Project Grant 2614136
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Duke University's Office of Research Administration received a $419,168 Project Grant award 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. This collaborative research initiative will investigate the multiscale mechanics of septin assembly and curvature sensing—specifically, how cells sense their own shape and size...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Duke University's Office of Research Administration received a $879,752 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2029. This collaborative research initiative investigates the multiscale mechanics of septin assembly and curvature sensing in biological cells. The project delivers...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Duke University's Office of Research Administration received a $412,750 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective August 15, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2027. The project, titled "BIOMADE: Development and Systems Characterization of Completely Synthetic Cell Culture Media Enabled by VHH Growth Factor Alternatives,"...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Duke University received a $649,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) beginning July 1, 2025, and concluding June 30, 2028. This collaborative research initiative will develop a semi-automated system to conduct high-resolution comparative analysis of transcription factor binding sites across different plant lateral organs, including roots, leaves, and...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Duke University's Office of Research Administration received a $909,435 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (CFDA 47.074 – Biological Sciences) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative examines the ecological role of bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts) in headwater stream ecosystems and their impacts on nutrient cycling and downstream water...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Duke University's Office of Research Administration received a $574,808 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2030. This CAREER award supports fundamental research to understand and control cellular heterogeneity in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell populations through advanced...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a Project Grant of $993,620 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill effective August 1, 2026, with completion targeted for July 31, 2030, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The project delivers fundamental research investigating molecular and cellular mechanisms that enable tardigrades to survive extreme environmental stresses including severe...
- 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...
- Duke University was awarded a three-year, $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant aims to support research transitioning from single-molecule force spectroscopy to single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy. The Biological Sciences program seeks to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through...
- 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...
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 conditions. The research employs cutting-edge genomics and live cell imaging techniques to investigate how cell division programs adapt during stress, with the goal of revealing regulatory mechanisms and checkpoints that govern cellular responses to adverse environments. Findings are expected to advance understanding of how complex eukaryotic cells evolved their stress resilience mechanisms and have potential applications for biotechnology and microbial engineering in bioproduction. The award includes an integrated education component designed to engage undergraduate students in STEM careers through participation in the Duke Data+ program. Graduate and undergraduate student teams will develop and deploy user-friendly computational tools for analyzing research-generated data, thereby building a skilled scientific workforce. The interdisciplinary, research-centered educational activities complement the project's scientific objectives while advancing workforce development in biological sciences and computational biology.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.6m | 7/14/26 |