The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to support research involving Lewis base directed intermolecular hydrogen atom transfer. The three-year award, made on September 1, 2021 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund work contributing to the store of scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems in the mathematical and physical sciences. Specifically, the...
Professor Steven Rokita of Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $510,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new biocatalysts through cofactor engineering. The three-year award running from July 2022 to June 2025 will support research using organic synthesis to create novel cofactors that, paired with protein scaffolds, could enable applications in green chemistry and bioremediation. By modifying cofactors...
This federal Project Grant award of $785,000.00, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049), supports Professor Pier Alexandre Champagne of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in advancing the chemical understanding of reactive sulfur species. The key objectives of this 5-year research project are to: 1) develop new synthetic donors of reactive sulfur species, 2) use these donors to probe...
The National Science Foundation awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $600,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The grant funds collaborative research on developing high-affinity supramolecular peptide materials for the selective capture and recovery of proteins. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems through support...
The National Science Foundation awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $510,000 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new polymer modification chemistries. Johns Hopkins will utilize borane-substituted polyolefins as precursors to synthesize copolymers of allyl alcohol, allyl chloride, and alpha-olefins that cannot currently be accessed directly from polymerization of allylic monomers. Specifically, Rebekka Klausen will employ...
The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The purpose of this 2-year award, which began on October 1, 2023, is to conduct fundamental research on convergent electrochemistry and metabolic engineering approaches to enable carbon-neutral production of ammonia, a critical component of nitrogen-based fertilizers. The research aims to merge the...
The University of California, Santa Barbara will receive $500,000 from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The funding will support the project "Harnessing the Reactivity of Sulfur: From Novel S-Atom Transfer Reagents to Sulfide-Protected Nanoclusters," which aims to advance the understanding of sulfur chemistry through development of new sulfur-transfer...
Under a $595,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, Professor Thomas Lectka of Johns Hopkins University will pursue two complementary strategies to selectively modify specific carbon-hydrogen or carbon-carbon bonds within complex molecular structures. The first approach will utilize hydrogen bonding to direct site-selective functionalization reactions, while the second will leverage metal ion binding to deactivate...
The National Science Foundation awarded The Johns Hopkins University $485,683 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for a Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site project from March 2023 through February 2026. The project will support computational biomolecular structure and design training for 36 undergraduate interns over three summer periods. Johns Hopkins will host 12 interns annually for 10 weeks to conduct research in various labs of the Rosetta Commons...
The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $497,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to support research titled "Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics: Dynamical Consistency Across Scales" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The grant supports research into developing multiscale molecular dynamics simulation methods to model nonequilibrium systems with dynamical consistency across different time and length scales. The work will advance...