FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Dentistry at University at Buffalo

Amherst, NY

Funding

$7.9M

$7,943,559

Awards

FY2026 NIH awards in Dentistry

Principal investigators

16 lead a grant here, 5 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

16 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.

Keith L Kirkwood
Leads 3 awards · $1,188,462
- 5R01DE032310-05Department: NIH department code
  Immunometabolic Regulation of MDSCs in Periodontitis
  $466,567
  award amount
- 1R21DE036324-01Department: NIH department code
  Investigating the Impact of Biological Sex on the Pathophysiology of Radiation-Induced Oral Mucositis
  $440,275
  award amount
- 5K12DE027827-09Department: NIH department code
  Buffalo Oral-Research and Specialty Training Program (BORST)
  $281,620
  award amount
Patricia Diaz
Leads 4 awards · $1,082,635
- 5R01DE032131-05Department: NIH department code
  Host and microbial risk factors of oral thrush in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy
  Principal investigators: Patricia Diaz (contact PI), Nicolas Schlecht
  $656,284
  award amount
- 5R21DE034093-02Department: NIH department code
  Identification of diffusible small molecules that regulate replication of Porphyromonas gingivalis
  $201,250
  award amount
- 5D43DE033474-04Department: 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
  $131,384
  award amount
- 3D43DE033474-04S1Department: 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
  $93,717
  award amount
Rose-Anne Romano
Leads 2 awards · $876,739
- 1R21DE035609-01Department: NIH department code
  Transcriptional regulatory Mechanisms of Salivary gland Regeneration in a defined genetic model
  $440,275
  award amount
- 5R01DE027660-08Department: 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
  $436,464
  award amount
Rohitashw Kumar
Leads 2 awards · $784,875
- 5R01DE034141-03Department: NIH department code
  Salivary Zinc modifies Histatin 5 activity towards C. albicans survivor cells and commensalism
  $402,500
  award amount
- 5R01DE032058-05Department: NIH department code
  Candida albicans oral infection shapes innate immunity and recruitment of myeloid-derived suppressor cells
  $382,375
  award amount
Hyuk Jae Edward Kwon
Leads 1 award · $629,890
- 5R01DE033085-04Department: NIH department code
  Genomic and functional investigations of the transcriptional regulatory network of tooth enamel development
  $629,890
  award amount
Laertis Ikonomou
Leads 1 award · $603,620
- 5R01HL158965-04Department: NIH department code
  Gene regulatory networks in early lung epithelial cell fate decisions
  $603,620
  award amount
Harim Tavares Dos Santos
Leads 2 awards · $565,640
- 1R03DE036291-01Department: NIH department code
  Type-2 Cytokine Regulation of Tuft Cell Differentiation in Salivary Glands
  $320,200
  award amount
- 5R00DE032363-04Department: NIH department code
  The Role of Tufts Cells in Salivary Gland Immunity
  $245,440
  award amount
Jill Marie Kramer
Leads 1 award · $438,915
- 5R01DE029472-07Department: NIH department code
  Analysis of MyD88-mediated activation in Sjogren’s disease
  $438,915
  award amount
Kathryn M Kauffman
Leads 1 award · $423,366
- 1U01DE035632-01Department: NIH department code
  Hiding in plain sight: integrating AI with targeted bench methods to discover and characterize viruses in the human body
  Principal investigators: Kathryn M Kauffman (contact PI), Libusha Kelly
  $423,366
  award amount
Rajendra Prasad Settem
Leads 1 award · $408,000
- 1R56DE035488-01A1Department: NIH department code
  Contribution of microbially produced methylglyoxal and glycation endproducts to periodontal inflammation and dysbiosis
  $408,000
  award amount
Zhibin Cui
Leads 1 award · $320,200
- 1R03DE035544-01A1Department: NIH department code
  Role of CASP8 and HRAS co-mutation in oral epithelium malignant transformation
  $320,200
  award amount
Carla Andrea Alvarez Rivas
Leads 1 award · $247,190
- 5R00DE032704-04Department: NIH department code
  The Role of CD4+ Memory T cell Subtypes in Periodontal Disease Recurrence
  $247,190
  award amount
Leticia Andrea Rojas Cortez
Leads 1 award · $162,000
- 1K99DE036617-01Department: NIH department code
  Age-Related Immunometabolic Dysregulation in Periodontitis Resolution
  $162,000
  award amount
Lu Li
Leads 1 award · $121,630
- 5K99DE034829-02Department: NIH department code
  Using Novel Machine Learning Approaches to Understand Subgingival Microbiome Heterogeneity in Relation to Health and Disease
  $121,630
  award amount
Armond June
Leads 1 award · $55,114
- 5F30GM146451-04Department: NIH department code
  Oral to Gut Microbiome Transmission in Periodontitis and Type 2 Diabetes
  $55,114
  award amount
Stefan Hans-Klaus Ruhl
Leads 1 award · $35,283
- 5T32DE023526-12Department: NIH department code
  Advanced Training in Oral Biology
  $35,283
  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 5R01DE032131-05, 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 5R01DE027660-08, led by Rose-Anne Romano
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Libusha Kelly
Co-investigator on 1U01DE035632-01, led by Kathryn M Kauffman
From the FY2024 awards this person leads
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (no department on record, 1 award)
Alan L Landay
Co-investigator on 5D43DE033474-04, led by Patricia Diaz; 3D43DE033474-04S1, 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 5D43DE033474-04, led by Patricia Diaz; 3D43DE033474-04S1, led by Patricia Diaz
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.