This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $200,812 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for a collaborative research project on using mathematics to study the evolution of mutant cells in the human hematopoietic (blood) system. The project, which involves researchers from UCSD, Xavier University of Louisiana, and the University of California, Irvine, aims to develop mathematical models...
This $196,163 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) is funding a collaborative research project on developing advanced mathematical models to improve understanding and management of schistosomiasis transmission dynamics. The project is a collaboration between the University of Florida, University of Georgia, and University of Massachusetts, and aims to create innovative hybrid...
This five-year, $490,536 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research and education activities to understand how genetic and ecological sources of variation affect host-pathogen dynamics. The principal investigator will conduct field and laboratory experiments to determine how intraspecific variation in pathogen life history traits and host susceptibility influence outcomes of pathogen strain competition and long-term...
This $176,321 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support the development of new hybrid kinetic Monte Carlo methods and algorithms for studying complex biological systems related to epidemics and biofabrication. The grant recipient, the University of South Carolina, will develop a hybrid kinetic Monte Carlo model focusing on individual mobility and heterogeneity to study...
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 Project Grant of $536,946 will support research at the University of California, San Diego from September 2022 through August 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award will fund the development of rigorous scientific theories and powerful computational tools to model biomolecular interactions. Researchers will design advanced numerical methods to simulate drug and protein binding/unbinding kinetics, incorporating molecular...
This federal Project Grant award of $616,786, awarded on June 1, 2025 by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), supports research aimed at uncovering the evolutionary mechanisms shaping genetic variation and phenotypic diversity across human populations. The key focus areas of the research include: 1) exploring the effects of recessive deleterious alleles and associative overdominance on patterns of...
This $131,615 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences, under the CFDA program 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, aims to develop novel Bayesian statistical models for analyzing complex high-dimensional health data. The research will focus on creating improved joint models that can leverage information from longitudinal measurements, such as clinical data and biomarkers, to better predict time-to-event outcomes like disease...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $323,642 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The award, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2030, supports research to develop new mathematical and computational models for understanding how the complex spatial structure of biological populations, such as cancer cells, microbial colonies, and human populations, influences their evolutionary dynamics. The...
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...