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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pediatrics at University of Maryland Baltimore

Baltimore, MD

Funding
$10.4M
$10,392,833
Awards
14
FY2026 NIH awards in Pediatrics
Principal investigators
21
17 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
#44
of 107 · 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 Pediatrics row of the University of Maryland Baltimore page.

Leads a grant in this department

17 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. Marcelo B. Sztein

    Leads 3 awards · $5,091,817

    • 2R01AI036525-25A1Department: NIH department code
      Immune Mechanisms of Protection in Salmonella Infection in Humans
      $2,783,014
      award amount
    • 5U19AI181108-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Mucosal and Systemic Immunity to Vaccination and Infection with Enteric Pathogens in Children and Adults

      Principal investigators: Christian Forst (contact PI), Franklin R. Toapanta (contact PI), Marcelo B. Sztein (contact PI), Rosangela Mezghanni (contact PI), Wilbur H. Chen (contact PI), Won Jin Ho (contact PI)

      $2,002,422
      award amount
    • 5T32AI007524-28Department: NIH department code
      Fellowship Training Program in Vaccinology
      $306,381
      award amount

  2. Christian Forst

    Leads 1 award · $2,002,422

  3. Franklin R. Toapanta

    Leads 1 award · $2,002,422

  4. Rosangela Mezghanni

    Leads 1 award · $2,002,422

  5. Wilbur H. Chen

    Leads 1 award · $2,002,422

  6. Won Jin Ho

    Leads 1 award · $2,002,422

  7. Marcela F Pasetti

    Leads 1 award · $935,160

    • 5R01AI177142-04Department: NIH department code
      O-polysaccharide (OPS)-IpaB Conjugate Vaccine to Prevent Shigellosis
      $935,160
      award amount

  8. Karen L. Kotloff

    Leads 1 award · $927,658

    • 5UM1AI148689-07Department: NIH department code
      Implementing Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit (VTEU) Clinical Site
      $927,658
      award amount

  9. Stefan Hi Kappe

    Leads 1 award · $667,525

    • 7R01AI172824-05Department: NIH department code
      Parasite and host cell factors involved in the formation and persistence of Plasmodium vivax hypnozoites
      $667,525
      award amount

  10. Alexandre Esteves Medina

    Leads 1 award · $566,640

    • 5R01AA031685-02Department: NIH department code
      Effects of Developmental Alcohol Exposure on Primary and Associative Sensory Cortices
      $566,640
      award amount

  11. Jaylyn Waddell Waddell

    Leads 1 award · $510,639

    • 5R01NS122777-05Department: NIH department code
      Targeting mitochondrial Complex I in neonatal hypoxia-ischemia

      Principal investigators: Jaylyn Waddell Waddell (contact PI), Brian M Polster

      $510,639
      award amount

  12. Iqbal Hamza

    Leads 1 award · $397,410

    • 5R01DK074797-15Department: NIH department code
      Inter-organ signaling in heme metabolism and organismal homeostasis.
      $397,410
      award amount

  13. Andrea Berry

    Leads 1 award · $375,244

    • 5R25AI175017-03Department: NIH department code
      Maryland Infection, Immunization, Intervention, and Impact (M4I) Training Program

      Principal investigators: Andrea Berry (contact PI), David J Riedel

      $375,244
      award amount

  14. Shannon Takala Harrison

    Leads 1 award · $337,875

    • 3R01AI181383-03S1Department: NIH department code
      Impact of early childhood malaria prevention on malaria risk at school entry (ERASE)

      Principal investigators: Shannon Takala Harrison (contact PI), Kwaku Poku Asante

      $337,875
      award amount

  15. Matthew Brent Laurens

    Leads 1 award · $228,726

    • 5R01HD119968-02Department: NIH department code
      Cross-disciplinary approach to understanding the long-term impact of HIV exposure in children

      Principal investigators: Matthew Brent Laurens (contact PI), Arox Wadson Kamng'ona

      $228,726
      award amount

  16. Jose M. Lemme

    Leads 1 award · $194,375

    • 1R21AI199072-01Department: NIH department code
      Modeling Bordetella pertussis infection and immunity in human nasal organoids
      $194,375
      award amount

  17. Esther Ndungo

    Leads 1 award · $159,764

    • 1K01AI187720-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining the gastrointestinal immune and microbiome response to shigella infection in children
      $159,764
      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.

  • Brian M Polster

    Co-investigator on 5R01NS122777-05, led by Jaylyn Waddell Waddell

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • David J Riedel

    Co-investigator on 5R25AI175017-03, led by Andrea Berry

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

  • Kwaku Poku Asante

    Co-investigator on 3R01AI181383-03S1, led by Shannon Takala Harrison

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Arox Wadson Kamng'ona

    Co-investigator on 5R01HD119968-02, led by Matthew Brent Laurens

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