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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Funding
$23.8M
$23,823,639
Awards
39
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
38
25 lead a grant here, 13 co-investigators
Department rank
#9
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 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. Brian Patrick Conlon

    Leads 3 awards · $4,518,690

  2. Blossom A Damania

    Leads 3 awards · $3,901,427

    • 5P01CA019014-46Department: NIH department code
      Viral Oncogenesis, Latency, and Replication

      Principal investigators: Blossom A Damania (contact PI), Cary A Moody (contact PI), Dirk P Dittmer (contact PI), Jack D Griffith (contact PI), Nancy Joan Raab-Traub (contact PI)

      $1,936,921
      award amount
    • 4R01CA291437-03Department: NIH department code
      Therapy for Non-Hodgkin lympoma
      $1,319,494
      award amount
    • 5U01CA294800-03Department: NIH department code
      Targeting EBV-associated lymphomas
      $645,012
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01CA163217-15, led by Dirk P Dittmer.

  3. Dirk P Dittmer

    Leads 4 awards · $3,197,791

    • 5P01CA019014-46Department: NIH department code
      Viral Oncogenesis, Latency, and Replication

      Principal investigators: Blossom A Damania (contact PI), Cary A Moody (contact PI), Dirk P Dittmer (contact PI), Jack D Griffith (contact PI), Nancy Joan Raab-Traub (contact PI)

      $1,936,921
      award amount
    • 4U01DE034179-03Department: NIH department code
      Concentration and single virion analysis of the virome
      $466,500
      award amount
    • 5R01CA163217-15Department: NIH department code
      Targeted Therapies for HIV-Associated Kaposi Sarcoma and Lymphoma

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

      $400,156
      award amount
    • 1R21CA305318-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mouse model for solid Epstein-Barr Virus-driven cancers
      $394,214
      award amount

  4. Cary A Moody

    Leads 3 awards · $2,354,831

    • 5P01CA019014-46Department: NIH department code
      Viral Oncogenesis, Latency, and Replication

      Principal investigators: Blossom A Damania (contact PI), Cary A Moody (contact PI), Dirk P Dittmer (contact PI), Jack D Griffith (contact PI), Nancy Joan Raab-Traub (contact PI)

      $1,936,921
      award amount
    • 5R01AI173039-04Department: NIH department code
      Interplay between the cellular DNA damage response and the HPV life cycle
      $395,035
      award amount
    • 3R01AI173039-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Interplay between the cellular DNA damage response and the HPV life cycle
      $22,875
      award amount

  5. Craig E. Cameron

    Leads 3 awards · $1,957,276

    • 5R01AI169462-05Department: NIH department code
      Enteroviral 2C protein as a therapeutic target
      $747,931
      award amount
    • 5R01AI161841-05Department: NIH department code
      Coronavirus Genome Replication

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

      $675,330
      award amount
    • 5R37AI053531-23Department: NIH department code
      Picornavirus Genome Replication
      $534,015
      award amount

  6. Jack D Griffith

    Leads 1 award · $1,936,921

  7. Nancy Joan Raab-Traub

    Leads 1 award · $1,936,921

  8. Sarah Beth Joseph

    Leads 2 awards · $1,595,573

    • 5R01AI176596-04Department: 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
    • 1R21AI200605-01Department: NIH department code
      Continued HIV Production From Infected Macrophage In People On ART

      Principal investigators: Sarah Beth Joseph (contact PI), Shuntai Zhou

      $427,625
      award amount

  9. Kristina De Paris

    Leads 2 awards · $1,516,212

    • 5P01AI178377-04Department: NIH department code
      Determinants of HIV broadly-neutralizing antibody precursor induction in infants

      Principal investigators: Fei Zou (contact PI), Kristina De Paris (contact PI), Sallie R. Permar

      $1,433,195
      award amount
    • 3P01AI178377-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Determinants of HIV broadly-neutralizing antibody precursor induction in infants

      Principal investigators: Kristina De Paris (contact PI), Sallie R. Permar

      $83,017
      award amount

  10. Fei Zou

    Leads 1 award · $1,433,195

    • 5P01AI178377-04Department: NIH department code
      Determinants of HIV broadly-neutralizing antibody precursor induction in infants

      Principal investigators: Fei Zou (contact PI), Kristina De Paris (contact PI), Sallie R. Permar

