Biochemistry at Tufts University

Leads a grant in this department

23 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. Ekaterina Heldwein

   Leads 3 awards · $4,119,022

   • 1R01AI192496-01Department: NIH department code

     Mechanisms of nuclear egress in herpesviruses
     $3,268,792

     award amount
   • 5R01AI164698-05Department: NIH department code

     Structure, antigenicity, and function of HCMV fusogen gB
     $613,938

     award amount
   • 1R21AI190726-01Department: NIH department code

     Capturing HSV entry glycoprotein complexes
     $236,292

     award amount

2. Joan C Mecsas

   Leads 3 awards · $4,107,301

   • 1R01AI184990-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Investigation of Yop activities in M cells during murine infection
     $3,178,626

     award amount
   • 5R01AI169786-04Department: NIH department code

     Dissecting Yersinia Yop Targets in Neutrophils
     $696,166

     award amount
   • 5R21AI182873-02Department: NIH department code

     Impact of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection on M cells in murine infections
     $232,509

     award amount

3. Elizabeth A White

   Leads 3 awards · $3,672,184

   • 1R01AI187203-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Host cell reprogramming by human papillomavirus E7 proteins

     Principal investigators: Elizabeth A White (contact PI), Karl Munger

     $2,938,414

     award amount
   • 1R01AI182668-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Human papillomavirus regulation of the Hippo signaling pathway
     $533,707

     award amount
   • 7R21AI176035-02Department: NIH department code

     Establishment of basal epithelial identity by papillomavirus oncoproteins
     $200,063

     award amount

4. Klemen Strle

   Leads 1 award · $3,315,179

   • 1R01AI181904-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Microbial Determinants of Excessive Inflammation and Severe Lyme Disease
     $3,315,179

     award amount

5. Mitch McVey

   Leads 1 award · $1,385,791

   • 5K12GM133314-07Department: NIH department code

     IRACDA at Tufts University

     Principal investigators: Mitch McVey (contact PI), Claire L Moore, Jamie Lynn Maguire

     $1,385,791

     award amount

6. Andrew Camilli

   Leads 4 awards · $1,133,063

   • 4R37AI055058-21Department: NIH department code

     Phage Resistance in Emergent Vibrio cholerae and Phage Prophylaxis of Cholera
     $519,048

     award amount
   • 5T32GM139772-04Department: NIH department code

     Molecular Genetics of Basic Cell Function
     $246,665

     award amount
   • 5R21AI181039-02Department: NIH department code

     Mechanisms by which ICP3 Overcomes Vibrio cholerae Phage Defenses
     $202,350

     award amount
   • 1R03AI192375-01Department: NIH department code

     Development of an improved transposon mutagenesis system for comprehensive genetic analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi
     $165,000

     award amount

7. Aimee Shen

   Leads 3 awards · $1,014,816

   • 5R01AI122232-11Department: NIH department code

     Spore Assembly in Clostridioides difficile
     $419,852

     award amount
   • 5R01GM108684-09Department: NIH department code

     Regulation of Spore Germination in Clostridioides difficile
     $333,472

     award amount
   • 1R21AI188339-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Epigenetic regulation of sporulation in Clostridioides difficile
     $261,492

     award amount

8. Wai-Leung Ng

   Leads 2 awards · $919,145

   • 5R01AI121337-10Department: NIH department code

     Signaling Mechanisms in Vibrio Cholerae Parallel Quorum Sensing Pathways
     $465,395

     award amount
   • 1R21AI182853-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Mechanism of evasion of cyclic oligonucleotide-based anti-phage signaling system
     $453,750

     award amount

9. John M Coffin

   Leads 1 award · $694,319

   • 5R01AI184043-02Department: NIH department code

     Human endogenous provirus inhibition of HIV replication
     $694,319

     award amount

10. Alexei Degterev

    Leads 2 awards · $689,884

    • 1R21AI185601-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Understanding heterogeneity of necroptotic cell death and mechanism(s) of necroptosis escape

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

      $450,764

      award amount
    • 1R21AI185240-01A1Department: 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

