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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biology at University of Texas Dallas

Richardson, TX

Funding
$6.7M
$6,672,057
Awards
15
FY2026 NIH awards in Biology
Principal investigators
17
14 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 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.

  1. Xintong Dong

    Leads 2 awards · $1,043,041

    • 5R01DK140039-03Department: NIH department code
      Genetic dissection of defensin signaling in urinary tract infections
      $584,677
      award amount
    • 1R21AI196367-01Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of basophils in urinary tract infections
      $458,364
      award amount
  2. Kelli Lea Palmer

    Leads 1 award · $649,409

    • 5R01AI178692-04Department: NIH department code
      Roles of novel cationic lipids in bacterial pathogenesis

      Principal investigators: Kelli Lea Palmer (contact PI), Kelly S Doran, Ziqiang Guan

      $649,409
      award amount
  3. Lin Jia

    Leads 1 award · $555,966

    • 1R01AA032837-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Vagus nerve and cholinergic anti-inflammation in the pathogenesis of alcohol-associated liver disease
      $555,966
      award amount
  4. Brandon Jonathan Kim

    Leads 1 award · $475,659

    • 1R01NS150478-01Department: NIH department code
      Blood-brain barrier dysfunction during bacterial meningitis
      $475,659
      award amount
  5. Nicole Janell De Nisco

    Leads 1 award · $465,664

    • 1R21AI202648-01Department: NIH department code
      USENSE: an electrochemical biosensor for improved point-of-care urinary tract infection diagnosis

      Principal investigators: Nicole Janell De Nisco (contact PI), Shalini Prasad

      $465,664
      award amount
  6. Alonso Faruck Morcos

    Leads 1 award · $449,588

    • 5R35GM133631-07Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing the Effects of Sequence Variability in Molecular Function, Evolution and Design
      $449,588
      award amount
  7. Joseph Michael Boll

    Leads 1 award · $437,951

    • 5R01AI168159-06Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic basis of how LD-transpeptidases protect against outer membranedefects
      $437,951
      award amount
  8. Erica Lee Sanchez

    Leads 1 award · $436,563

    • 5R35GM160182-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms Drive Metabolic and Lipid Profiles that Define Cells in the Latent and Lytic Stages of Viral Infection
      $436,563
      award amount
  9. Purna Joshi

    Leads 1 award · $435,875

    • 1R35GM162865-01Department: NIH department code
      UNDERSTUDIED NICHE PLAYERS GOVERNING TISSUE-SPECIFIC PROGENITORS
      $435,875
      award amount
  10. Nicholas A Dillon

    Leads 1 award · $434,625

    • 1R21AI190814-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Disruption of a DNA Repair Protein Promotes Antibiotic Resistance in Acinetobacter Baumannii
      $434,625
      award amount
  11. Yuki Shindo

    Leads 1 award · $431,750

    • 1R35GM162562-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms Regulating the Kinetics and Specificity of Nuclear-Cytoplasmic Transport
      $431,750
      award amount
  12. Darshan Sapkota

    Leads 1 award · $413,880

    • 1R01AG093941-01A1Department: NIH department code
      A Novel Astrocyte Endfoot Protein Arising from Translational Readthrough and Influencing Alzheimer's Disease Pathology
      $413,880
      award amount
  13. Tian Hong

    Leads 1 award · $395,625

    • 5R35GM149531-05Department: NIH department code
      Modeling transcriptional and post-transcriptional systems for regulating non-genetic heterogeneity in mammalian cells
      $395,625
      award amount
  14. Samuel Alexander Cornelius

    Leads 1 award · $46,461

    • 5F31DK141250-02Department: NIH department code
      The impact of biological sex and menopause on the bladder immunological landscape and transcriptome
      $46,461
      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.

  • Kelly S Doran

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI178692-04, led by Kelli Lea Palmer

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • 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.