Microbiology & Immunology at University of Pennsylvania

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. Sunny Shin

   Leads 2 awards · $3,686,569

   • 1R01AI194573-01Department: NIH department code

     Defining human and mouse non-canonical inflammasome responses to LPS

     Principal investigators: Sunny Shin (contact PI), Igor E Brodsky

     $3,204,624

     award amount
   • 5R01AI118861-10Department: NIH department code

     Innate immune-mediated control of pulmonary Legionella pneumophila infection
     $481,945

     award amount

2. Michael R Betts

   Leads 3 awards · $1,538,309

   • 5R01AI176597-03Department: NIH department code

     Multiomic strategies to assess HIV reservoir persistence
     $844,008

     award amount
   • 5R01AI184285-02Department: NIH department code

     Early interventions at ART initiation to reduce the HIV-1 reservoir and enhance adaptive immune responses

     Principal investigators: Michael R Betts (contact PI), Brad R Jones, Ole Schmeltz Søgaard

     $545,151

     award amount
   • 3R01AI184285-02S1Department: NIH department code

     Early interventions at ART initiation to reduce the HIV-1 reservoir and enhance adaptive immune responses

     Principal investigators: Michael R Betts (contact PI), Brad R Jones, Ole Schmeltz Søgaard

     $149,150

     award amount

3. James L. Riley

   Leads 2 awards · $1,529,994

   • 5R01DK132725-04Department: NIH department code

     Engineering T cells to Promote Islet Transplant

     Principal investigators: James L. Riley (contact PI), Ali Naji

     $771,158

     award amount
   • 5R01AI167061-03Department: NIH department code

     Eliminating the latent reservoir by targeted in vivo delivery of HIV-specific CARs

     Principal investigators: James L. Riley (contact PI), Hamideh Parhiz

     $758,836

     award amount

4. Susan R Weiss

   Leads 2 awards · $1,282,166

   • 5R01AI169537-04Department: NIH department code

     Human coronavirus infection of the nasal epithelium

     Principal investigators: Susan R Weiss (contact PI), Noam A Cohen

     $730,697

     award amount
   • 5R01AI140442-08Department: NIH department code

     Betacoronaviruses: activation and antagonism of host innate immune responses
     $551,469

     award amount

5. Modupe Coker

   Leads 1 award · $953,985

   • 5R01DE032216-04Department: NIH department code

     HPV, HIV and Oral Microbiota Interplay in Nigerian Youth (HOMINY)

     Principal investigators: Modupe Coker (contact PI), Nosayaba Osazuwa-Peters

     $953,985

     award amount

6. Norbert Pardi

   Leads 1 award · $803,514

   • 2R01AI153064-05A1Department: NIH department code

     Lipid nanoparticle adjuvants for mRNA vaccines: composition-function relation and mechanism of action

     Principal investigators: Norbert Pardi (contact PI), Michela Locci

     $803,514

     award amount

7. Jun Zhu

   Leads 1 award · $754,348

   • 5R01AI178908-03Department: NIH department code

     The role of a bifunctional mucinase in modulating personalized gut microbiota-Vibrio cholerae interactions during infection

     Principal investigators: Jun Zhu (contact PI), Ansel Hsiao

     $754,348

     award amount

8. Jianxin You

   Leads 2 awards · $751,046

   • 5R01CA187718-09Department: NIH department code

     Merkel cell polyomavirus infection, host response, and viral oncogenic mechanism
     $379,327

     award amount
   • 5R01CA284690-03Department: NIH department code

     Targeting MCPyV oncogene transcription to suppress tumorigenesis
     $371,719

     award amount

9. Georgios Hajishengallis

   Leads 2 awards · $725,500

   • 5R01DE031206-04Department: NIH department code

     Trained innate immunity and periodontitis-associated comorbidities
     $373,750

     award amount
   • 5R37DE026152-10Department: NIH department code

     Local endogenous regulators of functional immune plasticity in the periodontium
     $351,750

     award amount

10. Michela Locci

    Leads 1 award · $624,919

    • 5R01AI168312-04Department: NIH department code

      Regulation of germinal center responses by SARS-CoV-2 messenger RNA vaccines
      $624,919

      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 2R01AI153064-05A1, led by Norbert Pardi.

