Project Grant P21AP11447

This Project Grant award, totaling $524,400.00, was awarded on June 1, 2025 by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training (CFDA 93.859) federal grant program. The grant supports research conducted by the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California to develop novel catalytic transformations that enable the rapid and efficient synthesis of complex small molecule compounds. The goal is to expand the synthetic toolkit...

This $1,043,000 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the National Park Service (NPS) on January 2, 2025 under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944). The award recipient, Santa Monica Mountains Fund, will deliver a range of products and services focused on post-fire invasive plant control and ecological restoration in the Calabasas, CA area. Key activities include invasive species management, native habitat restoration, ecological monitoring, plant propagation and seed...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) provides $3,154,430 to Conservation Legacy, a non-profit organization, to engage youth, veterans, and young adults in natural and cultural resource conservation projects on Department of the Interior lands. Starting in the summer of 2025, the funding will support approximately 50 interns to complete 12 to 52-week science-based internships focused...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program provides $960,830 to Jackson State University (JSU) from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028. The grant establishes the Mississippi Nano-Bio and Immunoengineering Consortium (NIEC), a collaborative research network among seven institutions in Mississippi focused on developing novel biomaterials, evaluating their interactions with biological systems, and assessing their effectiveness in...

This Project Grant award of $809,850 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) aims to assess the outcomes, benefits, burdens, and participant satisfaction of a 6-month randomized controlled trial (RCT) on manuscript writing productivity for early-stage investigators from underrepresented backgrounds in biomedical science. The primary objective is to test the hypothesis that assigning participants...

This Cooperative Agreement award, ID P25AC00146, is funded by the National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program. The $151,500.00 award to Colorado State University will support enhanced sampling and otolith analysis to better understand the effects of disturbances on smallmouth bass reproductive success within the National Park System. The project aims to facilitate multi-disciplinary science and...

This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $104,862.00, was provided by the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities (CFDA 15.931) program. The award supports a partnership between the Rocky Mountain National Park Trail Crew and the Rocky Mountain Youth Conservation Corps (RMYC) to repair trail damage caused by a 2020 wildfire event. The project will involve re-aligning destroyed trail sections, rebuilding lost structures, and re-establishing...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training (CFDA 93.859) program provides $450,313 to The Johns Hopkins University from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2030. The purpose of this grant is to investigate the molecular mechanisms and dynamic domain interactions that govern the function of nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs), which are complex, multi-domain enzymes that synthesize natural products with...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program provides $610,246.75 to Colorado State University to evaluate the security of water supplies for the National Park System. The project will focus on assessing the impacts of sea level rise and saltwater intrusion on coastal parks, as well as the effects of drought on inland...

This $574,995 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. The award supports Professor Ryan Shenvi's research into developing a new class of earth-abundant metal catalysts for alkene hydrofunctionalization reactions. The goal is to replace precious metal catalysts with more sustainable and cost-effective iron-based alternatives. This work aims to...