Formula Grant N629092012013

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory will provide a two-week intensive Synthetic Biology Summer Course from August 2022 through July 2025 under a $515,458 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences. The course aims to introduce scientists to synthetic biology through a combination of practical lectures, open-ended research projects, and seminars led by field experts. Participants will gain hands-on experience with techniques such as cell-free...

The Foundation For Applied Molecular Evolution, Inc. was awarded a $1.2 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SYNTHETIC AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACHES TO SEMI-SYNTHETIC CELLS WITH EXPANDED DNA ALPHABETS" from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant supports research under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to advance fundamental...

This three-year, $2,050,512 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to develop genome transplantation techniques for non-mycoplasma bacteria species. The goal is to remove technical barriers limiting the construction of synthetic cells and establish rules for transplanting isolated synthetic bacterial genomes to produce cells with designed properties. The J. Craig Venter Institute will investigate the mechanism of genome transplantation, develop the technique for at least two...

This $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of hybrid cell-semiconducting polymer systems for high-density biological data storage at William Marsh Rice University. Over the two-year period from August 2022 to July 2025, the university researchers will work to encode 100 bytes of information into synthetic RNA...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program supports research by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to design, build, and test synthetic signaling systems built from computationally-designed de novo protein components. The goal is to develop stable, tunable, and modular signaling systems capable of precisely controlling biological processes, with applications in biotechnology such as engineered cells for...

The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded $1,299,732 to the University of Texas at Austin under a Project Grant to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SYNTHETIC AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACHES TO SEMI-SYNTHETIC CELLS WITH EXPANDED DNA ALPHABETS." The three-year award beginning August 15, 2021 falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the Nation's...

Cornell University received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop a cell-free biosensing platform integrating transmembrane proteins. The award period is from July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. Specifically, the university will utilize recent advances in biotechnology and bioelectronics to establish a process for rapidly assembling customized transmembrane proteins into a biomimetic sensing device without...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $119,859 Project Grant to the University of Rochester under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to host the 2023 NSF/MCB CAREER Awardee Conference. The conference will bring together a diverse cohort of early-career faculty who have received NSF CAREER awards to facilitate knowledge sharing, catalyze cross-disciplinary collaborations, and provide input to NSF on new research frontiers in...

This $3 million National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Texas at Austin to develop synthetic adhesive cells for controlled intracellular delivery. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the three-year award will engineer synthetic cells with user-defined control over molecular transfer between synthetic and live cells. Researchers will build on prior work developing synthetic cells that form adhesive junctions and transfer cargo...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant of $545,000 awarded May 15, 2025, supports research to enhance recombinant protein production in Komagataella pastoris (Pichia pastoris), a food-safe yeast widely utilized in biomanufacturing and biological research. The research will deliver scientific outcomes demonstrating how codon usage patterns can be exploited to maximize recombinant protein expression while simultaneously preserving host cellular...