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FY2024 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Funding
$16.3M
$16,255,701
Awards
39
FY2024 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
36
25 lead a grant here, 11 co-investigators
Department rank
#15
of 124 · 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 North Carolina at Chapel Hill page.

Leads a grant in this department

25 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. Craig E. Cameron

    Leads 3 awards · $1,686,216

    • 5R01AI169462-03Department: NIH department code
      Enteroviral 2C protein as a therapeutic target
      $747,931
      award amount
    • 5R37AI053531-21Department: NIH department code
      Picornavirus Genome Replication
      $534,015
      award amount
    • 5R01AI045818-25Department: NIH department code
      RNA-dependent RNA Polymerase

      Principal investigators: Craig E. Cameron (contact PI), Jamie Jon Arnold

      $404,270
      award amount
  2. Brian Patrick Conlon

    Leads 2 awards · $1,468,379

    • 1R01AI179695-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Calprotectin and Antibiotic Activities at the Infection Interface

      Principal investigators: Brian Patrick Conlon (contact PI), Thomas Everett Kehl-Fie

      $784,059
      award amount
    • 5R01AI173004-02Department: NIH department code
      Diabetes and Antibiotic Treatment Failure

      Principal investigators: Brian Patrick Conlon (contact PI), Lance R. Thurlow

      $684,320
      award amount
  3. Peggy A Cotter

    Leads 4 awards · $1,327,672

    • 5R01AI153160-04Department: NIH department code
      Cooperative roles of FHA and ACT in Bordetella virulence
      $536,082
      award amount
    • 5R35GM136533-05Department: NIH department code
      Contact-dependent signaling and DNA transposition in Burkholderia
      $388,750
      award amount
    • 1R21AI180112-01Department: NIH department code
      Uncovering the two-partner secretion mechanism and novel antimicrobials

      Principal investigators: Peggy A Cotter (contact PI), Matthew Thomas Doyle

      $211,500
      award amount
    • 5R21AI177818-02Department: NIH department code
      Identifying the Bordetella PlrSR regulon

      Principal investigators: Peggy A Cotter (contact PI), Robert B. Bourret, Steve Julio

      $191,340
      award amount
  4. Sarah Beth Joseph

    Leads 1 award · $1,167,948

    • 5R01AI176596-02Department: NIH department code
      Identifying Roadblocks to Antigen Expression and Enhancing Killing of HIV-Infected Cells That Are Refractory to Clearance

      Principal investigators: Sarah Beth Joseph (contact PI), Nancie Marie Archin

      $1,167,948
      award amount
  5. Aravinda M. Desilva

    Leads 2 awards · $1,136,812

    • 5R01AI161025-03Department: NIH department code
      Structure based design of dengue subunit vaccines for inducing protective but not disease enhancing antibodies

      Principal investigators: Aravinda M. Desilva (contact PI), Brian A Kuhlman

      $723,184
      award amount
    • 5U24AI152170-05Department: NIH department code
      Multiplex serological assays to support arbovirus diagnosis, surveillance and vaccines

      Principal investigators: Aravinda M. Desilva (contact PI), Premkumar Lakshmanane

      $413,628
      award amount
  6. Dirk P Dittmer

    Leads 3 awards · $1,125,440

    • 5R01CA250080-05Department: NIH department code
      PQ6: Transgenic Mouse Model for Kaposi Sarcoma
      $492,087
      award amount
    • 5R01CA163217-13Department: NIH department code
      Targeted Therapies for HIV-Associated Kaposi Sarcoma and Lymphoma

      Principal investigators: Dirk P Dittmer (contact PI), Blossom A Damania

      $400,103
      award amount
    • 1U01DE034179-01Department: NIH department code
      Concentration and single virion analysis of the virome
      $233,250
      award amount
  7. Blossom A Damania

    Leads 2 awards · $1,080,518

    • 1U01CA294800-01Department: NIH department code
      Targeting EBV-associated lymphomas
      $645,012
      award amount
    • 1R01CA291437-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Therapy for Non-Hodgkin lympoma
      $435,506
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA163217-13, led by Dirk P Dittmer.

  8. Gianpietro Dotti

    Leads 2 awards · $1,028,960

    • 5R01CA256898-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting B7-H3 in ovarian cancer

      Principal investigators: Gianpietro Dotti (contact PI), Linda Van Le

      $556,817
      award amount
    • 5R01CA247436-04Department: NIH department code
      Tuning CAR-T cell function
      $472,143
      award amount
  9. Helen Lazear

    Leads 2 awards · $983,472

    • 5R01AI175708-02Department: NIH department code
      Antiviral and immunomodulatory effects of interferon lambda in the skin
      $594,722
      award amount
    • 5R01AI170625-03Department: NIH department code
      Host Factors Controlling Neuroinvasive Flavivirus Pathogenesis
      $388,750
      award amount
  10. Rita Tamayo

    Leads 2 awards · $872,453

    • 1T32GM152779-01Department: NIH department code
      UNC Initiative for Maximizing Student Development

