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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pharmacology at University of Colorado

Aurora, CO

Funding
$32.5M
$32,532,647
Awards
56
FY2026 NIH awards in Pharmacology
Principal investigators
56
35 lead a grant here, 21 co-investigators
Department rank
#8
of 132 · 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 Pharmacology row of the University of Colorado page.

Leads a grant in this department

35 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. Joaquin M. Espinosa

    Leads 11 awards · $11,358,241

    • 5U24AG092191-03Department: NIH department code
      The INCLUDE Project Down Syndrome Biorepository (DS-Biorepository)

      Principal investigators: Joaquin M. Espinosa (contact PI), Angela Lynn Rachubinski, Elizabeth Head, Matthew D Galbraith

      $5,325,989
      award amount
    • 3OT2HD117033-01S2Department: NIH department code
      Down Syndrome Connect Registry
      $1,298,881
      award amount
    • 5R33HD109748-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic investigation of therapies for Down Syndrome Regression Disorder
      $1,297,326
      award amount
    • 5R01DC021819-03Department: NIH department code
      Multidimensional investigation of auditory dysfunction in Down syndrome

      Principal investigators: Joaquin M. Espinosa (contact PI), Gabrielle Ryan Merchant, Peter Stephen Steyger

      $1,014,909
      award amount
    • 4U01HD116469-02Department: NIH department code
      Human Trisome Project - Latin America Network

      Principal investigators: Joaquin M. Espinosa (contact PI), Angela Lynn Rachubinski

      $680,969
      award amount
    • 5R25HD114950-03Department: NIH department code
      Data Science for Developing Scholars in Down Syndrome Research (DS3)
      $392,503
      award amount
    • 3U01HD116469-02S3Department: NIH department code
      Human Trisome Project - Latin America Network

      Principal investigators: Joaquin M. Espinosa (contact PI), Angela Lynn Rachubinski

      $269,996
      award amount
    • 3U01HD116469-02S4Department: NIH department code
      Human Trisome Project - Latin America Network

      Principal investigators: Joaquin M. Espinosa (contact PI), Angela Lynn Rachubinski

      $269,917
      award amount
    • 3U01HD116469-02S2Department: NIH department code
      Human Trisome Project - Latin America Network

      Principal investigators: Joaquin M. Espinosa (contact PI), Angela Lynn Rachubinski

      $269,406
      award amount
    • 3U01HD116469-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Human Trisome Project - Latin America Network

      Principal investigators: Joaquin M. Espinosa (contact PI), Angela Lynn Rachubinski

      $269,244
      award amount
    • 3U01HD116469-02S5Department: NIH department code
      Human Trisome Project - Latin America Network

      Principal investigators: Joaquin M. Espinosa (contact PI), Angela Lynn Rachubinski

      $269,101
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R24OD035579-04, led by Matthew D Galbraith.

  2. James Christopher Costello

    Leads 3 awards · $1,740,498

    • 5R01HD109765-03Department: NIH department code
      Novel computational strategies to deconvolute co-occurring conditions in Down syndrome

      Principal investigators: James Christopher Costello (contact PI), Casey S Greene

      $893,680
      award amount
    • 5R01CA268055-05Department: NIH department code
      NPEPPS is a novel and druggable determinant of chemotherapy resistance in bladder cancer
      $501,649
      award amount
    • 5T32GM158468-02Department: NIH department code
      Predoctoral Training Grant in Pharmacology and Molecular Medicine

      Principal investigators: James Christopher Costello (contact PI), Jason Aoto, Mark L Dell'acqua

      $345,169
      award amount

  3. Heide L. Ford

    Leads 3 awards · $1,628,266

    • 5R01CA275187-04Department: NIH department code
      Reprogramming myogenic regulatory factors in RMS to promote differentiation and halt growth

      Principal investigators: Heide L. Ford (contact PI), Kristin Artinger

      $660,748
      award amount
    • 5R01CA301267-02Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering the role of EYA3/PP2A in triple negative breast cancer metastasis

      Principal investigators: Heide L. Ford (contact PI), Rui Zhao

      $647,118
      award amount
    • 5R35GM128720-08Department: NIH department code
      Understanding Epigenetic Regulation of Copy Number Heterogeneity
      $320,400
      award amount

  4. Dmitri Simberg

    Leads 3 awards · $1,353,391

    • 2R01AI154959-10A1Department: NIH department code
      The alternative complement pathway and hemocompatibility of nanosurfaces
      $629,016
      award amount
    • 5R01CA257958-05Department: NIH department code
      Fluorescent Indocarbocyanine PEGylated Lipid Nanoparticles for Understanding and Overcoming Barriers to Drug Delivery in Invasive Glioblastoma

      Principal investigators: Dmitri Simberg (contact PI), Irina V Balyasnikova

      $529,375
      award amount
    • 5R21HL177785-02Department: NIH department code
      Hemostatic erythrocytes for acute non-compressible hemorrhage

      Principal investigators: Dmitri Simberg (contact PI), Keith B Neeves

      $195,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA289447-02, led by Thomas Anchordoquy.

