New Grant Awards October 2025

Janice Jones Endsley, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, John Sealy School of Medicine

Brendan Prideaux, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, John Sealy School of Medicine

Mark Endsley, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, John Sealy School of Medicine

New four-year National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute research grant award for "C type Lectin Pathway Regulates Macrophage Immune Metabolism in Mtb-Infected Lung"

Kathryn Cunningham, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, John Sealy School of Medicine; Director, Center for Addiction Sciences and Therapeutics

John Allen, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, John Sealy School of Medicine

New two-year National Institute on Drug Abuse exploratory research grant award for “GPR6: A circuit-level druggable target in cocaine use disorder"

Antonio Bianco, MD, PhD
Dean, John Sealy School of Medicine; Senior VP, Health Affairs; Chief Research Officer; Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology

Robert Kruse, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, John Sealy School of Medicine

New National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases multi-year funded exploratory research grant award for "Creation of a transgenic pig model permissive to HBV infection"

Randall Urban, MD
Vice President and Director, Institute for Translational Sciences; Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, John Sealy School of Medicine

Seven-year Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to establish and lead the new Greater Gulf Coast Translational Science Alliance (GGCTSA). Read more from UTMB News.