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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA

Funding
$5.6M
$5,581,660
Awards
13
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
11
9 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#67
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 Drexel University page.

Leads a grant in this department

9 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. Akhil B Vaidya

    Leads 2 awards · $1,286,203

    • 5R01AI132508-09Department: NIH department code
      Molecular pathways affected by drugs that disrupt Na+ and lipid homeostasis in malaria parasites
      $686,225
      award amount
    • 5R01AI028398-34Department: NIH department code
      Mitochondrial Functions in Malaria Parasites
      $599,978
      award amount
  2. Eugenia Lo

    Leads 4 awards · $825,351

    • 5R01AI162947-05Department: NIH department code
      Plasmodium vivax Erythrocyte Invasion Mechanisms and Humoral Immune Response in Duffy Negative Africans
      $560,928
      award amount
    • 5R21AI190606-02Department: NIH department code
      A longitudinal cohort study of Plasmodium vivax relapses in Central Africa
      $149,808
      award amount
    • 3R01AI162947-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Plasmodium vivax Erythrocyte Invasion Mechanisms and Humoral Immune Response in Duffy Negative Africans
      $58,131
      award amount
    • 3R21AI190606-02S1Department: NIH department code
      A longitudinal cohort study of Plasmodium vivax relapses in Central Africa
      $56,484
      award amount
  3. James Matthew Burns

    Leads 1 award · $718,445

    • 5R01AI184895-03Department: NIH department code
      Multivalent mRNA-based malaria vaccines
      $718,445
      award amount
  4. Brian Wigdahl

    Leads 1 award · $673,401

    • 5R01MH110360-10Department: NIH department code
      Broad-spectrum HIV gene editing strategies in peripheral and brain reservoirs

      Principal investigators: Brian Wigdahl (contact PI), Ilker Kudret Sariyer

      $673,401
      award amount
  5. Michael R Nonnemacher

    Leads 1 award · $628,940

  6. Sandhya Kortagere

    Leads 1 award · $576,788

    • 1UG3NS145968-01Department: NIH department code
      Design and development of Glutamate transporter activators for disease modifying and symptomatic treatment of Epilepsy
      $576,788
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2R56NS089435-11A1, led by Michael R Nonnemacher.

  7. Hangjun Ke

    Leads 1 award · $572,884

    • 5R01AI184855-03Department: NIH department code
      Proton pumping and energy metabolism of the ring stage malaria parasites
      $572,884
      award amount
  8. Elias K Haddad

    Leads 1 award · $249,656

    • 1R21AI203557-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining and Targeting the Adenosine-ADA-1 Axis in HIV-Specific CD8+ T Cell Dysfunction
      $249,656
      award amount
  9. Brenna Duffy

    Leads 1 award · $49,992

    • 1F31MH139360-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Investigating molecular mechanisms of glutamate toxicity in HIV-1 Tat-induced cognitive impairment
      $49,992
      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.

  • Ilker Kudret Sariyer

    Co-investigator on 5R01MH110360-10, led by Brian Wigdahl

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • William Dampier

    Co-investigator on 2R56NS089435-11A1, led by Michael R Nonnemacher

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