Vanderbilt University was awarded a $497,806 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024 on "DYNAMIC MOLECULAR SWITCHING FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY ADAPTIVE SURFACES." The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence...
Vanderbilt University was awarded a $526,527 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support research from September 2021 through April 2026 related to scheduling driving, sensing and control nodes in nonlinear networks with applications to fuel-free energy systems. As part of its mission, the NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to foster innovation...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $225,000 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University from March 2021 through February 2024 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant supports collaborative research titled "DYNAMIC REGULATION OF CHO METABOLISM TO OPTIMIZE BIOMANUFACTURING YIELDS AND QUALITY." The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. This award...
This $460,958 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research and education activities focused on programmable cell-matrix interactions for regenerative engineering at Vanderbilt University from April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2028. The funding is provided through NSF's Engineering program under the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number 47.041. Specifically, the grant will advance regenerative engineering approaches by developing a synthetic biology platform to enable...
The National Science Foundation awarded Vanderbilt University a $455,235 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to understand colloidal dynamics under electrodiffusiophoresis. The research aims to uncover the physics governing individual and collective charged colloid motions when subjected to simultaneous gradients of electrical potential and concentration. The university will measure particle forces, perform transport analysis for mechanistic insights, and...
Vanderbilt University received a $260,291 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ADVANCING ROBUST CONTROL AND STATE ESTIMATION OF CONVERTER-BASED POWER SYSTEMS." The two-year award period runs from September 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The research is funded under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's $47.041 Engineering program, which seeks to improve...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop scalable manufacturing processes for engineered extracellular vesicles (EVs) that can serve as targeted drug delivery vehicles. The $2.55M grant to Vanderbilt University, awarded on January 1, 2024, will fund research to harness cellular processes for optimizing EV production, cargo loading, and cellular uptake. The long-term goal is to establish a biomanufacturing platform for...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $422,834 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for research titled "Collaborative Research: Data-Driven Engineering of the Thermotolerant Yeast Kluyveromyces Marxianus." The three-year project period runs from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The award will support applying machine learning and deep learning techniques to metabolic engineering of yeast for...
Vanderbilt University was awarded a $550,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research characterizing and controlling optical and vibrational dynamics of single-photon emitting defects in hexagonal boron nitride. The research aims to advance fundamental understanding of major problems in materials science by increasing knowledge of properties and behaviors of emerging quantum materials....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $246,221 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to Vanderbilt University for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: JOINT CONTROL OF HYDRAULICS AND WATER QUALITY DYNAMICS IN DRINKING WATER NETWORKS." The two-year project beginning October 1, 2021 aims to develop control strategies to optimize water quality and system hydraulics in drinking water distribution networks. As the NSF's Engineering directorate seeks...