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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Physiology at University of Colorado

Aurora, CO

Funding
$11.5M
$11,543,703
Awards
29
FY2026 NIH awards in Physiology
Principal investigators
26
20 lead a grant here, 6 co-investigators
Department rank
#17
of 89 · 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 Physiology 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. Douglas R Seals

    Leads 3 awards · $1,927,912

    • 2R01AG066730-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Mitochondrial-targeted antioxidant supplementation for improving vascular endothelial function inpostmenopausal women: comparison with standard-of-care exercise

      Principal investigators: Douglas R Seals (contact PI), Matthew J Rossman

      $719,565
      award amount
    • 5R01AG073117-04Department: NIH department code
      Passive heat therapy for lowering systolic blood pressure and improving vascular function in mid-life and older adults
      $627,761
      award amount
    • 5R01AG071506-05Department: NIH department code
      Inspiratory muscle strength training for lowering blood pressure and improving endothelial function in postmenopausal women: comparison with "standard of care" aerobic exercise
      $580,586
      award amount
  2. Kenneth P Wright

    Leads 4 awards · $1,667,081

    • 5R01HL165343-04Department: NIH department code
      Biomarkers for Peripheral Circadian Clocks in Humans
      $666,859
      award amount
    • 5R01HL159647-04Department: NIH department code
      Pathophysiology of Circadian Rhythm Delayed Sleep Wake Phase Disorder

      Principal investigators: Kenneth P Wright (contact PI), Phyllis C. Zee

      $654,307
      award amount
    • 5T32HL149646-07Department: NIH department code
      Transdisciplinary Training in Sleep and Circadian Research
      $211,287
      award amount
    • 5R25NS125603-04Department: NIH department code
      Multi-Institutional Summer Undergraduate Research Program to Promote Diversity and Excellence in Sleep and Circadian Research Careers
      $134,628
      award amount
  3. Gidon S Felsen

    Leads 4 awards · $1,079,446

    • 5R01NS079518-14Department: NIH department code
      Functional neural circuitry for decision making in the superior colliculus
      $392,258
      award amount
    • 5R01NS129608-04Department: NIH department code
      Neural circuits for adaptively biasing decision making
      $341,688
      award amount
    • 5T32NS099042-24Department: NIH department code
      Neuroscience Training Grant

      Principal investigators: Gidon S Felsen (contact PI), Nidia Calero

      $265,502
      award amount
    • 3R01NS079518-14S1Department: NIH department code
      Functional neural circuitry for decision making in the superior colliculus
      $79,998
      award amount
  4. Abigail L Person

    Leads 2 awards · $982,558

    • 5R01NS114430-08Department: NIH department code
      Circuit mechanisms of cerebellar control of reaching movements

      Principal investigators: Abigail L Person (contact PI), Jason M Christie

      $503,754
      award amount
    • 5R37NS131839-03Department: NIH department code
      Functional roles of inhibitory cerebellar outputs
      $478,804
      award amount
  5. Matthew J Rossman

    Leads 1 award · $809,971

    • 1R01AG094826-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Targeting cellular senescence with fisetin for improving vascular endothelial function in older adults
      $809,971
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2R01AG066730-06A1, led by Douglas R Seals.

  6. Christopher D. Link

    Leads 1 award · $776,876

    • 5R01AG085307-03Department: NIH department code
      Double-stranded RNA in neuronal cell death in Alzheimer's and related neurodegenerative diseases

      Principal investigators: Christopher D. Link (contact PI), Charles A Hoeffer, Yongjie Zhang

      $776,876
      award amount
  7. Cristin G Welle

    Leads 1 award · $723,065

    • 1R61NS141760-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Vagus nerve stimulation to promote remyelination in multiple sclerosis

      Principal investigators: Cristin G Welle (contact PI), Jeffrey L Bennett

      $723,065
      award amount
  8. Anthony Wei Peng

    Leads 1 award · $581,186

    • 5R01DC016868-08Department: NIH department code
      Molecular mechanisms of cochlear hair bundle mechanics
      $581,186
      award amount
  9. Jenni Shearston

    Leads 1 award · $434,110

    • 1DP5OD042636-01Department: NIH department code
      The Menses Study: Menstrual blood as a novel target-tissue biomatrix for chemical exposures relevant to reproductive system disorders
      $434,110
      award amount
  10. Alon Poleg-Polsky

    Leads 1 award · $416,684

    • 5R01EY035293-04Department: NIH department code
      Novel experimental and machine learning - assisted techniques to assess receptive field functionality in the retina
      $416,684
      award amount
  11. John Bankston

    Leads 1 award · $404,095

    • 5R35GM137912-07Department: NIH department code
      Dynamic modulation of HCN4 and ASICs
      $404,095
      award amount
  12. Rachel Kathleen Rowe

    Leads 1 award · $391,250

    • 5R01NS132672-03Department: NIH department code
      The mechanistic role of microglia and IL10 in the regulation of pathological sleep disturbances
      $391,250
      award amount
  13. Matthew Raymond Olm

    Leads 1 award · $386,994

    • 1R35GM165719-01Department: NIH department code
      Identifying the Ecological Forces driving Global Divergence in Infant Microbiome Assembly
      $386,994
      award amount
  14. Lisandra Flores Aldama

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00HL169909-03Department: NIH department code
      Biogenesis of hERG1a/1b ion channels in health and disease model cardiomyocytes
      $249,000
      award amount
  15. Renske Lok

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 4R00AG084846-03Department: NIH department code
      Application of precision medicine to phototherapy: a stepped care approach to consolidate sleep and slow cognitive decline in older adults
      $248,999
      award amount
  16. Tahra Eissa

    Leads 1 award · $224,100

    • 5R00NS127855-04Department: NIH department code
      Cognitive and Neural Strategies for Latent Feature Inference
      $224,100
      award amount
  17. Katrina Nguyen

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32NS134561-03Department: NIH department code
      Spatiotemporal encoding of goal-directed reaching across early cerebellar circuitry
      $79,348
      award amount
  18. Selin - Schamiloglu

    Leads 1 award · $79,300

    • 5F32NS141896-02Department: NIH department code
      A cerebellar synaptic mechanism for temporally precise behaviors
      $79,300
      award amount
  19. Sanna Darvish

    Leads 1 award · $43,760

    • 5F31AG087709-03Department: NIH department code
      Chronic MitoQ Supplementation for Improving Cerebrovascular Function in Older Adults
      $43,760
      award amount
  20. Juan Gabriel Santiago Moreno

    Leads 1 award · $37,968

    • 5F30EY034775-04Department: NIH department code
      Thalamocortical mechanisms producing spatial chromatic contrast in mouse V1
      $37,968
      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.