Funded Research
Funded Research
The Human Microbiome Project has transitioned from Common Fund support. For more information please visit https://commonfund.nih.gov/hmp.
Please note that since the Human Microbiome Project is no longer being supported by the Common Fund, the program website is being maintained as an archive and will not be updated on a regular basis.
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| BUCK, GREGORY ALLEN (contact) JEFFERSON, KIMBERLY KAY STRAUSS, JEROME F |
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | A Multi-omic Analysis of the Vaginal Microbiome during Pregnancy |
| SNYDER, MICHAEL P (contact) WEINSTOCK, GEORGE M |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY | Longitudinal Multiomics Microbial Profiling in Healthy and Disease Individuals |
| XAVIER, RAMNIK J (contact) HUTTENHOWER, CURTIS |
BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. | Characterizing the gut microbial ecosystem for diagnosis and therapy in IBD |
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| BLASER, MARTIN J | NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | Evaluation of the cutaneous microbiome in psoriasis |
| BUCK, GREGORY A. (contact) CORNELISSEN, CYNTHIA NAU EAVES, LINDON J. STRAUSS, JEROME FRANK |
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | The Vaginal Microbiome: Disease, Genetics and the Environment |
| FORTENBERRY, J. DENNIS | INDIANA UNIV-PURDUE UNIV AT INDIANAPOLIS | Urethral Microbiome of Adolescent Males |
| FRASER-LIGGETT, CLAIRE M. (contact) SHULDINER, ALAN R. |
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE | The Thrifty Microbiome: The Role of the Gut Microbiota in Obesity in the Amish |
| FRASER-LIGGETT, CLAIRE M. | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE | Metagenomic Analysis of the Structure and Function of the Human Gut Microbiota in Crohn's Disease |
| LI, ELLEN | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | Effect of Crohn's Disease Risk Alleles on Enteric Microbiota |
| LI, HUIYING | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | Metagenomic study of the human skin microbiome associated with acne |
| PEI, ZHIHENG (contact) NELSON KAREN E |
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | Foregut microbiome in development of esophageal adenocarcinoma |
| RAVEL, JACQUES | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE | The Microbial Ecology of Bacterial Vaginosis: A Fine Scale Resolution Metagenomic |
| SEGRE, JULIE | U.S. NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INST | Atopic Dermatitis and Immunodeficiency |
| STORCH, GREGORY A. | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | The human virome in children and its relationship to febrile illness |
| TARR, PHILLIP I. | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | The Neonatal Microbiome and Necrotizing Enterocolitis |
| VERSALOVIC, JAMES | BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | Pediatric Abdominal Pain and Inflammation |
| WU, GARY D (contact) BUSHMAN, FREDERIC D LEWIS, JAMES D |
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | Diet, Genetic Factors, and Gut Microbiome in Crohns Disease |
| YOUNG, VINCENT B (contact) CHANG, EUGENE B MEYER, FOLKER SCHMIDT, THOMAS M SOGIN, MITCHELL L TIEDJE, JAMES M |
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR | Gut Microbiota in Ulcerative Colitis |
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| BIRREN, BRUCE W | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Defining the Human Microbiome |
| GIBBS, RICHARD (contact) HIGHLANDER, SARAH KATHERINE PETROSINO, JOSEPH FRANK |
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | A Microbial Genome Reference Platform for Metagenomics |
| NELSON, KAREN E | J. CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE, INC. | Construction of A Reference Sequence Data Set For The Human Microbiome Project |
| WEINSTOCK, GEORGE | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | Sequencing the Human Microbiome |
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| CHO, MILDRED K. (contact) SANKAR, PAMELA L. |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY | Toward a Framework for Policy Analysis of Microbiome Research |
| SPICER, PAUL G | UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA NORMAN | Indigenous Communities and Human Microbiome Research |
| HOFFMANN, DIANE E. | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE | Federal Regulation of Probiotics: An Analysis of Existing Regulatory Framework |
| MCGUIRE, AMY LYNN | BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | Ethical, Legal, and Social Dimensions of Human Microbiome Research |
| RHODES, ROSAMOND | MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF NYU | Human Microbiome Research and the Social Fabric |
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| FARRELL, RUTH SHARP, RICHARD R (contact) |
CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COL/MED-CWRU | Patient perceptions of bioengineered probiotics and clinical metagenomics |
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| WHITE, OWEN R | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE | A Quality Assurance, Coordination and Analysis Center for HMP |
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| FREDRICKS, DAVID NEAL | FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | Novel Computational Tools for Studying the Human Microbiome |
| HUTTENHOWER, CURTIS | HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) | Functional Activity and Inter-Organismal Interactions in the Human Microbiome |
| LI, WEIZHONG | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO | Novel Methods for Effective Analysis, Assembly and Comparison of HMP Sequences |
| SCHLOSS, PATRICK DAVID | UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR | Identifying Population-Level Variation in Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal HMP Studies |
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| PACE, NORMAN R | UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER | High Performance Validation and Classification of Metagenomic Ribosomal-RNA Sequences |
| STORMO, GARY D | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AT ST. LOUIS | Exploiting Microbiome Seqeunces for Improved Models of Protein-DNA Interactions |
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| FREDRICKS, DAVID NEAL | FREDRICKS, DAVID NEAL | Novel cultivation methods for the domestication of vaginal bacteria |
| ISMAGILOV, RUSTEM F | UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | Confining single cells to enhance and target cultivation of human microbiome |
| LEWIS, KIM | NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | Culturing uncultivatable gut microorganisms |
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| ALLEN-VERCOE, EMMA | UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH | FACS-MABE: a method to sort and enrich the as-yet uncultured bacterial species from the human distal gut |
| DAVIS, RONALD WAYNE | STANFORD UNIVERSITY | Isolation, selection, and polony amplification of single cells in a gel matrix |
| LIN, XIAOXIA | UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR | Metagenomic dissection of the gut microbiota |
| NELSON, JOHN | GENERAL ELECTRIC GLOBAL RESEARCH CTR | Tools for human microbiome studies |
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| BRADBURY, ANDREW (contact) HAN, CLIFF |
LOS ALAMOS NAT SECTY-LOS ALAMOS NAT LAB | Species-by-Species Dissection of Microbiomes using Phage Display and Flow Sorting |
| PODAR, MIRCEA | UT-BATTELLE, LLC-OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LAB | Targeted genomic characterization of uncultured bacteria from the human microbiot |
| SINGH, ANUP K | SANDIA CORP-SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES | FISH 'N' Chips: A Microfluidic Processor for Isolating and Analyzing Microbes |
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| DOKTYCZ, MITCHEL | UT-BATTELLE, LLC-OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LAB | Functional Sorting of Microbial Cells From Complex Microbiota |
| WORTHEN G. SCOTT | CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | Multi-Dimensional Separation of Bacteria |
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| HAFT, DANIEL H | J. CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE, INC | Algorithmically-Tuned Protein Families, Rule_Base and Characterized Proteins |
| KNIGHT, ROBIN | UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER | New Tools for Understanding the Composition and Dynamics of Microbial Communities |
| POP, MIHAI | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PK CAMPUS | Assembly and analysis software for exploring the human microbiome |
| YE, YUZHEN | INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON | Fragment assembly and metabolic/species diversity analysis for Human microbiome |
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| LO, YU-HWA ZHANG, KUN (contact) |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO | An Integrated lab-on-chip system for genome sequencing of single microbial cells |
| MARZIALI, ANDRE | BOREAL GENOMICS INC. | SCODA DNA extraction to normalize species representation |
| RELMAN, DAVID A | STANFORD UNIVERSITY | Optimization of a microfluidic device for single bacterial cell genomics |
| SCHMIDT, THOMAS MITCHELL (contact) YOUNG, VINCENT B |
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | Cultivation and Characterization of Microaerobes from the Human Microbiome |
| PI Name | Institution Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| CHANG, EUGENE B | UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | Technologies for the discovery of novel human colonic mucosal-associated microbes |
