This Project Grant award of $133,203 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The award supports a collaborative research project among the University of Florida, University of Georgia, and University of Massachusetts Amherst to develop advanced mathematical models to improve understanding and management of schistosomiasis transmission dynamics, with a focus on the transition from high to low transmission phases...
This Project Grant award of $739,821.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support an interdisciplinary research and educational project at the University of Florida. The project aims to investigate the impact of host heterogeneity, including individual differences, movement, and spatial variations, on the transmission dynamics of vector-borne parasites in a lizard-malaria system in Puerto Rico. The research will integrate mathematical...
The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. received a $245,404 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The award will support the development of novel statistical and machine learning methods to analyze mobility data from September 2023 through August 2026. Specifically, the researchers will reconstruct transmission time, identify infected individuals, and...
This $170,566 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports the development and delivery of an innovative mathematical modeling framework to integrate public health policy, public opinion dynamics, and epidemic outcomes. The project aims to establish a detailed, integrated system that captures the complex feedback among public health policies, dynamic public opinions, and...
This $133,182 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of new point-process algorithms for modeling infectious disease threats over varying temporal and spatial scales. Specifically, the funding will be used to derive expectation maximization algorithms to infer probabilistic transmission networks for contact tracing and outbreak source detection. Multivariate Hawkes processes will be formulated to...
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...
This $130,064 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports collaborative research to develop new statistical algorithms for analyzing spatiotemporal data on vector-borne disease transmission, using dengue virus in Rio de Janeiro as a case study. The project aims to address methodological challenges in modeling complex, nonlinear, and partially-observed spatial-temporal systems, with the goal of...
This $116,105 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences under CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, supports a collaborative research project between the University of California-San Diego, Xavier University of Louisiana, and the University of California-Irvine. The project aims to develop mathematical models that bridge the evolutionary dynamics of mutant cell growth in the blood between mouse and human...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences, CFDA program 47.049 (Mathematical and Physical Sciences), supports research investigating how the transition from subsistence farming to cash crops impacts infectious disease transmission patterns in rural communities. The $500,000 award to Duke University's Office of Research Administration Division runs from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2028. The key products and services delivered under this...
This $108,131 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research at Duke University to establish a new efficient simulation method for assessing rare but highly consequential epidemic events. The project aims to identify key risk factors in virus-spreading interactions that can facilitate large outbreaks, using disease models similar to COVID-19 and HIV as case studies. The research will provide improved...