This $1,029,759 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports a research project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) focused on "Modeling the Circadian Effects of Low Dose Radiation on Immunometabolism and its Effect on Liver Organoid Physiology." The award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025, will facilitate RPI's research to investigate the impact of low-dose radiation exposure on the...
The U.S. Department of Energy, through its Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), awarded a $779,072.20 Project Grant to Northwestern University to conduct research on "Single Cell Level Elemental Signatures of Low Dose Radiation Exposures in Mammalian Model Systems." The project aims to advance understanding of the effects of low-dose radiation exposure on mammalian cells. The award period runs from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2025. The project includes a...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $750,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, a private non-profit university in Claremont, California. The grant, titled "AI-FACILITATED ASSESSMENT OF EXOSOME-MEDIATED BYSTANDER EFFECTS OF LOW-DOSE IONIZING RADIATION," will fund research to develop artificial intelligence-powered technologies for assessing the bystander effects...
The University of Tennessee was awarded a $1,045,004 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to fund research on "Bridging the Gap Between Low Dose Exposures and Emergent Physiology Using Integrative Modeling and Experimentation from Epigenome to Cell Phenotype." The project aims to develop a computational framework to model the impact of different radiation doses on various cell types and integrate experimental data on...
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $1,161,922 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of Wisconsin System to conduct research on the dynamics of defect clusters in materials subjected to irradiation. The research aims to develop a mechanistic, quantitative understanding of these defect clusters to enable tailoring of irradiation responses. The grant period runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2025. As part of this project, the...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $499,086 Project Grant to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant supports a one-year research project titled "Combined Experimental and AI-Based Deep Learning Approach to Low Dose and Dose-Rate Breast Cancer Radiation Risk Prediction," which commenced on September 1, 2024 and is scheduled for completion by August 31, 2025. The research aims...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $218,459.00 to the University of Illinois for a research project titled "IRRADIATION TAILORING OF DEFORMATION-INDUCED PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS." The project will run from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2025. The funding supports fundamental scientific research to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through scientific...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $499,999.00, was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to The Leland Stanford Junior University. The award, effective from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, will fund research on the "Genetic Diversity of Human Heart Responses to Low-Dose Radiation". As a prestigious private research institution, Stanford University will leverage its expertise in scientific research across...
This Project Grant award for $541,574 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under CFDA Program 47.074 Biological Sciences. The award will fund a collaborative research project between the University of Massachusetts Medical School and researchers in Israel to determine how transcription factor binding affects the accumulation of UV-induced DNA lesions and mutations in the human genome. The project aims to develop innovative in...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $998,592 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to the University of Florida to investigate the molecular markers for bone marrow dose-response to low-dose strontium exposure using an AI-driven mouse model and digital twins. The research aims to enhance computational tools for internal radionuclide dosimetry in laboratory mice, which will be made available to the low-dose radiation research community. As part of this project, the University of...