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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Dentistry at University at Buffalo

Amherst, NY

Funding
$7M
$6,975,982
Awards
21
FY2025 NIH awards in Dentistry
Principal investigators
19
15 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
Not ranked
Outside the 27 ranked departments
  • 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 Dentistry row of the University at Buffalo page.

Leads a grant in this department

15 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. Patricia Diaz

    Leads 4 awards · $1,193,044

    • 5R01DE032131-04Department: NIH department code
      Host and microbial risk factors of oral thrush in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy

      Principal investigators: Patricia Diaz (contact PI), Nicolas Schlecht

      $726,289
      award amount
    • 1R21DE034093-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Identification of diffusible small molecules that regulate replication of Porphyromonas gingivalis
      $241,500
      award amount
    • 5D43DE033474-03Department: NIH department code
      Building Research Capacity to Study Periodontitis and Associated Systemic Comorbidities in the Caribbean

      Principal investigators: Patricia Diaz (contact PI), Alan L Landay, Paul Dean Brown

      $154,873
      award amount
    • 3D43DE033474-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Building Research Capacity to Study Periodontitis and Associated Systemic Comorbidities in the Caribbean

      Principal investigators: Patricia Diaz (contact PI), Alan L Landay, Paul Dean Brown

      $70,382
      award amount
  2. Laertis Ikonomou

    Leads 2 awards · $1,051,106

    • 5R01HL158965-03Department: NIH department code
      Gene regulatory networks in early lung epithelial cell fate decisions
      $615,939
      award amount
    • 1R21DE034559-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Development of an early tooth organoid via human induced pluripotent stem cells
      $435,167
      award amount
  3. Keith L Kirkwood

    Leads 2 awards · $827,854

    • 5R01DE032310-04Department: NIH department code
      Immunometabolic Regulation of MDSCs in Periodontitis
      $545,956
      award amount
    • 5K12DE027827-08Department: NIH department code
      Buffalo Oral-Research and Specialty Training Program (BORST)
      $281,898
      award amount
  4. Mira Edgerton

    Leads 2 awards · $784,875

    • 5R01DE034141-02Department: NIH department code
      Salivary Zinc modifies Histatin 5 activity towards C. albicans survivor cells and commensalism
      $402,500
      award amount
    • 5R01DE032058-04Department: NIH department code
      Candida albicans oral infection shapes innate immunity and recruitment of myeloid-derived suppressor cells
      $382,375
      award amount
  5. Hyuk Jae Edward Kwon

    Leads 1 award · $629,890

    • 5R01DE033085-03Department: NIH department code
      Genomic and functional investigations of the transcriptional regulatory network of tooth enamel development
      $629,890
      award amount
  6. Rose-Anne Romano

    Leads 1 award · $448,129

    • 5R01DE027660-07Department: NIH department code
      Regulatory mechanisms that dictate stem and differentiated cell populations of the salivary gland

      Principal investigators: Rose-Anne Romano (contact PI), Satrajit Sinha

      $448,129
      award amount
  7. Jill Marie Kramer

    Leads 1 award · $439,605

    • 2R01DE029472-06Department: NIH department code
      Analysis of MyD88-mediated activation in Sjogren’s disease
      $439,605
      award amount
  8. Ashu Sharma

    Leads 1 award · $378,813

    • 5R01DE029497-05Department: NIH department code
      Bacterial sialometabolic activity impacts periodontal immunity and microbiota
      $378,813
      award amount
  9. Jung-Mi Lee

    Leads 1 award · $320,200

    • 1R03DE035165-01Department: NIH department code
      Gene Regulatory Mechanisms of Mll4 in Tooth Enamel Development
      $320,200
      award amount
  10. Carla Andrea Alvarez Rivas

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 4R00DE032704-03Department: NIH department code
      The Role of CD4+ Memory T cell Subtypes in Periodontal Disease Recurrence
      $248,999
      award amount
  11. Harim Tavares Dos Santos

    Leads 1 award · $248,999

    • 4R00DE032363-03Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Tufts Cells in Salivary Gland Immunity
      $248,999
      award amount
  12. Stefan Hans-Klaus Ruhl

    Leads 1 award · $212,340

    • 5T32DE023526-11Department: NIH department code
      Advanced Training in Oral Biology
      $212,340
      award amount
  13. Lu Li

    Leads 1 award · $121,630

    • 1K99DE034829-01Department: NIH department code
      Using Novel Machine Learning Approaches to Understand Subgingival Microbiome Heterogeneity in Relation to Health and Disease
      $121,630
      award amount
  14. Theresa Wrynn

    Leads 1 award · $35,258

    • 5F31DE032901-03Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and molecular mechanisms of Xbp-1 mediated salivary gland development and differentiation
      $35,258
      award amount
  15. Dayron M. Leyva Rodriguez

    Leads 1 award · $35,240

    • 5F31DE033627-02Department: NIH department code
      Spirochete Neutrophil Interactions Initiate Vascular Inflammation Promoting Aortic Endothelial Dysfunction
      $35,240
      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.

  • Nicolas Schlecht

    Co-investigator on 5R01DE032131-04, led by Patricia Diaz

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

  • Satrajit Sinha

    Co-investigator on 5R01DE027660-07, led by Rose-Anne Romano

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

  • Alan L Landay

    Co-investigator on 5D43DE033474-03, led by Patricia Diaz; 3D43DE033474-03S1, led by Patricia Diaz

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

  • Paul Dean Brown

    Co-investigator on 5D43DE033474-03, led by Patricia Diaz; 3D43DE033474-03S1, led by Patricia Diaz

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