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Kay F MacLeod

University of Chicago · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
University of Chicago (no department on record)

From the FY2025 NIH awards this investigator leads as contact PI. The department is the award's.

FY2025 NIH rank #9,401

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Diverse Portfolio

NIH Funding · FY2025

Linked Award Amount

$1.6M

Full award amounts, FY2025

Award Records

Records listing this PI

Award-Linked Rank

#9,401

By linked amount among FY2025 PIs

Earliest Year Loaded

2024

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Award-linked funding history

Linked NIH award amounts and rank by fiscal year.

Linked awards ($M)Award-linked rank

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Award-linked funding and rank by fiscal year
Fiscal year	Linked awards	Records	Rank
2024	$578,662	2	#27,464
2025	$1,577,736	4	#9,401
2026	$6,666,810	5	#1,741

Award activity

Awards through the years

NIH award records listing this researcher in each fiscal year.

FY20242 records
FY2025 · selected4 records
FY20265 records

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Publications

Publications indexed by OpenAlex · 159 papers · Updated Sep 23, 2026

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159 papers · Page 1 of 8

Drug-induced metabolic remodeling promotes antimicrobial activity in macrophages and extends longevity in vivo
Claudia Hollmann, Eun Chan Park, Zheng Liu, Faye Nourollahi, Emils Edgars Basens, Jonathan Dietz · Show all listed authors
Claudia Hollmann, Eun Chan Park, Zheng Liu, Faye Nourollahi, Emils Edgars Basens, Jonathan Dietz, Trushnal S Waghmare, Mehul Vora, Georgy Nikolayshvili, Nanci S. Kane, Tongbin Li, Fabian Imdahl, Kay F. Macleod, Zaiga Nora-Krūkle, Mohamed Mohamed Elashiry, Christopher Rongo, Bhupesh Kumar Prusty
Life Science Alliance · 2026
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eLife Assessment: High basal autophagic activity in the brain revealed by systemic quantitative analysis using GFP-LC3-RFP mice
Kay F. Macleod
Journal or source not listed · 2026
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PGAM1 rheostat in glycolysis and autophagy
Kay F. Macleod
Nature Cell Biology · 2026
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Microenvironmental arginine restriction sensitizes pancreatic cancers to polyunsaturated fatty acids by suppression of lipid synthesis
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Vin‐Cent Wu · Show all listed authors
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Vin‐Cent Wu, Deepa Kumari, Colin S. Sheehan, Mete Emir Özgürses, Darby Agovino, Grace Croley, Lindsey N. Dzierozynski, Chufan Cai, Leah M. Ziolkowski, Smit A. Patel, Althea Bock-Hughes, Kay F. Macleod, Hardik Shah, Jonathan L. Coloff, Evan C. Lien, Alexander Muir
eLife · 2026
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Author response: Microenvironmental arginine restriction sensitizes pancreatic cancers to polyunsaturated fatty acids by suppression of lipid synthesis
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Violet X Wu · Show all listed authors
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Violet X Wu, Deepa Kumari, Colin Sheehan, Mete Emir Özgürses, Darby Agovino, Grace Croley, Lindsey N Dzierozynski, Chufan Cai, Leah M. Ziolkowski, Smit A Patel, Althea Bock-Hughes, Kay F. Macleod, Hardik Shah, Jonathan L. Coloff, Evan C Lien, Alexander Muir
Journal or source not listed · 2026
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Author response: Microenvironmental arginine restriction sensitizes pancreatic cancers to polyunsaturated fatty acids by suppression of lipid synthesis
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Violet X Wu · Show all listed authors
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Violet X Wu, Deepa Kumari, Colin Sheehan, Mete Emir Özgürses, Darby Agovino, Grace Croley, Lindsey N Dzierozynski, Chufan Cai, Leah M. Ziolkowski, Smit A Patel, Althea Bock-Hughes, Kay F. Macleod, Hardik Shah, Jonathan L. Coloff, Evan C. Lien, Alexander Muir
Journal or source not listed · 2026
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Reviewer #2 (Public review): Microenvironmental arginine restriction sensitizes pancreatic cancers to polyunsaturated fatty acids by suppression of lipid synthesis
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Violet X Wu · Show all listed authors
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Violet X Wu, Deepa Kumari, Colin Sheehan, Mete Emir Özgürses, Darby Agovino, Grace Croley, Lindsey N Dzierozynski, Chufan Cai, Leah M. Ziolkowski, Smit A Patel, Althea Bock-Hughes, Kay F. Macleod, Hardik Shah, Jonathan L. Coloff, Evan C Lien, Alexander Muir
Journal or source not listed · 2026
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Reviewer #3 (Public review): Microenvironmental arginine restriction sensitizes pancreatic cancers to polyunsaturated fatty acids by suppression of lipid synthesis
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Violet X Wu · Show all listed authors
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Violet X Wu, Deepa Kumari, Colin Sheehan, Mete Emir Özgürses, Darby Agovino, Grace Croley, Lindsey N Dzierozynski, Chufan Cai, Leah M. Ziolkowski, Smit A Patel, Althea Bock-Hughes, Kay F. Macleod, Hardik Shah, Jonathan L. Coloff, Evan C Lien, Alexander Muir
