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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

Funding
$31M
$30,966,892
Awards
67
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
66
49 lead a grant here, 17 co-investigators
Department rank
#4
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 Pittsburgh page.

Leads a grant in this department

49 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. Dario Aa Vignali

    Leads 4 awards · $4,767,363

    • 5P01AI108545-12Department: NIH department code
      Synergies among inhibitory receptors in tolerance and disease

      Principal investigators: Arlene H. Sharpe (contact PI), Dario Aa Vignali (contact PI), E. John Wherry (contact PI)

      $2,747,414
      award amount
    • 5R35CA263850-06Department: NIH department code
      Regulatory T cells and the tumor microenvironment
      $924,879
      award amount
    • 5R01AI144422-08Department: NIH department code
      Structure, Function and Mechanistic Analysis of LAG3

      Principal investigators: Dario Aa Vignali (contact PI), Creg J Workman, Roy A Mariuzza

      $768,273
      award amount
    • 5T32CA082084-25Department: NIH department code
      Cancer Immunology Training Program

      Principal investigators: Dario Aa Vignali (contact PI), Robert J Binder

      $326,797
      award amount

  2. Arlene H. Sharpe

    Leads 1 award · $2,747,414

    • 5P01AI108545-12Department: NIH department code
      Synergies among inhibitory receptors in tolerance and disease

      Principal investigators: Arlene H. Sharpe (contact PI), Dario Aa Vignali (contact PI), E. John Wherry (contact PI)

      $2,747,414
      award amount

  3. E. John Wherry

    Leads 1 award · $2,747,414

    • 5P01AI108545-12Department: NIH department code
      Synergies among inhibitory receptors in tolerance and disease

      Principal investigators: Arlene H. Sharpe (contact PI), Dario Aa Vignali (contact PI), E. John Wherry (contact PI)

      $2,747,414
      award amount

  4. Shou-Jiang Gao

    Leads 4 awards · $2,539,579

    • 5R01CA284554-04Department: NIH department code
      Impact of microbiota on AIDS-Kaposi’s sarcoma development and therapy
      $784,213
      award amount
    • 5R01CA291244-02Department: NIH department code
      METTL16 and S-adenosylmethionine cycle in KSHV infection
      $659,911
      award amount
    • 5R01CA096512-19Department: NIH department code
      Cell model for KSHV infection and genetic manipulation
      $569,387
      award amount
    • 5R01CA278812-04Department: NIH department code
      Citrulline-urea cycle in KSHV cellular transformation
      $526,068
      award amount

  5. Mark J Shlomchik

    Leads 3 awards · $1,724,989

    • 5R01AI043603-24Department: NIH department code
      Murine Memory B cell Development and Function
      $675,922
      award amount
    • 2R01AI105018-11Department: NIH department code
      Signaling and Selection in Germinal Center B cells
      $549,892
      award amount
    • 1R01AI189529-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Genetic and functional dissection of tissue-infiltrating and age-associated B cells in murine lupus

      Principal investigators: Mark J Shlomchik (contact PI), Kevin Nickerson

      $499,175
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R21AI185145-02, led by Rebecca A Elsner.

  6. Harinder Singh

    Leads 2 awards · $1,634,689

    • 3U01HG012041-05S1Department: NIH department code
      Linking genome variation to transcriptional network dynamics in human B cells

      Principal investigators: Harinder Singh (contact PI), Jishnu Das

      $951,639
      award amount
    • 5U01AI179514-03Department: NIH department code
      B and Tfh cell dynamics underlying durable antibody responses to flu vaccine in children

      Principal investigators: Harinder Singh (contact PI), Jishnu Das, John F Alcorn

      $683,050
      award amount

  7. William Francis Hawse

    Leads 2 awards · $1,396,638

    • 1R01AI195443-01Department: NIH department code
      Identifying signaling networks that contribute to Th17-mediated neuroinflammation
      $762,086
      award amount
    • 5R01AI175111-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining how phospholipid signaling networks control Th17 differentiation and effector function
      $634,552
      award amount

  8. Marlies Meisel

    Leads 2 awards · $1,257,717

    • 1R01CA317128-01Department: NIH department code
      Lifestyle as an Adjuvant to Cancer Immunotherapy
      $634,554
      award amount
    • 5R01CA293654-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining mechanisms of how immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated bacteria modulate tumor immunity in cancer
      $623,163
      award amount

  9. Gary Thomas

    Leads 2 awards · $1,256,297

    • 5R01NS123649-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular, Cellular and Behavioral Impact of the R203W PACS1 Syndrome Mutation

      Principal investigators: Gary Thomas (contact PI), Angela M. Gronenborn

      $654,896
      award amount
    • 5R01NS136370-03Department: NIH department code
      Impact of the E209K PACS2 Syndrome mutation on neuronal metabolism and neurotransmission.
      $601,401
      award amount