      $239,120

      award amount

11. Linden T Hu

    Leads 1 award · $658,436

    • 5R01AI178725-03Department: NIH department code

      Auto-antibodies as predictive markers for Post treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome
      $658,436

      award amount

12. Ralph R. Isberg

    Leads 2 awards · $505,250

    • 1R21AI190788-01Department: NIH department code

      Optical Sequencing to Link Quantitative Bacterial Phenotypes to Human Mutations
      $256,995

      award amount
    • 5T32AI007422-34Department: NIH department code

      Molecular Analysis of Microbial Pathogens
      $248,255

      award amount

13. Carol A. Kumamoto

    Leads 1 award · $463,530

    • 1R21DE034446-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Pathogenicity of ethanol tolerant strains of Candida albicans in the oral cavity

      Principal investigators: Carol A. Kumamoto (contact PI), Anna I Dongari-Bagtzoglou

      $463,530

      award amount

14. Malavika Raman

    Leads 2 awards · $454,123

    • 5R01GM127557-07Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms regulating ER Proteostasis
      $353,524

      award amount
    • 3R01GM127557-07S1Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms regulating ER proteostasis
      $100,599

      award amount

15. John M Leong

    Leads 1 award · $450,630

    • 1R21AI193724-01Department: NIH department code

      Spatiotemporal interrogation of interactions of pneumolysin, pulmonary epithelium, and PMNs that result in age-associated susceptibility to Streptococcus pneumoniae disease

      Principal investigators: John M Leong (contact PI), Shumin Tan

      $450,630

      award amount

16. Karl Munger

    Leads 1 award · $418,426

    • 5R01AI170633-03Department: NIH department code

      Regulation of the Human Papillomavirus Life Cycle by the Long Noncoding RNA DINO
      $418,426

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01AI187203-01A1, led by Elizabeth A White.

17. Rui Guo

    Leads 1 award · $248,871

    • 5R00DE031016-05Department: NIH department code

      Exploiting Metabolism to Uncloak Epstein-Barr Virus Immunogens in Latently Infected B-cells
      $248,871

      award amount

18. Athar H. Chishti

    Leads 1 award · $206,250

    • 5R21AI186378-02Department: NIH department code

      Mitigation of erythrocyte adhesion in human malaria
      $206,250

      award amount

19. Bernard Pragash Arulanandam

    Leads 1 award · $193,591

    • 5R21AI180267-02Department: NIH department code

      Evaluation of a polypeptide vaccine against Acinetobacter infection
      $193,591

      award amount

20. Anna-Lisa Edith Lawrence

    Leads 1 award · $78,040

    • 1F32AI188687-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Elucidating spatio-temporal innate immune cell modulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis stress response and replication heterogeneity
      $78,040

      award amount

21. Gregory Alexander Harrison

    Leads 1 award · $75,520

    • 1F32AI191529-01Department: NIH department code

      Defining the unique divisome of Clostridioides difficile
      $75,520

      award amount

22. Nicholas Vincent Dibenedetto

    Leads 1 award · $45,744

    • 1F31AI191587-01Department: NIH department code

      Effect of epithelium association and toxin gene expression on Clostridioides difficile disease severity
      $45,744

      award amount

23. Jeffrey Bourgeois

    Leads 1 award · $1

    • 5F32AI179104-03Department: NIH department code

      Identifying Determinants of Borrelia burgdorferi and Peromyscus leucopus symbiosis
      $1

      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 5K12GM133314-07, led by Mitch McVey

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Tufts University · Biochemistry (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Jamie Lynn Maguire

  Co-investigator on 5K12GM133314-07, led by Mitch McVey

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Tufts University · Neurosciences (NIH department code, 2 awards)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (no department on record, 1 award)

• Albert K Tai

  Co-investigator on 1R21AI185601-01A1, led by Alexei Degterev; 1R21AI185240-01A1, 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 1R21AI185601-01A1, led by Alexei Degterev; 1R21AI185240-01A1, led by Alexei Degterev

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

• Anna I Dongari-Bagtzoglou

  Co-investigator on 1R21DE034446-01A1, led by Carol A. Kumamoto

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • University of Connecticut School of Medicine · Dentistry (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Shumin Tan

  Co-investigator on 1R21AI193724-01, led by John M Leong

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