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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester

Worcester, MA

Funding
$9.4M
$9,387,078
Awards
19
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
19
17 lead a grant here, 2 co-investigators
Department rank
#49
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 Massachusetts Medical School Worcester 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. Samuel M Behar

    Leads 3 awards · $4,034,745

    • 5P01AI181898-03Department: NIH department code
      Systems Genetics of Tuberculosis

      Principal investigators: Christopher M Sassetti (contact PI), Douglas A Lauffenburger (contact PI), Samuel M Behar (contact PI)

      $2,522,495
      award amount
    • 5R01AI192333-02Department: NIH department code
      PROTECTIVE CD8 T CELL RESPONSES to TUBERCULOSIS
      $832,076
      award amount
    • 5R01AI172905-04Department: NIH department code
      Hypoxia, tuberculosis, and T cell dysfunction
      $680,174
      award amount

  2. Christopher M Sassetti

    Leads 1 award · $2,522,495

  3. Douglas A Lauffenburger

    Leads 1 award · $2,522,495

  4. James B Munro

    Leads 3 awards · $1,493,736

    • 5R01AI174645-05Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics and mechanisms of filovirus envelop glycoproteins
      $782,818
      award amount
    • 5R01AI150322-07Department: NIH department code
      Exploring HIV-1 Env open conformations for therapeutic intervention

      Principal investigators: James B Munro (contact PI), Andres Finzi, Marzena Elzbieta Pazgier

      $535,958
      award amount
    • 3R01AI150322-07S1Department: NIH department code
      Exploring HIV-1 Env open conformations for therapeutic intervention

      Principal investigators: James B Munro (contact PI), Andres Finzi, Marzena Elzbieta Pazgier

      $174,960
      award amount

  5. Beth A McCormick

    Leads 1 award · $832,530

    • 2R01DK109677-09A1Department: NIH department code
      Control of Neutrophilic Inflammation in Intestinal Health and Disease
      $832,530
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01AI172987-04, led by Vanni Bucci.

  6. Vanni Bucci

    Leads 1 award · $586,150

    • 5U01AI172987-04Department: NIH department code
      Development of targeted microbiome therapeutics and dietary interventions for potent intestinal barrier promotion to minimize GI-ARS

      Principal investigators: Vanni Bucci (contact PI), Beth A McCormick

      $586,150
      award amount

  7. Ronghua Zhuge

    Leads 1 award · $584,074

    • 5R01HD114722-02Department: NIH department code
      Ion Channels Critical for Uterine Contraction, Reproduction, and Adenomyosis
      $584,074
      award amount

  8. Allan S Jacobson

    Leads 1 award · $577,959

    • 5R35GM148277-04Department: NIH department code
      Translation, targeting, and decay of yeast nonsense-containing mRNAs
      $577,959
      award amount

  9. Rocky Lai

    Leads 1 award · $460,625

    • 1R21AI196552-01Department: NIH department code
      Eliciting Th1/Th17 dual responses for vaccine-induced immunity to tuberculosis
      $460,625
      award amount

  10. Javier Elbio Irazoqui

    Leads 1 award · $435,500

    • 5R35GM149284-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of the gut-brain axis that regulate innate immunity
      $435,500
      award amount

  11. Carol E Schrader

    Leads 1 award · $83,750

    • 1R03AI202886-01Department: NIH department code
      APE1 downregulation promotes somatic hypermutation and predisposes lymphocytes toward apoptosis for selection
      $83,750
      award amount

  12. John Tison Williams

    Leads 1 award · $81,580

    • 5F32AI176649-03Department: NIH department code
      Glutamine Starvation as a Means to Enhance Antibiotic Efficacy against M. tuberculosis
      $81,580
      award amount

  13. Ethan Bailey Loew

    Leads 1 award · $54,303

    • 5F30AG079575-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the regulation of the intestinal epithelium in Alzheimer’s disease by commensal bacteria and the role it plays in preventing neurocognitive decline
      $54,303
      award amount

  14. Matthew P Unger

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31AI191745-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating a hemagglutinin mediated molecular mechanism of avian influenza A virus host tropism
      $50,114
      award amount

  15. Lauren T Shumate

    Leads 1 award · $38,153

    • 1F30AI194794-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Understanding microbial metabolite effects on EBV life cycle B cells and epithelial cells
      $38,153
      award amount

  16. Yin Ming Matthew Wong

    Leads 1 award · $38,153

    • 1F31AI200653-01Department: NIH department code
      Conformational Dynamics in HIV-1 Gag during Viral Maturation
      $38,153
      award amount

  17. Gavin Fujimori

    Leads 1 award · $35,706

    • 5F31AI191705-02Department: NIH department code
      Linking Mycobacterium Tuberculosis infection outcomes with transcriptional networks in genetically diverse mouse macrophages
      $35,706
      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.