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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Microbiology & Immunology at Yale University

New Haven, CT

Funding
$37.5M
$37,545,042
Awards
60
FY2026 NIH awards in Microbiology & Immunology
Principal investigators
51
45 lead a grant here, 6 co-investigators
Department rank
#3
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 Yale University page.

Leads a grant in this department

45 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. John S Tsang

    Leads 2 awards · $5,550,347

  2. Kevan C Herold

    Leads 4 awards · $4,645,838

    • 1P01AI187003-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Pathogenesis and Assessment of Activity in Celiac Disease (CeD)

      Principal investigators: John S Tsang (contact PI), Jordan S Pober (contact PI), Kevan C Herold (contact PI), Marie E Robert (contact PI), Richard A Flavell (contact PI)

      $2,334,896
      award amount
    • 5UG3DK142189-02Department: NIH department code
      Advanced pancreatic-immune organoid models of type 1 diabetes subtypes and therapeutic responses
      $1,181,404
      award amount
    • 5R01DK057846-22Department: NIH department code
      Modulating pathogenic T cells in Type 1 diabetes
      $716,366
      award amount
    • 2T32AI155387-06Department: NIH department code
      Human and Translational Immunology Training Program

      Principal investigators: Kevan C Herold (contact PI), Joseph Edgar Craft

      $413,172
      award amount

  3. Jordan S Pober

    Leads 4 awards · $4,070,029

    • 1P01AI187003-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Pathogenesis and Assessment of Activity in Celiac Disease (CeD)

      Principal investigators: John S Tsang (contact PI), Jordan S Pober (contact PI), Kevan C Herold (contact PI), Marie E Robert (contact PI), Richard A Flavell (contact PI)

      $2,334,896
      award amount
    • 5R01HL169238-03Department: NIH department code
      Optimizing Therapeutic Revascularization by Endothelial Cell Transplantation

      Principal investigators: Jordan S Pober (contact PI), W. Mark Saltzman

      $673,744
      award amount
    • 5R01AI175206-03Department: NIH department code
      Ex Vivo Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Targeted to Human Allograft Endothelium

      Principal investigators: Jordan S Pober (contact PI), W. Mark Saltzman

      $642,639
      award amount
    • 5R01AI166364-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and consequences of antigen-dependent T cell homing for adoptive immunotherapies

      Principal investigators: Jordan S Pober (contact PI), Thomas David Manes

      $418,750
      award amount

  4. Carrie L. Lucas

    Leads 2 awards · $4,055,031

    • 5P01AI179570-02Department: NIH department code
      Predictors and determinants of pediatric immunity (Peds)

      Principal investigators: Andrew James Martins (contact PI), Carrie L. Lucas (contact PI), John S Tsang (contact PI), Liza Konnikova (contact PI), Saquib A Lakhani (contact PI)

      $3,215,451
      award amount
    • 5R01AI185063-02Department: NIH department code
      Orchestration of the antibody response by PI3K-gamma
      $839,580
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5T32AI007019-51, led by David G. Schatz; 3T32AI007019-51S1, led by David G. Schatz.

  5. Richard A Flavell

    Leads 4 awards · $3,900,922

    • 1P01AI187003-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Pathogenesis and Assessment of Activity in Celiac Disease (CeD)

      Principal investigators: John S Tsang (contact PI), Jordan S Pober (contact PI), Kevan C Herold (contact PI), Marie E Robert (contact PI), Richard A Flavell (contact PI)

      $2,334,896
      award amount
    • 1R01CA311426-01Department: NIH department code
      Functions and mechanisms of ILC2s in trained immunity
      $684,252
      award amount
    • 5R01AA031489-02Department: NIH department code
      Non-parenchymalcells drive the key features of alcohol associated hepatitis (AAH) in a fully humanized mouse liver

      Principal investigators: Richard A Flavell (contact PI), Wajahat Zafar Mehal

      $679,061
      award amount
    • 5R21AA031889-02Department: NIH department code
      Explore the role of hepatocyte inflammasome in alcoholic liver disease

      Principal investigators: Richard A Flavell (contact PI), Wajahat Zafar Mehal

      $202,713
      award amount

  6. Ye Grace Chen

    Leads 1 award · $3,385,101

    • 1R01AI203541-01Department: NIH department code
      Defining the Roles of HIV-1 Encoded Circular RNAs During Viral Transcription
      $3,385,101
      award amount

  7. Andrew James Martins

    Leads 1 award · $3,215,451

  8. Liza Konnikova

    Leads 1 award · $3,215,451

  9. Saquib A Lakhani

    Leads 1 award · $3,215,451

  10. Ya-Chi Ho

    Leads 3 awards · $2,515,395

    • 5R01AI174863-04Department: NIH department code
      Understanding HIV-1 persistence in cytotoxic CD4+ T lymphocytes at the single cell level
      $840,074
      award amount
    • 5R01AI183430-03Department: NIH department code
      Understanding HIV-1 persistence and HIV-1-induced inflammation in tissues
      $838,422
      award amount
    • 5R01AI141009-08Department: NIH department code
      Role of clonal expansion in HIV-1 persistence
      $836,899
      award amount

