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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

Funding
$11M
$11,026,930
Awards
18
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
24
16 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#41
of 119 · 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 Microbiology & Immunology row of the Baylor College of Medicine page.

Leads a grant in this department

16 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. Sarah E Blutt

    Leads 4 awards · $3,321,636

    • 1P01AI197187-01Department: NIH department code
      Advancing multimodal biologics to combat antibiotic resistance at mucosal surfaces

      Principal investigators: Anthony W Maresso (contact PI), Katherine Paige Lemon (contact PI), Katy Patras (contact PI), Laura Schaefer (contact PI), Robert A Britton (contact PI), Sarah E Blutt (contact PI)

      $2,361,336
      award amount
    • 1U01AI195485-01Department: NIH department code
      Human Intestinal Organoids as a Model for Acute GI-ARS

      Principal investigators: Sarah E Blutt (contact PI), Robert A Britton

      $560,175
      award amount
    • 1R21AI202907-01Department: NIH department code
      Intestinal Epithelial Cellular Targets of Human Norovirus Infection
      $240,000
      award amount
    • 5R21AI193492-02Department: NIH department code
      Engineered Microbes to Mitigate Intestinal Radiation Damage

      Principal investigators: Sarah E Blutt (contact PI), Mostafa Waleed Gaber, Robert A Britton

      $160,125
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DK140907-03, led by Buck Sparrow Samuel.

  2. Anthony W Maresso

    Leads 1 award · $2,361,336

  3. Katherine Paige Lemon

    Leads 1 award · $2,361,336

  4. Katy Patras

    Leads 1 award · $2,361,336

  5. Laura Schaefer

    Leads 1 award · $2,361,336

  6. Robert A Britton

    Leads 1 award · $2,361,336

    Also a principal investigator on 1U01AI195485-01, led by Sarah E Blutt; 5R21AI193492-02, led by Sarah E Blutt.

  7. Erik Scott Wright

    Leads 2 awards · $2,275,039

    • 1R01GM163155-01Department: NIH department code
      Development of technologies for elucidating the function of cryptic intergenic regions within genomes
      $1,920,000
      award amount
    • 5R25AI191183-03Department: NIH department code
      Fundamentals in Bioinformatics (FunInBio): Expanding Continuing Education Opportunities for Post-Doctoral Scientists
      $355,039
      award amount

  8. Andrew P Rice

    Leads 1 award · $1,433,115

    • 4RF1MH134392-04Department: NIH department code
      Single Cell Analysis of Epigenetic Mechanisms that Regulate HIV-1 CNS Latency and Neuropathogenesis

      Principal investigators: Andrew P Rice (contact PI), Consuelo Walss-Bass, Cristian Coarfa

      $1,433,115
      award amount

  9. Joseph M. Hyser

    Leads 1 award · $1,204,090

    • 4R01DK115507-09Department: NIH department code
      Enteric virus exploitation of calcium signaling
      $1,204,090
      award amount

  10. Richard E Lloyd

    Leads 3 awards · $1,109,181

  11. Sue Ellen Crawford

    Leads 2 awards · $876,800

    • 5R01AI080656-17Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Rotavirus Replication

      Principal investigators: Sue Ellen Crawford (contact PI), Mary Kolb Estes

      $636,800
      award amount
    • 1R21AI196700-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining Particle-Associated Rotavirus NSP4
      $240,000
      award amount

  12. Michael Joseph Tisza

    Leads 1 award · $418,127

    • 1R35GM165494-01Department: NIH department code
      Complete Genomics for Human-Associated Microbes
      $418,127
      award amount

  13. Buck Sparrow Samuel

    Leads 1 award · $233,600

    • 5R01DK140907-03Department: NIH department code
      High-throughput functional analyses of the genetic drivers of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

      Principal investigators: Buck Sparrow Samuel (contact PI), Sarah E Blutt

      $233,600
      award amount

  14. Mohamed Ryan Kady

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30AI181286-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms enabling the oral-to-systemic absorption of a microbially delivered immunomodulatory peptide
      $55,114
      award amount

  15. Clare Marie Robertson

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31DK138748-03Department: NIH department code
      Investigating Type 2 Diabetic Vaginal Microbiota and Susceptibility to a Urogenital Pathogen
      $50,114
      award amount

  16. Holly Branthoover

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31HD117458-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the influence of human milk oligosaccharides on bacterial-immune dynamics in the gravid vaginal tract
      $50,114
      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.

  • Consuelo Walss-Bass

    Co-investigator on 4RF1MH134392-04, led by Andrew P Rice

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Cristian Coarfa

    Co-investigator on 4RF1MH134392-04, led by Andrew P Rice

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Eoin McKinney

    Co-investigator on 3R01DK138372-03S2, led by Richard E Lloyd; 5R01DK138372-03, led by Richard E Lloyd; 3R01DK138372-03S1, led by Richard E Lloyd

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Heikki Hyöty

    Co-investigator on 3R01DK138372-03S2, led by Richard E Lloyd; 5R01DK138372-03, led by Richard E Lloyd; 3R01DK138372-03S1, led by Richard E Lloyd

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Joseph Frank Petrosino

    Co-investigator on 3R01DK138372-03S2, led by Richard E Lloyd; 5R01DK138372-03, led by Richard E Lloyd; 3R01DK138372-03S1, led by Richard E Lloyd

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Kristian F Lynch

    Co-investigator on 3R01DK138372-03S2, led by Richard E Lloyd; 5R01DK138372-03, led by Richard E Lloyd; 3R01DK138372-03S1, led by Richard E Lloyd

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Mary Kolb Estes

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI080656-17, led by Sue Ellen Crawford

    From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Mostafa Waleed Gaber

    Co-investigator on 5R21AI193492-02, led by Sarah E Blutt

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.