This federal Project Grant award, valued at $153,309.00, was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The grant supports research by the University of Massachusetts to model the spread of airborne pathogens through lung-on-a-chip technology. The research aims to transform healthcare for military service members and the broader public by developing innovative approaches to disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The...
The University of Massachusetts (UMass) has been awarded a $413,118.75 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency's Military Health Services Research (MHSR) Program (CFDA 12.007). The grant, which runs from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2026, will fund research to examine the cumulative psychosocial stress and health readiness among military personnel in the Millennium Cohort Study, with a focus on understanding the role of race, ethnicity, and sex disparities. As a major land-grant...
This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $100,000.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of Defense's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). The award supports the University of Massachusetts Lowell's research to develop an "Adaptively Granularized and Individualized Knowledge Hypergraphs with Human Feedback for Command and Control" over the period of August 5, 2024...
This Project Grant award from the Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency provides $313,000.00 to the University of Massachusetts Lowell to conduct research on how small and weak muscles develop in Friedreich's ataxia patients. The research aims to improve understanding of this neurological disorder that affects service members and veterans. The award is funded under the Military Medical Research and Development CFDA program (12.420), which supports a range of biomedical research to...
This $683,686 federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Defense under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630), supports research into "Harmonizing Research into AI Futures and Governance" at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML). The award, with a period of performance from September 30, 2024 to March 6, 2025, will fund UML's work on this new research initiative. A sub-award of unspecified amount has been...
The University of Massachusetts Lowell will conduct research and development in the area of physics under a $440,192 Project Grant from the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory. The grant is part of the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and prevent technological surprise to adversaries. Through this three-year award beginning May 2021, the university will perform...
The University of Massachusetts Amherst will receive $570,810 through January 31, 2026 from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development federal grant program (CFDA 12.420) to conduct research on intracellular bacterial delivery of vaccine antigens to establish T-cell antitumor immunity in triple-negative breast cancer. The funding will support the university's applied research efforts to transform health care for service members and the public through innovative...
The University of Miami has been awarded a $1,700,000.00 Project Grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) through the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) federal grant program. This grant will support advanced biomedical research initiatives focused on transforming healthcare for military service members and the broader public. The research funded under this 2-year grant, with a performance period from September 15, 2024 to September 14, 2026, will explore innovative...
The University of Massachusetts Lowell received a $641,178 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to expand the potential for chemical separations with carbon supports. The award, effective January 1, 2025, supports fundamental scientific research across disciplines to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities. The project focuses on developing innovative materials and computational methods to...
The University of Massachusetts Medical School was awarded a $749,992 Project Grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will fund research from September 2021 through September 2025 to study the role of SCARF1 in efferocytosis and the prevention of lupus. The Military Medical Research and Development program supports basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research with the goals of transforming...