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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Nutrition at University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

Funding
$5.5M
$5,511,245
Awards
13
FY2026 NIH awards in Nutrition
Principal investigators
13
7 lead a grant here, 6 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 Nutrition row of the University of Utah page.

Leads a grant in this department

7 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. Mary Christine Playdon

    Leads 3 awards · $1,446,419

  2. William L Holland

    Leads 4 awards · $1,380,169

    • 5R01HL170575-03Department: NIH department code
      Ceramides in Diastolic Heart Failure

      Principal investigators: William L Holland (contact PI), Scott A Summers

      $694,577
      award amount
    • 1R21AG101892-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating ceramide-mediated onset and progression of Alzheimer's Disease
      $437,192
      award amount
    • 5R25DK139787-03Department: NIH department code
      KIDNEY-U: Kidney Investigator Development for Nephrology and Endocrinology in Youth at Utah

      Principal investigators: William L Holland (contact PI), Kalani Lukela Raphael, Marcus Guy Pezzolesi

      $140,400
      award amount
    • 1R25DK145420-01Department: NIH department code
      Haumana 'O Pasifika Homeostasis Program

      Principal investigators: William L Holland (contact PI), Kalani Lukela Raphael, Marcus Guy Pezzolesi

      $108,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R21NS137105-02, led by John David Symons.

  3. Erik Blackwood

    Leads 2 awards · $1,359,065

    • 5R01HL180520-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel Roles for IRE1 in Regulating Cardiac Fibrosis
      $717,520
      award amount
    • 5R01HL174545-02Department: NIH department code
      Roles for SGK1 in Cardiometabolic Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
      $641,545
      award amount

  4. Sihem Boudina

    Leads 1 award · $702,042

    • 1R01HL184520-01A1Department: NIH department code
      PERM1, a new therapeutic target for PRDM16-associated cardiomyopathy
      $702,042
      award amount

  5. Courtney Cheu Lin Choy

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00HL166781-03Department: NIH department code
      Developing a multicomponent lifestyle intervention to address obesity and cardiometabolic risk in Samoan children
      $249,000
      award amount

  6. John David Symons

    Leads 1 award · $231,000

    • 5R21NS137105-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining the contribution from endothelial cell sphingolipid metabolism to outcomes of acute ischemic stroke in mice

      Principal investigators: John David Symons (contact PI), Robert A Campbell, William L Holland

      $231,000
      award amount

  7. Ran Hee Choi

    Leads 1 award · $143,550

    • 1K01DK147576-01Department: NIH department code
      Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Efficiency in GLP-1RA-induced Weight Loss
      $143,550
      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.