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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Oklahoma City, OK

Funding
$10.2M
$10,176,815
Awards
14
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
20
19 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
#46
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 Oklahoma Health Sciences Center page.

Leads a grant in this department

19 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. Mark L Lang

    Leads 2 awards · $5,242,071

    • 5P20GM103447-26Department: NIH department code
      Oklahoma IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence

      Principal investigators: Darrin R. Akins (contact PI), David W Dyer (contact PI), Mark L Lang (contact PI), Michael T Kinter (contact PI)

      $3,926,903
      award amount
    • 5U19AI174994-04Department: NIH department code
      Advancing a second generation C. difficile vaccine

      Principal investigators: Jimmy D. Ballard (contact PI), Mark L Lang (contact PI), Maureen Cox (contact PI)

      $1,315,168
      award amount

  2. Darrin R. Akins

    Leads 1 award · $3,926,903

  3. David W Dyer

    Leads 1 award · $3,926,903

  4. Michael T Kinter

    Leads 1 award · $3,926,903

  5. Jimmy D. Ballard

    Leads 2 awards · $3,468,665

  6. Kathryn Young Burge

    Leads 1 award · $2,153,497

  7. Kurt A Zimmerman

    Leads 1 award · $2,153,497

  8. Robyn Stacey Kent

    Leads 1 award · $2,153,497

  9. Sree Deepthi Muthukrishnan

    Leads 1 award · $2,153,497

  10. Maureen Cox

    Leads 2 awards · $1,869,579

    • 5U19AI174994-04Department: NIH department code
      Advancing a second generation C. difficile vaccine

      Principal investigators: Jimmy D. Ballard (contact PI), Mark L Lang (contact PI), Maureen Cox (contact PI)

      $1,315,168
      award amount
    • 5R01AI187329-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining the interaction between adrenergic nerves and immune memory
      $554,411
      award amount

  11. Karla K Rodgers

    Leads 2 awards · $649,401

    • 5R01AI168175-04Department: NIH department code
      DNA sequence selectivity in conventional and aberrant V(D)J recombination
      $416,400
      award amount
    • 1T32AI200946-01Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary training in immunity and microbial infection

      Principal investigators: Karla K Rodgers (contact PI), Rodney K. Tweten

      $233,001
      award amount

  12. Kevin Michael Brown

    Leads 1 award · $463,290

    • 1R01AI198553-01Department: NIH department code
      Efficacy of targeting GAPM3 to block acute and chronic Toxoplasma gondii infections
      $463,290
      award amount

  13. Bao Gia Vu

    Leads 1 award · $393,250

    • 5R35GM160442-02Department: NIH department code
      Dynamics of Fungal Stress Responses in the Host Environment
      $393,250
      award amount

  14. Jason Larabee

    Leads 1 award · $357,500

    • 5R01AI185203-03Department: NIH department code
      Targeting chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4 (CSPG4) expression as a Clostridioides difficile therapeutic
      $357,500
      award amount

  15. Lauren A Zenewicz

    Leads 1 award · $178,750

    • 1R21AI193667-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Determining the role of the cytokine interleukin-22 (IL-22) in SARS-CoV-2 infection
      $178,750
      award amount

  16. Jessica Morgan Cady

    Leads 1 award · $47,914

    • 1F31AI197827-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of T cell-derived acetylcholine during Influenza A Virus infection
      $47,914
      award amount

  17. Tristan C. Sanford

    Leads 1 award · $47,542

    • 5F31AI189149-02Department: NIH department code
      Human gut Bacteroidales defense mechanisms against emerging antibacterial toxins
      $47,542
      award amount

  18. Jocelyn Labombarde

    Leads 1 award · $47,191

    • 5F30HL176087-03Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Lymphatic Endothelial Cell- Expressed Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor 1 on Immune Cell Trafficking and Response to Influenza Virus
      $47,191
      award amount

  19. Morgan E. Smith

    Leads 1 award · $41,998

    • 1F31DK146691-01Department: NIH department code
      Role of interferon gamma in injury accelerated cystic kidney disease
      $41,998
      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.