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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Public Health at University of Colorado

Aurora, CO

Funding
$28.4M
$28,445,497
Awards
45
FY2026 NIH awards in Public Health
Principal investigators
61
40 lead a grant here, 21 co-investigators
Department rank
#13
of 126 · 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 Public Health row of the University of Colorado page.

Leads a grant in this department

40 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. Dana Dabelea

    Leads 3 awards · $5,056,911

    • 5UH3OD035526-04Department: NIH department code
      Early Life Determinants of Child Health: A New Denver-Based Cohort

      Principal investigators: Dana Dabelea (contact PI), Anne Starling, Brianna F Moore

      $2,665,770
      award amount
    • 5R01HL162810-03Department: NIH department code
      Disparities in cardiovascular health in young adults with type 1 diabetes

      Principal investigators: Dana Dabelea (contact PI), Baqiyyah Conway, Janet Kathleen Snell-Bergeon

      $1,691,464
      award amount
    • 5R01DK133235-05Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Health during Puberty: the Healthy Start Study

      Principal investigators: Dana Dabelea (contact PI), Megan Moriarty Kelsey

      $699,677
      award amount

  2. Lee S Newman

    Leads 2 awards · $2,281,925

    • 2T42OH009229-20Department: NIH department code
      Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center (MAP ERC)
      $1,700,109
      award amount
    • 5R01ES034042-04Department: NIH department code
      Air pollutants, heat exposure, and kidney health: A longitudinal study in women in Central America
      $581,816
      award amount

  3. Spero Martin Manson

    Leads 1 award · $2,150,383

    • 5U24MD017761-05Department: NIH department code
      Colorado Resource Center for Tribal Epidemiology Centers

      Principal investigators: Spero Martin Manson (contact PI), Joan M Oconnell

      $2,150,383
      award amount

  4. Linda S Cook

    Leads 1 award · $1,647,859

    • 5UG1CA286941-03Department: NIH department code
      Improving Strategies for Cancer Reduction through Early-detection and ENgagement (I-SCREEN)

      Principal investigators: Linda S Cook (contact PI), Debra P Ritzwoller, Stacey Honda

      $1,647,859
      award amount

  5. Ashley Brooks-Russell

    Leads 2 awards · $1,095,220

    • 5R49CE003563-03Department: NIH department code
      CE24-001, Injury and Violence Prevention Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
      $847,019
      award amount
    • 1R21DA065027-01Department: NIH department code
      Advancing Cannabis Detection: Breath and Ocular Approaches
      $248,201
      award amount

  6. Ellen L Burnham

    Leads 1 award · $1,079,975

    • 5K12TR004412-03Department: NIH department code
      CTSA K12 Program at University of Colorado Denver
      $1,079,975
      award amount

  7. Angela Gwen Brega

    Leads 1 award · $734,051

    • 2P30DK092923-16Department: NIH department code
      Colorado Center for Diabetes Translation Research
      $734,051
      award amount

  8. Nancy Rumbaugh Whitesell

    Leads 1 award · $710,278

    • 5R37DA047926-07Department: NIH department code
      Evaluation of an optimized intervention to prevent early substance use among American Indian youth: Examination of expanded impacts on youth and parents
      $710,278
      award amount

  9. Brianna F Moore

    Leads 1 award · $703,662

    • 1R01DA063849-01Department: NIH department code
      Prenatal exposure to cannabis and child growth: Examining angiogenic and adipogenic pathways in perinatal tissues

      Principal investigators: Brianna F Moore (contact PI), Kristen Elizabeth Boyle

      $703,662
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5UH3OD035526-04, led by Dana Dabelea.

  10. Luisa Mestroni

    Leads 1 award · $655,501

    • 5R01HL164634-04Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Origin of Sudden Cardiac Death in Dilated Cardiomyopathy: from Phenotype Predictors to Therapeutic Targets

      Principal investigators: Luisa Mestroni (contact PI), Matthew R Taylor

      $655,501
      award amount

  11. Jessica B Kendrick

    Leads 1 award · $654,539

    • 5R01DK137844-03Department: NIH department code
      Efficacy and Mechanisms of Dapagliflozin in Promoting Kidney Function and Cardiovascular Health in Kidney Transplant Recipients

      Principal investigators: Jessica B Kendrick (contact PI), Petter Bjornstad

      $654,539
      award amount

  12. Elizabeth Anne Thomas

    Leads 1 award · $645,432

    • 5R01DK132372-04Department: NIH department code
      Effects of early vs. late time restricted eating vs. daily caloric restriction on weight loss and metabolic outcomes in adults with obesity
      $645,432
      award amount

  13. Eszter Katalin Vladar

    Leads 1 award · $635,052

    • 5R01HL166895-03Department: NIH department code
      Canonical to noncanonical Wnt signaling switch in airway epithelial health and disease
      $635,052
      award amount

  14. Laura D. Scherer

    Leads 1 award · $631,880

    • 5R01CA279953-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding and addressing rejection of personalized cancer risk information

      Principal investigators: Laura D. Scherer (contact PI), Erika A Waters

      $631,880
      award amount

  15. Bryan C Bergman

    Leads 1 award · $623,365

    • 5R01DK134706-04Department: NIH department code
      Effect of weight loss on intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT) signaling
      $623,365
      award amount

  16. Matthew R Taylor

    Leads 1 award · $619,144

    • 5R01HL170012-03Department: NIH department code
      Integrative genomic and transcriptomic investigation of human heart failure mechanisms

      Principal investigators: Matthew R Taylor (contact PI), Ani Wang Manichaikul

      $619,144
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01HL164634-04, led by Luisa Mestroni.

