FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Microbiology & Immunology at University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
- 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 Illinois at Chicago 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.
Teruyuki Sano
Leads 2 awards · $1,503,997
- 1R01AI192695-01A1Department: NIH department codeDefining the molecular and cellular mechanisms of gut commensal microbiota-specific T cell-mediated intestinal- and neuro-inflammation$790,913award amount
- 5R01DK142104-02Department: NIH department codePlasticity of Type 3 Innate Lymphoid Cells Regulated by Intestinal Microenvironment$713,084award amount
Francis Alonzo
Leads 2 awards · $1,264,821
- 1R01AI191355-01A1Department: NIH department codeBacterial lipases and adaptation to the host lipid environment$736,822award amount
- 2R01AI120994-12Department: NIH department codeStaphylococcus aureus Survival During Nutrient Restriction and Suppression of Host Immunity.$527,999award amount
Lauren Disterhoft Palmer
Leads 2 awards · $1,166,446
- 5R01AI192538-02Department: NIH department codeAcinetobacter baumannii carbon metabolism during intermicrobial competition in the gut$584,096award amount
- 5R01AI189516-02Department: NIH department codeMicrobiota-mediated colonization resistance to Acinetobacter baumannii.$582,350award amount
Justin Richner
Leads 1 award · $767,876
- 2R56AI150672-05A1Department: NIH department codeDriving Protective Dengue Virus-Specific T and B Cell Responses Through Vaccination
Principal investigators: Justin Richner (contact PI), Amelia Kahler Pinto, James D Brien
$767,876award amount
Susan R Ross
Leads 2 awards · $559,156
- 5R01AI159290-05Department: NIH department codeThe role of TRIM2 and SIRPA in New World Arenavirus entry$491,107award amount
- 3R01AI159290-05S1Department: NIH department codeThe role of TRIM2 and SIRPA in New World Arenavirus entry$68,049award amount
Judith Behnsen
Leads 1 award · $520,097
- 5R01AI175223-03Department: NIH department codeInter-kingdom interactions of Salmonella Typhimurium and Candida albicans in the gut$520,097award amount
Yong-Hui Zheng
Leads 1 award · $399,750
- 5U01AI175008-04Department: NIH department codeHIV-1 Env gp160 maturation in the Golgi apparatus$399,750award amount
Alan McLachlan
Leads 1 award · $391,196
- 5R01AI170785-04Department: NIH department codeDevelopmental regulation of HBV biosynthesis by Ten-eleven translocation (Tet) methylcytosine dioxygenases$391,196award amount
Kanchan Jaswal
Leads 1 award · $154,052
- 5K99AI192938-02Department: NIH department codeRole of arginine as a metabolic cue during enteric infection$154,052award amount
Reginald A Woods
Leads 1 award · $55,114
- 5F30AI183565-03Department: NIH department codeEvaluating the role of a lipoic acid transfer protein in Staphylococcus aureus metabolism and virulence$55,114award amount
Kaelie Renee Johnson
Leads 1 award · $47,517
- 5F31AI186287-03Department: NIH department codeElucidating the Role of a Staphylococcus aureus Glucosaminidase in the Innate Immune Response.$47,517award 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.
Amelia Kahler Pinto
Co-investigator on 2R56AI150672-05A1, led by Justin Richner
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Kentucky · Biology (NIH department code, 1 award)
James D Brien
Co-investigator on 2R56AI150672-05A1, led by Justin Richner
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.