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FY2025 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Funding
$17.4M
$17,353,956
Awards
32
FY2025 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
28
18 lead a grant here, 10 co-investigators
Department rank
#9
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 Washington University in St. Louis 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. L. David Sibley

    Leads 5 awards · $4,605,846

    • 2R01AI143857-06Department: NIH department code
      Exploiting Diversity-Oriented Chemical Synthesis for Combating Chronic Parasitic Infection

      Principal investigators: L. David Sibley (contact PI), Arnab Kumar Chatterjee

      $1,228,981
      award amount
    • 4R01AI162749-04Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of host cell egress by Toxoplasma gondii
      $1,227,508
      award amount
    • 5R01AI164473-04Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing CDPK1 inhibitors for chronic toxoplasmosis

      Principal investigators: L. David Sibley (contact PI), James W Janetka

      $777,256
      award amount
    • 1R01AI192672-01Department: NIH department code
      Influence of microbial metabolites on mitosome function in Cryptosporidium
      $715,894
      award amount
    • 5R01AI175150-02Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Basis of Host Infectivity by Cryptosporidium
      $656,207
      award amount

  2. Christina Leigh Stallings

    Leads 3 awards · $2,245,974

    • 5R01AI184666-02Department: NIH department code
      Type I IFN-dependent and independent contributions to the outcomes of early innate immune cell interactions during HIV/TB co-infection

      Principal investigators: Christina Leigh Stallings (contact PI), Bryan David Bryson, Joshua T. Mattila

      $872,144
      award amount
    • 5R01AI181316-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of 1,2,4-Triazolyl Compounds and their derivatives as a New Treatment for Tuberculosis

      Principal investigators: Christina Leigh Stallings (contact PI), Sudeshna Roy

      $745,546
      award amount
    • 5R01AI179024-03Department: NIH department code
      Targeting NETosis for the Treatment of Tuberculosis
      $628,284
      award amount

  3. Scott J. Hultgren

    Leads 3 awards · $1,813,018

    • 2R01DK121822-06Department: NIH department code
      Epidemiologic and molecular basis of the gut-urinary tract axis in urinary tract infection

      Principal investigators: Scott J. Hultgren (contact PI), Ashlee Miriam Earl

      $799,639
      award amount
    • 5R01DK051406-26Department: NIH department code
      Impact of Foreign Bodies on Infection Susceptibility, Disease and Mucosal Remodeling of the Urinary Tract

      Principal investigators: Scott J. Hultgren (contact PI), Michael G. Caparon

      $540,879
      award amount
    • 5R37AI048689-25Department: NIH department code
      Pathogenic Fiber Formation in Bacteria: Structural Basis
      $472,500
      award amount

  4. Mario Feldman

    Leads 3 awards · $1,579,880

    • 5R01AI181213-02Department: NIH department code
      Biogenesis of outer membrane vesicles in human gut bacteria
      $733,521
      award amount
    • 5R01AI166359-04Department: NIH department code
      Phenylacetic acid catabolism, a novel stress-response pathway in Acinetobacter baumannii
      $651,984
      award amount
    • 5R21AI181334-02Department: NIH department code
      Acinetobacter baumannii reservoirs within the host
      $194,375
      award amount

  5. Siyuan Ding

    Leads 2 awards · $1,261,509

    • 1R01AI188179-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of VP4 Promoting Rotavirus Cell-to-Cell Transmission and Viral Pathogenesis
      $668,488
      award amount
    • 1R01AI189930-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanistic Investigation of a Rotavirus Auxiliary Protein NSP6 Countering Host Defense
      $593,021
      award amount

  6. Sebla B. Kutluay

    Leads 2 awards · $1,217,086

    • 5R01AI179691-02Department: NIH department code
      Selective packaging and protection of HIV-1 genomic RNAs
      $764,582
      award amount
    • 5R01AI150497-09Department: NIH department code
      Regulation and Targeting of HIV-1 Integrase-RNA Interactions
      $452,504
      award amount

  7. Carolina B. Lopez

    Leads 2 awards · $1,161,167

    • 1R01AI188900-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Long-term impact of persistent parainfluenza virus infection
      $596,115
      award amount
    • 5R01AI137062-08Department: NIH department code
      Defective viral genomes in RSV pathogenesis
      $565,052
      award amount

  8. Michele Leroux

    Leads 2 awards · $894,125

    • 5DP2AI177955-03Department: NIH department code
      Mining the phage playbook to create a potent, generic phage therapy
      $466,500
      award amount
    • 1R21AI183079-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Exploiting the bacteriophage arsenal to discover novel classes of anti-biofilm agents

      Principal investigators: Michele Leroux (contact PI), Courtney Reichhardt

      $427,625
      award amount

  9. Tamara L Doering

    Leads 1 award · $773,053

    • 1R01AI192892-01Department: NIH department code
      Solving the puzzle of beta-1,6-glucan in the cryptococcal cell wall

      Principal investigators: Tamara L Doering (contact PI), Tuo Wang

      $773,053
      award amount

  10. Sean Pj Whelan

    Leads 1 award · $752,346

    • 5R01AI163019-05Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism and Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 Entry

      Principal investigators: Sean Pj Whelan (contact PI), Tomas Kirchhausen

      $752,346
      award amount

  11. Meng Wu

    Leads 1 award · $459,557

    • 5DP2AI184835-02Department: NIH department code
      Exploiting the microbiota-stromal cell axis for microbiota-targeted medicine
      $459,557
      award amount

  12. David Wang

    Leads 1 award · $226,253

    • 5R21AI180837-02Department: NIH department code
      Identification of evolutionarily conserved pro-viral and anti-viral host factors from worms to mammals
      $226,253
      award amount

  13. Usheer Kanjee

    Leads 1 award · $160,117

    • 7R21AI180609-03Department: NIH department code
      Functional characterization of the Plasmodium falciparum invasion ligand bindome
      $160,117
      award amount

  14. Morgan Rose Wilt Timm

    Leads 1 award · $54,538

    • 5F30DK135390-03Department: NIH department code
      Novel therapeutics for treatment of catheter-associated UTI and depletion of the vaginal reservoir
      $54,538
      award amount

  15. Avan Antia

    Leads 1 award · $53,612

    • 5F30AI181285-02Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the role of intestinal M cells in rotavirus enteric infection, systemic dissemination, and pathogenesis
      $53,612
      award amount

  16. Kate Ellen Wardenburg

    Leads 1 award · $36,673

    • 1F30AI189035-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Identifying the role of SPTLC2 in alveolar macrophage population maintenance during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
      $36,673
      award amount

  17. Amanda Nicole Pinski

    Leads 1 award · $36,046

    • 1F31AI191722-01Department: NIH department code
      High throughput identification of bacteriophages and their hosts with single-cell transcriptomics
      $36,046
      award amount

  18. Kyle Dane Gibbs

    Leads 1 award · $23,156

    • 5F32AI186521-02Department: NIH department code
      Activation of the anti-phage defense DarTG by infected E. coli
      $23,156
      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.