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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Other Health Professions at University of Connecticut Storrs

Storrs-Mansfield, CT

Funding
$7.2M
$7,150,878
Awards
20
FY2026 NIH awards in Other Health Professions
Principal investigators
16
13 lead a grant here, 3 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 Other Health Professions row of the University of Connecticut Storrs page.

Leads a grant in this department

13 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. Michael Copenhaver

    Leads 2 awards · $1,071,508

    • 5R01DA055534-05Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing evidence-based HIV prevention targeting people who inject drugs on PrEP
      $876,001
      award amount
    • 5K24DA051344-07Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing HIV Prevention Among High-Risk Opioid-Dependent Persons
      $195,507
      award amount
  2. Laijun Lai

    Leads 2 awards · $1,054,198

    • 1R01AG102888-01Department: NIH department code
      Restoring T-cell Immunity in Older Adults with Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Thymic Epithelial Cells
      $608,095
      award amount
    • 5R01AI175087-04Department: NIH department code
      Modeling and treating T cell immunodeficiency in CHARGE syndrome by ESC- and iPSC-derived thymic epithelial cells
      $446,103
      award amount
  3. Roman Shrestha

    Leads 3 awards · $1,044,375

    • 5R01DA061661-03Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing a Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention to Increase Uptake of Chemsex Harm Reduction Services in MSM: A Micro-randomized Trial

      Principal investigators: Roman Shrestha (contact PI), Jeffrey Allen Wickersham

      $597,385
      award amount
    • 1R21MH139117-01Department: NIH department code
      A just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) for suicide prevention in Nepal

      Principal investigators: Roman Shrestha (contact PI), Sabitri Sapkota

      $377,144
      award amount
    • 3R01DA061661-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing a Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention to Increase Uptake of Chemsex Harm Reduction Services in MSM: A Micro-randomized Trial

      Principal investigators: Roman Shrestha (contact PI), Jeffrey Allen Wickersham

      $69,846
      award amount
  4. Sherry L. Pagoto

    Leads 2 awards · $848,241

    • 1R01CA309495-01Department: NIH department code
      Randomized Trial of a Dissonance-Based Sun Safety Intervention for Young Adult Tanners
      $444,991
      award amount
    • 5R01DK136795-04Department: NIH department code
      A non-inferiority trial comparing synchronous and asynchronous remotely-delivered lifestyle interventions
      $403,250
      award amount
  5. Tricia M Leahey

    Leads 1 award · $789,795

    • 1R01NR022601-01Department: NIH department code
      Optimization of a behavioral economics intervention for weight loss maintenance
      $789,795
      award amount
  6. Ryan J Watson

    Leads 1 award · $755,118

    • 1R01DA064423-01A1Department: NIH department code
      An Overlooked Crisis in HIV Prevention: Behavioral and Sociocultural Drivers of Premature PrEP Discontinuation
      $755,118
      award amount
  7. Emily B Myers

    Leads 1 award · $440,618

    • 5T32DC017703-08Department: NIH department code
      Training in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication

      Principal investigators: Emily B Myers (contact PI), Inge-Marie Eigsti

      $440,618
      award amount
  8. Erika E Skoe

    Leads 1 award · $330,456

    • 5R01AG075271-05Department: NIH department code
      The Noisy Life of the Musician: Implications for Healthy Brain Aging
      $330,456
      award amount
  9. Jolaade Kalinowski

    Leads 2 awards · $237,948

    • 5K01HL174819-03Department: NIH department code
      Proof of Concept Trial of a Mindful Walking Intervention for Black Women with Hypertension
      $162,376
      award amount
    • 3K01HL174819-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Proof of Concept Trial of a Mindful Walking Intervention for Black Women with Hypertension
      $75,572
      award amount
  10. Kristen Cooksey Stowers

    Leads 2 awards · $231,209

    • 5K01HL159034-05Department: NIH department code
      Are Food Swamps Linked to Parents’ Food Shopping Behaviors & their Young Children’s Diet Quality?: Implications for Policy & Environmental Interventions
      $155,609
      award amount
    • 3K01HL159034-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Are Food Swamps Linked to Parents’ Food Shopping Behaviors & their Young Children’s Diet Quality?: Implications for Policy & Environmental Interventions
      $75,600
      award amount
  11. Raymond Lee Moody

    Leads 1 award · $197,936

    • 5K01DA057880-03Department: NIH department code
      Multilevel Influences on Drug Use and HIV-Related Outcomes Among Men
      $197,936
      award amount
  12. Keith M Bellizzi

    Leads 1 award · $80,500

    • 5R03CA297274-02Department: NIH department code
      Exploring Cumulative Social Determinants Burden, Cancer, and Accelerated Aging: The Role of Physical Activity as a Moderator
      $80,500
      award amount
  13. Chanee Fabius

    Leads 1 award · $68,976

    • 7K01AG080079-05Department: NIH department code
      Improving Information Sharing Between Family Caregivers and Home Care Aides Caring for Persons Living with ADRD
      $68,976
      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.

  • Jeffrey Allen Wickersham

    Co-investigator on 5R01DA061661-03, led by Roman Shrestha; 3R01DA061661-03S1, led by Roman Shrestha

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Inge-Marie Eigsti

    Co-investigator on 5T32DC017703-08, led by Emily B Myers

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Sabitri Sapkota

    Co-investigator on 1R21MH139117-01, led by Roman Shrestha

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.