This Project Grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency provides $668,000 in funding under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction federal grant program (CFDA 12.351) to support fundamental research to counter weapons of mass destruction. Specifically, the University of California, Berkeley will utilize molecular dynamics simulations to understand how random heteropolymers arrange within and around metal organic frameworks and provide functions such as stabilizing...
Northwestern University received a $195,876 project grant from the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command to support research related to high-throughput synthesis of metal-organic frameworks. The grant was awarded under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to support basic research that has potential to improve Army programs and operations. The one-year project period runs from February 1, 2021 to January 31, 2022 and will involve...
The federal Project Grant award HDTRA12510008, funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CFDA 12.351) program, supports research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to discover highly stable materials for adsorption and catalytic decontamination. The $200,000 award, with a performance period from February 26, 2025 to February 25, 2026, will fund MIT's work to advance scientific knowledge and...
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) awarded a $603,665 Project Grant under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CFDA 12.351) federal grant program to The Washington University in St. Louis. The grant, awarded on November 11, 2024, supports research and development to harness DNA molecular recognition to trigger self-immolative dendrimers for fluorescence-based detection of vesicants on surfaces. The five-year project, with a completion date of November 10,...
This federal Project Grant award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction program (CFDA 12.351) provides $631,742 to support research and development to create color-changing coatings for the selective detection of chemical warfare agents known as vesicants. The primary objective is to develop bioengineered enzymes and optical signaling agents that can visually indicate the presence of vesicants on surfaces, in order to...
This $150,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded on December 16, 2024 by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Department of Defense Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) supports research at Northwestern University on the product analysis of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction species. The goal is to advance fundamental knowledge in materials science and chemistry that could have applications for national security. Northwestern University, a leading...
This $640,000 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program supports research at Northwestern University to enhance bispecific antibody therapy with nanoparticle-based photothermal therapy. The objective is to develop innovative medical technologies that can transform healthcare for military service members and the broader public. The research will be conducted from August 2024 to August 2026 at Northwestern...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $1,264,645.00 and awarded on February 28, 2025, was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports research at Northwestern University to develop, characterize, and evaluate the properties of functional synthetic materials. Key focus areas include advanced materials, semiconducting paramagnetic covalent organic frameworks for organic electronics and spintronics,...
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction program (CFDA 12.351) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct research utilizing complementary proteomic approaches to identify conserved host responses during infection of emerging viruses. The 5-year grant, awarded on February 5, 2025, aims to advance fundamental knowledge and capabilities for defending...
Northwestern University received a $506,226 Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command to support the project "UNLOCKING THE CRYO-DOMAIN: BIO-CRYO-TOMOGRAPHY FROM MICRO TO ATOMIC SCALE" from February 1, 2021 through March 31, 2023. The grant is funded through the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), which supports basic research related to improving Army programs and operations. Under this award,...