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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University

New York, NY

Funding
$12M
$11,987,684
Awards
26
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
20
18 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#40
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 Columbia University page.

Leads a grant in this department

18 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. Uttiya Basu

    Leads 5 awards · $2,836,109

    • 5R01AI099195-15Department: NIH department code
      Role of ncRNA Surveillance Complex "RNA Exosome" in Class Switch Recombination and Somatic Hypermutation
      $789,949
      award amount
    • 5R01AI143897-06Department: NIH department code
      The role of N6-methyladenosine RNA modification in programmed and aberrant DNA mutagenesis in B cells
      $615,378
      award amount
    • 5R01AI134988-09Department: NIH department code
      Long noncoding RNA expressing genomic elements that control antibody diversification and chromosomal integrity in B cells
      $589,629
      award amount
    • 5R01AI178892-03Department: NIH department code
      RNA associated mechanisms for antigen receptor gene diversification during immature B cell development
      $568,537
      award amount
    • 2T32AI106711-11A1Department: NIH department code
      Columbia University Graduate Training Program in Immunobiology and Microbial Sciences

      Principal investigators: Uttiya Basu (contact PI), Nicholas Arpaia

      $272,616
      award amount

  2. Steven L Reiner

    Leads 2 awards · $1,898,813

    • 5T32GM145440-05Department: NIH department code
      Medical Scientist Training Program
      $1,351,321
      award amount
    • 5R01CA279268-04Department: NIH department code
      Strategies to predict and overcome resistance to cancer immunotherapy
      $547,492
      award amount

  3. Ivaylo Ivanov Ivanov

    Leads 2 awards · $1,389,451

    • 5R01DK098378-12Department: NIH department code
      Role of intestinal commensal-induced Th17 cells and mucosal immunity in metabolic disease
      $822,451
      award amount
    • 5U01AI163069-05Department: NIH department code
      Maintenance of mucosal homeostasis by commensal Th17 cells
      $567,000
      award amount

  4. Nicholas Arpaia

    Leads 2 awards · $1,366,731

    • 5UG3CA301294-02Department: NIH department code
      Engineered probiotic bacteria for colorectal cancer immunoprevention and interception

      Principal investigators: Nicholas Arpaia (contact PI), Tal Danino

      $727,904
      award amount
    • 5R01CA304090-02Department: NIH department code
      Modulating the localization and persistence of microbial neoantigen vaccine vectors to enhance therapeutic efficacy

      Principal investigators: Nicholas Arpaia (contact PI), Tal Danino

      $638,827
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2T32AI106711-11A1, led by Uttiya Basu.

  5. Hachung Chung

    Leads 2 awards · $925,375

    • 5R01AI182769-02Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating how long 3'UTRs form and cause autoinflammation
      $515,387
      award amount
    • 5R01NS127802-05Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of Self-Nucleic Acids as a Trigger for Neuroinflammation
      $409,988
      award amount

  6. Yuefeng Huang

    Leads 1 award · $786,122

    • 5R01HL177649-02Department: NIH department code
      Lung vascular ILC3 subpopulation in anti-bacteria immunity and vasculature regeneration

      Principal investigators: Yuefeng Huang (contact PI), Jianwen Que

      $786,122
      award amount

  7. Lorraine S Symington

    Leads 1 award · $695,390

    • 5R35GM126997-09Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism and regulation of DNA double-strand break repair
      $695,390
      award amount

  8. Sankar Ghosh

    Leads 1 award · $587,470

    • 1R01DK143011-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the role of a long noncoding RNA in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
      $587,470
      award amount

  9. Ryan Gilbert Gaudet

    Leads 1 award · $485,725

    • 5DP2AI177904-04Department: NIH department code
      Decoding the Interferome by Mapping Genetic Interactions in Human Tissue
      $485,725
      award amount

  10. Jonathan Dworkin

    Leads 1 award · $448,648

    • 2R35GM141953-06Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of quiescence in bacteria
      $448,648
      award amount

  11. Isaac Jensen

    Leads 1 award · $132,300

    • 1K99AI196250-01Department: NIH department code
      NK cell-mediated Immune Memory in Tissue from Infancy to Adulthood
      $132,300
      award amount

  12. Basak Burcu Ural

    Leads 1 award · $125,442

    • 5K01AG078439-04Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Environmental Exposures on Lung Immunity over Age
      $125,442
      award amount

  13. Noah Chen

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30CA287792-03Department: NIH department code
      Improving bacterial cancer therapeutics
      $55,114
      award amount

  14. Max Chen Lauring

    Leads 1 award · $54,538

    • 5F30AI179182-03Department: NIH department code
      RNA Decay of LINE-1 Retrotransposons as a New Mechanism to Maintain B Cell Genome Integrity
      $54,538
      award amount

  15. Antonia Oduguwa

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI203310-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining roles and mechanisms of class II MHC antigen presentation in human endothelial cells across barrier tissues
      $50,114
      award amount

  16. Daniel Eric Whisenant

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31AI188882-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of chromatin-associated RNA processing in Early B-cell development
      $50,114
      award amount

  17. Jake Anders Gertie

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31NS139626-03Department: NIH department code
      Determining how a single-residue PKR mutation found in patients with familial dystonia causes aberrant PKR activation
      $50,114
      award amount

  18. Meera Singh

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI203276-01Department: NIH department code
      Determining how a single-nucleotide patient mutation in ADAR1 leads to autoinflammation
      $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.