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...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $550,781 Project Grant to the University of Southern California under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to advance disease modeling for healthcare decision making from April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2028. The award will support developing a unified theoretical framework to incorporate individual-level disease simulations and compartmental models, with the goal of optimizing these approaches for single and repeated decision contexts...
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 University of Southern California was awarded a $1,859,227 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund collaborative research to define the rules governing microbiome interactions critical for providing key ecosystem functions using a model diazotroph community. The research is expected to advance scientific understanding of major problems in biology over a four year...
This $195,101 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will use mathematical modeling to project the healthcare burden associated with COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in the United States during the 2023-2024 respiratory virus season. The research will integrate estimates of population immunity from prior infections, vaccinations, and monoclonal antibody therapy to produce four rounds of projections...
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...
The University of Southern California was awarded a $2,500,651 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will support research from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2026 to develop machine learning, systems modeling, and experimental approaches to understand the universal rules of life of microbiota using marine time series data. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The two-year grant will fund UCLA researchers to better understand the genomes and strain mutations of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as other viruses. Using comparative and population genetics approaches, the researchers will gain insights that enhance scientific...
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 $1,999,688 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports the development of predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention through transdisciplinary innovation. Funded by NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), the two-year award to the University of California, Davis enables advancement of predictive capabilities for forecasting pandemic risk through three key research areas. First, the team will characterize environmental conditions and human...