Click below to view each year's group of CU's Boettcher Investigators. CU’s Boettcher Investigators have been awarded a total of $16,380,000 since the program was initiated in 2010.
2024
Marissa Baranauskas, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Physiology and Nutrition
Benjamin J. Kopecky, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, Section of Heart Failure/Transplant
Jennifer McKey, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Developmental Biology
Jessica Nelson, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Andrew Quesada Tan, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology
2023
Halil Aydin, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
Nick Bottenus, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, Biomedical, Mechanics of Materials, Robotics and Systems Design
Neel Butala, M.D., M.B.A.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Medicine-Cardiology
Caroline M. Dias, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Nuris Figueroa-Morales, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, Physics
Matthew Witkowski, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
2022
Martin W. Breuss, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Genetics and Metabolism
Shanlee Davis, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Michael S. Leibowitz, M.D., Ph.D
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Andrew C. Smith, P.T., D.P.T., Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Aaron T. Whiteley, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry
2021
Nausica Arnoult, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Joshua Bear, M.D., M.A.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Neurology
Sarah Clark, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
Craig Forester, M.D, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/BMT
Mia Smith, D.V.M., Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Immunology and Microbiology
2020
Petter Bjornstad, M.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Justin Brumbaugh, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Suet Nee Chen Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiology Division
Andra Lee Dingman, M.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child Neurology
Sridharan Raghavan, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Medicine
2019
M. Cecilia Caino, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Robert Dietz, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Neelanjan Mukherjee, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Tara Cepon Robins, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Kelly D. Sullivan, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
2018
Edward B. Chuong, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, BioFrontiers Institute
Kathleen M. Gavin, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Jean M. Mulcahy Levy, M.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics
David H. Root, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Matthew Taliaferro, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Eszter K. Vladar, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine
2017
Joshua C. Black, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Angelo D'Alessandro, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor and Director of the Metabolomics Core - School of Medicine
Kristine A. Kuhn, MD, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
Eric M. Pietras, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology
John A. Thompson, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
2016
Wen-Yuan Elena Hsieh, MD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Immunology & Microbiology and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Immunology
Ethan G. Hughes, PhD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Bernard L. Jones, PhD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Medical Physics
Sabrina Leigh Spencer, PhD
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Cristin Welle, PhD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Bioengineering
Hongjin Zheng, PhD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
2015
James Costello, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of pharmacology; cancer systems biology and pharmacogenomics
Santos J. Franco, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of pediatric stem cell biology; brain stem cells in development and disease
Melanie Cree Green, M.D., Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; instructor of pediatric endocrinology; fatty liver in adolescents with polycystic ovarian syndrome
Aaron N. Johnson, Ph.D.
CU Denver; assistant professor of integrative biology; molecular mechanisms of congenital myopathies
Erik B. Oleson, Ph.D.
CU Denver; assistant professor of psychology; dopaminergic contributions to behavior and psychopathology
2014
Roger A. Bannister, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of medicine; skeletal and cardiac muscle physiology
Subhajyoti De, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of biomedical informatics and personalized medicine; cancer genomics, lung cancer, somatic mutations, NA damage and repair, algorithm development, optimization
Loren Hough, Ph.D.
CU-Boulder; assistant professor of physics; structural biology of order and disordered proteins
Kunhua Song, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of medicine; regenerative medicine and heart development/disease
2013
Amrut V. Ambardekar, M.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of medicine; myocardial recovery after ventricular assist device implantation
Joseph A. Brzezinski, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of ophthalmology; mechanisms of retinal development and disease
Soyeon Park, Ph.D.
CU-Boulder; assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology; molecular mechanisms of proteasome biogenesis
Abigail L. Person, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of physiology and biophysics; corollary discharge pathways underlying schizophrenia symptoms
2012
Harald Junge, Ph.D.
CU-Boulder; assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology; retinal vascular development and disease
Matthew Kennedy, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of pharmacology; molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer’s pathology
Chad G. Pearson, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of cell and developmental biology; organization of the microtubule cytoskeleton for cell division and signaling
2011
Zhe Chen, Ph.D.
CU-Boulder; assistant professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology; axon guidance during neural development
Robert C. Doebele, M.D., Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of medical oncology; resistance mechanisms in oncogene-driven lung cancer
Jing H. Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of immunology and microbiology; antibody production and genomic instability in B lymphocytes
2010
Robin Dowell, D. Sc.
CU-Boulder; assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology; translational bioinformatics involving drug efficacy and genetics
Gidon Felsen, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of physiology and biophysics; Parkinson’s Disease
Paul Jedlicka, M.D., Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of pathology; Ewing Sarcoma, a common cancer of the bone and soft tissue affecting children