  11. David G. Schatz

    Leads 5 awards · $2,485,417

    • 1R01AI192485-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Transcriptional control of activation induced deaminase (AID) function
      $751,919
      award amount
    • 5R01AI137079-09Department: NIH department code
      Function and Evolutionary Origins of the RAG Endonuclease
      $623,614
      award amount
    • 5R01AI032524-35Department: NIH department code
      Mechanism and Regulation of V(D)J Recombination
      $563,811
      award amount
    • 5T32AI007019-51Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary Immunology Training Program

      Principal investigators: David G. Schatz (contact PI), Carrie L. Lucas

      $329,869
      award amount
    • 3T32AI007019-51S1Department: NIH department code
      Interdisciplinary Immunology Training Program

      Principal investigators: David G. Schatz (contact PI), Carrie L. Lucas

      $216,204
      award amount

  12. Marie E Robert

    Leads 1 award · $2,334,896

  13. Noah Wolcott Palm

    Leads 1 award · $2,004,886

    • 1RF1NS145417-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Commensal microbiota-mediated modulation of Lewy Body Dementia

      Principal investigators: Noah Wolcott Palm (contact PI), Sreeganga S Chandra

      $2,004,886
      award amount

  14. Jorge E Galan

    Leads 3 awards · $1,741,557

    • 2R01AI030492-37Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Type III protein secretion
      $703,484
      award amount
    • 5R01AI055472-33Department: NIH department code
      Host Cell Signaling Pathways Induced by Salmonella
      $605,948
      award amount
    • 1R21CA306936-01Department: NIH department code
      Engineering Salmonella-based Platforms for Immunotherapy Against Immunologically Silent Tumors
      $432,125
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DK133798-05, led by Andrew L Goodman.

  15. Andrew L Goodman

    Leads 2 awards · $1,405,723

    • 5R01DK133798-05Department: NIH department code
      Diet transformation by the microbiome and its impact on bacterial infection

      Principal investigators: Andrew L Goodman (contact PI), Jorge E Galan

      $834,833
      award amount
    • 2R35GM118159-11Department: NIH department code
      Causes and consequences of interpersonal microbial variation
      $570,890
      award amount

  16. Walther H Mothes

    Leads 2 awards · $1,025,242

    • 5R37AI150560-08Department: NIH department code
      HIV-1 Env protein structure and function assessed by parallel smFRET and cryoET
      $773,367
      award amount
    • 1R21AI200662-01Department: NIH department code
      Exploring the structural space underlying antibody-mediated Fc-effector functions
      $251,875
      award amount

  17. Eduardo Groisman

    Leads 2 awards · $1,005,432

    • 5R01AI049561-34Department: NIH department code
      How Regulated Proteolysis Controls Bacterial Virulence
      $543,318
      award amount
    • 1R35GM161339-01Department: NIH department code
      New biological principles governing the fitness of beneficial gut bacteria
      $462,114
      award amount

  18. Carolina Lucas

    Leads 2 awards · $832,377

    • 1R01AI201550-01Department: NIH department code
      Past encounters, Future protection: Harnessing immune imprinting for improved vaccines
      $580,814
      award amount
    • 1R21AI197057-01Department: NIH department code
      Qdenga Vaccine: Assessment of immunogenicity in a longitudinal cohort study
      $251,563
      award amount

  19. Ruslan Medzhitov

    Leads 1 award · $800,776

    • 5R01AI182061-03Department: NIH department code
      Role of IgE in Homeostasis and Disease
      $800,776
      award amount

  20. Joseph David Mougous

    Leads 1 award · $767,869

    • 1R01DE034843-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms underlying the interaction of epibiotic bacteria with their prokaryotic hosts
      $767,869
      award amount

  21. Andres Hidalgo

    Leads 1 award · $735,631

    • 1R01AI190922-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Origin and function of non-canonical CX3CR1+ neutrophils
      $735,631
      award amount

  22. Jun Liu

    Leads 1 award · $710,638

    • 1R01AI198530-01Department: NIH department code
      Sheathed flagellar structures and adaptations in Helicobacter pylori

      Principal investigators: Jun Liu (contact PI), Timothy Randall Hoover

      $710,638
      award amount

  23. Nikhil Joshi

    Leads 1 award · $696,189

    • 1R01CA308125-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating mechanisms of CD8 T cell differentiation in the tumor-draining lymph node
      $696,189
      award amount

  24. David R. Martinez

    Leads 1 award · $662,465

    • 1R01AI189659-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Durable and broad airway immunity through next-generation intranasal boosters
      $662,465
      award amount

  25. Ann M Haberman

    Leads 1 award · $633,482

    • 1S10OD040595-01Department: NIH department code
      Cell sorting flow cytometer with spectral detection
      $633,482
      award amount

