The National Science Foundation awarded a $491,408 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University for research titled "CAREER: STATISTICAL APPROACHES AND COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR ANALYZING SPATIALLY-RESOLVED SINGLE-CELL TRANSCRIPTOMICS DATA." The grant was awarded on July 15, 2021 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen understanding of major problems facing the nation. The research aims to develop statistical...
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...
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...
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 federal Project Grant award R35GM156305, funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859), will support research to examine how key physical cues, including extracellular fluid viscosity, microenvironmental stiffness, and cellular confinement, regulate cell responses such as migration and invasion. The $479,487 award, with a project period from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2030, will be performed by The...
This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), provides $2,249,307 to The Johns Hopkins University to conduct research aimed at overcoming the premature maturation arrest observed in pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (PSC-CMs). The research seeks to elucidate the critical gene regulatory network underlying the failure of PSC-CMs to fully mature, and to leverage this knowledge to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $502,940 to James Madison University (JMU) is funding research to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying the relationship between tissue fibrosis and angiogenesis following injury. The research aims to elucidate how the sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) pathways mediate the crosstalk between these two critical tissue repair and regeneration processes. 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...
This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support the University of Notre Dame's research exploring the differentiation of stem cells into patterned blood vessel networks using hybrid memristor technology. Over a four-year period from October 2022 to September 2026, the University will engineer the first autonomous hybrid memory resistor and cell culture device to control human pluripotent stem cell differentiation into...
The Johns Hopkins University received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research on August 15, 2021 to support research efforts concluding January 31, 2023. The grant funds research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to understand the molecular determinants of mucus penetrating zwitterionic bottlebrushes. The program aims to advance mathematical and physical sciences knowledge and address major problems...