The Science of Tomorrow

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.

04/05/2023

Sue Whitfield-Gabrieli

Psychology
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Sponsor: NIH

Targeting adolescent depression symptoms using network-based real-time fMRI neurofeedback and mindfulness meditation

Adolescents experience alarmingly high rates of major depressive disorder (MDD), and these episodes are highly recurrent and increase suicide risk. Recently, the U.S. Surgeon General and leading pediatric health organizations declared a national state of emergency for adolescent mental health, underscoring that the majority of affected adolescents do not receive adequate treatment. As gold-standard depression treatments (antidepressant medications and cognitive behavioral therapy) are effective for only ~50% of adolescents, there is a critical need to develop novel treatments to improve clinical outcomes, particularly those that target core mechanisms fundamental to MDD.  Rumination (i.e., repetitive, negative patterns of thinking typically focused on the self) contributes to MDD onset, maintenance, and recurrence as well as predicts treatment non-response and relapse. Mindfulness meditation has been shown to suppress the default mode network (DMN), a set of brain regions that are overactive in depression and that underlie rumination.   We are launching a large scale, clinical trial to do a mindfulness based real-time fMRI neurofeedback intervention in adolescents with MDD in order to quiet the DMN and mitigate rumination.

04/04/2023

Rhea Eskew

Psychology
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Sponsor: NSF

Time-locked psychophysics: speeded responses to visual stimuli

The project will use variations on a classic method called response time (RT) measurement, which has human participants respond as quickly as possible to the presentation of carefully-controlled visual patterns.  One goal is to demonstrate that the fastest RTs are triggered by the very early responses in the photoreceptors of the retina of the eye. Two parallel pathways in the visual system called ON and OFF pathways, generate opposite-polarity responses. A second goal is to test the hypothesis that these two pathways can be measured and studied separately using these speeded behavioral responses

04/03/2023

Sam Munoz

Marine and Environmental Sciences
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Sponsor: NSF

CAREER: Sedimentary signatures of large riverine floods to constrain risk and build resiliency

The traditional paradigm in river and floodplain management relies almost exclusively on stream gage measurements as the key dataset informing flood hazard assessments, while largely neglecting the geomorphic dynamics and resulting sedimentary records preserved in floodplains. This project builds on prior work in the development and application of stratigraphic records in floodplains by harnessing recent advances in hydraulic modeling, environmental sensors, and sedimentology to constrain flood hazard assessments. This research is integrated with an education and outreach plan designed to attract, motivate, and train community college students in geoscience research through an established internship program.

03/08/2023

Loretta Fernandez

Marine and Environmental Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Sponsor: NOAA

Determining how aquaculture grow-out methods can reduce the negative effects of parasites and micropollutants on farmed oysters  

We will be collaborating with local oyster farmers to investigate how growing methods (on the bottom vs. Floating) and water quality affect the prevalence and intensity of common oyster parasites. The knowledge developed through this work will be shared with various stakeholders through workshops and aquaculture professional associations.  

03/03/2023

Sijia dong and Hannah Sayre

Chemistry and Chemical Biology
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Sponsor: DOE

Bioinspired Light-Escalated Chemistry (BioLEC) 

The mission of the BioLEC Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) is to combine light harvesting and advances in solar photochemistry to enable more powerful editing, building, and transforming of abundant materials to produce energy-rich feedstock chemicals. As part of the BioLEC EFRC, we will develop new supercharged light-powered catalysts and reactions an deepen our understanding of existing ones, through which valuable products can be generated from plentiful molecules such as those extracted from waste and renewal resources.  

03/03/2023

Bryan Spring

Physics
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Sponsor: NIH

Disease-homing light delivery by engineering bioluminescent immune cells for whole body precision photomedicine 

