Project Grant 2129617
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $263,767 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. on April 1, 2021 for a microfluidic device project. The University of Kansas serves as the parent organization. The grant supports development of a microfluidic platform to study environment-triggered migration of glioblastoma cells through April 30, 2023. Graduate students at Kansas State University will...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $294,100 project grant to the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. to support research titled "EAGER: ENGINEERING OPTICAL NANOBIOSENSORS FOR DETECTION OF CORONAVIRUS PROTEASES" under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funding will support the development of optical nanobiosensors for detecting coronavirus proteases from March 15, 2021 through October 31, 2022. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $125,731 Project Grant to the Kennesaw State University Research And Service Foundation, Inc. (KSU R&SF) on October 1, 2023. The award is funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which supports a wide range of research and development activities to advance engineering knowledge and capabilities. This particular award will tackle the challenge of exploring, analyzing, and interpreting the complex interactions in the tumor...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Kansas State University received a $450,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), awarded July 1, 2026, with completion targeted for June 30, 2029. The grant funds development of a Gel Electromicrofluidics (GEM) platform designed to enhance single-cell imaging and analysis capabilities for applications in healthcare,...
- The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. was awarded a $586,645 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Engineering Education and Centers under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support the RET SITE: INQUIRY DRIVEN ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES USING BIOENGINEERING EXAMPLES (IDEA-BIOE) project from July 15, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The project aims to deliver inquiry-driven engineering activities and examples using bioengineering for K-12...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Kansas State University to develop a novel Electromicrofluidic (EMF) biosensing platform for comprehensive gene expression profiling. The 3-year project aims to create an automated system that can simultaneously analyze multiple protein isoforms and RNA splicing variants at the single-cell level, providing insights into complex biological processes involving cell-cell interactions and...
- This National Science Foundation Engineering Education and Centers award provides $463,231 to the New Jersey Institute of Technology through April 2025 to support an Undergraduate Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site project focused on cancer diagnosis and therapeutic intervention research. As part of the NSF's Engineering grant program (CFDA 47.041), 10 undergraduate students annually will engage in 10-week research experiences in fields like physics, biochemistry, and various...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded $529,945 to the New Jersey Institute of Technology under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) on July 1, 2026, for a three-year project concluding June 30, 2029. The project will deliver fundamental research and computational tools that establish a quantitative, energy-based framework for predicting tumor invasion as a function of extracellular...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. received a $1.0 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded August 1, 2025, with completion expected July 31, 2028. This research initiative will investigate how coronavirus macrodomain proteins have evolutionarily adapted their biochemical properties to optimally function during viral...
- This $487,795 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering grant program (CFDA 47.041) supports Arizona State University in developing innovative ex vivo models of the tumor microenvironment (TME). The project aims to mechanistically understand how biophysical cues and signaling between stromal and immune cells contribute to the transition of tumor cells into an invasive phenotype, as well as explore how stromal cell function induces pathway signatures in tumor cells leading to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,879,390 project grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. on April 1, 2021. The grant is supporting research titled "EFRI CEE: OPENING THE GATES OF APOPTOSIS IN CANCER" through December 31, 2023. The grant is funding research at the University of Kansas Medical Center and sub-awardees the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Kansas State University to develop and utilize advanced optical imaging and sensing tools to monitor and map changes in the epigenetic landscape of cancer cells in response to metabolic engineering and mechanical stimuli. Sub-awardee work includes creating models connecting observed epigenetic changes to metabolic, proteomic and other data, as well as fabricating novel microfluidic devices and metabolic probes to support experimental goals. The project aims to improve understanding of apoptosis in cancer to support the Engineering program's goals of fostering innovation in biomedical engineering research.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 3/18/22 | ||
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| Not listed | $1.9m | 4/19/21 |