  5. Mark L Dell'acqua

    Leads 2 awards · $1,348,284

    • 5R01NS110383-08Department: NIH department code
      Postsynaptic kinase/phosphatase networks in amyloid beta-induced synaptic dysfunction

      Principal investigators: Mark L Dell'acqua (contact PI), Matthew J Kennedy

      $775,994
      award amount
    • 5R01NS129022-03Department: NIH department code
      Rescuing neurovascular coupling to protect neuronal plasticity and cognition

      Principal investigators: Mark L Dell'acqua (contact PI), Fabrice Dabertrand

      $572,290
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32GM158468-02, led by James Christopher Costello.

  6. Hao Chen

    Leads 1 award · $1,266,475

    • 1P30DA063727-01A1Department: NIH department code
      NIDA Center of Excellence in Omics, Systems Genetics, and the Addictome

      Principal investigators: Hao Chen (contact PI), Laura Maren Saba (contact PI), Saunak Sen (contact PI)

      $1,266,475
      award amount

  7. Laura Maren Saba

    Leads 1 award · $1,266,475

    • 1P30DA063727-01A1Department: NIH department code
      NIDA Center of Excellence in Omics, Systems Genetics, and the Addictome

      Principal investigators: Hao Chen (contact PI), Laura Maren Saba (contact PI), Saunak Sen (contact PI)

      $1,266,475
      award amount

  8. Saunak Sen

    Leads 1 award · $1,266,475

    • 1P30DA063727-01A1Department: NIH department code
      NIDA Center of Excellence in Omics, Systems Genetics, and the Addictome

      Principal investigators: Hao Chen (contact PI), Laura Maren Saba (contact PI), Saunak Sen (contact PI)

      $1,266,475
      award amount

  9. Jed Noah Lampe

    Leads 2 awards · $1,224,662

    • 5R01AI176245-03Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cytochrome P450 enzymes and secondary metabolites on drug metabolism and disposition in the cystic fibrosis patient
      $678,232
      award amount
    • 5R01AI183687-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the underlying toxicological mechanisms of drug-hormone interactions to improve the safety profile of antiviral medications in pregnant people, developing fetuses, and neonates
      $546,430
      award amount

  10. Matthew J Kennedy

    Leads 2 awards · $1,203,340

    • 5R35NS116879-07Department: NIH department code
      Novel approaches for interrogating and manipulating synaptic function, structure and plasticity
      $691,640
      award amount
    • 5R01MH134957-03Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating the functional impact of synaptic nanoarchitecture
      $511,700
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01NS110383-08, led by Mark L Dell'acqua.

  11. Jared Michael Brown

    Leads 2 awards · $961,194

    • 5R01DK125351-06Department: NIH department code
      Silica Nephropathy and Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology

      Principal investigators: Jared Michael Brown (contact PI), Lee S Newman

      $728,585
      award amount
    • 5T32ES029074-08Department: NIH department code
      Training in Molecular and Systems Toxicology
      $232,609
      award amount

  12. Brian Tsuji

    Leads 1 award · $744,147

    • 7R01AI165997-05Department: NIH department code
      Novel Combination Therapies to Combat Hypermutable Carbapenem-Resistant P. aeruginosa

      Principal investigators: Brian Tsuji (contact PI), Mark D. Sutton

      $744,147
      award amount

  13. Matthew D Galbraith

    Leads 1 award · $737,886

    Also a principal investigator on 5U24AG092191-03, led by Joaquin M. Espinosa.

  14. Kristina Marie Brooks

    Leads 1 award · $631,817

    • 5R01AA030483-05Department: NIH department code
      Predictive Power of PEth for HIV Prevention in the Long-Acting Era
      $631,817
      award amount

  15. Melanie S Joy

    Leads 1 award · $612,019

    • 5R01CA277313-04Department: NIH department code
      Preclinical and Clinical Models of Drug Induced Kidney Injury

      Principal investigators: Melanie S Joy (contact PI), Lauren M Aleksunes

      $612,019
      award amount

  16. James R Roede

    Leads 1 award · $611,887

    • 4R01ES027593-07Department: NIH department code
      Altered Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Cognition via Maneb-mediated Changes in the Thiol Redox Proteome.
      $611,887
      award amount

