The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a 3-year, $567,231 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration. The grant supports research by William Arnold, William Pomerantz, and Sebastian Behrens to investigate the environmental presence and degradation of mass-produced chemicals, particularly pharmaceuticals and pesticides containing fluorine....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $512,777 Project Grant to the University of South Dakota under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The grant funds research aimed at developing next-generation fluorinating reagents that are effective, safe and economical for producing organofluorine compounds of medical and materials interest. Specifically, the university will design and prepare an array of fluorinating reagents with tunable...
This Project Grant award, valued at $300,000.00 and supported by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to enhance the design of fluorinated protein fibers and hydrogels for medical applications. The key objectives include: Generating coiled-coil fluorinated fibers for controlled drug delivery, Developing fluorinated coiled-coil hydrogels that change with temperature, and Assessing the potential of these fluorinated materials as 19F...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $133,259 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Missouri System. The grant, with an award date of January 1, 2025 and final completion date of December 31, 2027, supports collaborative research by Professors Pablo Sobrado and John Tanner to explore the mechanisms, functional diversity, and conformational dynamics of flavin-dependent monooxygenases (FMOs). The research aims to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $798,269 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (doing business as the University of Nebraska) through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The funding supports the development of new chemical reactions and catalysts to help chemists in industry, pharmaceuticals, and academia. The research team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is advancing an "in situ enzymatic screening" approach...
This federal Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $800,000, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of California, Berkeley. The purpose of the grant is to support research by Professor John F. Hartwig in the Department of Chemistry, who is developing and studying new transition-metal catalyzed reactions to form carbon-fluorine bonds. This research aims to enable the synthesis of a...
This $447,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support research at Haverford College from December 2022 through February 2026. The research team, led by Dr. Louise Charkoudian, will investigate type II polyketide biosynthetic enzyme assemblies across bacterial species to leverage their capabilities for sustainable chemical production. Undergraduate students will gain research...
This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program aims to enhance the design of fluorinated protein fibers and hydrogels for medical applications. The key objectives are to: 1) generate coiled-coil fluorinated fibers for controlled drug delivery, 2) develop fluorinated coiled-coil hydrogels responsive to temperature changes, and 3) assess the potential of these materials as magnetic resonance spectroscopy/imaging...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $333,179 Project Grant through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Montana to develop novel materials and approaches for liquid chromatography. Specifically, the research team led by Christopher P. Palmer and Orion Berryman is synthesizing and characterizing new chromatographic stationary phase materials that utilize halogen bonding as the interaction and retention mechanism. This research aims to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The award, spanning January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2028, supports Professor Alexander Radosevich's research on designing and applying highly reactive redox-active organophosphorus catalysts composed of earth-abundant elements like iron and phosphorus. The goal is to develop new catalytic...