FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Biology at University of Texas Dallas
Richardson, TX
- 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 Texas Dallas page.
Leads a grant in this department
14 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Xintong Dong
Leads 2 awards · $1,043,041
- 5R01DK140039-03Department: NIH department codeGenetic dissection of defensin signaling in urinary tract infections$584,677award amount
- 1R21AI196367-01Department: NIH department codeCharacterization of basophils in urinary tract infections$458,364award amount
Kelli Lea Palmer
Leads 1 award · $649,409
- 5R01AI178692-04Department: NIH department codeRoles of novel cationic lipids in bacterial pathogenesis
Principal investigators: Kelli Lea Palmer (contact PI), Kelly S Doran, Ziqiang Guan
$649,409award amount
Lin Jia
Leads 1 award · $555,966
- 1R01AA032837-01A1Department: NIH department codeVagus nerve and cholinergic anti-inflammation in the pathogenesis of alcohol-associated liver disease$555,966award amount
Brandon Jonathan Kim
Leads 1 award · $475,659
- 1R01NS150478-01Department: NIH department codeBlood-brain barrier dysfunction during bacterial meningitis$475,659award amount
Nicole Janell De Nisco
Leads 1 award · $465,664
- 1R21AI202648-01Department: NIH department codeUSENSE: an electrochemical biosensor for improved point-of-care urinary tract infection diagnosis
Principal investigators: Nicole Janell De Nisco (contact PI), Shalini Prasad
$465,664award amount
Alonso Faruck Morcos
Leads 1 award · $449,588
- 5R35GM133631-07Department: NIH department codeCharacterizing the Effects of Sequence Variability in Molecular Function, Evolution and Design$449,588award amount
Joseph Michael Boll
Leads 1 award · $437,951
- 5R01AI168159-06Department: NIH department codeMechanistic basis of how LD-transpeptidases protect against outer membranedefects$437,951award amount
Erica Lee Sanchez
Leads 1 award · $436,563
- 5R35GM160182-02Department: NIH department codeMolecular Mechanisms Drive Metabolic and Lipid Profiles that Define Cells in the Latent and Lytic Stages of Viral Infection$436,563award amount
Purna Joshi
Leads 1 award · $435,875
- 1R35GM162865-01Department: NIH department codeUNDERSTUDIED NICHE PLAYERS GOVERNING TISSUE-SPECIFIC PROGENITORS$435,875award amount
Nicholas A Dillon
Leads 1 award · $434,625
- 1R21AI190814-01A1Department: NIH department codeDisruption of a DNA Repair Protein Promotes Antibiotic Resistance in Acinetobacter Baumannii$434,625award amount
Yuki Shindo
Leads 1 award · $431,750
- 1R35GM162562-01Department: NIH department codeMechanisms Regulating the Kinetics and Specificity of Nuclear-Cytoplasmic Transport$431,750award amount
Darshan Sapkota
Leads 1 award · $413,880
- 1R01AG093941-01A1Department: NIH department codeA Novel Astrocyte Endfoot Protein Arising from Translational Readthrough and Influencing Alzheimer's Disease Pathology$413,880award amount
Tian Hong
Leads 1 award · $395,625
- 5R35GM149531-05Department: NIH department codeModeling transcriptional and post-transcriptional systems for regulating non-genetic heterogeneity in mammalian cells$395,625award amount
Samuel Alexander Cornelius
Leads 1 award · $46,461
- 5F31DK141250-02Department: NIH department codeThe impact of biological sex and menopause on the bladder immunological landscape and transcriptome$46,461award 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.
Kelly S Doran
Co-investigator on 5R01AI178692-04, led by Kelli Lea Palmer
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Colorado · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 3 awards)
Ziqiang Guan
Co-investigator on 5R01AI178692-04, led by Kelli Lea Palmer
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Shalini Prasad
Co-investigator on 1R21AI202648-01, led by Nicole Janell De Nisco
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.