  17. Makoto Miyazaki

    Leads 1 award · $613,530

    • 5R01HL157064-04Department: NIH department code
      The transcriptional control of vascular calcification in disease
      $613,530
      award amount

  18. Meredith A Tennis

    Leads 1 award · $607,914

    • 5R01CA289576-02Department: NIH department code
      Persistence and regression in lung premalignant lesions
      $607,914
      award amount

  19. Jill M Norris

    Leads 1 award · $571,051

    • 5R01AR081812-03Department: NIH department code
      The roles and mechanisms of inflammation resolution in the development of Rheumatoid Arthritis
      $571,051
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1T32GM165263-01, led by Alison G Abraham.

  20. Edward Lau

    Leads 1 award · $570,675

    • 5R01HL169473-03Department: NIH department code
      Extracellular matrix turnover in pathological cardiac remodeling

      Principal investigators: Edward Lau (contact PI), Maggie Lam

      $570,675
      award amount

  21. Traci Lyons

    Leads 1 award · $542,378

  22. Joshua M Thurman

    Leads 1 award · $534,582

    • 5R01DK138960-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of the Factor H Related Proteins in Kidney Disease

      Principal investigators: Joshua M Thurman (contact PI), Vernon Michael Holers

      $534,582
      award amount

  23. Timothy McKinsey

    Leads 1 award · $533,406

    • 5R01HL171711-03Department: NIH department code
      15-PGDH-Mediated Eicosanoid Degradation in Cardiac Fibrosis and Heart Failure
      $533,406
      award amount

  24. Eric G. Campbell

    Leads 1 award · $514,886

    • 5R01AG086151-02Department: NIH department code
      Physicians and Medical Aid in Dying: A multimethod study of physicians who do and don't provide MAiD

      Principal investigators: Eric G. Campbell (contact PI), Stacy M Fischer

      $514,886
      award amount

  25. Kristyn S Masters

    Leads 1 award · $477,325

    • 5R01HL172046-03Department: NIH department code
      Engineered models of age-related biochemical, biophysical, and hormonal changes to elucidate mechanisms of aortic valve disease onset
      $477,325
      award amount

  26. Suzhao Li

    Leads 2 awards · $468,000

    • 5R21AI183060-02Department: NIH department code
      Identify new regulators of outer membrane vesicle entry into macrophages
      $234,000
      award amount
    • 5R21AI183064-02Department: NIH department code
      Identify new mediators of proinflammatory cytokine signaling
      $234,000
      award amount

  27. Eduardo V Davila

    Leads 1 award · $444,082

    • 5R01CA271537-04Department: NIH department code
      Expanding the tumor antigen landscape and maintaining APCs in a T cell-activating state to restore tumor immunity
      $444,082
      award amount

  28. Gabriela E Garcia

    Leads 1 award · $394,296

    • 1R01DK138929-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Podocyte acetylcholine as a potential novel treatment for FSGS: Plausible mechanisms
      $394,296
      award amount

  29. Jerreed Dean Ivanich

    Leads 1 award · $265,985

    • 5R25DA061492-03Department: NIH department code
      Preparing Indigenous Scientists to Lead Innovative Substance Use Research: The Native Children's Research Exchange Scholars Program

      Principal investigators: Jerreed Dean Ivanich (contact PI), Michelle C Sarche

      $265,985
      award amount

  30. Savannah M D'evelyn

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00ES034442-04Department: NIH department code
      Learning and Living with Wildfire Smoke: Creating Clean Air Environments in Schools through Youth Participatory Action Research
      $249,000
      award amount

  31. Natalie Del Vecchio

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 4R00CA277552-03Department: NIH department code
      Assessing how multilevel factors shape disparities in cancer screening
      $248,999
      award amount

  32. Natalie Rose Davidson

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 5R00HG012945-05Department: NIH department code
      Domain adaptation approaches to unify established and emerging sequencing technologies
      $248,999
      award amount

  33. Marian Elizabeth Betz

    Leads 1 award · $211,523

    • 5R25NR021381-02Department: NIH department code
      Firearm Injury Prevention Research in Nursing Scholars Program

      Principal investigators: Marian Elizabeth Betz (contact PI), Scott B Harpin

      $211,523
      award amount

  34. Rebecca Elizabeth Schweppe

    Leads 1 award · $195,000

    • 1R21OH013024-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of thyroid carcinogenesis in agricultural workers exposed to glyphosate
      $195,000
      award amount

  35. Hillary Lum

    Leads 1 award · $166,821

    • 5K24AG084999-03Department: NIH department code
      Mentoring Investigators in Dementia Research by Engaging with Persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Care Partners
      $166,821
      award amount

  36. Calen Andrew Steiner

    Leads 1 award · $163,825

    • 5K08DK138279-02Department: NIH department code
      The role of Axl signaling in intestinal fibrosis
      $163,825
      award amount

  37. Alison G Abraham

    Leads 1 award · $162,501

    • 1T32GM165263-01Department: NIH department code
      Building research workforce expertise in high dimensional data analysis and communication to promote rigorous research

      Principal investigators: Alison G Abraham (contact PI), Brandie Wagner, Debashis Ghosh, Jill M Norris

      $162,501
      award amount

  38. Curtis Michael Tilves

    Leads 1 award · $161,583

    • 1K01HL179246-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Food genomics and multi-omics integration to objectively characterize healthy dietary patterns and their associations with cardiometabolic health
      $161,583
      award amount

  39. Alison K Bauer

    Leads 1 award · $118,845

    • 5R25ES025476-12Department: NIH department code
      Colorado Undergraduate Research in Environmental Health Sciences

      Principal investigators: Alison K Bauer (contact PI), Jared Michael Brown

      $118,845
      award amount

  40. Uma Kantheti

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30AI176607-03Department: NIH department code
      Programmed death ligand-1 interactions in the regulation of dendritic cell migration and T cell priming
      $55,114
      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.