This $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology supports research investigating the uptake, persistence, and impact of behavioral interventions on respiratory viruses. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the Pennsylvania State University will model the dynamics of COVID-19 and influenza transmission considering behavioral changes mandated by public health interventions as well as voluntary individual behaviors....
This $199,167 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology will support research to develop a data-driven model of imperfect immunity against COVID-19. The University of Southern California will receive funding to build upon data on COVID-19 reinfections and vaccine breakthroughs to better understand how imperfect protection affects SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics and the long-term risks of resurgence. The project directly supports the NSF's Biological...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $961,999 to George Washington University will fund research to elucidate the early origins and evolution of Asgard archaea, a group of microbes critical to understanding the diversification of life on Earth. The project will collect and analyze microbiome samples from hot springs in the western U.S. to identify novel Asgard archaeal lineages, reconstruct their genomes, and study the evolutionary...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $193,590 Project Grant to Rutgers, The State University under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2022. The grant funds quantitative investigations of SARS-CoV-2 host cell interactions via scanning helium-ion microscopy. The Biological Sciences program supports basic biological research and enhances understanding of major problems confronting the nation. This award furthers those goals through...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $195,381 Project Grant to Washington State University under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant aims to fund the RAPID project "Curtailing Nosocomial Amplification of COVID-19," which seeks to develop epidemiological models to better understand and mitigate the transmission of COVID-19 in healthcare settings. As part of the grant, Research Triangle Institute will...
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...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $186,835 Project Grant to the University of Southern California Department of Contracts and Grants to support the project "RAPID: FAST COVID-19 SCENARIO PROJECTIONS IN PRESENCE OF VACCINES AND COMPETING VARIANTS" from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2022. This funding supports research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded The Pennsylvania State University a $714,745 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) on July 15, 2022. The grant will fund research from July 2022 through June 2025 to identify the ecological role of spillover outcome on the evolution of disease emergence. The researcher will characterize virus dynamics and pathogen evolution following exposure of Caenorhabditis nematode hosts to...
The National Science Foundation awarded Duke University a $194,721 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2022. The grant funds research titled "RAPID: Planning for the Present and Future Management of COVID-19," which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and enhance understanding of major problems confronting the nation, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $200,000.00, awarded on November 15, 2022 with a completion date of October 31, 2026, will fund research at Columbia University to develop behavior-driven mathematical models and forecasting systems for respiratory disease transmission in urban settings. Funded jointly by NSF's Division of Mathematical Sciences and Division of Social and Economic Sciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), this research aims to incorporate...