FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Biology at University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
- 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 Utah 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.
Jessica Conrad Brown
Leads 1 award · $708,155
- 1R01AI193169-01A1Department: NIH department codeTargeting a dissemination-prone morphotype to treat fungal meningitis
Principal investigators: Jessica Conrad Brown (contact PI), Markus Babst
$708,155award amount
John S Parkinson
Leads 1 award · $567,177
- 5R01GM019559-53Department: NIH department codeIntracellular Signaling by Bacterial Chemoreceptors$567,177award amount
Jeffrey A. Weiss
Leads 1 award · $509,169
- 5R01CA290182-03Department: NIH department codeMechanical Stress and Lung Tumor Progression
Principal investigators: Jeffrey A. Weiss (contact PI), Michelle Christine Mendoza
$509,169award amount
James Alan Gagnon
Leads 1 award · $488,528
- 2R35GM142950-06Department: NIH department codeCellular and molecular mechanisms of vertebrate testis homeostasis$488,528award amount
Sophie Caron
Leads 1 award · $459,364
- 5R01NS107970-08Department: NIH department codeBiased randomness: a fundamental connectivity mechanism for associative brain centers.$459,364award amount
Ofer Rog
Leads 1 award · $448,582
- 5R35GM128804-09Department: NIH department codeLarge-scale regulation of meiotic chromosome dynamics$448,582award amount
Nicholas Catin Vierra
Leads 1 award · $423,500
- 5R35GM160566-02Department: NIH department codeMechanisms of compartmentalized signaling in electrically excitable cells$423,500award amount
Nitin Phadnis
Leads 1 award · $423,500
- 5R35GM156267-02Department: NIH department codeMolecular mechanisms of genomic conflicts and hybrid incompatibilities$423,500award amount
Tamara Bidone
Leads 1 award · $382,030
- 5R35GM147491-05Department: NIH department codeComputational models of cell mechanosensing through integrin-based adhesions$382,030award amount
Robert D. Bowles
Leads 1 award · $369,818
- 5R01AR083990-03Department: NIH department codeNovel Zinc-Finger Protein Regulator of Senescence and Cell Engineering$369,818award amount
Erik M Jorgensen
Leads 1 award · $317,240
- 5R01GM146005-04Department: NIH department codeGenome engineering in the nematode C. elegans$317,240award amount
Rishi Kiran Alluri
Leads 1 award · $189,530
- 5R21DC022648-02Department: NIH department codeNeural basis of precedence-type sound localization processes$189,530award amount
Clayton Carey
Leads 1 award · $162,461
- 5K01HG013682-03Department: NIH department codeIntegrated multimodal phenotyping of zebrafish models of human cognitive disorders$162,461award amount
Jenna Micole Weber
Leads 1 award · $41,123
- 5F30HD115391-03Department: NIH department codePaternal age effect mutations as selfish drivers of germline stem cell clonality$41,123award 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.
Markus Babst
Co-investigator on 1R01AI193169-01A1, led by Jessica Conrad Brown
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Utah · Biostatistics & Math Sciences (NIH department code, 1 award)
Michelle Christine Mendoza
Co-investigator on 5R01CA290182-03, led by Jeffrey A. Weiss
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Utah · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 2 awards)