Photomedicine avoids traditional side effects of systemic chemotherapy, yet effective outcomes are dependent on direct irradiation from an external light source that limits the scope and the types of cancers that may be treated. This proposal develops a precision photomedicine platform that exploits natural disease-homing properties of the immune system to mediate bioluminescence-activated phototherapy in combination with established technology to deliver photoactive therapeutic agents selectively to tumor cells. Successful, proof-of-concept studies will establish a new paradigm of systemic, whole-body phototherapy by enabling immune cell-based light delivery to deep and diffuse metastatic disease that would otherwise be impractical to treat using an external light source, thereby overcoming a major limitation of conventional phototherapy. Photomedicine avoids traditional side effects of systemic chemotherapy, yet effective outcomes are dependent on direct irradiation from an external light source that limits the scope and the types of cancers that may be treated. The proposal develops a precision photomedicine platform that exploits natural disease-homing properties of the immune system to mediate bioluminescence-activated phototherapy in combination with established technology to deliver photoactive therapeutic agents selectively to tumor cells. Successful, proof-of-concept studies will establish a new paradigm of systemic, whole-body phototherapy by enabling immune cell-based light delivery to deep and diffuse metastatic disease that would otherwise be impractical to treat using an external light source, thereby overcoming a major limitation of conventional phototherapy.  

This high-risk, high-reward concept grant will be performed by the Spring Lab at Northeastern University in collaboration with the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab at Cornell University. 

03/03/2023

Eddie Geisinger

Biology
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Sponsor: NIH

Repurposing Gram-positive Antibiotics for Gram-Negative Bacteria using Antibiotic Adjuvants 

The multidrug-resistant (MDR) sepsis pathogen Acinetobacter baumanni presents an enormous ongoing challenge to public health. Current treatment options for infections with these bacteria are extremely limited. Our research examines a class of small molecules called antibiotic adjuvants that greatly boost the activity of several existing antibiotics against A. baumanniim, with the goal of developing new combination approaches to treat MDR infections.  

01/26/2023

Carolyn Lee-Parsons

Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Chemical Engineering
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Sponsor: NSF

PlantSynBio: A Novel CRISPR SynBio Tool for Investigating and Reprogramming the Regulation of Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus 

Plants produce a white array of valuable, biologically active natural products we use as medicines. This grant will enable engineering for enhanced drug production from the medical plant, C. roseus.

01/20/2023

Rebecca Sherbo

Chemistry and Chemical Biology
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Sponsor: Catalyst Grant, Schmidt Science Fellows

Identifying factors that promote soft coral resilience in climate change-induced

This work, in collaboration with a biophysicist, will explore the resilience of soft corals to rising ocean temperatures by understanding two main adaptations: the coral microbiota, and the morphology and growth patterns.

01/18/2023

Rebecca Shansky

Psychology
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Sponsor: NIH

Sex-dependent pain processing circuitry in classical Pavlovian fear conditioning

Traumatic experiences create powerful memories by linking information about the trauma itself with environmental cues associated with the event. Our lab has found evidence that males and females may form these memories using different brain regions, and this grant will allow us to probe this question more deeply by recording neural activity in real time as animals are learning.

01/11/2023

Justin Reis

Marine and Environmental Sciences
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Sponsor: NOAA

Polymorph mineralogy & fraction of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) sediments across the western North Atlantic shelf (Gulf of Maine to Chesapeake Bay)

Prof. Justin Ries was funded to collect and analyze sediments from the western Atlantic shelf (Maine to Maryland) as part NOAA's third East Coast Ocean Acidification (ECOA-3) cruise aboard the NOAAS Ronald H. Brown -- NOAA's only scientific ship for global scale oceanographic survey. The objective of Prof. Ries' specific project is to characterize the distribution and composition of calcium carbonate sediments deposited within shelf sediments of the western Atlantic shelf. Characterizing the distribution and composition of shelf carbonates will improve our understanding of future CO2-induced climate and ocean change because these alkaline minerals have the capacity to moderate the effects of rising atmospheric CO2 as they dissolve in the ocean in response to CO2-induced acidification. Prof. Ries is working on this project as part of a large, interdisciplinary and collaborative team of marine ecologists, geochemists, microbiologists, and sedimentologists.
11/21/2022

Laurel Gabard-Durnam

Psychology
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Sponsor: Gates Foundation

The goals of this award are first to design and validate a scalable, affordable hardware-software package that reliably measures brain function via EEG in babies over the first two years of life. Second, in multi-country studies using this EEG system, we will establish which measures of early brain function track healthy developmental changes associated with early cognitive and language development across contexts and are sensitive to pre- and postnatal risk factors for brain development. Finally, we will establish which EEG measures of brain function are robust enough to serve as biomarkers to evaluate clinical intervention trial efficacy in early life.

