessel (contact PI), Ankur Dalia

      $7,500
      award amount

  15. Jay T Lennon

    Leads 1 award · $428,857

    • 1R35GM161372-01Department: NIH department code
      Cell dormancy and virus entrapment
      $428,857
      award amount

  16. Cristina Landeta

    Leads 1 award · $415,822

    • 1R35GM161411-01Department: NIH department code
      Oxidative protein folding in bacteria
      $415,822
      award amount

  17. Maria De La Paz Fernandez

    Leads 1 award · $415,822

    • 1R35GM161607-01Department: NIH department code
      Development and Connectivity of the Circadian Clock Neuron Network
      $415,822
      award amount

  18. William C Fuqua

    Leads 1 award · $406,675

    • 5R01GM160733-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of pterin-dependent regulation in proteobacterial systems
      $406,675
      award amount

  19. Alexandre W Bisson Filho

    Leads 1 award · $396,250

    • 7R35GM156992-02Department: NIH department code
      Archaea as a microbial model for developmental mechanoplasticity
      $396,250
      award amount

  20. Brian R Calvi

    Leads 1 award · $395,926

    • 5R35GM152255-03Department: NIH department code
      Cell cycle and checkpoint variations in development and disease
      $395,926
      award amount

  21. Pranav Danthi

    Leads 2 awards · $390,055

    • 5R01AI110637-12Department: NIH department code
      Regulating the Detection of Reovirus Infection
      $378,055
      award amount
    • 5R13AI096720-15Department: NIH department code
      American Society for Virology Meeting- Jr Investigator Support
      $12,000
      award amount

  22. William D Tracey

    Leads 1 award · $389,205

    • 5R35GM148258-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular, Cellular, and Circuit Mechanisms of Nociception Behavior
      $389,205
      award amount

  23. Orie T Shafer

    Leads 1 award · $386,768

    • 5R01NS077933-15Department: NIH department code
      Network Properties of Circadian Clock Modulation and Entrainment
      $386,768
      award amount

  24. Lesley Nicole Weaver

    Leads 1 award · $377,672

    • 5R35GM150517-04Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of tissue stem cell lineages by nuclear receptor signaling
      $377,672
      award amount

  25. Justin P Kumar

    Leads 1 award · $364,907

    • 5R01EY036802-02Department: NIH department code
      Specification and patterning of the Drosophila retina by the Pax6 transcription factor
      $364,907
      award amount

  26. Matthew William Hahn

    Leads 1 award · $317,960

    • 5R01HD107120-04Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the mechanisms and timing of de novo mutations in primates
      $317,960
      award amount

  27. Dale R Sengelaub

    Leads 1 award · $88,556

    • 5T32HD049336-19Department: NIH department code
      Common Themes in Reproductive Diversity
      $88,556
      award amount

  28. Karlen Enid Correa Velez

    Leads 1 award · $76,780

    • 1F32AI191486-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling bacterial signaling in inter-species Vibrio interactions in host-colonization stages
      $76,780
      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.