The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $189,811 project grant to The College of Wooster under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The goal of this 2-year project is to develop an optimal combination phage cocktail and antibiotic therapy to treat antimicrobial resistant infections. The research will leverage mathematical models to identify characteristics of bacteriophages that show promise as therapeutic...
The University of Miami was awarded a $280,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences to model, assess, and compare treatment protocols to prevent and control antibiotic resistance from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The 3-year grant, effective August 15, 2023, will fund research into the topology and infection dynamics of bacteriophage viruses. The project aims to provide a thorough characterization of DNA organization inside phage capsids and its delivery during infection, bridging...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award of $200,000 to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. supports research to advance iteratively regularized numerical algorithms for reliable estimation of infectious disease parameters from noisy data. The project aims to develop new regularized alternating minimization algorithms to solve ill-posed parameter-estimation problems constrained by nonlinear dynamics, with...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota, through the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, has received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award, effective August 15, 2023 through July 31, 2026, will support collaborative research to characterize the topology and infection dynamics of bacteriophage viruses. Key focus areas include...
This $198,173 Project Grant was awarded on August 1, 2024 by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Rhode Island. The award supports collaborative research to explore the properties, behaviors, and applications of stochastic functional differential equations and functional stochastic approximation algorithms across disciplines including ecology, infectious disease modeling, control engineering, neural networks, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $552,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). The 3-year grant, starting on August 1, 2023, supports research led by Professor Tal-Gan to study the interplay between different bacterial communication pathways in Streptococcus mutans. The project aims to characterize how diverse quorum sensing circuits within the same bacterial species affect one another and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $200,000 to conduct fundamental research on mathematical models that describe complex interactions, growth, and motion in irregular environments with stochastic unpredictability. The goal is to discover general mathematical laws that govern such systems, which have implications for a wide range of real-world phenomena including traffic, communication networks,...
The Regents of the University of Idaho received a $464,468 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology Program to develop quantitative tools and models for evaluating the performance of self-disseminating wildlife vaccines. This 3-year project aims to create mathematical models that integrate reservoir ecology and uncertainty to predict the spread and impact of transmissible vaccines designed to prevent the spillover of infectious diseases from...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research to develop new theory and predictive models for understanding how environmental pressures shape the evolution of virulence in opportunistic bacterial pathogens. The project aims to: (I) Develop and test predictive models of strain-specific virulence, transmission, and environmental origins for the model pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa; and (II)...