      Principal investigators: Rita Tamayo (contact PI), Ashalla Magee Freeman, Thomas L. Kash

      $639,203
      award amount
    • 1R21AI186221-01Department: NIH department code
      Determinants of Clostridioides difficile colony dimorphism
      $233,250
      award amount
  11. Yisong Wan

    Leads 2 awards · $768,120

    • 5R01AI123193-08Department: NIH department code
      Functional protein networks underlying T cell growth, proliferation and differentiation
      $385,283
      award amount
    • 5R01AI160774-04Department: NIH department code
      TGF-b superfamily signaling in controlling Th17 cell function in autoimmune neuroinflammation
      $382,837
      award amount
  12. Daniel Matute

    Leads 1 award · $636,617

    • 5R01AI153523-04Department: NIH department code
      The evolution of virulence in the fungal pathogen Histoplasma
      $636,617
      award amount
  13. John Justin Milner

    Leads 1 award · $565,557

    • 1R01AI177864-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic regulation of T cell differentiation during infection
      $565,557
      award amount
  14. Cary A Moody

    Leads 1 award · $412,647

    • 5R01AI173039-02Department: NIH department code
      Interplay between the cellular DNA damage response and the HPV life cycle
      $412,647
      award amount
  15. Jack D Griffith

    Leads 1 award · $337,197

    • 5R01ES031635-05Department: NIH department code
      R-loops at the telomere as a toxic source of genomic instability
      $337,197
      award amount
  16. Janelle C Arthur

    Leads 1 award · $328,933

    • 5R01DK124617-05Department: NIH department code
      Microbiota-mediated fibrotic remodeling in the inflamed intestine
      $328,933
      award amount
  17. Robert B. Bourret

    Leads 1 award · $263,902

    • 2R01GM050860-26A1Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Signal Transduction by Two-Component Regulatory Systems
      $263,902
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R21AI177818-02, led by Peggy A Cotter.

  18. Sarah Elizabeth Rowe

    Leads 1 award · $233,250

    • 1R21AI180407-01Department: NIH department code
      Application of palmitoleic acid to potentiate antibiotic efficacy
      $233,250
      award amount
  19. Matthew C Wolfgang

    Leads 1 award · $223,417

    • 5R21AI174088-02Department: NIH department code
      Impact of hyperglycemia on the pathogenesis of chronic bacterial lung infection

      Principal investigators: Matthew C Wolfgang (contact PI), Lance R. Thurlow

      $223,417
      award amount
  20. Kristina De Paris

    Leads 1 award · $195,770

    • 5R21AI168980-02Department: NIH department code
      Vaccine-induced SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell responses in patients with X-linked Agammaglobulinemia
      $195,770
      award amount
  21. Roland M Tisch

    Leads 1 award · $194,375

    • 5R21AI166876-02Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing antigen-based therapy for T1D by T cell coreceptor tuning
      $194,375
      award amount
  22. Dylan Plaskon

    Leads 1 award · $74,284

    • 1F32AI181516-01Department: NIH department code
      Rho dependent regulation of Clostridioides difficile virulence
      $74,284
      award amount
  23. Wolfgang Beckabir

    Leads 1 award · $53,974

    • 5F30CA278317-02Department: NIH department code
      Effects of entinostat and neoantigen vaccination on bladder cancer
      $53,974
      award amount
  24. Kelly Shea Olsen

    Leads 1 award · $49,270

    • 5F30CA268748-03Department: NIH department code
      Minor Histocompatibility Antigen T Cell Targeting in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
      $49,270
      award amount
  25. Amanda Zoyla Velez

    Leads 1 award · $40,518

    • 5F30AI169746-02Department: NIH department code
      Identifying the role of manganese limitation in antibiotic killing of Staphylococcus aureus
      $40,518
      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.

  • Nancie Marie Archin

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI176596-02, led by Sarah Beth Joseph

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

  • Lance R. Thurlow

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI173004-02, led by Brian Patrick Conlon; 5R21AI174088-02, led by Matthew C Wolfgang

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

  • Thomas Everett Kehl-Fie

    Co-investigator on 1R01AI179695-01A1, led by Brian Patrick Conlon

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Brian A Kuhlman

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI161025-03, led by Aravinda M. Desilva

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Ashalla Magee Freeman

    Co-investigator on 1T32GM152779-01, led by Rita Tamayo

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

  • Thomas L. Kash

    Co-investigator on 1T32GM152779-01, led by Rita Tamayo

    From the FY2024 awards this person leads

  • Linda Van Le

    Co-investigator on 5R01CA256898-04, led by Gianpietro Dotti

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

  • Premkumar Lakshmanane

    Co-investigator on 5U24AI152170-05, led by Aravinda M. Desilva

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

  • Jamie Jon Arnold

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI045818-25, led by Craig E. Cameron

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

  • Matthew Thomas Doyle

    Co-investigator on 1R21AI180112-01, led by Peggy A Cotter

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

  • Steve Julio

    Co-investigator on 5R21AI177818-02, led by Peggy A Cotter

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