11/02/2022

Sam Munoz

MES
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Sponsor: US Geo

Riverine flooding is a perennial hazard in the heavily populated Northeastern United States, and improving near- and long-term forecasts of flooding in this region is of critical importance for regional water resource management, infrastructure planning, and fisheries. In this project, we will harness advances in climate reanalysis and modeling to (i) identify the ocean-atmosphere patterns that generate flooding in New England and (ii) evaluate the contribution of greenhouse forcing on flood-generating mechanisms in this region.

10/05/2022

Gabor Lippner

Math
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Sponsor: Simons Foundation

Graph theory - the mathematical study of networks has originally developed as a part of discrete mathematics and combinatorics. This has changed significantly in the past 20 years following discoveries of connections to Linear Algebra and later to Geometry and even to Real Analysis. The goal of this project is to find new applications to, as well as expand the scope of, these connections.

10/05/2022

Michele Di Pierro

Physics
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Sponsor: NIH

The aim of the project is to gain mechanistic understanding of the relationships among non-coding genomic variation, phenotype, and disease. To achieve this aim, researchers will combine data from DNA-DNA proximity ligation assays and multiple genome alignments to extract coevolutionary information about DNA elements and to infer the network of functional interactions among them.

08/23/2022

Fabian Ruehle

Physics
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Sponsor: NSF

String theory has evolved into one of the most complex theories devised by mankind to date. Its goal is to describe our Universe from the smallest to the largest scales. In my research proposal, I suggest to use latest advances in mathematics and artificial intelligence to uncover answers to fundamental questions hidden within this theory.

08/18/2022

Pran Nath

Physics
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Sponsor: NSF

This research will investigate the laws of physics at short length and time scales not yet understood using symmetry principles and mathematical and machine learning tools. Analyses of data expected from the Large Hadron Collider, in Geneva, Switzerland to detect possible evidence of strings and new physics will be undertaken.

08/17/2022

Clemens Bauer Hoss

Psych
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Sponsor: NIH

Auditory hallucinations are one of the five cardinal symptoms of schizophrenia and one of the most distressing. Almost a third of patients experiencing auditory hallucinations are not responsive to gold-standard pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment. We have pioneered a new non-invasive treatment candidate, computational neuroscience-based approach, also known as network-based real-time functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Neurofeedback that is a well-tolerated and effective approach for reducing the severity and frequency of auditory hallucinations. However, because this technique currently requires fMRI to deliver neurofeedback, which unfortunately is an expensive procedure involving a complex setup and participant burden, this NIH award will help develop novel, non-invasive, personalized, and scalable treatments that will improve outcomes and reduce relapse rates among schizophrenia patients with treatment resistant auditory hallucinations.

08/02/2022

Jennifer Bowen

MES
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Sponsor: NSF

Salt marshes provide an important line of defense against nutrient pollution by intercepting watershed nitrogen before it enters estuaries. This nitrogen can enhance the growth of marsh plants, however some forms of nitrogen can also be used by microbes, who use it to decompose organic matter in low-oxygen sediments. Understanding which of these two outcomes is most likely to occur is important because, if marsh plants take up that nitrogen and grow more robustly, this will increase salt marsh resilience to sea-level rise. On the other hand, if microbes use that nitrogen for respiration, it could accelerate loss of organic matter, thereby decreasing resilience. This project combines field and greenhouse experiments to tease apart the relative importance of different N forms on the plant and microbial communities that ultimately dictate salt marsh resilience.

07/27/2022

Max Bi

Physics
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Sponsor: HFSP

To answer this question, Dapeng “Max” Bi (COS-Physics) has been awarded a collaborative HFSP grant with Friedhelm Serwane (LMU Munich, Germany) and Tamal Das (Tata Institute for Fundamental Research Hyderabad, India). Together, the team will develop a biomechanical understanding of the epidermis, which is critical for preventing and curing numerous skin defects, painful blistering, and skin cancers.

The International Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) organization supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms. The award is highly competitive, and this year only four percent of the applicants were selected for funding.

