# 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.

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