FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Microbiology & Immunology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN
- 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.
- NIH gives hospital awards no department code. Each counts under its contact PI's own department, from their PubMed affiliations, or under a department inferred from the award's topic when no affiliation names one. Each award below says which. How departments are assigned
- These are the awards in the Microbiology & Immunology row of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital page, including 2 R&D contracts, which department rankings leave out.
Leads a grant in this department
22 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Richard Webby
Leads 2 awards · $12,290,558
- 75N93021C00016-P00029-9999-1R&D contractDepartment: topic-inferredNIAID Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response$8,507,394award amount
- 75N93021C00016-P00029-9999-2R&D contractDepartment: topic-inferredNIAID Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response: Universal Influenza Vaccine Research Activities$3,783,164award amount
Jason W. Rosch
Leads 4 awards · $4,908,942
- 1P01AI202800-01Department: topic-inferredInvestigating Host and Droplet-Level Factors Driving the Resolution of Influenza Contagiousness
Principal investigators: Jason W. Rosch (contact PI), Madan Mohan (contact PI), Stacey L Schultz-Cherry (contact PI), Richard John Webby
$2,927,042award amount - 1R01AI193513-01A1Department: topic-inferredMechanisms and Modeling of Vaccine Evasion in Pneumococcus
Principal investigators: Jason W. Rosch (contact PI), Amber M Smith
$867,054award amount - 5R01AI171038-05Department: topic-inferredEvolvable essentiality in the pan-genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae and its mechanistic and evolutionary consequences
Principal investigators: Jason W. Rosch (contact PI), Federico Antonio Rosconi
$612,567award amount - 5R01AI168214-05Department: topic-inferredConsequences of Direct Viral-Bacterial Interactions
Principal investigators: Jason W. Rosch (contact PI), Stacey L Schultz-Cherry, Tim Van Opijnen
$502,279award amount
Hongbo Chi
Leads 6 awards · $4,115,225
- 5R35CA253188-06Department: investigator's affiliationIntegrating systems immunology with immunometabolism and cancer immunity$1,077,000award amount
- 5U01CA281868-04Department: investigator's affiliationEnabling immunotherapy for high-risk Group 3 medulloblastoma via systems immunology
Principal investigators: Hongbo Chi (contact PI), Jiyang Yu
$819,000award amount - 2R01AI150241-06A1Department: investigator's affiliationBidirectional signaling in T cell differentiation$663,225award amount
- 5R01AI131703-07Department: investigator's affiliationRegulation of T cell memory in tissue immunity$555,000award amount
- 5R01AI140761-08Department: investigator's affiliationTranscriptional and metabolic heterogeneity in T cell differentiation$546,000award amount
- 5R37AI105887-13Department: investigator's affiliationMetabolic checkpoint in dendritic cell subsets and adaptive immunity$455,000award amount
Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti
Leads 4 awards · $3,239,992
- 5R35CA253095-07Department: investigator's affiliationInnate immune sensors, inflammasomes, and inflammasome-mediated processes in cancer$1,020,978award amount
- 2R56AI160179-06A1Department: investigator's affiliationRegulation of innate immune cell death$898,654award amount
- 2R01AI124346-11A1Department: investigator's affiliationRegulators of inflammation in hemolytic disease$865,360award amount
- 5R37AI101935-15Department: investigator's affiliationInflammatory Caspases in Innate Immunity and Inflammation$455,000award amount
Madan Mohan
Leads 1 award · $2,927,042
- 1P01AI202800-01Department: topic-inferredInvestigating Host and Droplet-Level Factors Driving the Resolution of Influenza Contagiousness
Principal investigators: Jason W. Rosch (contact PI), Madan Mohan (contact PI), Stacey L Schultz-Cherry (contact PI), Richard John Webby
$2,927,042award amount
Stacey L Schultz-Cherry
Leads 1 award · $2,927,042
- 1P01AI202800-01Department: topic-inferredInvestigating Host and Droplet-Level Factors Driving the Resolution of Influenza Contagiousness
Principal investigators: Jason W. Rosch (contact PI), Madan Mohan (contact PI), Stacey L Schultz-Cherry (contact PI), Richard John Webby
$2,927,042award amount
Also a principal investigator on 5R01AI168214-05, led by Jason W. Rosch.