  17. Manisha N Patel

    Leads 1 award · $570,914

    • 4R37NS039587-23Department: NIH department code
      Mitochondrial Mechanisms of Astrogliosis in Epilesy
      $570,914
      award amount

  18. Rebecca Leanne Smathers McCullough

    Leads 3 awards · $525,354

  19. Thomas Anchordoquy

    Leads 1 award · $500,290

    • 5R01CA289447-02Department: NIH department code
      Reducing Off-Target Accumulation of Chemotherapeutic Nanomedicines

      Principal investigators: Thomas Anchordoquy (contact PI), Dmitri Simberg

      $500,290
      award amount

  20. Christopher Peter Ford

    Leads 1 award · $487,125

    • 5R01NS138043-02Department: NIH department code
      Determining modes of dopamine transmission
      $487,125
      award amount

  21. K. Ulrich Bayer

    Leads 1 award · $479,383

    • 5R01NS081248-12Department: NIH department code
      CaMKII Holoenzyme Mechanisms in Opposing Forms of Synaptic Plasticity
      $479,383
      award amount

  22. Chandra L Tucker

    Leads 1 award · $478,084

    • 5R35GM136367-07Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering new approaches to manipulate and probe biochemical processes with spatial and temporal precision
      $478,084
      award amount

  23. Kristofer S Fritz

    Leads 1 award · $460,598

    • 5R01AA030024-04Department: NIH department code
      Alcohol Metabolism Disrupts Hepatic Thiol Redox Signaling and Control
      $460,598
      award amount

  24. Shaodong Dai

    Leads 1 award · $456,731

    • 5R01DK137056-04Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of disulfide modified diabetogenic neoepitopes
      $456,731
      award amount

  25. Carlos Enrique Catalano

    Leads 2 awards · $430,388

    • 5R01GM127365-08Department: NIH department code
      Structure and Function of Essential Nucleoprotein Complexes Along a Viral Genome Packaging Pathway

      Principal investigators: Carlos Enrique Catalano (contact PI), Douglas E Smith, Marc Morais

      $424,356
      award amount
    • 3R01GM127365-08S1Department: NIH department code
      Structure and Function of Essential Nucleoprotein Complexes Along a Viral Genome Packaging Pathway

      Principal investigators: Carlos Enrique Catalano (contact PI), Douglas E Smith, Marc Morais

      $6,032
      award amount

  26. Thomas Delong

    Leads 1 award · $429,000

    • 1R21AI196871-01Department: NIH department code
      Species-Specific Regulation of Autoantigen Processing: A Humanized Mouse Model of Cathepsin D in Type 1 Diabetes
      $429,000
      award amount

  27. Uday B Kompella

    Leads 1 award · $429,000

    • 1R21EY035975-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Translational Approaches for Ocular Injuries
      $429,000
      award amount

  28. Vanessa V Phelan

    Leads 1 award · $422,628

    • 5R35GM158024-02Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing Natural Product Mediated Microbial Interactions
      $422,628
      award amount

  29. Tatiana G Kutateladze

    Leads 1 award · $380,148

    • 5R01CA252707-06Department: NIH department code
      Molecular analysis of ASH1L
      $380,148
      award amount

  30. Arjun Krishnan

    Leads 1 award · $267,481

    • 5T15LM009451-20Department: NIH department code
      Colorado Biomedical Informatics Training Program

      Principal investigators: Arjun Krishnan (contact PI), Katherina Kechris-Mays

      $267,481
      award amount

  31. Debosmita Sardar

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00DC019668-04Department: NIH department code
      Astrocyte transcriptional responses to neuronal activity in the olfactory bulb
      $249,000
      award amount

  32. Gina Bouchard

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00CA255586-04Department: NIH department code
      Exploring O-glycoproteomics to prevent metabolic radioresistance in the tumor microenvironment
      $249,000
      award amount

  33. Justin O'Hare

    Leads 1 award · $224,100

    • 5R00NS127815-05Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Circuit, Synaptic, and Molecular Mechanisms Linking Intracellular Ca2+ Release to Learning Using Subcellularly-Targeted Manipulations and Imaging Techniques in Dendrites in Vivo
      $224,100
      award amount

  34. Alexandra Ward

    Leads 1 award · $35,658

    • 5F31AT013157-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Human Metabolism of the Minor Cannabinoid Cannabichromene
      $35,658
      award amount

  35. Shannon Twardy

    Leads 1 award · $35,658

    • 5F31AA031913-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the Role of the C5 complosome in Ethanol-induced Immunometabolic Dysregulation of Kupffer Cells in Alcohol-associated Liver Disease
      $35,658
      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.