Project Grant 2628289
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded Saint Louis University $329,594 on August 15, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop artificial intelligence tools that make organic geochemical molecular records searchable and comparable at scale. The project builds AI-native embeddings—numerical representations that place geochemically similar samples near one another in high-dimensional space—to integrate biomarker measurements, bulk and isotopic...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Saint Louis University received a $199,976 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), awarded October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2027. The award funds research and development of an artificial intelligence (AI)-defined integrated sensing and communication underwater optical networking system designed to advance high-speed data...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Louisiana State University $302,955 on September 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to develop a systematic measure of AI-mediated appropriability risk—the extent to which a field's open scientific record, combined with frontier AI capabilities, allows outsiders to predict and potentially preempt near-term research outputs. The project addresses three connected research questions. The team develops a measurement instrument...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded Saint Louis University $257,051 on October 1, 2026, to design and deploy a hybrid underwater acoustic, magnetic, and visible light networking system featuring a remotely accessible, reconfigurable water-tunnel testbed, physics-informed multi-modal deep generative channel models, and a scalable digital twin for dynamic underwater networking simulation and optimal control. The testbed instrument, datasets, and developed...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded the University of Missouri System $631,195 on August 15, 2026, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to develop an advanced artificial intelligence tool for assessing and ranking predicted protein structural models. The project addresses the challenge that scientists often generate multiple structural predictions for the same protein but lack reliable methods to determine which predictions are most...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded Saint Louis University $200,000 in project grant funding on July 15, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research in phase retrieval and nonlinear frame theory. The funded research addresses the mathematical foundations of signal recovery from corrupted or incomplete data, with applications spanning signal processing, data science, and artificial intelligence. The project...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded The Washington University $675,000 on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to advance technological management of computer networks through research into the safe delegation of network operational tasks to artificial intelligence agents while retaining human governance and accountability. The project develops scientific and technical principles for...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded the University of Illinois $896,601 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to establish AI assurance infrastructure and workforce development for trustworthy artificial intelligence in scientific research. The award funds three coordinated deliverables. First, standardized documentation of model cards and dataset datasheets for GPU allocations on national...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded The Regents of the University of Colorado (doing business as University of Colorado-Denver) $1,000,001 on September 1, 2026, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to develop artificial intelligence and machine learning methods that detect genomic patterns linked to microbial niche adaptation across bacterial lineages including Staphylococcus, Pseudomonas, and Mycobacterium. The work addresses the...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded $498,768 to the Stowers Institute For Medical Research on July 1, 2026, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for a collaborative research project modeling large macromolecular systems using artificial intelligence. The award funds development of an AI-driven approach to simulate protein assembly processes at physiologically relevant time scales in crowded cellular environments. The project...
The National Science Foundation awarded Saint Louis University $180,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to characterize security risks posed by externally sourced digital resources—including datasets, annotations, metadata, software, and pretrained models—entering biological AI workflows used in agricultural and environmental research. The project identifies where external digital dependencies enter biological discovery pipelines, maps their propagation through analysis chains, and evaluates whether standard validation and review practices can detect integrity failures before they compromise downstream scientific conclusions. The work addresses a gap in institutional safeguards that currently focus on personnel and access control but lack mechanisms to track how unverified external resources influence scientific interpretation. By securing the reliability of AI applications in the life sciences, the award supports national interests in agricultural competitiveness, environmental stewardship, national security, and the bioeconomy while training graduate and undergraduate students at the intersection of cybersecurity and biology. Performance occurs at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, with a period of performance from September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2028. The assistance type is a Project Grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $180.0k | 8/7/26 |