 | Shinji Makino, DVM, PhD, Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology: new two-year National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) developmental research grant award for “Modulation of viral genome packaging in Rift Valley fever virus” |
 | Lynn Soong, PhD, Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology: new five-year National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) competing renewal research grant award for "Pathogenic Mechanisms of Vascular Dysfunction in Scrub Typhus" |
 | Giulio Taglialatela, PhD, Professor in the Department of Neurology: new two-year National Institute on Aging (NIA) developmental research grant award for “Selective vulnerability and resilience to trans-synaptic pathological tau spreading in Alzheimer's disease” |
 | Silvana Valdebenito-Silva, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology: new five-year National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) mentored research scientist career development grant award for "Tunneling nanotubes are a novel mechanism for the propagation of HIV infection and neurodegeneration" |