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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at University of Georgia

Athens, GA

Funding
$4.9M
$4,926,987
Awards
11
FY2026 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
11
9 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 Georgia page.

Leads a grant in this department

9 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. Rick L Tarleton

    Leads 2 awards · $1,202,569

    • 5R01AI180075-03Department: NIH department code
      Treatment outcome requirements for disease prevention in Chagas disease

      Principal investigators: Rick L Tarleton (contact PI), Sarah Anne Hamer

      $628,518
      award amount
    • 5R01AI185090-02Department: NIH department code
      Optimization of UltraPCR for detection of and assessment of treatment outcomes in Trypanosoma cruzi infection
      $574,051
      award amount

  2. Vasant Muralidharan

    Leads 2 awards · $866,869

    • 5R01AI179950-03Department: NIH department code
      Protein glycosylation and trafficking in Plasmodium falciparum
      $685,291
      award amount
    • 1R21AI193585-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Parasitophorous vacuole biogenesis during Plasmodium invasion into erythrocytes
      $181,578
      award amount

  3. Sam Kurup

    Leads 1 award · $650,020

    • 5R01AI193123-02Department: NIH department code
      Memory Regulatory T cells in Recurring Malaria
      $650,020
      award amount

  4. Silvia N Moreno

    Leads 1 award · $600,005

    • 5R01AI174600-04Department: NIH department code
      Divergent Calcium Channels of the Apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii
      $600,005
      award amount

  5. Karl F. Lechtreck

    Leads 1 award · $544,808

    • 5R35GM152057-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of protein transport in cilia
      $544,808
      award amount

  6. Dennis E Kyle

    Leads 1 award · $436,750

    • 1R21AI194190-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and molecular profiling of artemisinin-induced persister phenotypes in P. falciparum

      Principal investigators: Dennis E Kyle (contact PI), Roman Manetsch

      $436,750
      award amount

  7. Rachel Helen Roberts-Galbraith

    Leads 1 award · $377,500

    • 5R01NS128096-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms Driving Regenerative Neurogenesis in Planarians
      $377,500
      award amount

  8. Mala Rajam Ananth

    Leads 1 award · $198,352

    • 1K22AG088111-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Determinants of Age-Related Cognitive Decline in the Basal Forebrain to Lateral Entorhinal Cortex Circuit
      $198,352
      award amount

  9. Kaelynn V Parker

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI197675-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Interorganellar communication and dynamics in the divergent eukaryotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii
      $50,114
      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.

  • Sarah Anne Hamer

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI180075-03, led by Rick L Tarleton

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

  • Roman Manetsch

    Co-investigator on 1R21AI194190-01A1, led by Dennis E Kyle

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads