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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Genetics at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, WI

Funding
$7.5M
$7,540,877
Awards
16
FY2026 NIH awards in Genetics
Principal investigators
17
15 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#30
of 59 · Ranking
  • 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 Genetics row of the University of Wisconsin-Madison page.

Leads a grant in this department

15 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. Brittany Gail Travers

    Leads 1 award · $1,156,658

    • 3P50HD105353-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Waisman Center Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center

      Principal investigators: Brittany Gail Travers (contact PI), Qiang Chang (contact PI)

      $1,156,658
      award amount

  2. Qiang Chang

    Leads 1 award · $1,156,658

    • 3P50HD105353-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Waisman Center Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center

      Principal investigators: Brittany Gail Travers (contact PI), Qiang Chang (contact PI)

      $1,156,658
      award amount

  3. Akihiro Ikeda

    Leads 2 awards · $883,874

    • 5R01EY022086-12Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Genetics of Age-Dependent Retinal Degeneration
      $495,124
      award amount
    • 5R01EY036383-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of mitochondrial dynamics in rod photoreceptor cells
      $388,750
      award amount

  4. Bret A. Payseur

    Leads 1 award · $800,000

    • 2R35GM139412-06Department: NIH department code
      Evolution of Phenotypic Extremes: Genetic Determinants of Gigantism, Boldness, and Recombination
      $800,000
      award amount

  5. Audrey Gasch

    Leads 2 awards · $724,992

    • 1R21AG104493-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating Ribosome Quality Control defects in Trisomy 21 aging

      Principal investigators: Audrey Gasch (contact PI), Anita Bhattacharyya

      $424,648
      award amount
    • 5R01GM148975-09Department: NIH department code
      Understanding how aneuploidy disrupts quiescence in the model eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae
      $300,344
      award amount

  6. Nicole T Perna

    Leads 1 award · $647,005

    • 1T32GM163766-01Department: NIH department code
      Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics

      Principal investigators: Nicole T Perna (contact PI), John E Pool

      $647,005
      award amount

  7. Daniela Drummond-Barbosa

    Leads 1 award · $581,820

    • 2R35GM140857-06Department: NIH department code
      Metabolism and physiology of tissue stem cell lineages in the Drosophila ovary.
      $581,820
      award amount

  8. Ahna Renee Skop

    Leads 1 award · $580,507

    • 1R35GM161113-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms governing the midbody remnant in intercellular RNA communication
      $580,507
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R21MH138941-02, led by Justin Wolter.

  9. David Wassarman

    Leads 1 award · $427,625

    • 1R21NS150454-01Department: NIH department code
      Dependence of TBI Outcomes on Mitochondrial Genes
      $427,625
      award amount

  10. John E Pool

    Leads 1 award · $418,641

    • 1R21OD040600-01Department: NIH department code
      Reinforcing the rigor of Drosophila research by illuminating the relationships among key laboratory stocks, and the genomic and phenotypic variation within them

      Principal investigators: John E Pool (contact PI), Russell Corbett-Detig

      $418,641
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1T32GM163766-01, led by Nicole T Perna.

  11. Claire Elissa Richardson

    Leads 1 award · $375,430

    • 5R35GM154869-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Cellular Maintenance
      $375,430
      award amount

  12. Nathaniel Sharp

    Leads 1 award · $375,430

    • 5R35GM154954-03Department: NIH department code
      The evolutionary and genomic drivers of mutation spectra
      $375,430
      award amount

  13. Jacob O Brunkard

    Leads 1 award · $320,956

    • 5R01GM145814-05Department: NIH department code
      A tRNA synthetase is an amino acid sensor for TOR in plants
      $320,956
      award amount

  14. Justin Wolter

    Leads 1 award · $233,250

    • 5R21MH138941-02Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of midbody remnant mediated cell fate decisions in autism

      Principal investigators: Justin Wolter (contact PI), Ahna Renee Skop

      $233,250
      award amount

  15. Matthew Z Anderson

    Leads 1 award · $14,689

    • 1R13AI202926-01Department: NIH department code
      2026 and 2027 Midwest Neglected Infectious Diseases (MNID) Meeting
      $14,689
      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.