Microbiology & Immunology at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Leads a grant in this department

14 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. Lu Huang

   Leads 2 awards · $963,214

   • 1R01AI184960-01Department: NIH department code

     Ontogeny and metabolism of lung alveolar macrophages in tuberculosis
     $769,925

     award amount
   • 5R21AI175738-02Department: NIH department code

     Macrophage metabolism in diabetes and tuberculosis comorbidity
     $193,289

     award amount

2. James Craig Forrest

   Leads 3 awards · $897,656

   • 1R01AI181787-01Department: NIH department code

     Defining KSHV LANA functions in viral pathogenesis and immune evasion
     $488,841

     award amount
   • 5R01CA167065-08Department: NIH department code

     Defining mechanisms of gammaherpesvirus-driven genomic instability in B cells
     $349,383

     award amount
   • 3R01CA167065-08S1Department: NIH department code

     Defining mechanisms of gammaherpesvirus-driven genomic instability in B cells
     $59,432

     award amount

3. Jon Scott Blevins

   Leads 1 award · $589,384

   • 5R01AI170892-03Department: NIH department code

     Cyclic di-AMP-dependent signaling in tickborne relapsing fever Borrelia
     $589,384

     award amount

4. Mark S Smeltzer

   Leads 1 award · $451,759

   • 5R01AI119380-09Department: NIH department code

     Defining the role of post-translational regulation by extracellular proteases in the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis

     Principal investigators: Mark S Smeltzer (contact PI), Alan Tackett

     $451,759

     award amount

5. Matthew Jorgenson

   Leads 1 award · $376,796

   • 1R35GM154672-01Department: NIH department code

     Manipulating undecaprenyl phosphate levels to decipher mechanisms of competing cell envelope assembly pathways in Escherichia coli
     $376,796

     award amount

6. Chia Y. Lee

   Leads 1 award · $229,500

   • 5R21AI168850-02Department: NIH department code

     Modulation of Agr system by ClpC chaperone in S. aureus
     $229,500

     award amount

7. Daniel E Voth

   Leads 1 award · $229,500

   • 1R21AI173725-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Defining the impact of host-directed drugs on Coxiella burnetii growth in macrophages
     $229,500

     award amount

8. Lin-Xi Li

   Leads 1 award · $226,731

   • 1R21AI180670-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Exploring early protective immune responses to Chlamydia
     $226,731

     award amount

9. Jason S Stumhofer

   Leads 1 award · $223,797

   • 1R21AI180630-01A1Department: NIH department code

     Regulation of macrophage function during acute infection with Plasmodium
     $223,797

     award amount

10. Martin J Cannon

    Leads 1 award · $214,583

    • 1R21CA288928-01Department: NIH department code

      Mechanisms of Th17-DC immunotherapy for ovarian cancer
      $214,583

      award amount

11. Youssef Aachoui

    Leads 1 award · $191,250

    • 5R21AI175731-02Department: NIH department code

      Pyroptotic Macrophages Traps Against Shigella Infection
      $191,250

      award amount

12. Karl W Boehme

    Leads 1 award · $185,375

    • 5R21AI178222-02Department: NIH department code

      Reovirus induction of host inflammatory responses
      $185,375

      award amount

13. Mark Manzano

    Leads 1 award · $178,819

    • 5R21CA285135-02Department: NIH department code

      Role of a latent OriLyt RNA in KSHV latency in primary effusion lymphoma
      $178,819

      award amount

14. Roger D Pechous

    Leads 1 award · $151,476

    • 5R01AI153252-04Department: NIH department code

      Defining the Role of the Plasminogen Activator Protease in the Early Events that Establish Primary Pneumonic Plague
      $151,476

      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.

• Alan Tackett

  Co-investigator on 5R01AI119380-09, led by Mark S Smeltzer

  From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences · Biochemistry (NIH department code, 2 awards)
  • Arkansas Children's Hospital Res Inst · Pediatrics (topic-inferred, 1 award)
  • University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (no department on record, 1 award)