Journal or source not listed · 2026
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DHHC7 palmitoylates KRAS4A and promotes mutant KRAS-driven pancreatic cancers
W. Chen, George E. Maio, Xiao Chen, Xuan Lü, Jiaqi Zhao, Neha Arora · Show all listed authors
W. Chen, George E. Maio, Xiao Chen, Xuan Lü, Jiaqi Zhao, Neha Arora, Yinong Liu, Leah M. Ziolkowski, Kay F. Macleod, Yong Xin Zhou, Hening Lin
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026
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Abstract A007: ATF4 is required for KRas-driven pancreatic tumorigenesis to suppress early-stage p53 induction
Leah M. Ziolkowski, Tatsuki Ueda, Nicholas Chevrier, Hardik Shah, Kay F. Macleod
Cancer Research · 2025
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Tumor nutrient stress gives rise to a drug tolerant cell state in pancreatic cancer
Colin S. Sheehan, Lyndon Hu, Guillaume Cognet, Grace Croley, Thao Trang Nguyen, Anika T. Thomas-Toth · Show all listed authors
Colin S. Sheehan, Lyndon Hu, Guillaume Cognet, Grace Croley, Thao Trang Nguyen, Anika T. Thomas-Toth, Darby Agovino, Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Leah M. Ziolkowski, James K. Martin, Alica K. Michels, Ranya Dano, Mohammed Amjad Khan, Rasangi Perera, Isabel N. Alcazar, Christopher J. Halbrook, Kay F. Macleod, Hardik Shah, Christopher R. Weber, James L. LaBelle, Alexander Muir
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
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Neuropilin-2 functions as a co-inhibitory receptor to regulate antigen-induced inflammation and allograft rejection
Johannes Wedel, Nora M. Kochupurakkal, Sek Won Kong, Sayantan Bose, Ji‐Won Lee, Madeline Maslyar · Show all listed authors
Johannes Wedel, Nora M. Kochupurakkal, Sek Won Kong, Sayantan Bose, Ji‐Won Lee, Madeline Maslyar, Bayan Alsairafi, Kay F. Macleod, Kaifeng Liu, Hengcheng Zhang, Masaki Komatsu, Hironao Nakayama, Diane Renee Bielenberg, David Michael Briscoe
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
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Reviewer #1 (Public review): Microenvironmental arginine restriction sensitizes pancreatic cancers to polyunsaturated fatty acids by suppression of lipid synthesis
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Violet X Wu · Show all listed authors
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Violet X Wu, Deepa Kumari, Colin Sheehan, Mete Emir Özgürses, Darby Agovino, Grace Croley, Lindsey N Dzierozynski, Chufan Cai, Leah M. Ziolkowski, Smit A Patel, Althea Bock-Hughes, Kay F. Macleod, Hardik Shah, Jonathan L. Coloff, Evan C. Lien, Alexander Muir
Journal or source not listed · 2025
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Microenvironmental arginine restriction sensitizes pancreatic cancers to polyunsaturated fatty acids by suppression of lipid synthesis
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Vin‐Cent Wu · Show all listed authors
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Vin‐Cent Wu, Deepa Kumari, Colin S. Sheehan, Mete Emir Özgürses, Darby Agovino, Grace Croley, Smit A Patel, Althea Bock-Hughes, Kay F. Macleod, Hardik Shah, Jonathan L. Coloff, Evan C. Lien, Alexander Muir
eLife · 2025
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Microenvironmental arginine restriction sensitizes pancreatic cancers to polyunsaturated fatty acids by suppression of lipid synthesis
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Vin‐Cent Wu · Show all listed authors
Patrick B. Jonker, Mumina Sadullozoda, Guillaume Cognet, Juan J Apiz Saab, Kelly H Sokol, Vin‐Cent Wu, Deepa Kumari, Colin S. Sheehan, Mete Emir Özgürses, Darby Agovino, Grace Croley, Lindsey N Dzierozynski, Chufan Cai, Leah M Ziolkowski, Smit A Patel, Althea Bock-Hughes, Kay F. Macleod, Hardik Shah, Jonathan L. Coloff, Evan C. Lien, Alexander Muir
eLife · 2025
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Abstract 3846: BNIP3-dependent muscle atrophy in cancer cachexia promotes PDAC progression
Alexandra Sophia Ware, Elizabeth C. Foster, Kay F. Macleod
Cancer Research · 2025
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Abstract 6664: ATF4 is required for PanIN formation and PDAC via effects on nucleotide metabolism and suppression of p53 activity
Leah M. Ziolkowski, Kay F. Macleod
Cancer Research · 2025
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Dissecting tumor transcriptional heterogeneity from single-cell RNA-seq data by generalized binary covariance decomposition
Yusha Liu, Peter Carbonetto, Jason Willwerscheid, Scott A. Oakes, Kay F. Macleod, Matthew Stephens
Nature Genetics · 2025
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14 citations
eLife assessment: Integrative study of skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction in a murine pancreatic cancer-induced cachexia model
Kay F. Macleod
Journal or source not listed · 2024
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Context-dependent roles for autophagy in myeloid cells in tumor progression
Jayoung Choi, Gayoung Park, Steve Seung-Young Lee, Erin Dominici, Lev Becker, Kay F. Macleod · Show all listed authors
Jayoung Choi, Gayoung Park, Steve Seung-Young Lee, Erin Dominici, Lev Becker, Kay F. Macleod, Stephen J. Kron, Seungmin Hwang
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024
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1 citation