  10. Reinhard Hinterleitner

    Leads 3 awards · $1,053,950

    • 5R01AI168478-04Department: NIH department code
      Role of gut protists in celiac disease
      $614,423
      award amount
    • 1R21AI199495-01Department: NIH department code
      Microbial regulation of tolerogenic dendritic cells in oral tolerance
      $237,919
      award amount
    • 1R21AI200033-01Department: NIH department code
      Enteric virus-induced innate immune responses in oral tolerance

      Principal investigators: Reinhard Hinterleitner (contact PI), Yi-Nan Gong

      $201,608
      award amount

  11. Haitao Guo

    Leads 2 awards · $998,215

    • 5R01AI134818-07Department: NIH department code
      The Role of HBeAg in HBV Persistence
      $511,721
      award amount
    • 4R33AI179929-03Department: NIH department code
      High throughput screening and preclinical development of HBV cccDNA inhibitors
      $486,494
      award amount

  12. Thomas E. Smithgall

    Leads 2 awards · $975,694

    • 5R01AI152677-07Department: NIH department code
      Chemical Biology of HIV-1 Nef
      $752,696
      award amount
    • 5R21CA291724-02Department: NIH department code
      Discovery and Development of Allosteric Inhibitors of Src-family Kinases for AML
      $222,998
      award amount

  13. Joanne L. Flynn

    Leads 2 awards · $964,070

    • 5R01AI169707-05Department: NIH department code
      Enhancing cytotoxic lymphocytes in a TB vaccine strategy

      Principal investigators: Joanne L. Flynn (contact PI), Philana Ling Lin

      $697,422
      award amount
    • 5T32AI060525-18Department: NIH department code
      Immunology of Infections Disease Renewal 2023
      $266,648
      award amount

  14. James Edward Bina

    Leads 2 awards · $889,942

    • 5R01AI132460-08Department: NIH department code
      Environmental adaptation by Vibrio cholerae
      $477,000
      award amount
    • 1R21AI196813-01Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Virulence by Environmental Signals in the Host
      $412,942
      award amount

  15. Zandrea Ambrose

    Leads 1 award · $790,847

    • 1R01AI195459-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Deciphering HIV-1 Resistance Pathways against Capsid Inhibitors in vitro and in Humanized Mice

      Principal investigators: Zandrea Ambrose (contact PI), Masahiro Yamashita

      $790,847
      award amount

  16. Rebecca A Elsner

    Leads 2 awards · $790,300

    • 5R01AI192598-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the development and regulation of the extrafollicular B cell response as a programmed response type
      $570,476
      award amount
    • 5R21AI185145-02Department: NIH department code
      Investigating B cell central tolerance to a model commensal antigen

      Principal investigators: Rebecca A Elsner (contact PI), Mark J Shlomchik

      $219,824
      award amount

  17. Charles A. Scanga

    Leads 1 award · $776,660

    • 5R01AI179324-04Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Immunogenicity and Efficacy of a Durable BCG Vaccine Strategy Optimized for Preventing TB in Pediatric HIV Infection

      Principal investigators: Charles A. Scanga (contact PI), Lishomwa C Ndhlovu, Shelby L Oconnor

      $776,660
      award amount

  18. Renfeng Li

    Leads 1 award · $691,788

    • 5R01AI187186-02Department: NIH department code
      ASB13 Control of EBV Life Cycle in B Cell and Epithelial Cell Cancers
      $691,788
      award amount

  19. Lawrence P. Kane

    Leads 2 awards · $672,217

    • 5R01CA206517-09Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of PD-1 and Tim-3 crosstalk in tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes

      Principal investigators: Lawrence P. Kane (contact PI), Robert L. Ferris

      $536,631
      award amount
    • 1R03AI196379-01Department: NIH department code
      Generation of a non-cleavable allele of Pik3ip1/TrIP
      $135,586
      award amount

  20. Greg M. Delgoffe

    Leads 1 award · $614,462

  21. Masahiro Shuda

    Leads 1 award · $605,254

    • 5R01AI181892-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of Merkel cell polyomavirus small T antigen in persistent infection
      $605,254
      award amount

  22. Neal A. Deluca

    Leads 1 award · $560,188

    • 5R01AI030612-30Department: NIH department code
      Virus-cell interactions affecting HSV gene expression
      $560,188
      award amount

  23. Abigail E Overacre-Delgoffe

    Leads 1 award · $467,159

    • 5DP2AI177967-04Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting microbiota-driven lymphangiogenesis in immune health and disease
      $467,159
      award amount

  24. Judith Yanowitz

    Leads 1 award · $462,538

    • 6R21HD122393-02Department: NIH department code
      CHD7-dependent regulation of migration and morphogenesis
      $462,538
      award amount

  25. Selene Ingusci

    Leads 1 award · $433,710

    • 1R21AG098360-01Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetically optimized replication-defective Herpes Simplex Virus vectors for multigenic gene therapy in Alzheimer’s disease.
      $433,710
      award amount

  26. Jihong Li

    Leads 1 award · $430,024

    • 1R21AI199213-01Department: NIH department code
      Intestinal interactions between Clostridioides difficile and Clostridium perfringens

