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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, TX

Funding
$14.8M
$14,754,524
Awards
24
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
30
18 lead a grant here, 12 co-investigators
Department rank
#32
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 UT MD Anderson Cancer Center page.

Leads a grant in this department

18 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. Susan Bullman

    Leads 2 awards · $2,487,881

    • 4R01CA289812-03Department: NIH department code
      Defining the landscape of bacterial-colonized microniches in tumors and their role in intratumoral heterogeneity.
      $1,827,340
      award amount
    • 1R01CA293361-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Modulation of the tumor microenvironment by Fusobacterium nucleatum and co-infecting microbes in colorectal cancer
      $660,541
      award amount

  2. Liuqing Yang

    Leads 4 awards · $2,319,984

    • 1R01CA299430-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Strategic Modulation of Liver Phenylalanine Metabolism and Neutrophil Kainate Receptor to Influence the Tumor Macroenvironment: Mechanisms and Preclinical Strategies
      $702,683
      award amount
    • 5R01CA285454-03Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating T Cell Ferroptosis in Renal Medullary Carcinoma: 3D Genome Architecture Rewiring and Therapeutic Alleviation

      Principal investigators: Liuqing Yang (contact PI), Pavlos Msaouel, Wenbo Li

      $671,046
      award amount
    • 5R01CA269489-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Bladder Cancer Immunometabolism

      Principal investigators: Liuqing Yang (contact PI), Jianjun Gao

      $480,324
      award amount
    • 5R01HD110520-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanism of long Noncoding RNAs in Phenylketonuria

      Principal investigators: Liuqing Yang (contact PI), Vernon R Sutton

      $465,931
      award amount

  3. Matthew M. Gubin

    Leads 1 award · $1,819,905

    • 4R01CA282027-03Department: NIH department code
      Bhlhe40 Regulation of T Cell Function During Cancer Immunotherapy
      $1,819,905
      award amount

  4. Chunru Lin

    Leads 2 awards · $1,163,569

    • 1R01CA305864-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the Molecular Mechanisms of Immunotherapy-Associated Myocarditis

      Principal investigators: Chunru Lin (contact PI), Javid J Moslehi, Leng Han

      $706,739
      award amount
    • 5R01CA255080-05Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Small Nucleolar RNA Augments Immunotherapeutic Efficacy
      $456,830
      award amount

  5. Dihua Yu

    Leads 2 awards · $999,994

    • 5R01CA266099-05Department: NIH department code
      Exploring the Function of MHC-II/Lag3 Axis in Brain Metastasis to Develop Novel Therapeutic Strategies
      $526,134
      award amount
    • 5R01CA270010-04Department: NIH department code
      Exploring novel strategies for immunoprevention of estrogen receptor negative breast cancer
      $473,860
      award amount

  6. John A. Tainer

    Leads 1 award · $814,230

    • 5R35CA220430-09Department: NIH department code
      Mesoscale and Nanoscale Technologies Integrated by Structures for DNA Repair Complexes (MANTIS-DRC)
      $814,230
      award amount

  7. Laura Beretta

    Leads 1 award · $663,280

  8. Xiaodong Cheng

    Leads 1 award · $660,050

    • 5R35GM134744-07Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic regulations of DNA and histone methylation and deMethylation: Structures and Mechanisms
      $660,050
      award amount

  9. Yair Reisner

    Leads 1 award · $645,186

    • 1R01CA315487-01Department: NIH department code
      Lung cell transplantation for drug induced pulmonary fibrosis in cancer patients

      Principal investigators: Yair Reisner (contact PI), Stefan W Ryter

      $645,186
      award amount

  10. Zhibin Zhang

    Leads 1 award · $577,181

    • 1R01AI192472-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting a New Pyroptotic Mechanism Driven by Gasdermin A Activation
      $577,181
      award amount

  11. Katy Rezvani

    Leads 1 award · $442,146

    • 1R01CA310933-01Department: NIH department code
      NK Cell Engineering to Target Intracellular Antigens in AML

      Principal investigators: Katy Rezvani (contact PI), Jeremy Leon Ramdial

      $442,146
      award amount

  12. Min Gyu Lee

    Leads 1 award · $440,392

    • 5R01CA262324-05Department: NIH department code
      Heterozygous KMT2D Loss and Medulloblastoma
      $440,392
      award amount

  13. Betul Oran

    Leads 1 award · $421,685

    • 1R21CA309007-01Department: NIH department code
      Clonal Evolution and Immune Dysregulation in AML patients treated with Venetoclax and Azacitidine after Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation
      $421,685
      award amount

  14. Min Sup Song

    Leads 1 award · $405,000

    • 5R01CA196740-09Department: NIH department code
      The role of PTEN feedback mechanism in cancer
      $405,000
      award amount

  15. May Daher

    Leads 1 award · $387,156

    • 1R01CA315771-01Department: NIH department code
      Advancing TGFβ-Resistant CAR-NK Cell Therapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

      Principal investigators: May Daher (contact PI), Nicholas Short, Rafet Basar

      $387,156
      award amount

  16. Roza Insafetdinovna Nurieva

    Leads 1 award · $370,575

    • 5R01CA284684-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism-rooted therapeutic strategies for immune-related toxicities induced by checkpoint inhibitors
      $370,575
      award amount

  17. Brian George Morreale

    Leads 1 award · $98,136

    • 4K00CA294065-03Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic Reprogramming of Myeloid Cells to Enhance Cancer Immunotherapy
      $98,136
      award amount

  18. Morgan Nicole Riba

    Leads 1 award · $38,174

    • 5F30CA290816-02Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating Antigen Spread After cDC1 Vaccination
      $38,174
      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.