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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at Tufts University

Boston, MA

Funding
$18.7M
$18,725,628
Awards
34
FY2026 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
32
27 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
#15
of 136 · 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 Biochemistry row of the Tufts University page.

Leads a grant in this department

27 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. Linden T Hu

    Leads 3 awards · $7,345,205

    • 5P01AI181934-03Department: NIH department code
      A Prospective Study of Persistent Symptoms of Lyme Disease

      Principal investigators: John Branda (contact PI), Linden T Hu (contact PI), Robert Pease Smith (contact PI), Sam R Telford (contact PI)

      $4,537,192
      award amount
    • 3P01AI181934-03S1Department: NIH department code
      A Prospective Study of Persistent Symptoms of Lyme Disease

      Principal investigators: John Branda (contact PI), Linden T Hu (contact PI), Robert Pease Smith (contact PI)

      $2,143,584
      award amount
    • 5R01AI178725-04Department: NIH department code
      Auto-antibodies as predictive markers for Post treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome
      $664,429
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01AI197351-01, led by Bree Beardsley Aldridge.

  2. John Branda

    Leads 2 awards · $6,680,776

    • 5P01AI181934-03Department: NIH department code
      A Prospective Study of Persistent Symptoms of Lyme Disease

      Principal investigators: John Branda (contact PI), Linden T Hu (contact PI), Robert Pease Smith (contact PI), Sam R Telford (contact PI)

      $4,537,192
      award amount
    • 3P01AI181934-03S1Department: NIH department code
      A Prospective Study of Persistent Symptoms of Lyme Disease

      Principal investigators: John Branda (contact PI), Linden T Hu (contact PI), Robert Pease Smith (contact PI)

      $2,143,584
      award amount

  3. Robert Pease Smith

    Leads 2 awards · $6,680,776

    • 5P01AI181934-03Department: NIH department code
      A Prospective Study of Persistent Symptoms of Lyme Disease

      Principal investigators: John Branda (contact PI), Linden T Hu (contact PI), Robert Pease Smith (contact PI), Sam R Telford (contact PI)

      $4,537,192
      award amount
    • 3P01AI181934-03S1Department: NIH department code
      A Prospective Study of Persistent Symptoms of Lyme Disease

      Principal investigators: John Branda (contact PI), Linden T Hu (contact PI), Robert Pease Smith (contact PI)

      $2,143,584
      award amount

  4. Sam R Telford

    Leads 1 award · $4,537,192

  5. Mitch McVey

    Leads 1 award · $1,381,536

  6. Aimee Shen

    Leads 3 awards · $1,046,523

    • 2R37AI122232-12Department: NIH department code
      Cell Division in Clostridioidesdifficile
      $509,097
      award amount
    • 5R01GM108684-10Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Spore Germination in Clostridioides difficile
      $333,472
      award amount
    • 5R21AI188339-02Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic regulation of sporulation in Clostridioides difficile
      $203,954
      award amount

  7. Ralph R. Isberg

    Leads 3 awards · $904,577

    • 1R21AI196582-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Single-cell analysis of antibiotic persister subpopulations generated by Acinetobacter baumannii
      $483,975
      award amount
    • 5T32AI007422-35Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Analysis of Microbial Pathogens
      $221,096
      award amount
    • 5R21AI190788-02Department: NIH department code
      Optical Sequencing to Link Quantitative Bacterial Phenotypes to Human Mutations
      $199,506
      award amount

  8. Bree Beardsley Aldridge

    Leads 1 award · $859,278

  9. Brian Lin

    Leads 1 award · $779,636

    • 1R01DC022650-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Characterization and treatment of an accelerated aging model of the olfactory epithelium
      $779,636
      award amount

  10. Andrew Camilli

    Leads 3 awards · $736,472

    • 5R37AI055058-22Department: NIH department code
      Phage Resistance in Emergent Vibrio cholerae and Phage Prophylaxis of Cholera
      $456,452
      award amount
    • 5T32GM139772-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Genetics of Basic Cell Function
      $235,459
      award amount
    • 3R37AI055058-22S1Department: NIH department code
      Phage Resistance in Emergent Vibrio cholerae and Phage Prophylaxis of Cholera
      $44,561
      award amount