Richard E. Lee
Leads 3 awards · $1,790,316
- 5R01AI170765-04Department: topic-inferredTargeting NuoD for the treatment of H. pylori
Principal investigators: Richard E. Lee (contact PI), Michael Lafleur
$844,980award amount - 5R01AI180231-04Department: topic-inferredHybrid Antibiotics for Persistent Infections
Principal investigators: Richard E. Lee (contact PI), Michael Lafleur
$818,308award amount - 2T32AI106700-11A1Department: topic-inferredTraining in the Design and Development of Infectious Disease Therapeutics$127,028award amount
Asuncion Mejias
Leads 1 award · $1,686,167
- 5U19AI168632-05Department: topic-inferredEarly life respiratory viral infections shape immune development trajectories
Principal investigators: Asuncion Mejias (contact PI), Maria Virginia Pascual (contact PI), Octavio Ramilo (contact PI), Olivier Elemento (contact PI)
$1,686,167award amount
Maria Virginia Pascual
Leads 1 award · $1,686,167
- 5U19AI168632-05Department: topic-inferredEarly life respiratory viral infections shape immune development trajectories
Principal investigators: Asuncion Mejias (contact PI), Maria Virginia Pascual (contact PI), Octavio Ramilo (contact PI), Olivier Elemento (contact PI)
$1,686,167award amount
Octavio Ramilo
Leads 1 award · $1,686,167
- 5U19AI168632-05Department: topic-inferredEarly life respiratory viral infections shape immune development trajectories
Principal investigators: Asuncion Mejias (contact PI), Maria Virginia Pascual (contact PI), Octavio Ramilo (contact PI), Olivier Elemento (contact PI)
$1,686,167award amount
Olivier Elemento
Leads 1 award · $1,686,167
- 5U19AI168632-05Department: topic-inferredEarly life respiratory viral infections shape immune development trajectories
Principal investigators: Asuncion Mejias (contact PI), Maria Virginia Pascual (contact PI), Octavio Ramilo (contact PI), Olivier Elemento (contact PI)
$1,686,167award amount
Yongqiang Feng
Leads 3 awards · $1,666,667
- 1R01AI190906-01A1Department: investigator's affiliationDefine regulatory T cell repertoire sustainability$880,417award amount
- 1R21AI191010-01A1Department: investigator's affiliationA method for engineering high-fidelity regulatory T cells$508,750award amount
- 1R21AI194203-01A1Department: investigator's affiliationEngineering a Synthetic IL-33 Receptor to Enhance T-Cell Function$277,500award amount
Douglas R. Green
Leads 2 awards · $1,536,455
- 5R35CA231620-10Department: investigator's affiliationMECHANISMS OF REGULATED CELL DEATH$1,081,455award amount
- 5R37AI044828-28Department: investigator's affiliationSurvival Function of the Fadd-Caspase-8-Flip Complex - MERIT Extension$455,000award amount
P. David Rogers
Leads 1 award · $1,233,501
- 5R01AI169066-04Department: topic-inferredMapping the genomic and molecular mechanisms of antifungal resistance in the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris
Principal investigators: P. David Rogers (contact PI), Christina A Cuomo
$1,233,501award amount
Elaine I Tuomanen
Leads 2 awards · $910,000
- 5R01AI128756-10Department: topic-inferredBioactivities of pneumococcal cell wall in neuropathogenesis$455,000award amount
- 5R01AI165426-05Department: topic-inferredAntibiotic tolerance: membraneless organelles and autolysin regulation$455,000award amount
Steven M Varga
Leads 1 award · $665,425
- 5R01AI167249-06Department: topic-inferredDeciphering the complexities of inflammasome activation following RSV infection$665,425award amount
Victor J. Torres
Leads 1 award · $637,453
- 5R01AI099394-12Department: topic-inferredMechanistic Studies Of The Staphylococcus aureus LukAB Cytotoxin$637,453award amount
Benjamin Alan Youngblood
Leads 1 award · $465,506
- 5R01CA237311-07Department: investigator's affiliationEPIGENETIC REPROGRAMMING OF T CELL EXHAUSTION TO ENHANCE TUMOR IMMUNOTHERAPY$465,506award amount
Peijun Ma
Leads 1 award · $462,500
- 5R35GM157243-02Department: topic-inferredDeciphering the genetic regulation of bacterial heterogeneity in response to antibiotic stress using single-cell transcriptomics$462,500award amount
Christian T Meyer
Leads 1 award · $248,999
- 5R00AI175656-04Department: topic-inferredThe electrophysiology of biofilm development and drug resistance$248,999award amount
Darian Jay Santana
Leads 1 award · $79,780
- 1F32AI197578-01Department: topic-inferredDeterminants of Fluconazole Resistance Evolvability in Candida auris$79,780award amount
Tyler Ripperger
Leads 1 award · $76,780
- 5F32AI191456-02Department: topic-inferredDefining mechanistic drivers of impaired B cell response to influenza A virus vaccine under conditions of obesity$76,780award 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.
Richard John Webby
Co-investigator on 1P01AI202800-01, led by Jason W. Rosch and Madan Mohan and Stacey L Schultz-Cherry
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (no department on record, 1 award)
Michael Lafleur
Co-investigator on 5R01AI170765-04, led by Richard E. Lee; 5R01AI180231-04, led by Richard E. Lee
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- Arietis (no department on record, 1 award)
Christina A Cuomo
Co-investigator on 5R01AI169066-04, led by P. David Rogers
From the FY2024 awards this person leads
- Broad Institute, Inc. (no department on record, 1 award)
Amber M Smith
Co-investigator on 1R01AI193513-01A1, led by Jason W. Rosch
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center · Pediatrics (NIH department code, 1 award)
Jiyang Yu
Co-investigator on 5U01CA281868-04, led by Hongbo Chi
From the FY2025 awards this person leads
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (no department on record, 1 award)
Federico Antonio Rosconi
Co-investigator on 5R01AI171038-05, led by Jason W. Rosch
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Tim Van Opijnen
Co-investigator on 5R01AI168214-05, led by Jason W. Rosch
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- Boston Children's Hospital · Pediatrics (investigator's affiliation, 1 award)