07/26/2022

Sara Constantino

Psychology
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Sponsor: NSF

Addressing collective action problems such as climate change requires individuals to engage in a host of coordinated behaviors to effect widespread systemic changes. Yet, while most people are concerned about climate change, they systematically underestimate others’ concern, which can inhibit action toward addressing collective challenges. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, this project uses mixed methods to develop and test an integrative framework illuminating drivers of pervasive social misperceptions and pathways for correcting these biases.

07/24/2022

Albert-László Barabási

Netsci
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Sponsor: NSF

Healthy debate is a cornerstone of scientific progress, but no one really knows when, how, and why these debates in science happen. In our funded research, we will use new computational techniques to automatically identify debates across the entire published scientific literature. We will study these debates to understand the role of disagreement in science and find policies that harness the power of debate to increase the pace of scientific discovery.

07/22/2022

Sam Munoz

MES
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Sponsor: NSF

The degradation and transport of plastics has led to its accumulation across a range of environments, but a key component of the plastic-carbon cycle — namely the transport and storage of microplastics through rivers and floodplains — remains poorly constrained. Understanding where and why plastics accumulate along rivers and floodplains is critical for mitigating and managing plastic pollution because rivers connect plastics production and use upstream to coasts and the open ocean. This project will analyze soil samples to quantify the amount and types microplastics found in different floodplain environments, and relate patterns of plastic accumulation to environmental parameters.

07/21/2022

Aron Stubbins

MES
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Sponsor: Running Tide

To slow climate change we need to stop burning fossil fuels and to find ways to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. When kelp and other macroalgae grow, they store carbon in their biomass, but they also continuously release organic carbon into ocean waters. The current project aims to understand whether this released organic carbon is also stored, not in the seaweeds themselves, but in the deep sea. Understanding what happens to all the carbon seaweeds capture is critical to Running Tide technologies that seek to use macroalgae to remove sufficient carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to help slow or reduce climate change.

07/21/2022

David DeSteno

Psychology
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Sponsor: Templeton

The John Templeton Foundation has awarded a $1 million grant to Professor David DeSteno to support his PRX Podcast “How God Works.” The podcast, which brings a scientific eye to examining how and why spiritual practices foster human flourishing, has appeared on Apple’s Top Ten List for science podcasts, and was recognized with honoree status by the Webby Awards in the Science Education category during its first year. The new grant will fund it for 4 more  8-episode seasons and provide funds for several live events to be held in cities across the US.

07/15/2022

Mary Jo Ondrechen

CCB
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Sponsor: NSF

This project’s overall goal is to build a knowledge base that will enable the design of enzymes that can catalyze industrial chemical reactions with less energy consumption and fewer unwanted by-products than many of the current conventional processes. Several dozen students, in both the research laboratories and the classroom, will be trained in computational and experimental techniques.

06/15/2022

Dacheng Lin

Physics
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Sponsor: STSI
06/07/2022

Mark Williams

Physics
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Sponsor: NIH

HIV-1 integrates its genome into infected host cells. Due to the permanence of the integrated genome, it is advantageous to target HIV-1 replication in early stages, before integration. To rationally design new inhibitors of these early replication steps, a detailed molecular understanding is required. This work proposes integrated biochemical, biophysical, and cellular approaches to probe critical steps in early viral replication.

05/27/2022

Milen Yakimov

Mathematics
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Sponsor: NSF

Noncommutative Algebras and Monoidal Triangulated Categories

05/27/2022

Jason Guo

Chemistry and Chemical Biology
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Sponsor: NIH

This award is to acquire a 600MHz NMR spectrometer primarily for medicinal chemistry applications

03/26/2022

Steven Lopez

Chemistry
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Sponsor: NSF

NSF Early Investigator (CAREER) Workshop Award

03/25/2022

Alain Karma

Physics
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Sponsor: NASA

Using Space to Improve Solidification Processes on Earth

03/25/2022

Charles Hillman

Psychology
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Sponsor: University of Illinois

Enhancing Children’s Cognitive Function and Achievement through Carotenoid Consumption

03/01/2022

Reese Bauer

Linguistics
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 This money will go towards funding studies that look to improve jury instructions and aim to reform the justice system in the United States.
02/24/2022

Sanjeev Mukerjee

Chemistry
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Sponsor: DOE/Giner

Liquid Electrolytes for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries with Enhanced Cycle Life and Energy Density Performance.

