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Herman Ford Staats

Professor of Pathology
Pathology
Duke Box 3712, Durham, NC 27710
346M, Davison Building, Trent Drive, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Grants


A Global Syphilis Vaccine Targeting Outer Membrane Proteins of Treponema pallidum

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2024 - 2029

Resources and Workforce Development for the Regional Biocontainment Laboratories

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2028

Duke KURe Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2013 - 2028

Perinatal Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) exposure and Immunotoxicity

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · 2023 - 2028

Mechanistic Evaluation of Mast Cell Agonists Combined with TLR, NOD and STING Agonists

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2023 - 2027

Research Training in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2000 - 2026

A novel vaccination strategy to curb recUTIs

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2023 - 2025

Adjuvant Comparison for Peanut Allergy Immunotherapy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2025

Vaccine Adjuvant Discovery Program

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Montana · 2019 - 2025

CIVICS Component A - Option 5

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2025

Adjuvant Comparison for Peanut Allergy Immunotherapy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2025

Developing RNA Vaccines to Treat Peanut Hypersensitivity

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2023 - 2025

Interdisciplinary Research Training Program in AIDS

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2025

Basic Immunology Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

Gonorrhea Vaccine Cooperative Research Center (GV-CRC); Core C: Host Response Monitoring

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Henry M. Jackson Foundation · 2019 - 2025

Intranasal M7 and CpG nanoparticulate adjuvant for subunit COBRA vaccination in mice and ferrets

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Georgia · 2023 - 2024

Bacteriophage virus-like particle vaccines for fentanyl and heroin overdose

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of New Mexico · 2021 - 2024

Duke CTSA (TL1) Year 5

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2024

Supramolecular peptide immunotherapies for peanut allergy

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2024

Rational Design of Transferrin Binding Protein-based Vaccines to Combat Gonorrhea

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Georgia State University · 2019 - 2023

Transmission electron microscope (TEM)

EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2021

Developing a SARS-CoV-2 subunit vaccine for nasal immunization

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2020 - 2021

Design and Engineering of VesiVax HIV Immunogen Formulations

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Molecular Express, Inc. · 2020 - 2021

Evaluation of Conjugated VesiVax Formulations for HIV Vaccines

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Molecular Express, Inc. · 2020 - 2021

Evaluation of VesiVax Adjuvant Formulations for HIV Vaccines

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Molecular Express, Inc. · 2019 - 2021

Immunotherapy to combat skin infections

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2021

Adjuvant Discovery Program (Option #3)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2020

Self-replicating RNA Vaccine for HIV-1 Delivered using a Nanoparticle Adjuvant Formulation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by PAI Life Sciences · 2019 - 2020

Novel Adjuvants and Carriers for Opiod Vaccines

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2020

Organization and Function of Cellular Structure

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1975 - 2020

Core C: Monitoring Host Response

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Henry M. Jackson Foundation · 2014 - 2020

Adjuvant Discovery Program (Option #2)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2019

Development of a Peanut Allergy Immunotherapy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Molecular Express, Inc. · 2017 - 2019

Rational design of transferrin binding protein-based vaccines to combat gonorrhea

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Virginia Commonwealth University · 2017 - 2019

Pregnant rabbits as a model to evaluate the causative role of ZIKV infection in the etiology of congenital malformations

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2018

Selection of a VesiVax vaccine for West Nile Virus

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Molecular Express, Inc. · 2017 - 2018

Understanding the Mechanism of Mucosal Immunotherapy

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2012 - 2018

Serial Block Face Scanning Electron Microscope

EquipmentMinor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2018

Overcoming Immunosenescence by Nanoparticle-Mediated Activation

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Columbia University · 2017 - 2018

Adjuvant Discovery Program (Option #1)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2017

Innate immune adaptations of hibernation as a new approach to protection against acute organ injury

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists · 2015 - 2017

Mucosal vaccination to protect against HIV-1 infection at mucosal sites

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2017

Adjuvant Discovery Program

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2017

Study protocol 8. TrichGuard and TrichGuard V5L LCM project (Option B)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. · 2016 - 2016

Development of VesiVax Carbohydrate Conjugation Chemistry

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Molecular Express, Inc. · 2013 - 2015

Evaluation of the nasal adjuvant activity of angiotensin peptide Ang-(1-7)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2015

Overcoming Immunosenescence by Nanoparticle-Mediated Activation

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2014

Core C: Immunology

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2009 - 2014

Development of Efficacious and Stable Nasal Vaccine Formulations

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2014

Sublingual Immunotherapy for Peanut Allergy

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2008 - 2013

Nasal adjuvant to enhance anti-cocaine vaccines

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2011 - 2013

Enterotoxin targeting and delivery mechanisms

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2012

Understanding the Mechanism of Mucosal Immunotherapy

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2007 - 2012

Development of Efficacious Vaccine Against UTI's

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2008 - 2011

Nasal Vaccines: Mode of Action, Composition & Delivery

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2011

Small cationic antimicrobial peptides: activators of innate & adaptive immunity

ResearchCo-Program Leader · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2008 - 2010

Alternative Endpoints for Plague Challenge Models

ResearchConsultant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2004 - 2008

Novel Oral Adjuvant for Dental Vaccines

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2004 - 2008

Mast Cell Activator as Adjuvant for Biodefense Vaccines

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2005 - 2007

A Universal Env Immunogen for all HIV-1 Subtypes

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2006

NCRR FACSAria Cell Sorter

EquipmentCo Investigator · Awarded by National Center for Research Resources · 2004 - 2006

Detection of in vivo ETEC vesicle production

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2006

Immunogenicity of an HIV virus-like particle vaccine

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2006

Epitope specificity of vaccine-induced anti-HIV IgG and IgA

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2003

Aids Research

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1989 - 2002

External Relationships


  • Mastezellen Bio Inc.
  • NIH
  • Vaccine Injury Compensation Program https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html

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