This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC25K7141, is a $49,300 grant provided by the Shared Services Center (an agency of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university located in Troy, New York. The grant will fund a 3-day hybrid workshop in Spring 2025 in Washington, DC that will bring together experts from various disciplines, including prebiotic chemistry, origin of life, and astrochemistry, to explore...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC20K1726, was made by the Shared Services Center (a civilian agency) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university located in Troy, New York. The 2-year, $387,863.27 grant is for a project to study the process of amyloid fibril formation at gas-liquid interfaces with imposed shear. No set-aside designation was used for this award.
In addition to this grant, RPI holds a notable Other Transaction (OT) Indefinite Delivery...
This is a $437,506 grant award to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for research on abiotic RNA polymerization in early Earth environments. The research aims to investigate plausible pathways for the emergence of life on Earth and potential implications for extraterrestrial life, focusing on the challenge of achieving prebiotically feasible RNA polymerization. The project will explore alternative, more general and robust...
This federal contract award, valued at $426,783.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university located in Troy, New York. The award is a grant for research focused on understanding how spaceflight factors, including microgravity and space radiation, affect somatic stem cell-based tissue regeneration. This research is critical for...
This federal contract award, with the identification number 80NSSC20K0307, was granted to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university located in Troy, New York. The $44,000 grant is for research aimed at elucidating the global impact of environmental stressors on biological systems in the spaceflight environment. The award is part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) GeneLab data repository program, which supports hypothesis-driven spaceflight...
This federal contract award, valued at $75,000.00, was issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university. The contract is a firm fixed-price purchase order with an ultimate completion date of August 18, 2020. The contract does not utilize a set-aside designation, indicating RPI's competitive capabilities in securing federal contracts.
RPI is a well-established institution with expertise in science,...
This is a $243,899.00 grant award from the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university. The award funds space biology research addressing the Space Biology Program's core research questions, focusing on cell and molecular biology. The award does not utilize a set-aside designation, reflecting RPI's strong capabilities in securing federal research contracts and grants. RPI has a...
This federal contract award, valued at $195,920.61, was granted to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university located in Troy, New York. The contract, awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, is a grant for research focused on investigating the causes of failures in loop heat pipes commonly used in satellites and space systems.
The contract does not utilize a set-aside designation, indicating that RPI was selected competitively based on its...
This federal contract award, valued at $563,851.19, was granted to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university located in Troy, New York. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for the characterization and application of cryogenic power semiconductors in lightweight, fault-tolerant systems for lunar missions. The contract is a grant for research and is funded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency within the federal government. RPI...
This federal contract award to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university, is for the "Diffractive Interferero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER): Detecting and Characterizing All Earth-Like Exoplanets Orbiting Sun-Like Stars Within 10 PC" project. The $172,013 grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will fund research to develop a new exoplanet detection and characterization technology. The project aims to enable...