02/24/2022

Dagmar Sternad

Biology
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Sponsor: NIH

Predictability in complex object control.

02/24/2022

Pete Bex

Psychology
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Sponsor: NIH

Assessment and Rehabilitation of Binocular Sensorimotor Disorders.

02/04/2022

Samuel Munoz, in collaboration with Sylvia Dee and James Doss-Gollin at Rice

Marine and Environmental Sciences
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Sponsor: NSF

Collaborative Research: Evaluating the Past and Future of Mississippi River Hydroclimatology to Constrain Risk via Integrated Climate Modeling, Observations, and Reconstructions

02/04/2022

Meni Manunu

Physics
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Sponsor: PFI-TT NSF

Developing an integrated platform for high accuracy measurements of viral particle count and infectious titer.

01/28/2022

Jonathan Khan

Biology and Law
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Sponsor: National Library of Medicine

The Uses of Diversity: Managing Race and Representation in Law, Politics, and the Biosciences.

01/28/2022

Leila Deravi

Chemistry
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Sponsor: ONR

A Portable, Bio-inspired Platform for Photo-Responsive Sensing and Display

01/07/2022

Steven Lopez

Chemistry
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Sponsor: NSF

CAREER: Multiscale photodynamics simulations in solvated and crystalline environments

01/07/2022

Tovah Day

Biology
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Sponsor: NSF

CAREER: Mechanisms of G4 DNA induced genome instability

12/16/2021

Tsuguo Aramaki

Physics
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Sponsor: NASA

The GAPS Experiment: A Search for Dark Matter Using Low-Energy Antiparticles

 

10/18/2021

Laurel Gabard-Durnam

Psychology
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Sponsor: Wellcome Leap

KHULA LEAP: a multiscale approach to characterizing developing executive functions

10/18/2021

Steven Lopez

Chemistry and Chemical Biology
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Sponsor: NSF

Institute for Data Driven Dynamical Design

10/18/2021

Gregory Fiete

Physics
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Sponsor: DOE

Designing Strong stability in non-critical and rare-earth-lean-magnetic materials

10/18/2021

Bryan Spring

Physics
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Sponsor: RSCA, CZI, FGCF

Movement as a vital sign in preterm infants

10/05/2021

Heather Brenhouse

Psychology
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Sponsor: NIH

Mechanisms driving development of threat sensitivity following early life adversity

09/07/2021

Gregory Fiete

Physics
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Sponsor: NSF

Nonequilibrium Control of Magnetism and Topology Through Selective Phonon Excitation

09/06/2021

Bryan Spring

Physics
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Sponsor:  the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)

Ten multidisciplinary research teams will receive a combined $1,150,000 in funding as part of the inaugural year of Scialog: Advancing BioImaging, a three-year initiative, supported by Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) and the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation (FGCF), that aims to accelerate the development of the next generation of imaging technologies. Bryan Spring, Physics, Northeastern University, has teamed up with Barbara Smith, Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University to develop a unique combination of fiber-optic photoacoustic and multiphoton microscopy in a miniaturized device that facilitates comprehensive, high-resolution volumetric renders of the fallopian tube to precisely locate and to ablate premalignant tumors.

09/06/2021

David DeSteno and Lisa Feldman-Barrett

Psychology
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Sponsor: The John Templeton Foundation

Academic Ideas in the Public Sphere: Teaching Scientists and Philosophers How to Communicate with the Public

09/06/2021

Heather Brenhouse

Psychology
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Sponsor: NIH

Mechanisms driving the development of threat sensitivity following early life adversity

09/06/2021

Dagmar Sternad

Biology
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Sponsor: NSF

Movement as a Vital Sign in Preterm Infants

09/06/2021

Steven Lopez

Chemistry & Chemical Biology
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Sponsor: NSF

Harnessing the Data Revolution program

09/06/2021

Aron Stubbins

Marine and Environmental Sciences
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Sponsor: NSF Office of Ocean Sciences

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Assessing the contribution of plastics to marine particulate organic carbon

09/06/2021

George O’Doherty

Chemistry
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Sponsor: NSF

De Novo Asymmetric Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural Oligosaccharide Motifs