  26. Hao Yuan Kueh

    Leads 1 award · $630,234

    • 5R01CA282512-04Department: NIH department code
      Engineering synthetic feedback control in T cell signaling for anti-tumor immunity
      $630,234
      award amount

  27. Joao Pereira

    Leads 1 award · $626,706

    • 5R01AI113040-12Department: NIH department code
      Cellular and molecular analysis of B lymphocyte development and selection
      $626,706
      award amount

  28. Maria Lara-Tejero

    Leads 1 award · $551,847

    • 5R01AI189569-02Department: NIH department code
      Structure and Function of the Salmonella type III secretion sorting platform
      $551,847
      award amount

  29. Hualiang Pi

    Leads 1 award · $502,500

    • 5DP2AI184552-03Department: NIH department code
      The molecular basis of ferrosome organelle biogenesis and its impact on host-microbe interactions
      $502,500
      award amount

  30. Wei Hu

    Leads 1 award · $482,312

    • 1R01CA295942-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Novel Treg inactivating approach for cancer immunotherapy via targeted protein degradation
      $482,312
      award amount

  31. John David MacMicking

    Leads 1 award · $419,896

    • 5R01AI108834-12Department: NIH department code
      GBPs in inflammasome activation and host defense to infection
      $419,896
      award amount

  32. Aman Kumar

    Leads 1 award · $125,809

    • 5K99AI187630-02Department: NIH department code
      Impacts of non-antibiotic medications on microbiome-mediated protection against intestinal pathogens
      $125,809
      award amount

  33. Sachin Bhagchandani

    Leads 1 award · $112,246

    • 5K00CA264404-06Department: NIH department code
      Toward safe, systemic immunotherapies for treatment of metastatic disease: Developing dendritic cell-biased immunomodulators with precise control over magnitude and timing of immune stimulation
      $112,246
      award amount

  34. Xuan Yang

    Leads 1 award · $100,511

    • 5K00CA294168-03Department: NIH department code
      Discovery of Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Cancer Immunotherapy
      $100,511
      award amount

  35. Brianna Duncan-Lowey

    Leads 1 award · $91,500

    • 1K99DK147619-01Department: NIH department code
      Decoding the molecular mediators and consequences of host-microbe interactions in inflammatory bowel diseases
      $91,500
      award amount

  36. Shun-Fat Lau

    Leads 1 award · $90,000

    • 5K99DK144650-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of intestinal injury and enteric nervous system damage by enteric glia
      $90,000
      award amount

  37. Jeffrey Kardas Duncan-Lowey

    Leads 1 award · $58,114

    • 5F30AI181493-03Department: NIH department code
      The role of a Coxiella burnetii effector protein that inhibits RIG-I signaling
      $58,114
      award amount

  38. Adrianna Jones

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI197569-01Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the protective and pathogenic functions of Tbet+CD11c+ B cells in differing inflammatory environments
      $50,114
      award amount

  39. Megha Nair

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI200042-01Department: NIH department code
      Evaluating Neutralizing Immune Responses to the Essential Invasion Protein RIPR across Human Plasmodium Species
      $50,114
      award amount

  40. Neha Arun

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI197926-01Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and cellular features governing antibody Fc-effector functions against HIV-1
      $50,114
      award amount

  41. Nora Therese Nelson

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 1F31AI194800-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the chemical signals that determine dietary xenobiotic metabolism in the gut microbiome
      $50,114
      award amount

  42. Emily Kessler

    Leads 1 award · $38,134

    • 1F30CA310070-01Department: NIH department code
      Unraveling the immunobiology of tumor-specific T follicular helper CD4 T cells
      $38,134
      award amount

  43. Jaspreet Kohli

    Leads 1 award · $35,134

    • 1F30AI197670-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Resilience to Cytokinopathy Flares
      $35,134
      award amount

  44. Anis Barmada

    Leads 1 award · $35,098

    • 5F30AI188889-02Department: NIH department code
      T lymphocyte bystander responses in male-biased myocarditis
      $35,098
      award amount

  45. Wenwei Li

    Leads 1 award · $34,337

    • 5R01AI194920-02Department: NIH department code
      HIV-1 Fusion on Native Membranes Captured by Cryo-Electron Tomography
      $34,337
      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.

  • Sreeganga S Chandra

    Co-investigator on 1RF1NS145417-01A1, led by Noah Wolcott Palm

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • W. Mark Saltzman

    Co-investigator on 5R01HL169238-03, led by Jordan S Pober; 5R01AI175206-03, led by Jordan S Pober

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Wajahat Zafar Mehal

    Co-investigator on 5R01AA031489-02, led by Richard A Flavell; 5R21AA031889-02, led by Richard A Flavell

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads

  • Timothy Randall Hoover

    Co-investigator on 1R01AI198530-01, led by Jun Liu

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Thomas David Manes

    Co-investigator on 5R01AI166364-04, led by Jordan S Pober

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.

  • Joseph Edgar Craft

    Co-investigator on 2T32AI155387-06, led by Kevan C Herold

    From the FY2026 awards this person leads