Project Grant N629091812065

This three-year, $376,264 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research to develop new genetically engineered biological circuits and sensors. The University of Colorado Boulder team, led by The Regents of the University of Colorado, aims to harness plant hormone receptors to rapidly design genetic circuits controlled by user-specified ligands. They will engineer novel plant-derived chemical sensors that can recognize...

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 three-year, $290,739 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of a novel non-volatile nano-second right-grained reconfigurable architecture for data-intensive machine learning and graph computing applications. The proposed computing architecture, called Right-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture (RGRA), combines aspects of coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays and field-programmable gate arrays...

This $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of hybrid cell-semiconducting polymer systems for high-density biological data storage at William Marsh Rice University. Over the two-year period from August 2022 to July 2025, the university researchers will work to encode 100 bytes of information into synthetic RNA...

The University of Washington was awarded a two-year, $249,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the federal Computer and Information Science and Engineering grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support collaborative research on biological production and enzymatic processing methods to develop defect-free, scalable nucleic-acid circuits. The goal is to advance techniques for engineering biological systems at the...

This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations provides $250,000 to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FET: MEDIUM: BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION AND ENZYMATIC PROCESSING FOR DEFECT-FREE, SCALABLE NUIC-ACID CIRCUITS." The funding supports investigator-initiated research and education efforts under the official federal grant program "Computer and Information Science and...

This $100,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities, under the Engineering (47.041) program, will support research at Boise State University to develop a co-design model integrating DNA nanotechnology and two-dimensional materials for advanced semiconductor manufacturing and workforce development. Specifically, the University will design DNA nanostructure templates for atomic precision patterning and doping...

This three-year, $782,602 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a 3D bionic network interface to enable bidirectional communication with cells and tissues at the biotic-abiotic interface. Funded under NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will design and test a multi-modality platform integrating biosensing and stimulation at the microscale to form a closed-loop network facilitating holistic integration and...

The University of California, Santa Barbara will conduct collaborative research on probabilistic computing through integrated nano-devices from July 2021 to June 2024 through a $270,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation. The research aims to advance a device-to-systems approach for probabilistic computing through integrated nano-devices. It will support investigator-initiated work under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, which seeks to advance...

Electronic Biosciences, Inc. received a $350,000 Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) project grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), awarded on June 1, 2025, with a completion date of May 31, 2027. The company, in collaboration with Distinguished Professor Cynthia J. Burrows, is developing the first high-accuracy sequencing technology capable of simultaneously detecting...