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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL

Funding
$6.8M
$6,830,022
Awards
15
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
13
11 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#60
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 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.

  1. Teruyuki Sano

    Leads 2 awards · $1,503,997

    • 1R01AI192695-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining the molecular and cellular mechanisms of gut commensal microbiota-specific T cell-mediated intestinal- and neuro-inflammation
      $790,913
      award amount
    • 5R01DK142104-02Department: NIH department code
      Plasticity of Type 3 Innate Lymphoid Cells Regulated by Intestinal Microenvironment
      $713,084
      award amount
  2. Francis Alonzo

    Leads 2 awards · $1,264,821

    • 1R01AI191355-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Bacterial lipases and adaptation to the host lipid environment
      $736,822
      award amount
    • 2R01AI120994-12Department: NIH department code
      Staphylococcus aureus Survival During Nutrient Restriction and Suppression of Host Immunity.
      $527,999
      award amount
  3. Lauren Disterhoft Palmer

    Leads 2 awards · $1,166,446

    • 5R01AI192538-02Department: NIH department code
      Acinetobacter baumannii carbon metabolism during intermicrobial competition in the gut
      $584,096
      award amount
    • 5R01AI189516-02Department: NIH department code
      Microbiota-mediated colonization resistance to Acinetobacter baumannii.
      $582,350
      award amount
  4. Justin Richner

    Leads 1 award · $767,876

    • 2R56AI150672-05A1Department: NIH department code
      Driving Protective Dengue Virus-Specific T and B Cell Responses Through Vaccination

      Principal investigators: Justin Richner (contact PI), Amelia Kahler Pinto, James D Brien

      $767,876
      award amount
  5. Susan R Ross

    Leads 2 awards · $559,156

    • 5R01AI159290-05Department: NIH department code
      The role of TRIM2 and SIRPA in New World Arenavirus entry
      $491,107
      award amount
    • 3R01AI159290-05S1Department: NIH department code
      The role of TRIM2 and SIRPA in New World Arenavirus entry
      $68,049
      award amount
  6. Judith Behnsen

    Leads 1 award · $520,097

    • 5R01AI175223-03Department: NIH department code
      Inter-kingdom interactions of Salmonella Typhimurium and Candida albicans in the gut
      $520,097
      award amount
  7. Yong-Hui Zheng

    Leads 1 award · $399,750

    • 5U01AI175008-04Department: NIH department code
      HIV-1 Env gp160 maturation in the Golgi apparatus
      $399,750
      award amount
  8. Alan McLachlan

    Leads 1 award · $391,196

    • 5R01AI170785-04Department: NIH department code
      Developmental regulation of HBV biosynthesis by Ten-eleven translocation (Tet) methylcytosine dioxygenases
      $391,196
      award amount
  9. Kanchan Jaswal

    Leads 1 award · $154,052

    • 5K99AI192938-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of arginine as a metabolic cue during enteric infection
      $154,052
      award amount
  10. Reginald A Woods

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30AI183565-03Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating the role of a lipoic acid transfer protein in Staphylococcus aureus metabolism and virulence
      $55,114
      award amount
  11. Kaelie Renee Johnson

    Leads 1 award · $47,517

    • 5F31AI186287-03Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the Role of a Staphylococcus aureus Glucosaminidase in the Innate Immune Response.
      $47,517
      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.

  • Amelia Kahler Pinto

    Co-investigator on 2R56AI150672-05A1, led by Justin Richner

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • 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.