Project Grant 2035050
- The University of Virginia received a $416,757 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology on January 1, 2022 for research concluding on December 31, 2025. The grant supports collaborative research titled "Does Cytonuclear Coevolution Drive Reproductive Isolation? Dissecting the Architecture of Genetic Incompatibility Across a Species Range" under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The Biological Sciences program aims to...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University a $297,204 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The grant funds research titled "EAGER: TOPOGRAPHICALLY INDUCED LATERAL ORGANIZATION IN BIOMIMETIC LIPID MEMBRANES" to promote progress in the biological sciences and increase understanding of major...
- This $120,449 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support a coordinated three-campus PhD training and research program in synthetic biology between the University of Tennessee, University of Florida, and Purdue University. The universities will hold three virtual workshops, one hosted by each institution, to design an interuniversity graduate research certificate in synthetic biology. The certificate program will include online...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University a $805,420 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2025. The grant funds collaborative research on chemotactic signaling in Sinorhizobium meliloti symbiotic plant host interaction. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will provide $463,568 in funding to the University of Virginia (UVA) from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The grant will support the training of 30 students over 3 summers (2025-2027) in ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral field research at the Mountain Lake Biological Station in Pembroke, Virginia. Students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities or...
- 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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Virginia, under funding from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), received a $741,544 Project Grant awarded August 1, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2028. Led by Dr. Ahmad Jomaa at the University of Virginia in collaboration with Dr. Simone Mattei at the EMBL Imaging Center in Germany, this research project investigates ribosome...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $457,300 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to identify mRNA dynamics and cis-regulatory elements that support low-noise gene expression in cells. The key objectives of this 3-year grant are to: 1) develop an adequate expression model for genes exhibiting ultra-low noise levels, and 2) survey hundreds of mammalian genes to determine the prevalence of genes...
- The University of New Mexico was awarded a $414,071 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will support collaborative research toward developing lifelike synthetic cells through engineered control of DNA replication from August 15, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program project grant awarded to William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) in the amount of $800,000 will fund the development of a high-throughput approach to build and study synthetic microbial communities. The project aims to create new methods to rapidly construct and understand the interactions within these complex communities of microbes, with the goal of identifying new sources of antibiotics and providing educational and...
The Mid-Atlantic Research Network for Synthetic Biology Project Grant was awarded on April 1, 2021 by the National Science Foundation to support $511,134 in research activities through March 31, 2025. The award falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through increasing scientific knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems. Specifically, the grant will fund the Rector & Visitors Of The University Of Virginia (doing business as the University of Virginia) to conduct basic research at their Newcomb Hall, Virginia location that advances understanding of synthetic biology. Over the four-year period, the university researchers will leverage the funding to study this emerging field and its major scientific questions. The grant thereby aims to contribute to the program's goals of strengthening the Nation's biological research capacity and knowledge base.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 1/19/23 | ||
| Not listed | $0 | 5/20/21 | ||
| Not listed | $511.1k | 4/5/21 |