The National Science Foundation awarded a $749,997 project grant to The Johns Hopkins University from September 2021 through August 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This funding supports collaborative research to develop integrated analysis of single-cell and spatially resolved omics data. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing, communications, and information science through...
This $340,312 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) aims to advance computational methods for large-scale transcriptome profiling. The award supports the development of innovative algorithms to improve the accuracy and scalability of computational methods for assembling and analyzing data from high-throughput RNA sequencing experiments. This work promises to enable more precise measurements of gene expression and...
The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $1.2 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences to study the effects of mechanical stress and phenotype switching on human stem cell-derived vascular smooth muscle cells. The grant was awarded on January 1, 2022 with a completion date of December 31, 2025 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). This program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $992,128 project grant to The Johns Hopkins University from May 2021 through April 2024 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund research into the scope of collateral fitness effects and their mechanisms. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and...
This Project Grant award from the National Human Genome Research Institute (CFDA 93.172 - Human Genome Research) provides $361,069 to The Johns Hopkins University to develop new analytical methods and software tools for unsupervised analysis of multi-sample single cell genomic data. The project aims to address three key challenges: inferring temporal progression of sample phenotype from cross-sectional data, integrating data across samples and modalities, and enabling comparative analysis of...
This $277,308 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant, awarded on May 15, 2025, aims to develop novel computational and statistical methods for analyzing spatially-resolved single-cell genomics data. The overarching goal is to create algorithms that can identify spatial gene expression patterns, uncover changes and interactions within tissue samples, and develop an interactive analysis tool for researchers working with...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $199,895 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to project possible scenarios of COVID-19 in the United States from May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2022. As part of this award, Johns Hopkins will use the funding to conduct research and develop models projecting the spread of COVID-19 domestically, delivering insights to help strengthen the nation's...
This $741,002 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program supports the development of a novel machine learning framework for analyzing large-scale, multi-modal single-cell biological data. The project aims to construct advanced computational tools and user-friendly software to enable more effective extraction of insights and knowledge from complex single-cell datasets spanning genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, and proteomics. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859), provides $380,587 to The Johns Hopkins University to support research on defining the biophysical basis for cell types, cell states, and cellular heterogeneity at single-cell resolution. The goal is to comprehensively understand how the flow of biological information from molecular programs to cellular behaviors and responses defines...
The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $1,004,927 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2025. The grant supports research titled "Probing Phosphorylation Events in Biological Membranes" under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The goal of the Biological Sciences program is to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise by increasing...