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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Dermatology at University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

Funding
$3.6M
$3,621,651
Awards
9
FY2026 NIH awards in Dermatology
Principal investigators
10
6 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
#10
of 35 · 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 Dermatology row of the University of Pittsburgh page.

Leads a grant in this department

6 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. Yuri Bunimovich

    Leads 3 awards · $1,745,396

    • 1R01CA302957-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Role of sensory nerves in the regulation of anti-tumor immunity

      Principal investigators: Yuri Bunimovich (contact PI), Brian M Davis

      $665,449
      award amount
    • 5R01CA272946-04Department: NIH department code
      Re-engineering differential regulation of ferroptosis in melanoma microenvironment

      Principal investigators: Yuri Bunimovich (contact PI), Valerian E Kagan, Yulia Nefedova

      $642,352
      award amount
    • 5R01CA266529-04Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Schwann Cells in the Progression of Melanoma
      $437,595
      award amount

  2. Daniel H Kaplan

    Leads 2 awards · $1,094,407

    • 5R01AR083713-03Department: NIH department code
      Intrinsic and Extrinsic factors regulating competition for active TGFb promote skin memory CD8 T cell fitness

      Principal investigators: Daniel H Kaplan (contact PI), Harinder Singh

      $613,646
      award amount
    • 5R01AR071720-10Department: NIH department code
      Immune Functions of Cutaneous Nociceptors
      $480,761
      award amount

  3. Emrullah Korkmaz

    Leads 1 award · $437,250

    • 1R21AI196537-01Department: NIH department code
      Skin-Targeted Metal-Organic Framework-Based Subunit Vaccines
      $437,250
      award amount

  4. Zhaoyang You

    Leads 1 award · $234,370

    • 1R21AI202433-01Department: NIH department code
      Novel In-Clinic Molecular Adjuvant Enhances Antiviral Humoral Immunity of Vaccines Across Sexes
      $234,370
      award amount

  5. Colton Smith

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 1F30AI197374-01Department: NIH department code
      Nonpeptidergic neurons suppress cutaneous inflammation via glutamate release
      $55,114
      award amount

  6. Jacob Gillis

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30AI181455-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining the role(s) of CGRPα during cutaneous antifungal immunity
      $55,114
      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.