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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pathology at UT Medical Branch Galveston

Galveston, TX

Funding
$7.4M
$7,359,760
Awards
15
FY2026 NIH awards in Pathology
Principal investigators
16
11 lead a grant here, 5 co-investigators
Department rank
#40
of 90 · 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 Pathology row of the UT Medical Branch Galveston page.

Leads a grant in this department

11 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. Robert Koehler Abbott

    Leads 2 awards · $1,278,400

    • 5R01AI184768-02Department: NIH department code
      Circularization of RNA to improve the durability of the vaccine immune response

      Principal investigators: Robert Koehler Abbott (contact PI), Alexander Bukreyev

      $798,400
      award amount
    • 5DP2AI154410-05Department: NIH department code
      Revealing the Biophysics of the Germinal Center Microenvironment
      $480,000
      award amount

  2. Jere W McBride

    Leads 2 awards · $920,128

    • 5R01AI192966-02Department: NIH department code
      Ehrlichia modulation of RNA splicing to influence KIRREL1-regulated Hippo signaling
      $520,128
      award amount
    • 5R01AI158422-05Department: NIH department code
      Ehrlichia Notch SLiM-activated oncoprotein inhibition of apoptosis
      $400,000
      award amount

  3. Patricia Veronica Aguilar

    Leads 2 awards · $821,861

    • 1R01AI200246-01Department: NIH department code
      Urbanization potential of Mayaro virus in Peru
      $578,157
      award amount
    • 1R21AI203050-01Department: NIH department code
      Emergence and molecular evolution of Tacaribe virus as a human pathogen
      $243,704
      award amount

  4. Junki Maruyama

    Leads 1 award · $741,005

    • 1R01AI201249-01Department: NIH department code
      Pathogenic mechanisms of Guanarito virus and development of countermeasures against Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever
      $741,005
      award amount

  5. Hema Prasad Narra

    Leads 2 awards · $719,187

    • 1R21AI199805-01Department: NIH department code
      Role of long non-coding RNAs in modulating host immunity and pathogen survival during Orientia infection
      $444,125
      award amount
    • 5R61AI179997-03Department: NIH department code
      Generation of Orientia tsutsugamushi mutant strains for pathogenesis research

      Principal investigators: Hema Prasad Narra (contact PI), Lynn Soong

      $275,062
      award amount

  6. M. Firoze Khan

    Leads 1 award · $718,775

    • 1R01ES037276-01Department: NIH department code
      Understanding the role of gut microbiome in trichloroethene-mediated autoimmunity
      $718,775
      award amount

  7. Heather L Stevenson

    Leads 1 award · $711,020

    • 1K12TR005442-01A1Department: NIH department code
      UTMB CTSA: Greater Gulf Coast Translational Science Alliance (GGCTSA) K12 Scholars Program

      Principal investigators: Heather L Stevenson (contact PI), Bill T Ameredes, Rose Khavari

      $711,020
      award amount

  8. Cheng Huang

    Leads 1 award · $543,436

    • 5R01AI187204-02Department: NIH department code
      New role of NP Exoribonuclease in Lassa virus infection
      $543,436
      award amount

  9. Bin Gong

    Leads 1 award · $463,698

    • 5R01AI184781-02Department: NIH department code
      Pre-clinical studies to repurpose FDA-approved adenosine A2A receptor antagonists for lethal rickettsial infection

      Principal investigators: Bin Gong (contact PI), Yuejin Liang

      $463,698
      award amount

  10. David H Walker

    Leads 1 award · $242,250

    • 1R21AI199344-01Department: NIH department code
      Role of Neutralizing Antibodies and T Lymphocytes in Strain-specific Immunity to Orientia tsutsugamushi
      $242,250
      award amount

  11. Rong Megan Fang

    Leads 1 award · $200,000

    • 5R21AI183177-02Department: NIH department code
      Identification of diagnostic biomarkers for flea-borne typhus
      $200,000
      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.