Project Grant 2543825
- Federal Grant Award Summary Augusta University Research Institute, Inc. received a $576,411 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030. This CAREER award supports fundamental research investigating proteolytic cleavage mechanisms in contact-dependent cell signaling, specifically examining how ADAM (A Disintegrin and Metalloproteinase)...
- Federal Grant Award Summary This $347,628 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), commenced June 1, 2025, and extends through May 31, 2030. The award supports fundamental research conducted at Purdue University to elucidate the assembly, supramolecular organization, and functional mechanisms of bacterial microcompartments—specialized...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Cornell University's Office of Sponsored Programs received a $1.2 million CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2031. The project, conducted at the Ithaca, NY campus, delivers basic research advancing understanding of ribosomal protein synthesis mechanisms in bacteria, with a specific focus on identifying...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) received a $1.1 million CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support fundamental research on novel bacterial immune systems for genome editing applications. Awarded August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2030, this project will deliver scientific research outputs including...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $193,684 Project Grant to the University of Georgia Research Foundation effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2029, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). This collaborative research initiative investigates the mechanisms by which polo kinases maintain chiral asymmetry and support complex organizational patterning in Tetrahymena thermophila, a...
- FEDERAL PROJECT GRANT AWARD SUMMARY Princeton University received a $1.0 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2029. The award funds fundamental research on quorum sensing—a bacterial cell-to-cell communication process that enables bacterial populations to synchronize behavior based on population density and species...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Award Overview: Emory University's Office of Sponsored Programs received a $500,001 NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) CAREER project grant, effective June 1, 2026 through May 31, 2031, to develop high-precision phototoxic subtractive engineering technologies for multicellular tissue reshaping and regenerative medicine applications. The project will create a spatially patterned light-based platform that selectively induces apoptosis (programmed cell death) in...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded the University of Illinois a five-year CAREER grant totaling $763,130 (awarded June 1, 2026, with completion targeted for May 31, 2031) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The project will deliver fundamental research outputs advancing understanding of bacterial chromosome dynamics in Escherichia coli, including a genome-scale atlas of chromosomal...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Vanderbilt University received a $1,032,370 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2031. This CAREER award funds research investigating the dynamic interplay between DNA methylation and bacterial evolution. The project delivers advanced research outputs utilizing cutting-edge DNA sequencing technologies, machine...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Emory University received a $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), awarded November 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for October 31, 2028. The project delivers fundamental research services and molecular measurement technologies to elucidate integrin mechanotransduction mechanisms in microgravity environments. Specifically,...
Emory University's Office of Sponsored Programs received a $1.1M Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded September 15, 2026, with completion targeted for August 31, 2031. This CAREER award funds research to elucidate the molecular mechanism by which the bacterial protein VopF drives actin filament polymerization from pointed ends—a recently discovered process that challenges the conventional understanding of actin assembly. The research deliverables combine single-molecule biophysics, protein biochemistry, live-cell imaging, and computational modeling to identify the minimal domain requirements for pointed-end actin elongation and to discover novel pointed-end elongator proteins, with findings applicable to understanding muscle cell organization and developing therapeutic approaches for actin-related diseases such as cardiomyopathies and bacterial pathogen infections. The award supports integrated STEM education outcomes alongside research objectives, including the training of graduate and undergraduate students in interdisciplinary approaches spanning biology, physics, and chemistry; development of new university courses introducing quantitative methods in biological sciences; and implementation of outreach programs for K-12 students. These educational components align with NSF's emphasis on strengthening the Nation's scientific workforce while advancing fundamental knowledge of cellular processes critical to multiple disease contexts and biotechnology applications.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.1m | 6/25/26 |