      Principal investigators: Jihong Li (contact PI), Bruce A Mc Clane, Francisco A Uzal

      $430,024
      award amount

  27. Ronald J Buckanovich

    Leads 1 award · $429,746

    • 6R01CA278100-05Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating unique aspects of quiescent ovarian cancer cell biology for therapeutic targets
      $429,746
      award amount

  28. Jing Li

    Leads 1 award · $408,829

    • 1R21CA301104-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Immunosuppression mediated by regulatory CD8+ T cells in lung cancers

      Principal investigators: Jing Li (contact PI), Hua Zhang

      $408,829
      award amount

  29. Jeremy Phillip Kamil

    Leads 1 award · $406,993

    • 5R01AI116851-10Department: NIH department code
      Roles of the UL148 glycoprotein in human cytomegalovirus infection
      $406,993
      award amount

  30. Kathy Shair

    Leads 1 award · $405,033

    • 5R01AI168022-05Department: NIH department code
      Epstein-Barr virus molecular pathogenesis in the nasopharynx and the role of LMP1 in lytic infection
      $405,033
      award amount

  31. Rachel A Gottschalk

    Leads 1 award · $397,500

    • 5R35GM146896-05Department: NIH department code
      Quantitative control of phosphorylation and mechanistic links to immune cell decisions
      $397,500
      award amount

  32. Sandra Cascio

    Leads 1 award · $307,558

    • 6R01CA276279-05Department: NIH department code
      The Role of Egfl6 in Tumor Immunity
      $307,558
      award amount

  33. Vaughn Cooper

    Leads 1 award · $268,294

    • 5R25AI180989-04Department: NIH department code
      EvolvingSTEM: a classroom research curriculum in microbiology that helps students see themselves as scientists
      $268,294
      award amount

  34. Alok Joglekar

    Leads 1 award · $223,451

    • 5R21AI190660-02Department: NIH department code
      Identification of post-translationally modified antigens using genetic code expansion
      $223,451
      award amount

  35. Robert J Binder

    Leads 1 award · $211,671

    • 5R21CA286410-02Department: NIH department code
      Co-stimulation of T cell responses to nascent, emerging tumors
      $211,671
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32CA082084-25, led by Dario Aa Vignali.

  36. Andrew William Simonson

    Leads 1 award · $209,408

    • 5K01AI193071-02Department: NIH department code
      Early T cell responses in tuberculosis
      $209,408
      award amount

  37. Dayana Rivadeneira

    Leads 1 award · $185,831

    • 5R21CA296693-02Department: NIH department code
      Neutralizing oxidative damage at telomeres prevents T cell dysfunction and improves adoptive cell therapies against cancer
      $185,831
      award amount

  38. Alexandria Wells

    Leads 1 award · $162,000

    • 1K22AI184586-01Department: NIH department code
      Impact of environmental stress-induced adaptive immune responses on tissue physiology and tumorigenesis.
      $162,000
      award amount

  39. Tingting Duan

    Leads 1 award · $87,148

    • 5F32CA284780-03Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic control of tRNA-mediated translational reprogramming in glioblastoma
      $87,148
      award amount

  40. Hannah Bumgarner

    Leads 1 award · $55,114

    • 5F30CA298391-02Department: NIH department code
      Functional consequences of high glucose culture on adoptive T cell therapies for cancer
      $55,114
      award amount

  41. Kieran Rahim Adam

    Leads 1 award · $53,114

    • 1F31AI194447-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing LAG3 Binding to the TCR/CD3 Complex and LAG3 Ligands that Modulate Immune Response
      $53,114
      award amount

  42. Allison N Casey

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31CA298182-02Department: NIH department code
      Functional Interrogation of Germinal Center Independent Memory B Cells in Head and Neck Cancer
      $50,114
      award amount

  43. Amanda Ha-Young Lee

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31CA318484-01Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing the microbiota metabolite indoleacrylic acid to improve CD8+ T cell-based cancer therapies
      $50,114
      award amount

  44. Anamarie Rita Martinez-Turak

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI201782-01Department: NIH department code
      Linking signaling to gene expression with mechanistic modeling and machine learning
      $50,114
      award amount

  45. Catherine Phelps

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31CA290756-02Department: NIH department code
      Role of physical exercise-induced microbiota changes in immunotherapy resistant preclinical melanoma
      $50,114
      award amount

  46. Georgia Rae Atkins

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 6F31HD114406-04Department: NIH department code
      AAV gene therapy to restore fertility in mammalian Sertoli cell dysfunction models
      $50,114
      award amount

  47. Kellie Spahr

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31CA288000-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the role of altered lipid metabolism in CD8 T cell exhaustion within the tumor microenvironment
      $50,114
      award amount

  48. Samuel Butler

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31CA305882-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Determining the Role of TOX in the Maintenance of CD8+ T cell Exhaustion and Memory Development
      $50,114
      award amount

  49. Stephen Joachim

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI197534-01Department: NIH department code
      Apparent self-tolerance of commensal-specific B cells and their responses to infection
      $50,114
      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.