Project Grant FA95502410209

This National Science Foundation project grant award of $270,728 provides funding from August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2025 to support research exploring self-organization of functional nucleic acid supramolecular assemblies with stimuli responsive properties. Funded under the NSF Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), the award supports the University of Nebraska at Omaha and its parent institution, the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, in developing a toolkit for...

This CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) funds the development of an artificial nervous system enabling in-body communication between wearable and implantable bioelectronic devices. Awarded to Georgia TECH Research Corp on June 15, 2025, with $499,896 obligated through May 31, 2030, the project addresses critical limitations in existing therapeutic systems by creating optimized emitter and receiver networks that facilitate real-time...

This $390,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of novel biophotonic computing devices through the Engineering Directorate's 47.041 Engineering program. Specifically, the principal investigator aims to create a flexible, sustainable platform for bio-photonic thin film transistors using cellulose-nanocrystals with chiral nematic organization and responsive photonic behavior. Over the two-year period from September 15, 2022 to August 31, 2025, the grantee,...

This $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Engineering program will fund research into magnetoelectric nanoparticles as multi-field controlled devices for wireless brain stimulation. Led by researchers at the University of Miami, the three-year project aims to experimentally study the feasibility of using magnetoelectric nanoparticles to achieve wireless deep brain stimulation with sub-millimeter spatial resolution in...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award of $275,000 to North Carolina State University (NC State) aims to study the feasibility of using sound waves to remotely control and propel microrobots through blood vessels. The goal is to develop microrobots capable of delivering drugs and providing wireless electrical stimulation to the nervous system, without requiring invasive surgery. The research plan includes three key objectives: Investigating acoustic mechanisms to enable...

This collaborative research project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), was awarded $422,247 on September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for December 31, 2026. The project, conducted through a partnership between the University of Texas at El Paso and Baylor College of Medicine with performance at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems provides $372,722 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) to develop networks of lipid-coated droplets as model neurons capable of adapting their properties in response to the signals they transmit. The goal is to explore controlling the exchanges across the model synapses using emergent mechanics in networks of interconnected...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences grant award provides $2,225,964 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) to develop a novel biosensing platform called "protocell communities" that can be used for rapid, low-cost medical diagnostics. The project aims to create a tool that can diagnose medical conditions by detecting and integrating multiple indicator molecules, addressing limitations of single-analyte diagnostics. The protocell technology uses...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a $1,999,999 Project Grant under the CFDA 47.041 Engineering program to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) on October 15, 2023. The objective of this 4-year project is to develop a biosensing platform that uses engineered living materials to continuously monitor for the presence of various airborne pathogens, including those that could be used as bioterrorism agents. The technology,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund a collaborative research effort to create functional, modular biological robots (biobots) with variable morphology. The $206,954 grant will enable researchers at Northwestern University to develop biobot capabilities that allow them to split apart or join together on command, using different colors of light to control their behavior. The project will use biophysical simulations and machine...