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Researcher identity and coverage

Current affiliation: Not verified in ScienceDex.NIH award organizations may differ from a researcher's employer.
NIH RePORTER identity: Profile ID 7375165Search this ID in NIH RePORTER
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8995-4155Verified identifier for this researcher
ScienceDex PI coverage: FY2024 through FY2026Career claims are limited to the years shown.Metrics use this researcher's latest loaded PI award year; ScienceDex is current through FY2027.

FY2026 award categories

Internal Medicine

FY2025 award records by amount

NIH award records listing Kay F MacLeod as a PI. Multi-PI records show the full award amount for context.

1R01CA294703-01A1R01Contact PI
Role of BNIP3 and mitophagy in muscle atrophy and cancer cachexia
University of Chicago · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
$698.1K
award amount
2T32CA009594-36T32Contact PI
Multi-Disciplinary Training Grant in Cancer Research
University of Chicago · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
$428.7K
award amount
5R01CA200310-08R01Contact PI
BNIP3 and BNIP3L (NIX) in lipid homeostasis and growth control in the liver
University of Chicago · Internal Medicine (NIH department code)
$402.4K
award amount
5P30CA014599-49P30Contact PI
Cancer Center Support Grant
University of Chicago
$48.6K
award amount

Award organization

Organizations that administered FY2025 awards listing Kay F MacLeod as a PI.

FY2025 award administered by University of Chicago (IL).

Coverage and award-record milestones

Computed from the fiscal years currently available in ScienceDex.

2024
First NIH Award
University of Chicago
2024
$500K Cumulative Funding
2025
$1M Cumulative Funding
2025
$2M Cumulative Funding
2025
Entered Top 50% Nationally
Ranked #9401
2025
R01 Grant Holder
2025
Program/Center Grant Leader
2026
$5M Cumulative Funding
2026
Entered Top 25% Nationally
Ranked #1741
2026
Entered Top 10% Nationally
Ranked #1741

Shared-award investigators

Other investigators listed on at least one of the same NIH award records as Kay F MacLeod.

Amittha Wickrema

University of Chicago

shared awards

Benjamin S Glick

University of Chicago

shared awards

Brandon Lee Pierce

University of Chicago

shared awards

Donald Hedeker

University of Chicago

shared awards

George Parsons Langan

University of Chicago

shared awards

Kunle Odunsi

University of Chicago

shared awards

Mark W. Lingen

University of Chicago

shared awards

Mengjie Chen

University of Chicago

shared awards

Russell Z Szmulewitz

University of Chicago

shared awards

Samuel G. Armato

University of Chicago

shared awards

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