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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Little Rock, AR

Funding
$5M
$4,970,923
Awards
11
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
11
11 lead a grant here, 0 co-investigators
Department rank
#72
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 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences page.

Leads a grant in this department

11 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. James Craig Forrest

    Leads 3 awards · $1,305,802

    • 5R01AI181787-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining KSHV LANA functions in viral pathogenesis and immune evasion
      $477,807
      award amount
    • 1R01CA308444-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining the pathogenesis of gammaherpesvirus and Plasmodium coinfections
      $460,548
      award amount
    • 5R01CA167065-10Department: NIH department code
      Defining mechanisms of gammaherpesvirus-driven genomic instability in B cells
      $367,447
      award amount

  2. Jason S Stumhofer

    Leads 2 awards · $1,215,074

    • 5P30GM145393-05Department: NIH department code
      Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Inflammatory Responses

      Principal investigators: Jason S Stumhofer (contact PI), Jon Scott Blevins (contact PI), Karen E. Beenken (contact PI), Mark S Smeltzer (contact PI)

      $1,140,000
      award amount
    • 1R03AI202278-01Department: NIH department code
      Development of an organoid model for studying endemic Burkitt lymphoma pathogenesis
      $75,074
      award amount

  3. Jon Scott Blevins

    Leads 1 award · $1,140,000

  4. Karen E. Beenken

    Leads 1 award · $1,140,000

  5. Mark S Smeltzer

    Leads 1 award · $1,140,000

  6. Mark Manzano

    Leads 1 award · $613,469

    • 5R01DE035025-02Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic Regulation of KSHV Latency
      $613,469
      award amount

  7. Youssef Aachoui

    Leads 1 award · $599,856

    • 1R01AI198350-01Department: NIH department code
      Neutrophil Inflammasome Mechanisms in Host Defense and Inflammatory Responses
      $599,856
      award amount

  8. Clay Daniel Jackson-Litteken

    Leads 1 award · $447,720

    • 1DP2AI200953-01Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing innovative platforms to study and prevent Acinetobacter ventilator-associated pneumonia
      $447,720
      award amount

  9. Matthew Jorgenson

    Leads 1 award · $370,397

    • 5R35GM154672-03Department: NIH department code
      Manipulating undecaprenyl phosphate levels to decipher mechanisms of competing cell envelope assembly pathways in Escherichia coli
      $370,397
      award amount

  10. Miranda Wallace

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 4R00AT012651-03Department: NIH department code
      Expanding the therapeutic capacity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii for the treatment of gastrointestinal infections
      $249,000
      award amount

  11. Jia Liu

    Leads 1 award · $169,605

    • 5R21AI191013-02Department: NIH department code
      APOBEC3-driven host mechanism promotes poxvirus diversification to overcome host immune restriction
      $169,605
      award amount