11. Flavia Rocha Teles

    Leads 1 award · $621,437

    • 5R01DE033033-02Department: NIH department code

      Defining Dysbiosis and Mechanisms of Periodontitis Progression and Stability

      Principal investigators: Flavia Rocha Teles (contact PI), Kyle Bittinger

      $621,437

      award amount

12. Kellie Ann Jurado

    Leads 1 award · $556,002

    • 5R01AI180138-02Department: NIH department code

      IL-27 is a protective cytokine during congenital infection
      $556,002

      award amount

13. Christoph Alexander Thaiss

    Leads 1 award · $487,904

    • 5R01NS134976-02Department: NIH department code

      Intestinal regulation of exercise performance

      Principal investigators: Christoph Alexander Thaiss (contact PI), John Nicholas Betley

      $487,904

      award amount

14. Michael C. Abt

    Leads 1 award · $468,900

    • 5R01AI158830-05Department: NIH department code

      Investigating Immune-Microbiome interactions during treatment of Clostridioides difficile with fecal microbiome transplantation
      $468,900

      award amount

15. Mikel David Haggadone

    Leads 1 award · $78,040

    • 1F32HL178024-01Department: NIH department code

      Dietary regulation of inflammasome-mediated host defense by branched-chain amino acid metabolism
      $78,040

      award amount

16. Suhas Bobba

    Leads 1 award · $75,052

    • 1F32AI186538-01A1Department: NIH department code

      Role of Intestinal Epithelial Cells in Controlling Local and Systemic Yersinia Infection through IL-1 Signaling
      $75,052

      award amount

17. Brittany Marie Miller

    Leads 1 award · $58,530

    • 5F32AI176810-03Department: NIH department code

      Regulation of the intestinal colonization niche by epithelial cell death
      $58,530

      award amount

18. Austin Kriews

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31AI194926-01Department: NIH department code

      Tracking B cell:Antigen Interactions for HIV-1 Vaccine Development
      $49,538

      award amount

19. Emily Frances Daley

    Leads 1 award · $49,538

    • 1F31AI191656-01Department: NIH department code

      Enhancing responses to mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccines via utilization of endogenous lipid function
      $49,538

      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.

• Igor E Brodsky

  Co-investigator on 1R01AI194573-01, led by Sunny Shin

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • University of Pennsylvania · Veterinary Sciences (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Nosayaba Osazuwa-Peters

  Co-investigator on 5R01DE032216-04, led by Modupe Coker

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • Duke University · Otolaryngology (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Ali Naji

  Co-investigator on 5R01DK132725-04, led by James L. Riley

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • University of Pennsylvania · Surgery (NIH department code, 3 awards)

• Hamideh Parhiz

  Co-investigator on 5R01AI167061-03, led by James L. Riley

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • University of Pennsylvania · Pharmacology (NIH department code, 1 award)

• Ansel Hsiao

  Co-investigator on 5R01AI178908-03, led by Jun Zhu

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • University of California Riverside · Other Basic Sciences (NIH department code, 2 awards)

• Noam A Cohen

  Co-investigator on 5R01AI169537-04, led by Susan R Weiss

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

• Brad R Jones

  Co-investigator on 5R01AI184285-02, led by Michael R Betts; 3R01AI184285-02S1, led by Michael R Betts

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

• Ole Schmeltz Søgaard

  Co-investigator on 5R01AI184285-02, led by Michael R Betts; 3R01AI184285-02S1, led by Michael R Betts

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

• Kyle Bittinger

  Co-investigator on 5R01DE033033-02, led by Flavia Rocha Teles

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

• John Nicholas Betley

  Co-investigator on 5R01NS134976-02, led by Christoph Alexander Thaiss

  From the FY2025 awards this person leads

  • University of Pennsylvania · Biology (NIH department code, 1 award)