Project Grant R44MH119094

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Scripps Research Institute received a $276,000 project grant from the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. The award supports the expansion of BioThings as a community application programming interface (API) gateway designed to enhance the accessibility and interoperability of biomedical knowledge. The project delivers a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) to Northeastern University provides $300,000 to develop a guide for ethical and effective practices for statistical graphics. The project aims to create guidelines that will help scientists across STEM disciplines communicate their research findings transparently, honestly, and mindfully through data visualizations. The project involves interviews with practitioners and ethicists, as well as...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Scripps Research Institute received a $608,652 Project Grant award dated September 1, 2025, from the National Institute on Drug Abuse under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to conduct data mining and functional validation of SCORCH (Single Cell Omics Research Center for HIV) datasets through May 31, 2030. The research initiative will deliver comparative analysis of cell type-specific gene regulatory networks derived from human and...

This $103,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund research to improve science communication via results-blind selection of studies. Over a three-year period from May 2023 to April 2026, the University of Alabama will test whether selecting scientific studies for journalism coverage based on research methods rather than results can enhance trust in science reporting and the research itself. In three related studies, the University...

The National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded a $648,138 Project Grant to American University under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of January 15, 2021 through December 31, 2023. The grant funds the Collaborative Research: CIBR: The OpenBehavior Project to develop a database of open source tools used for the study of behavior and neuroscience. Drs. Laubach of American University and Kravitz of Washington University in St....

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded a $5.0M Cooperative Agreement to New York University School of Medicine under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) on February 16, 2026, with completion scheduled for January 31, 2031. In partnership with SAGE Bionetworks, NYU will establish the NYU-SAGE New Approach Methodologies (NAMS) Data Hub and Coordinating Center (NDHCC) to create an interoperable data ecosystem that...

The National Science Foundation awarded Indiana University a $370,093 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to develop strategies for effective science communication using social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant will fund a mixed-methods study examining how scientists have used Twitter and Reddit to interact with the public on COVID-19 topics and identify best practices for two-way online engagement. Researchers will analyze social media...

This $575,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund the development of a data-driven framework for studying scientific consensus and debate. Over a three-year period from August 2022 to July 2025, researchers at Northeastern University will create a corpus of exemplar scientific debates by analyzing millions of published documents. They will then develop and validate quantitative indicators of debate at the topic level,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $211,813 project grant to the University of Southern California (USC) for the "Collaborative Research: GEO OSE TRACK 1: Facilitating Reproducible Open Geoscience" project. This grant is funded under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which focuses on expanding fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. The...

This $536,250 Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), supports computational method development to advance single-cell transcriptomic data analysis. Awarded to Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, California, the project runs from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027 and develops knowledge-guided algorithms designed to improve the detection and...