      $1,433,195
      award amount

  11. Helen Lazear

    Leads 2 awards · $1,366,232

    • 1R01AI203471-01Department: NIH department code
      Viral and host genetic determinants of La Crosse virus neuroinvasive disease
      $771,510
      award amount
    • 5R01AI175708-04Department: NIH department code
      Antiviral and immunomodulatory effects of interferon lambda in the skin
      $594,722
      award amount

  12. Gianpietro Dotti

    Leads 2 awards · $1,220,932

    • 1R01CA307170-01A1Department: NIH department code
      ADCK3 and MAP3K4 as repressors of CAR-T cell stemness
      $631,658
      award amount
    • 5R01CA256898-06Department: NIH department code
      Targeting B7-H3 in ovarian cancer

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

      $589,274
      award amount

  13. Rita Tamayo

    Leads 2 awards · $1,107,335

    • 5R01AI188648-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining the role of phenotypic heterogeneity in Clostridioides difficile fitness
      $607,197
      award amount
    • 5R37AI107029-12Department: NIH department code
      Phase variation of virulence factors in Clostridioides difficile
      $500,138
      award amount

  14. John Justin Milner

    Leads 2 awards · $945,993

    • 5R01AI177864-03Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic regulation of T cell differentiation during infection
      $561,363
      award amount
    • 1R21CA309360-01Department: NIH department code
      Identifying immune-mediated mechanisms of RAS inhibitor efficacy and resistance in pancreatic cancer

      Principal investigators: John Justin Milner (contact PI), John Pacheco Morris

      $384,630
      award amount

  15. Roland M Tisch

    Leads 2 awards · $883,116

    • 5R01DK144744-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of T cell-mediated T1D: The role of T follicular helper cells
      $455,491
      award amount
    • 1R21AI197041-01Department: NIH department code
      Coreceptor therapy-induced de-differentiation of autoreactive Tfh
      $427,625
      award amount

  16. Aravinda M. Desilva

    Leads 1 award · $723,184

    • 5R01AI161025-05Department: 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

  17. Ankit Malik

    Leads 1 award · $682,404

    • 1R01DK148769-01Department: NIH department code
      Food-derived signals orchestrate epithelial-T cell interaction to protect from IBD
      $682,404
      award amount

  18. Nathaniel J Moorman

    Leads 1 award · $553,779

    • 1R01AI195759-01Department: NIH department code
      Translation Regulation during Human Cytomegalovirus Infection
      $553,779
      award amount

  19. Adam Rosenthal

    Leads 2 awards · $428,251

    • 1R21AI193807-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Defining host:microbe interactions driving pro-fibrotic macrophages

      Principal investigators: Adam Rosenthal (contact PI), Janelle C Arthur

      $233,250
      award amount
    • 5R21AI185319-02Department: NIH department code
      Cell specific gene expression in the genesis and dispersal of Vibrio cholerae biofilm

      Principal investigators: Adam Rosenthal (contact PI), Havva Fitnat Yildiz

      $195,001
      award amount

  20. Yisong Wan

    Leads 1 award · $385,072

    • 5R01AI123193-10Department: NIH department code
      Functional protein networks underlying T cell growth, proliferation and differentiation
      $385,072
      award amount

  21. Kuan-Yi Lu

    Leads 1 award · $115,123

    • 5K99AI184675-02Department: NIH department code
      Inside out: Revealing strategies for intracellular S. aureus persister eradication
      $115,123
      award amount

  22. Jacob Choby

    Leads 1 award · $108,000

    • 5K22AI179940-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and parameters controlling gene amplification leading to phenotypic heterogeneity in Enterobacter
      $108,000
      award amount

  23. Amanda Zoyla Velez

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30AI169746-04Department: NIH department code
      Identifying the role of manganese limitation in antibiotic killing of Staphylococcus aureus
      $55,114
      award amount

  24. Abbie Elizabeth Weight

    Leads 1 award · $43,714

    • 1F31AI202949-01Department: NIH department code
      Host and viral factors modulating La Crosse virus pathogenesis
      $43,714
      award amount

  25. Ashley Grace Polson

    Leads 1 award · $37,432

    • 5F31AI194796-02Department: NIH department code
      Determining the efficacy and protective mechanism of a bivalent Chlamydia vaccine
      $37,432
      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.