Grants

Society significantly benefits from scientific research, but it wouldn’t be possible without generous contributions from public and private sources.

This page is a testament to that support. With it, Northeastern’s College of Science has cultivated a dynamic landscape of research activity. Through a culture that emphasizes entrepreneurship, our exceptional faculty, staff, and student researchers are able to maximize the impact of their work.

The grants listed below are a preview of the science and scientists of tomorrow, who probe single cells, the outer limit of particle physics, and everything in between.

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  • 2026

    Milen Yakimov

    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Quantum Cluster Algebras and Monoidal Categories   Most mathematical models in science and engineering assume variables that commute — that order doesn’t matter — but quantum mechanics broke that assumption and raised hard problems about structures where it fails. This project investigates two families of these noncommutative objects, quantum cluster algebras at roots of unity and…Read More
  • 2026

    Steven Lopez

    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Collaborative Research: Cyclopropenimine-Mediated Organo-Carbonation Polymerizations Activating carbon dioxide (CO2) and directly polymerizing it from its gaseous state is challenging to achieve, especially using all-organic reagents. This project will advance sustainable polymer chemistry by implementing artificial intelligence (AI) and computational methods to develop metal-free reagents and catalysts capable of upcycling CO2, into value-added polymers.  Read More
  • 2026

    Hai Ping Cheng, James Fry

    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Collaborative Research: Center for Coatings Research   Next-generation gravitational-wave observatories like the 40-km Cosmic Explorer will detect black hole and neutron star mergers back to the era of the first stars, observing stellar-size events at distances where even JWST resolves only entire galaxies. The Center for Coatings Research develops the mirror coatings that make this possible,…Read More
  • 2026

    Xuwen Zhu

    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Microlocal analysis on special geometric structures Many geometric spaces arising in mathematics and physics are not perfectly smooth — they contain singularities where the usual rules break down, and understanding their structure is a central problem in differential geometry. This project develops new analytic techniques for a class of singular spaces tied to gauge theory,…Read More
  • 2026

    Pran Nath, Tomasz Taylor, James Halverson, Fabian Ruehle

    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Research in Elementary Particle Theory  The PIs will pursue an interconnected program spanning the string landscape, quantum field theory, and quantum gravity, unified by an emphasis on machine learning and quantum information science.Read More
  • 2026

    Stacy Marsella

    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    HCC: AI-driven Platform for Training Social Skills by Participation in Spontaneous, Adaptive, Multimodal Interaction Scenarios  Social skills — reading intentions, navigating complex interpersonal situations, responding in the moment — underpin nearly every successful interaction. This project builds an AI-driven training platform where people practice those skills in open-ended encounters with virtual agents that convey beliefs…Read More
  • 2026

    Bryan Spring

    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Precision cancer microsurgery using laser ablation-cooling with pulse bursts Glioblastoma recurs in most patients because small tumor deposits remain at the surgical margins, even after fluorescence-guided surgery. This project builds a precision laser microsurgery platform that uses ablation-cooling to clear those deposits safely near critical brain tissue, validated in cell co-cultures, a rat model, and…Read More
  • 2026

    Owen Skinner

    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Integrated mass spectrometry strategies to decipher metabolite-protein cross regulation Metabolism depends on interactions between proteins and small-molecule metabolites, and when that regulation breaks down the result can be diseases ranging from epilepsy to cardiovascular disease — yet those interactions remain poorly understood, largely because few methods can probe both sides at once. The Skinner Lab…Read More
  • 2026

    Kim Lewis

    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    An efficient platform for antibiotic discovery  The goal of this project is to develop an effective platform for discovering new antibiotics. The platform is based on a combination of two technological innovations – growing previously uncultured bacteria and screening them for antibiotics by encapsulating single cells of producing bacteria in microdroplets with reporters. Read More
  • 2026

    Christa Haase

    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    From Motion to Mechanism: How Cellular Dynamics Shape Molecular Programs and Function In Vivo This project will develop new technologies to connect dynamic cellular behaviors in living animals with their underlying molecular programs and functional outcomes. By integrating advanced intravital optical microscopy with image-guided, spatially resolved single-cell transcriptomics and proteomics, the proposed research will uncover…Read More
  • 2026

    Katie Lotterhos

    Sponsor: Moore Foundation 
    GBMF An open science ecosystem for enabling macrogenomic research in the sea This project will create enabling conditions for marine macrogenomic research by establishing an Open Science Ecosystem for Marine Macrogenomics. Through a large-scale community coordination effort, the team will generate interoperable seascape genomic datasets comprising 5,000 whole genomes, each with associated metadata, representing 100…Read More
  • 2026

    Roman Manetsch

    Sponsor: NIH
    Strepothricin gulosamine derivatization to enhance selectivity against gram-negative The emergence of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria has compromised our ability to treat infections. Studies in this proposal build on novel chemical synthesis to explore variants of a natural product called strepothricin to provide a new therapy to treat these very problematic pathogens. Read More

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