Texas A&M University was awarded a $241,036 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will support collaborative research on nuclear spin optical rotation of hyperpolarized liquids and solids from July 2021 through June 2024. The NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise...
The National Science Foundation awarded $212,092 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) of the Texas A&M University System for a two-year collaborative research project from December 2021 to November 2023. The project aims to advance biomaterials design through computational simulation and manipulation of intrinsically disordered proteins. Specifically, researchers will work to better...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $298,911 Project Grant to New York University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support collaborative research on water-responsive, shape-shifting supramolecular protein assemblies. Over a three-year period from August 2023 to July 2026, NYU will work with professors from New York University, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, and CUNY City College to develop protein polymers that can respond to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $500,000 Project Grant titled "TOPICS IN PROTEIN AND RNA FOLDING AND DYNAMICS" to the University of Texas at Austin under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This 4-year grant will support Professor Devarajan Thirumalai's research on the computational modeling of protein and RNA interactions and dynamics. Key focus areas include developing new methods to simulate intrinsically disordered...
This $115,114 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research to develop and characterize novel biomaterials made from folded globular proteins. The project aims to: Experimentally characterize the mechanical response of the protein building blocks at the single-molecule level under varying force, tethering geometry, and solution conditions. Directly relate the observed domain unfolding of the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences and Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of Texas at Austin. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MODULUS: PROTEIN DROPLETS DRIVE MEMBRANE BENDING AND CYTOSKELETAL ORGANIZATION," seeks to improve understanding of how protein droplets interact with cellular membranes and the cytoskeleton. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) provides $600,000 to Arizona State University (ASU) to support theoretical modeling and computational research on the linear and nonlinear mobility of proteins, electrical conductivity of protein complexes, and the role of water at biological interfaces. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year award (June 2025 - May 2028)...
This $374,593 National Science Foundation award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support the development of new cobalt-based compounds to catalyze reactions involving parahydrogen-induced polarization at Texas A&M University from April 1, 2023 to November 30, 2024. Specifically, the awardee will synthesize diamagnetic cobalt complexes serving as PHIP catalysts across a range of substrates, including olefins, alkynes, and arenes. These complexes will...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a three-year Project Grant of $495,000 to the University of Texas at San Antonio to support research investigating protein-derived cofactors containing a cysteine-tyrosine crosslink. This work falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems. Specifically, the award will fund graduate and undergraduate students to elucidate the...
Texas A&M University was awarded a $561,800 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from December 15, 2023 to November 30, 2026. Under this award, Texas A&M University researchers aim to provide synthetic access to novel spin manifolds and increase fundamental understanding of spin dynamics in organometallic superparamagnets. The program will study (1) high-performance single-molecule...