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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at UT Medical Branch Galveston

Galveston, TX

Funding
$11.7M
$11,677,951
Awards
22
FY2025 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
22
14 lead a grant here, 8 co-investigators
Department rank
#30
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 Medical Branch Galveston page.

Leads a grant in this department

14 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. Laura B Dickson

    Leads 1 award · $2,536,503

    • 1R01AI189734-01Department: NIH department code
      Assessing desiccation tolerance's impact on Aedes aegypti midgut infection
      $2,536,503
      award amount

  2. Nisha Jain Garg

    Leads 3 awards · $1,195,961

    • 2R01AI136031-10A1Department: NIH department code
      Oxidative Response Networks in Chagasic Cardiomyopathy
      $576,843
      award amount
    • 1R21AI173895-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Determining function and mechanism of lncRNA Chast in Trypanosoma cruzi infection and dissemination
      $440,000
      award amount
    • 5R21AI178318-03Department: NIH department code
      Targeting HNF4-induced thrombo-inflammation in Chagas disease
      $179,118
      award amount

  3. Thomas William Geisbert

    Leads 1 award · $1,157,701

    • 5R01AI160226-04Department: NIH department code
      Preclinical development of a vaccine for Nipah virus
      $1,157,701
      award amount

  4. Lynn Soong

    Leads 3 awards · $1,116,604

    • 5R01AI132674-06Department: NIH department code
      Pathogenic Mechanisms of Vascular Dysfunction in Scrub Typhus

      Principal investigators: Lynn Soong (contact PI), Yuejin Liang

      $480,000
      award amount
    • 1R21AI193808-01Department: NIH department code
      Rickettsial CspA proteins and host microRNAs in exosome formation and pathogenesis

      Principal investigators: Lynn Soong (contact PI), Bin Gong

      $440,000
      award amount
    • 5T32AI007526-25Department: NIH department code
      Emerging and Tropical Infectious Diseases
      $196,604
      award amount

  5. Tian Wang

    Leads 3 awards · $936,267

    • 5R01AI176670-03Department: NIH department code
      Porous silicon microparticle-based subunit vaccines for SARS-CoV-2
      $681,312
      award amount
    • 5R21AI178135-02Department: NIH department code
      Novel Hamster Models of Chikungunya Viral Arthritis

      Principal investigators: Tian Wang (contact PI), Zhongde Wang

      $196,407
      award amount
    • 5T35AI078878-15Department: NIH department code
      Infectious Diseases and Inflammatory Disorders Training Program
      $58,548
      award amount

  6. Haitao Hu

    Leads 1 award · $902,028

    • 4R01AI157852-05Department: NIH department code
      Modulation of BRD4 to epigenetically suppress HIV
      $902,028
      award amount

  7. Shinji Makino

    Leads 2 awards · $836,101

    • 1R01AI187192-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigation of RNA packaging in Rift Valley fever virus
      $636,101
      award amount
    • 5R21AI185231-02Department: NIH department code
      Modulation of viral genome packaging in Rift Valley fever virus
      $200,000
      award amount

  8. Ashok K Chopra

    Leads 2 awards · $815,587

    • 5R01AI153524-06Department: NIH department code
      Immunological characterization of rationally-designed vaccines against plague in mice and non-human primate models
      $621,983
      award amount
    • 5T32AI060549-22Department: NIH department code
      Biodefense Training Program

      Principal investigators: Ashok K Chopra (contact PI), Janice J Endsley, Scott C Weaver

      $193,604
      award amount

  9. Janice J Endsley

    Leads 1 award · $788,478

    • 1R01HL181469-01Department: NIH department code
      C type Lectin Pathway Regulates Macrophage Immune Metabolism in Mtb-Infected Lung

      Principal investigators: Janice J Endsley (contact PI), Brendan Prideaux, Mark Endsley

      $788,478
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32AI060549-22, led by Ashok K Chopra.

  10. Keer Sun

    Leads 1 award · $489,965

    • 1R56AI182313-01A1Department: NIH department code
      IFN/SOCS1 signaling during post-influenza bacterial infection
      $489,965
      award amount

  11. Matthieu Gagnon

    Leads 1 award · $375,420

    • 1R35GM158272-01Department: NIH department code
      Structural bases for protein synthesis quality control
      $375,420
      award amount

  12. Scott C Weaver

    Leads 1 award · $248,400

    • 5D43TW012246-04Department: NIH department code
      Training and Research on Arboviruses and Zoonoses In Nigeria and Sierra Leone (TRAIN)

      Principal investigators: Scott C Weaver (contact PI), Nathan Yakubu Shehu, Nikos Vasilakis

      $248,400
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32AI060549-22, led by Ashok K Chopra.

  13. Kenneth Steven Plante

    Leads 1 award · $240,000

    • 1R21NS140036-01Department: NIH department code
      Utilizing a novel hamster model to determine neurologic and behavioral abnormalities of offspring from mothers infected with SARS-CoV-2

      Principal investigators: Kenneth Steven Plante (contact PI), Eliseo A Eugenin

      $240,000
      award amount

  14. Kirsten Littlefield

    Leads 1 award · $38,936

    • 1F31AI191804-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism of Lassa virus-associated sensorineural hearing loss
      $38,936
      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.