Award
NIH Reporter #5R01AI181007-04
Impacts of phenology on disease transmission dynamics
Recipient
University of Pennsylvania
Award Amount
$583,665.00
Ceiling
$583,665.00
Awarded
July 23, 2026
Identifier
5R01AI181007-04
The University of Pennsylvania will study how tick phenology influences pathogen transmission and human disease risk, developing and empirically validating models of three tick-borne pathogens.
Description
NIH-funded research investigating how seasonal activity patterns of black-legged ticks affect transmission dynamics and disease risk for three human pathogens. The project uses analytical, computational, and statistical models validated with empirical field data.