  11. Joan C Mecsas

    Leads 1 award · $717,696

    • 5R01AI169786-05Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting Yersinia Yop Targets in Neutrophils
      $717,696
      award amount

  12. John M Coffin

    Leads 1 award · $715,794

    • 5R01AI184043-03Department: NIH department code
      Human endogenous provirus inhibition of HIV replication
      $715,794
      award amount

  13. Elizabeth A White

    Leads 1 award · $566,782

    • 5R01AI182668-02Department: NIH department code
      Human papillomavirus regulation of the Hippo signaling pathway
      $566,782
      award amount

  14. Malavika Raman

    Leads 2 awards · $454,123

    • 5R01GM127557-08Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms regulating ER Proteostasis
      $353,524
      award amount
    • 3R01GM127557-08S1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms regulating ER Proteostasis
      $100,599
      award amount

  15. Cammie Lesser

    Leads 1 award · $453,750

    • 1R21AI190727-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Shigella regulation of GSDMD palmitoylation in epithelial cells
      $453,750
      award amount

  16. Larry Feig

    Leads 1 award · $453,750

    • 1R21HD121040-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Trauma Effects on Men's Sperm miRNA Function in Epigenetic Inheritance
      $453,750
      award amount

  17. Ekaterina Heldwein

    Leads 2 awards · $445,950

    • 1R21AI196358-01Department: NIH department code
      Role of CLCC1 in herpesvirus nuclear egress
      $243,600
      award amount
    • 5R21AI190726-02Department: NIH department code
      Capturing HSV entry glycoprotein complexes
      $202,350
      award amount

  18. Karl Munger

    Leads 1 award · $418,426

    • 5R01AI170633-04Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of the Human Papillomavirus Life Cycle by the Long Noncoding RNA DINO
      $418,426
      award amount

  19. Rui Guo

    Leads 1 award · $415,994

    • 1R37CA299200-01A1Department: NIH department code
      The role of ASAH1-driven ceramide metabolism in EBV B-cell transformation under physiologically relevant germinal center hypoxia
      $415,994
      award amount

  20. Samantha Wellington Miranda

    Leads 1 award · $248,925

    • 7R00GM145768-04Department: NIH department code
      Evolution of bacterial communication systems
      $248,925
      award amount

  21. Boris R Belitsky

    Leads 1 award · $247,500

    • 1R21AI193594-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Analysis of the AgrA-mediated transcription regulation in Listeria monocytogenes
      $247,500
      award amount

  22. Alexei Degterev

    Leads 1 award · $204,281

    • 5R21AI185240-02Department: NIH department code
      Analysis of the heterogeneity of cell death responses in the influenza virus-infected cells

      Principal investigators: Alexei Degterev (contact PI), Albert K Tai, Rebecca Batorsky

      $204,281
      award amount

  23. Anna-Lisa Edith Lawrence

    Leads 1 award · $81,580

    • 5F32AI188687-02Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating spatio-temporal innate immune cell modulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis stress response and replication heterogeneity
      $81,580
      award amount

  24. Gregory Alexander Harrison

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32AI191529-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining the unique divisome of Clostridioides difficile
      $79,348
      award amount

  25. Jacob Bouchier

    Leads 1 award · $75,880

    • 1F32AI197474-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of amidase activity during spore development
      $75,880
      award amount

  26. Nicholas Vincent Dibenedetto

    Leads 1 award · $46,320

    • 5F31AI191587-02Department: NIH department code
      Effect of epithelium association and toxin gene expression on Clostridioides difficile disease severity
      $46,320
      award amount

  27. Abigail Anastasia Rivera Seda

    Leads 1 award · $46,302

    • 1F31AI197433-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of spore germination by an intrinsically disordered protein
      $46,302
      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.

  • Claire L Moore

    Co-investigator on 5K12GM133314-08, led by Mitch McVey

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Jamie Lynn Maguire

    Co-investigator on 5K12GM133314-08, led by Mitch McVey

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Maha Farhat

    Co-investigator on 1R01AI197351-01, led by Bree Beardsley Aldridge

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Albert K Tai

    Co-investigator on 5R21AI185240-02, led by Alexei Degterev

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

  • Rebecca Batorsky

    Co-investigator on 5R21AI185240-02, led by Alexei Degterev

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