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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

Funding
$16.2M
$16,197,428
Awards
24
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
16
14 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#24
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 Chicago page.

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. Dominique Missiakas

    Leads 5 awards · $6,146,695

    • 2R01AI148543-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Engineering monoclonal antibodies against Staphylococcus aureus
      $2,855,920
      award amount
    • 5UC7AI180312-04Department: NIH department code
      BSL3 management and practice of infectious disease research at HTRL

      Principal investigators: Dominique Missiakas (contact PI), George Parsons Langan (contact PI), Joseph A. Kanabrocki (contact PI), Patrick Osei-Owusu

      $2,464,979
      award amount
    • 5R01AI052474-22Department: NIH department code
      Vaccine Assembly from Surface Proteins of Staphylococcus aureus
      $410,000
      award amount
    • 5R01AI069227-19Department: NIH department code
      Surface Proteins of Bacillus anthracis
      $401,296
      award amount
    • 1R13AI202925-01Department: NIH department code
      Bacillus anthracis, cereus, thuringiensis 2026 International Conference (BACT 2026)
      $14,500
      award amount

  2. Shabaana A. Khader

    Leads 4 awards · $3,789,264

    • 1R01AI202795-01Department: NIH department code
      A Novel Th17-Inducing Mucosal Vaccine for Tuberculosis
      $1,229,998
      award amount
    • 5R33AI169071-05Department: NIH department code
      Development of a novel adjuvanted Th1- and Th17-inducing subunit TB Vaccine

      Principal investigators: Shabaana A. Khader (contact PI), Jay T. Evans

      $1,032,593
      award amount
    • 1R01AI198272-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting trained immunity and Th1/Th17 axis with combination adjuvants
      $810,282
      award amount
    • 1R01AI201503-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of protection mediated by Group 3 Innate Lymphoid cells (ILC3) in tuberculosis
      $716,391
      award amount

  3. George Parsons Langan

    Leads 1 award · $2,464,979

  4. Joseph A. Kanabrocki

    Leads 1 award · $2,464,979

  5. Tatyana V Golovkina

    Leads 2 awards · $1,328,681

    • 5R01AI175279-03Department: NIH department code
      Retroviral infection and new modulators of the MHCII pathway
      $794,005
      award amount
    • 5R01CA232882-07Department: NIH department code
      Virally-induced tumorigenesis controlled by the microbiota
      $534,676
      award amount

  6. Samuel Light

    Leads 3 awards · $1,257,272

    • 1R01AT013753-01Department: NIH department code
      Natural Products for Microbiome-Targeted Therapies

      Principal investigators: Samuel Light (contact PI), Mark Mimee

      $603,448
      award amount
    • 5R35GM146969-05Department: NIH department code
      Ecological niche assignment in the gut microbiome on an ecosystem-level scale
      $410,000
      award amount
    • 1R21AI199298-01Department: NIH department code
      Gut Microbiome Steroid Hormone Metabolism in Inflammatory Disease

      Principal investigators: Samuel Light (contact PI), Mark Mimee

      $243,824
      award amount

  7. Jueqi Chen

    Leads 2 awards · $932,056

    • 5R01AI182143-02Department: NIH department code
      Bacterial Cholesterol-Dependent Cytolysins in Inflammasome Activation
      $522,056
      award amount
    • 5R35GM151390-04Department: NIH department code
      Trans-Golgi Network Remodeling by Microbial Factors
      $410,000
      award amount

  8. Glenn C Randall

    Leads 2 awards · $889,779

    • 2R01AI137514-06A1Department: NIH department code
      Hepatitis C Virus Trafficking in Hepatocytes
      $479,779
      award amount
    • 5R01AI173337-04Department: NIH department code
      Manipulation of lipid metabolism in (+)RNA virus replication
      $410,000
      award amount

  9. Erin Rebecca Green

    Leads 1 award · $451,000

    • 1R35GM162845-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining the regulatory control of desiccation tolerance in Acinetobacter baumannii
      $451,000
      award amount

  10. Laurie E Comstock

    Leads 1 award · $447,987

    • 5R01AI093771-12Department: NIH department code
      Protective mechanisms of the gut Bacteroidales
      $447,987
      award amount

  11. Mark Mimee

    Leads 1 award · $410,000

    • 5R35GM147478-05Department: NIH department code
      Microbial Engineering to Control the Structure and Function of the Gut Microbiome.
      $410,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01AT013753-01, led by Samuel Light; 1R21AI199298-01, led by Samuel Light.

  12. Mohammed Kaplan

    Leads 1 award · $410,000

    • 5R35GM157116-02Department: NIH department code
      In situ investigation of bacterial secretion systems using cryo-electron tomography
      $410,000
      award amount

  13. Helen Beilinson Lietuvninkas

    Leads 1 award · $84,580

    • 5F32AI179006-03Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Host Genetics in Shaping Intestinal Lactobacillus Population
      $84,580
      award amount

  14. Amanda Blocker

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI203055-01Department: NIH department code
      Mucinases of Pathogenic Bacilli
      $50,114
      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.

  • Patrick Osei-Owusu

    Co-investigator on 5UC7AI180312-04, led by Dominique Missiakas and George Parsons Langan and Joseph A. Kanabrocki

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

  • Jay T. Evans

    Co-investigator on 5R33AI169071-05, led by Shabaana A. Khader

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