09/06/2021

Carla Mattos

Chemistry
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Sponsor: NSF

Allosteric effects in the complexes between Ras proteins and Raf

09/06/2021

Andrew Feiguin

Physics
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Sponsor: NSF

The many-body problem in the age of quantum machine learning

09/06/2021

Eddie Geisinger

Biology
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Sponsor: NIH/NIAID

Global Circuitry that Conotrols Acinetobacter Resistance and Virulence

05/17/2021

Sanjeev Mukerjee

Chemistry
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Sponsor: Advent Technology Holdings

Noble Metal Free Low Temperature Electrolyzer for Hydrogen Generation

05/17/2021

Sanjeev Mukerjee

Chemistry
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Sponsor: Department of Energy-Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) (DE-FOA-0002044)

Durable MEA’s for Heavy Duty Fuel Cell Electric Trucks

05/17/2021

Sam Scarpino

Marine and Environmental Science
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Sponsor: Tides Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation

COVID-19 Global health

04/12/2021

Carolyn Lee Parsons and Erin Cram

Biology
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Sponsor: NSF

A Novel CRISPR SynBio Tool for Investigating and Reprogramming the Regulation of Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus

04/12/2021

Randall Erb and Alain Karma

Physics
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Sponsor: NASA

Structure property processing correlations in freeze-cast biomimetic materials

01/11/2021

Dagmar Sternad

Biology
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Sponsor: NSF

Emergent motor timing influences perpetual timing

01/11/2021

Kim Lewis

Biology
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Sponsor: NIH

Evaluating darobactins as antimicrobial agents

01/08/2021

Mike Pollastri

Chemistry
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Sponsor: NIH/NIAID

In partnership with Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (R21AI141227), and with collaborators at CSIC (Granada, Spain; R01AI114685) and Kennesaw State University (R01AI124046), we will repurpose human kinase inhibitors as treatments for the parasitic diseases leishmaniasis, Chagas disease and human African trypanosomiasis.

11/12/2020

Geoffrey Trussell

MES
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Sponsor: NSF

Collaborative Research: Adaptation and the resiliency of food web structure and functioning to climate change

11/12/2020

Geoffrey Trussell

MES
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Sponsor: NSF

Local adaptation and the evolution of plasticity under predator invasion and warming seas: consequences for individuals, populations, and communities.

11/12/2020

Laurel Gabard-Durnam

Psychology
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Sponsor: Gates Foundation

The goal of this award is to test the efficacy of early brain imaging measures in predicting subsequent childhood cognitive outcomes across global contexts of adversity.

11/12/2020

Oleg Batichev

Physics
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Sponsor: AFOSR

Instrumentation for High Energy-Density Plasma Facility

11/12/2020

Derek Isaacowitz

Psychology
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Sponsor: NIH

Emotion Regulation in Adulthood and Aging: Preference and Effectiveness

11/12/2020

Alexander Ivanov

Chemistry
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Sponsor: NIH

Robust ultra-high sensitivity proteomic technologies for limited samples

10/14/2020

Roman Manetsch

Chemistry
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Sponsor: NIH

Use of De Novo Synthesis Approaches and Structure-guided Design to Optimize Therapeutic Properties of Streptothricin Class Antimicrobials

10/14/2020

Alexandros Makriyannis

Chemistry
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Sponsor: NIH

CB1 Neutral Antagonists for Alcohol Use Disorder

05/13/2020

Mary Jo Ondrechen

Chemistry
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Sponsor: NSF

Undergraduate Research in Modeling and Computation for Discovery of Molecular Probes for SARS-CoV-2 Proteins

05/11/2020

Sanjeev Mukerjee

Chemistry
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Sponsor: ARO

Tip-Enhanced and Co-Localized AFM-Raman Spectroscopy to Unveil Localized-Plasmon Promoted Direct-Charge Transfers across Nano-electrochemical Interfaces

05/08/2020

John Coley

Psychology
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Sponsor: NSF

Collaborative Research: Designing an Educational Intervention to Address Intuitive Misconceptions about COVID-19

05/08/2020

Sheeba Anteraper

Psychology
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Sponsor: NIH

Intrinsic Functional Architecture of Detate Muclei in Autism Spectrum

05/08/2020

Meni Wanunu

Physics
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Sponsor: NIH

Single-cell direct RNA sequencing using electrical zero-mode waveguides and engineered reverse transcriptases

04/23/2020

Mary Jo Ondrechen

Chemistry
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Sponsor: NSF

Identification of Chemical Probes and Inhibitors Targeting Novel Sites on SARS-CoV-2 Proteins for COVID-19 Intervention.

