Cooperative Agreement FA86512320001

This $250,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Project Grant supports the development of artificial substrates for growing human stem cells suitable for clinical applications at Oakland University from March 2023 to February 2025. The goal is to accelerate the potential benefits of using human pluripotent stem cells and their derivatives for treating and curing diseases by producing a synthetic substrate that supports growth of human pluripotent stem cells...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is supporting a collaborative research effort focused on developing an intelligent lab-on-chip device to monitor and promote the maturation of stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. The $192,150 award to the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) aims to create an integrated system that can non-invasively evaluate cardiomyocyte maturity in real-time and adaptively apply electrical and mechanical...

The National Science Foundation awarded Ireprogram, LLC a $256,000 Project Grant under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. The grant supports an STTR Phase I project to develop autologous hematopoietic stem cell production techniques to treat graft-versus-host disease. The STTR program seeks small business innovation research and development through public-private partnerships. This award will allow Ireprogram to research stem cell therapies with the goal of ending this...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to American Prime Sustainable Solutions LLC supports the development and evaluation of the Crop Ecosystem Monitoring, Analysis, and Prediction (CropMap) tool. The goal of this STTR Phase I project is to enhance agricultural productivity and sustainability by optimizing resource management and decision-making through advanced monitoring and predictive analytics of crop...

This $125,805 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop new cell sorting technologies that can identify and separate cells based on changes in the activity of naturally occurring light-emitting molecules like NAD(P)H. The goal is to enable label-free, rapid identification and purification of cell populations, with a focus on stem cells and their functional subsets. The research will create a single cell deposition module to...

The U.S. Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $279,400 Project Grant to Stem Innovations LTD, a woman-owned small business located in Hamilton, Ohio. The award is part of the ONR's Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) Education, Outreach and Workforce Program (CFDA 12.330), which supports educational initiatives to cultivate a diverse, skilled STEM workforce aligned with naval technological needs. The grant will fund a 3-year external evaluation...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Science Foundation under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, supports a $942,765 project titled "EXPLORATIONS: ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND MICROELECTRONICS TO EMPOWER YOUTH AGING OUT OF FOSTER CARE". The effort, led by the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida TECH), a private university and non-profit organization, aims to provide foster youth aging out of the system with technical skills and career guidance in...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $253,702 to the University of Wyoming to conduct fundamental research on developing plant-inspired growing robots for long-duration monitoring missions in complex, dynamic environments. The research objectives are to enable new robotic structures, motions, and energy harvesting capabilities by abstracting capacities from plants, such as distributed movements, adaptation to ambient...

This $559,342 project grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) aims to promote meaningful collaboration in a STEM + Medicine learning ecosystem. The project seeks to address the challenge of equitable resource allocation and underrepresentation of minoritized learners in STEM fields by fostering a STEM learning ecosystem that brings together secondary teachers in under-resourced schools and local STEM professionals. The research team will employ an...

This Project Grant award of $165,331 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research conducted by Cankdeska Cikana Community College (also known as Little Hoop Community College) to evaluate the impact of microbial inoculants on the yield of Lakota winter squash and Hidatsa red beans, two culturally important crops for the Spirit Lake Nation. The study aims to advance knowledge on plant-microbe interactions and sustainable agriculture...