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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at Tulane University of Louisiana

New Orleans, LA

Funding
$7.5M
$7,486,508
Awards
17
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
17
12 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
#58
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 Tulane University of Louisiana page.

Leads a grant in this department

12 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. Namita Rout

    Leads 2 awards · $1,542,094

    • 1R01DK143883-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Role of AHR in SIV-Associated Intestinal Dysfunction
      $840,005
      award amount
    • 5R01DK131930-05Department: NIH department code
      Gamma Delta T cell and microbial modulation to target chronic SIV-associated inflammation
      $702,089
      award amount

  2. Joseph Christopher Mudd

    Leads 2 awards · $1,019,792

    • 5R01AI167644-05Department: NIH department code
      Role of RhCMV in shaping the SIV proviral landscape
      $774,804
      award amount
    • 1R21AI203588-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting NKG2A/C+ CD8 T cells for anti-HIV-1 CAR-T therapy

      Principal investigators: Joseph Christopher Mudd (contact PI), Roger Keith Reeves, Stephen Edward Braun

      $244,988
      award amount

  3. Kevin John Zwezdaryk

    Leads 2 awards · $967,688

    • 5R01AG082899-04Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Viral Exposure and Age in Alzheimer's Disease Progression
      $537,240
      award amount
    • 1S10OD040292-01Department: NIH department code
      Full Spectrum Flow Cytometer Cell Analyzer
      $430,448
      award amount

  4. Woong-Ki Kim

    Leads 1 award · $874,974

  5. Shitao Li

    Leads 2 awards · $765,000

    • 5R01AI189439-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of TXLNA in cytosolic DNA-mediated innate immunity
      $382,500
      award amount
    • 5R01AI192943-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulatory mechanisms for nuclear cGAS
      $382,500
      award amount

  6. De'broski R Herbert

    Leads 1 award · $671,044

    • 5R01AI185041-04Department: NIH department code
      Neuro-Immune mechanisms against skin-penetrating helminths
      $671,044
      award amount

  7. Jacob P. Bitoun

    Leads 2 awards · $612,000

    • 1R56AI189922-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the role of biofilms in ETEC pathogenesis
      $382,500
      award amount
    • 5R21AI190682-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of an ETEC multivalent subunit vaccine using outer membrane vesicles
      $229,500
      award amount

  8. Chad Steele

    Leads 1 award · $441,563

    • 5R01HL122426-12Department: NIH department code
      Immunopathogenesis in fungal asthma
      $441,563
      award amount

  9. Elizabeth B Norton

    Leads 1 award · $229,500

    • 1R21DA065065-01Department: NIH department code
      Novel Mechanisms of Protection from Substance Abuse Drugs
      $229,500
      award amount

  10. Amir Ardeshir

    Leads 1 award · $209,869

    • 5K18AG095816-02Department: NIH department code
      Developing a Comparative Single-Cell Spatial Transciptomic Atlas of Brain Aging in Non-Human and Humans
      $209,869
      award amount

  11. Catherine Gidley Weindel

    Leads 1 award · $108,000

    • 5K22AI174008-02Department: NIH department code
      Interrogating the RIP kinase function of LRRK2 in chronic inflammation and susceptibility to infection.
      $108,000
      award amount

  12. Vicki L Traina-Dorge

    Leads 1 award · $44,984

    • 3R21DE033875-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Development of a Rhesus Macaque Model of Persistent Oral HPV and HIV Co-infection to Study Oropharyngeal Cancer Induction

      Principal investigators: Vicki L Traina-Dorge (contact PI), Prasun K Datta

      $44,984
      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.