The University of Washington was awarded a $465,556 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research from July 2021 through June 2024 to advance mechanistic discovery for materials synthesis across scales using atomically precise cluster building blocks. The work will leverage nanoscale building blocks to synthesize new materials from the atomic to the macroscale. Insights...
The University of Washington was awarded a $700,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to support research titled "CAREER: DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR CONTROLLED CYCLIC POLYMER SYNTHESIS." The grant was awarded on February 1, 2022 under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Through this five-year award ending January 31, 2027, the...
The University of Washington was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "NEW CATALYTIC TRANSFORMATIONS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF ALKENES AND ORGANOBORON COMPOUNDS" from July 15, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant funding will support the University's research efforts to advance the synthesis of alkenes and organoboron compounds...
The University of Washington was awarded a two-year, $249,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the federal Computer and Information Science and Engineering grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support collaborative research on biological production and enzymatic processing methods to develop defect-free, scalable nucleic-acid circuits. The goal is to advance techniques for engineering biological systems at the...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Federal Grant Program, provides $551,717 in funding to the University of Washington for a 3-year project period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The project, led by Professor Frantisek Turecek, focuses on developing new chemical reactions for crosslinking biomolecular ions representing components of proteins and nucleic acids. The research...
The federal Project Grant award of $932,918 from the Defense Health Agency's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) is supporting research at the University of Washington to determine the role of somatic mosaicism in ovarian cancer predisposition. The grant, awarded on September 30, 2024 with an ultimate completion date of September 29, 2028, will enable the University of Washington to conduct innovative scientific studies to improve health outcomes for military...
This federal Project Grant award, with a total obligated amount of $438,249.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The award will support research at the University of Washington (UW) aimed at understanding the mechanisms and biological rationale behind the periodic oscillations observed in cellular metabolites, including ATP and other nucleotides. The research project has four key objectives: 1)...
The University of Washington was awarded a $506,570 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research from August 2021 through July 2025 to design plasmonic nanoparticle assemblies for active nanoscale temperature control through exploiting near- and far-field coupling effects. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goals to strengthen the nation's...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant award to the University of Washington (UW) provides $320,861 in funding from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2030. The project aims to develop tools to read expanded genetic alphabets beyond the standard A, T, G, and C DNA bases, and study how natural biological systems interact with these unnatural DNA letters. Key objectives include improving the accuracy of next-generation sequencing for unnatural base...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) provides $839,700.00 in funding to the University of Washington from August 10, 2024 to July 31, 2029. The research project aims to investigate how protein phosphorylation regulates the organization of the cellular proteome. Specifically, the researchers will: 1) identify phosphorylation sites relevant to protein function at...