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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at University of Colorado

Aurora, CO

Funding
$6.9M
$6,926,660
Awards
26
FY2026 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
22
20 lead a grant here, 2 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 University of Colorado page.

Leads a grant in this department

20 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. Rytis Prekeris

    Leads 3 awards · $1,439,712

    • 5R01DK064380-22Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Epithelial Cell Apical Polarity and Ciliogenesis
      $518,748
      award amount
    • 1R35GM161210-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of cell polarity during cell division and migration
      $494,703
      award amount
    • 5T32GM136444-07Department: NIH department code
      Predoctoral Training in Molecular and Cellular Biology

      Principal investigators: Rytis Prekeris (contact PI), Michael A McMurray

      $426,261
      award amount

  2. Ethan Garrett Hughes

    Leads 2 awards · $917,146

    • 5R01NS132859-04Department: NIH department code
      In vivo three-photon microscopy of the cortical gray and white matter
      $530,562
      award amount
    • 5R01NS125230-05Department: NIH department code
      Precision of Myelin Plasticity in Health and Disease
      $386,584
      award amount

  3. Yunsik Kang

    Leads 2 awards · $653,094

    • 1R35GM165816-01Department: NIH department code
      How is Bridge-Like Lipid Transfer Proteins (BLTP) function regulated?
      $429,000
      award amount
    • 5R00NS126642-04Department: NIH department code
      How do astrocytes remodel the nervous system?
      $224,094
      award amount

  4. Jeffrey Kyle Moore

    Leads 2 awards · $632,110

    • 2T32GM141742-06Department: NIH department code
      Predoctoral Training in the Genetics of Development, Disease and Regeneration

      Principal investigators: Jeffrey Kyle Moore (contact PI), Bruce H Appel

      $335,353
      award amount
    • 1R01GM166656-01Department: NIH department code
      How tubulin and kinesin gene families specialize microtubule networks
      $296,757
      award amount

  5. Chad G Pearson

    Leads 1 award · $618,959

    • 2R35GM140813-06Department: NIH department code
      Centriole assembly and function for centrosome and cilia biology
      $618,959
      award amount

  6. Linda A Barlow

    Leads 1 award · $602,470

    • 5R01DC021865-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of Kit signaling in taste bud regeneration
      $602,470
      award amount

  7. Wendy B MacKlin

    Leads 1 award · $427,712

    • 1R21NS142515-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Classification of Disease Associated B Cell Receptors in Multiple Sclerosis
      $427,712
      award amount

  8. Michael A McMurray

    Leads 2 awards · $398,694

    • 5R35GM148198-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of septin assembly that shape cellular function
      $371,210
      award amount
    • 3R35GM148198-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of septin assembly that shape cellular function
      $27,484
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM136444-07, led by Rytis Prekeris.

  9. Jessica C Nelson

    Leads 1 award · $390,000

    • 5R35GM159847-02Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the molecular function and substrate specificity of palmitoyltransferases in regulating behavior
      $390,000
      award amount

  10. Courtney Elizabeth Wilson

    Leads 1 award · $195,000

    • 5R21DC021252-03Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the ultrastructure and connectivity of murine fungiform taste buds
      $195,000
      award amount

  11. Ernesto Salcedo

    Leads 1 award · $135,000

    • 5R25NS130620-04Department: NIH department code
      The Neuroscience Colorado Research Experience (N-CORE) - building a sustainable summer training research experience for undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds

      Principal investigators: Ernesto Salcedo (contact PI), Diego Restrepo

      $135,000
      award amount

  12. Cayla E Jewett

    Leads 1 award · $129,684

    • 1K99GM166737-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of physiologic DNA damage in multiciliated cells
      $129,684
      award amount

  13. Molly Zych

    Leads 1 award · $76,300

    • 1F32GM165053-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining the role of PRR12 in cohesin-mediated DNA damage repair and genome stability
      $76,300
      award amount

  14. Kimberly Arena

    Leads 1 award · $73,769

    • 5F32NS134612-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of Wnt signaling effectors on the neuron-glia switch and OPC specification during development and after injury.
      $73,769
      award amount

  15. Amanda E Stenzel

    Leads 1 award · $42,995

    • 5F31DC023482-02Department: NIH department code
      Determining how Sox9 taste progenitors are established embryonically and contribute adult taste buds
      $42,995
      award amount

  16. Tessa Allen

    Leads 1 award · $39,079

    • 5F31NS139593-02Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Developmental Glutamatergic Signaling on Oligodendrocyte Differentiation
      $39,079
      award amount

  17. Kira A Steinke

    Leads 1 award · $38,799

    • 5F31DC022171-03Department: NIH department code
      Employing holographic stimulation to probe the cellular basis of the engram for odor epochs.
      $38,799
      award amount

  18. Trevor Joseph Isner

    Leads 1 award · $38,799

    • 5F31DC021632-03Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Sox9 as a marker of multipotent progenitors in Circumvallate papilla/Von Ebner's gland homeostasis
      $38,799
      award amount

  19. Graham C Peet

    Leads 1 award · $38,669

    • 5F31NS141369-02Department: NIH department code
      The impact of immunoglobulin induced interferon response on remyelination
      $38,669
      award amount

  20. Kristen H. Schuster

    Leads 1 award · $38,669

    • 5F31NS145710-02Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the signaling pathways that underlie calcium-dependent myelin remodeling
      $38,669
      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.