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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, TX

Funding
$16M
$16,000,561
Awards
22
FY2025 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
26
17 lead a grant here, 9 co-investigators
Department rank
#12
of 111 · 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

17 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. Roza Insafetdinovna Nurieva

    Leads 2 awards · $3,001,147

    • 1R01AI183604-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Role of GRAIL in B cell tolerance and B-cell mediated inflammation
      $2,630,572
      award amount
    • 5R01CA284684-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism-rooted therapeutic strategies for immune-related toxicities induced by checkpoint inhibitors
      $370,575
      award amount

  2. Honami Naora

    Leads 1 award · $2,638,738

    • 1R01CA296000-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Impact of aging on metastatic competence of the omentum
      $2,638,738
      award amount

  3. Katy Rezvani

    Leads 1 award · $1,847,485

    • 1R01CA303579-01Department: NIH department code
      Advancing next-generation CAR-NK therapies targeting CD5 positive T cell malignancies to the clinic

      Principal investigators: Katy Rezvani (contact PI), May Daher, Rafet Basar

      $1,847,485
      award amount

  4. Liuqing Yang

    Leads 3 awards · $1,637,813

    • 5R01CA285454-02Department: 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
    • 5R01CA269489-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of Bladder Cancer Immunometabolism

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

      $493,870
      award amount
    • 5R01HD110520-03Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanism of long Noncoding RNAs in Phenylketonuria

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

      $472,897
      award amount

  5. Dihua Yu

    Leads 2 awards · $999,994

    • 5R01CA266099-04Department: NIH department code
      Exploring the Function of MHC-II/Lag3 Axis in Brain Metastasis to Develop Novel Therapeutic Strategies
      $526,134
      award amount
    • 5R01CA270010-03Department: NIH department code
      Exploring novel strategies for immunoprevention of estrogen receptor negative breast cancer
      $473,860
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R21CA286318-02, led by Yi Xiao.

  6. John A. Tainer

    Leads 1 award · $814,230

    • 2R35CA220430-08Department: NIH department code
      Mesoscale and Nanoscale Technologies Integrated by Structures for DNA Repair Complexes (MANTIS-DRC)
      $814,230
      award amount

  7. Min Sup Song

    Leads 2 awards · $775,575

    • 5R01CA196740-08Department: NIH department code
      The role of PTEN feedback mechanism in cancer
      $405,000
      award amount
    • 5R01CA258100-05Department: NIH department code
      Targeting m6A RNA epigenetics in treatment-emergent neuroendocrine prostate cancer
      $370,575
      award amount

  8. Laura Beretta

    Leads 1 award · $663,299

  9. Xiaodong Cheng

    Leads 1 award · $660,050

    • 2R35GM134744-06Department: NIH department code
      Epigenetic regulations of DNA and histone methylation and deMethylation: Structures and Mechanisms
      $660,050
      award amount

  10. Susan Bullman

    Leads 1 award · $620,787

    • 5R01CA289812-02Department: NIH department code
      Defining the landscape of bacterial-colonized microniches in tumors and their role in intratumoral heterogeneity.
      $620,787
      award amount

  11. Matthew M. Gubin

    Leads 1 award · $606,635

    • 5R01CA282027-02Department: NIH department code
      Bhlhe40 Regulation of T Cell Function During Cancer Immunotherapy
      $606,635
      award amount

  12. Chunru Lin

    Leads 1 award · $459,875

    • 5R01CA255080-04Department: NIH department code
      Targeting Small Nucleolar RNA Augments Immunotherapeutic Efficacy
      $459,875
      award amount

  13. Min Gyu Lee

    Leads 1 award · $440,392

    • 5R01CA262324-04Department: NIH department code
      Heterozygous KMT2D Loss and Medulloblastoma
      $440,392
      award amount

  14. George Liwei Chen

    Leads 1 award · $358,605

    • 1R21CA303350-01Department: NIH department code
      A Pilot Study to Correlate 4-[18F]fluoro-1-naphthol PET/CT Imaging with Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease Manifestations

      Principal investigators: George Liwei Chen (contact PI), David Piwnica-Worms

      $358,605
      award amount

  15. Yuan-Hung Lo

    Leads 1 award · $249,000

    • 5R00CA263014-05Department: NIH department code
      Functional characterization of novel oncogenic loci driving progression and immune response in gastrointestinal cancer
      $249,000
      award amount

  16. Yi Xiao

    Leads 1 award · $189,338

    • 5R21CA286318-02Department: NIH department code
      Exploring new strategy for breast cancer immunoprevention by targeting histamine receptor H1

      Principal investigators: Yi Xiao (contact PI), Dihua Yu

      $189,338
      award amount

  17. Morgan Nicole Riba

    Leads 1 award · $37,598

    • 1F30CA290816-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating Antigen Spread After cDC1 Vaccination
      $37,598
      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.