Project Grant 2556093
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded the University of Delaware a $460,953 Project Grant effective March 1, 2026, through February 28, 2031, under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859). The grant funds research investigating the subcellular transport, regulation, and function of ribonucleic acids (RNAs) during early embryonic development. The research centers on understanding how microRNA-31 (miR-31) is...
- The University of Delaware was awarded a $950,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences. The grant is part of the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) and will fund research into post-transcriptional regulation during mitosis from July 2021 through June 2025. As part of the Biological Sciences program's goal of strengthening the nation's biological research enterprise, this project aims to increase scientific understanding of...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Delaware received a $1.0 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029. This research initiative, titled "Tools4Cells: Multi-Kingdom Acetyl-CoA Sensing for Real-Time Reporting and Control of Metabolism," develops protein-based biosensor technology to enable real-time monitoring of...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Duke University's Office of Research Administration received a $1.597M Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2029. The award funds fundamental research to characterize the archaeal cell division regulatory network and understand how archaeal extremophiles continue to grow under extreme environmental stress...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Brown University received a $1.337 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2029. The award supports fundamental research investigating the evolutionary introduction of asymmetric cell division in regulative embryos, utilizing echinoderms—specifically sea urchins and sea stars—as model organisms. The primary...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, awarded $622,842 to the University of Pennsylvania on May 1, 2026, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support collaborative research on zygotic genome activation (ZGA) in fruit fly embryos. This project will deliver research outputs investigating how cells measure and respond to changes in the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic (N/C) ratio to control the timing of...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded $1.2 million to the University of California, Davis under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) on July 15, 2026, with a completion date of June 30, 2030. This Project Grant supports fundamental research into gene-specific nuclear messenger ribonucleoprotein (mRNP) assembly and quality control mechanisms. The research focuses on understanding how genetic...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded $1.3 million to the University of Pennsylvania under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for the project "Dissecting the HIRA/HIR Chaperone Complex in the Chromatin Landscape." The award, effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029, funds fundamental research into the structural and biochemical mechanisms of the HIRA/HIR (histone regulatory A/histone...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded $440,000 to the University of Massachusetts Boston under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) on July 1, 2026, for a three-year collaborative research project examining the evolution of neurons through messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) regulation. This project will deliver fundamental research outputs investigating whether regulatory mechanisms controlling...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Delaware received a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Biological Infrastructure under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2029. This collaborative research award supports the development of innovative biotechnology tools for targeted proximity labeling of extracellular vesicles (EVs)—membrane-bound particles released by cellular organisms that carry...
Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded the University of Delaware a $1.45 million Project Grant (CFDA 47.074 – Biological Sciences program) effective September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2029, to investigate post-transcriptional regulation of cell division during early embryonic development. The research focuses on how microRNA-1 (mir-1) regulates mitosis and chromosomal segregation using sea urchin embryos and mammalian cells as model systems. The research team will employ live imaging, genetic approaches, in-cell proteomics, and bioinformatics combined with artificial intelligence-driven methods to identify mir-1 target genes and elucidate novel functions of this highly conserved microRNA across developmental stages. Beyond fundamental scientific contributions to cell and developmental biology, the award supports research training and educational outreach activities designed to strengthen STEM education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as professional development for early childhood science educators. The integrated research and educational framework leverages knowledge gained from a simple marine organism to advance understanding of cell division and muscle tissue development in higher animals, with potential applications to biotechnology and human developmental health. No sub-awardees are identified in the grant documentation provided.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.5m | 7/9/26 |