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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, VA

Funding
$6M
$6,008,116
Awards
16
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
15
11 lead a grant here, 4 co-investigators
Department rank
#65
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 Virginia Commonwealth University 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. Jason A Carlyon

    Leads 4 awards · $2,057,817

    • 5R01AI139072-09Department: NIH department code
      The roles of ceramide and its derivatives in A. phagocytophilum pathogenesis

      Principal investigators: Jason A Carlyon (contact PI), Charles E. Chalfant

      $721,608
      award amount
    • 5R01AI167857-05Department: NIH department code
      Orientia tsutsugamushi Ank-host interactions in scrub typhus pathogenesis
      $571,945
      award amount
    • 5R37AI072683-20Department: NIH department code
      The roles of Anaplasma phagocytophilum surface proteins in infection
      $497,347
      award amount
    • 5R61AI179996-03Department: NIH department code
      Development of genetic tools for Orientia tsutsugamushi
      $266,917
      award amount

  2. Huiping Zhou

    Leads 2 awards · $1,646,632

    • 4R01DK139587-03Department: NIH department code
      Circular RNAs in Cholestatic Liver Diseases
      $1,123,570
      award amount
    • 5R01AA030180-04Department: NIH department code
      Sphingolipids in alcoholic liver disease

      Principal investigators: Huiping Zhou (contact PI), Phillip B Hylemon

      $523,062
      award amount

  3. Richard T Marconi

    Leads 1 award · $669,937

  4. Rebecca Kelley Martin

    Leads 1 award · $591,431

    • 5R01HL162991-04Department: NIH department code
      Metabolic perturbations in conventional dendritic cells modulate Tfh13 induction in asthmatic sensitization
      $591,431
      award amount

  5. Daniel Patrick Miller

    Leads 1 award · $356,994

    • 5R01DE033722-03Department: NIH department code
      Two-component signaling systems of Treponema denticola
      $356,994
      award amount

  6. Juan Manuel Inclan Rico

    Leads 1 award · $248,998

    • 4R00AI187730-02Department: NIH department code
      Contributions of itch-sensing neurons to skin anti-helminth immunity
      $248,998
      award amount

  7. Paige Allen

    Leads 2 awards · $218,209

    • 1K99AI199056-01Department: NIH department code
      Orientia tsutsugamsuhi promotes interplay between circadian rhythm and hypoxic responses
      $138,861
      award amount
    • 5F32AI174656-03Department: NIH department code
      Multifunctional roles of an Orientia tsutsugamushi nucleomodulin
      $79,348
      award amount

  8. Travis Joseph Chiarelli

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32AI183749-03Department: NIH department code
      Anaplasma phagocytophilum exploitation of regulated exocytosis.
      $79,348
      award amount

  9. Sareh Bayatpour

    Leads 1 award · $48,530

    • 1F31DK146714-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Circular RNA and Immune Regulation in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: Unraveling Novel Mechanisms
      $48,530
      award amount

  10. Hongkun Lu

    Leads 1 award · $45,406

    • 1F30AA033246-01Department: NIH department code
      The circRNA-Sphingolipid Axis: A Novel Driver of Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease.
      $45,406
      award amount

  11. Colin G Hawkes

    Leads 1 award · $44,814

    • 5F31DE033920-03Department: NIH department code
      Characterization of Selenomonas sputigena invasion, intracellular life cycle, and exocytosis in gingival epithelial cells.
      $44,814
      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.