Project Grant R43OD023424

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $1,200,000 provides funding to the University of California, Berkeley from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2028 to develop innovative sensing technologies that integrate DNA nanotechnology and CMOS electronics for next-generation diagnostics. The key objectives of this project grant are to: (1) develop molecular engineering techniques using DNA origami...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings will fund the development of haptic technology innovations to guide student gesturing with dynamic STEM visualizations from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025 for a total of $549,997. The award will support a collaborative research project between The University of Iowa to design and develop a custom haptic glove that interacts with a computer visualization of a biological...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a three-year, $449,999 Project Grant under their Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Cincinnati to develop an implantable biosensor platform that can continuously monitor various biomarkers in the body for over a year. The project aims to create a new class of long-lasting aptamer-based sensors protected by robust porous oxide coatings, which would enable the first practical implantable monitoring system for managing chronic...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The Johns Hopkins University will support the design, fabrication, modeling, and validation of tubular biosensors to study the behavior of cells in anatomically relevant tubular environments. The $319,112 award, with a performance period from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2027, will enable the development of integrated electroanalytical sensors to measure the effects of physical and chemical...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE: EDU) program project grant award of $750,000 to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) will develop an undergraduate program that uses a "living lab" approach to enable students to learn to create and maintain intelligent systems for the health domain. The project will implement a living lab in VCU's Department of Computer Science and Department of Neurology to provide hands-on learning opportunities...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), will fund the development of living biosensors capable of detecting and analyzing DNA at the single-base level without requiring sample purification or specialized equipment. The $565,614 award, made on April 5, 2025, will support the University of California, San...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, supports the development and implementation of a physiological computing curriculum for upper elementary school students in Alabama. The $1,125,666 project, which runs from May 2024 to April 2027, aims to foster participating students' computing career aspirations and conceptual understanding of computer science through hands-on activities involving the measurement and programming of...

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...

This Project Grant award for $299,712 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports the development of electrochemical aptamer-based (E-AB) sensors for the rapid and accurate detection of multiple cardiovascular disease (CVD) biomarkers. The University of South Carolina, with mentorship from collaborators at the University of Cincinnati, will design and characterize these multiplexed E-AB sensors to enable early diagnosis of CVDs, which are...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), provides $294,330 to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G) from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2028. The project aims to integrate biology and computer science education in elementary classrooms through the use of affordable, programmable, and easy-to-deploy embodied robotics as part of a culturally responsive curriculum. The...