01/30/2020

Art Kramer

Psychology
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Sponsor: U Pitt

Effects of Tai Chi Mind-Body Exercise on the Motoric Cognitive Risk Syndrome

01/29/2020

Rebecca Shansky

Psychology
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Sponsor: National Institute of Health

TRPV1 signaling as a sex-specific mechanism of contextual fear generalization

01/28/2020

John Engen

Chemistry
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Sponsor: ATPases Newco, Inc

ATPases Newco, Inc.

01/28/2020

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Physics
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Sponsor: Northwestern U

Fundamental Dynamics, Predictability and Uncertainty of Scientific Discovery & Advancement

01/27/2020

Rebecca Shansky

Psychology
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Sponsor: National Institute of Health

Supplement: Mapping mesocortical contributions to estrous-dependent learning processes

01/23/2020

Karen Quigley

Psychology
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Sponsor: Mass General Hospital

Ovarian Effects on Intrinsic Connectivity and the Affective Enhancement Memory

01/17/2020

James Monaghan

Biology
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Sponsor: Retina Research Foundation

Analysis of Notch signaling-mediated cell fate determination during regeneration of the neural retina

01/14/2020

Jeff Galkowski

Mathematics
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Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Collaborative Research: Microlocal Concentration and Propagation in Spectral Theory

01/14/2020

Derek Isaacowitz

Psychology
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Sponsor: University of Zurich

The Role of Emotional and Motivational Attention in Healthy Aging

01/07/2020

Leila Deravi

Chemistry
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Sponsor: National Science Foundation

CAREER: Protein-integrated materials: From molecules to machines

01/06/2020

Srinivas Sridhar

Physics
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Sponsor: Tufts

The Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute - Pilot - Objective Portable Diagnostics of Neurological Disorders

12/16/2019

Kim Lewis

Biology
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Sponsor: National Institute of Health

Antibiotic discovery from environmental microorganisms of Brazil

12/10/2019

Sergey Kravchenko

Physics
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Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Band flattening at the Fermi level as a precursor of quantum electron crystallization

12/04/2019

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Physics
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Sponsor: Rockefeller Fndn

Scoping Out the Periodic Table of Food

12/04/2019

John Coley

Psychology
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Sponsor: Tufts

Longitudinal Investigation of the Decision Process in Adoption of Course-based Research

11/27/2019

Peter Bex

Psychology
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Sponsor: MEE

Assessing Spatial Processing Deficits in Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) Using Virtual Reality

11/25/2019

John Engen

Chemistry
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Sponsor: National Institute of Health

Conformational Regulation and Therapeutic Targeting of Oncogenic KRAS

11/25/2019

Katie Lotterhos

Marine and Environmental Science
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Sponsor: Rutgers U

Antibiotic Tolerance of Bacterial Pathogens in Cystic Fibrosis

11/22/2019

James Monaghan

Biology
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Sponsor: Loyola U

Oculomotor Deficits and Plasticity Across Gaze Posture in Strabismus

11/20/2019

Maiya Geddes

Psychology
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Sponsor: Brandeis U

Boston Roybal Center Pilot: Changing and understanding motivation to increase physical activity among sedentary older adults

11/15/2019

Leila Deravi

Chemistry
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Sponsor: Office of Navy Research

A Scalable Platform for Electroresponsive Optical Displays Inspired by Cephalopods

11/15/2019

Brian Helmuth

Marine and Environmental Science
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Sponsor: Environemntal Defense Fund

Developing a Climate Roadmap for Sustainable Fisheries in China

11/14/2019

Jared Auclair

Chemistry
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Sponsor: Amgen

Amgen Donation Agreement for the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory (BATL)

11/06/2019

Lisa Barrett

Psychology
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Sponsor: Sloan Fndn

Book Grant: Seven Insights about the Brain.

11/06/2019

John Engen

Chemistry
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Sponsor: Genzyme

Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry for the Analysis of Acid Sphingomyelinase

10/07/2019

Alina Marian

Mathematics
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Sponsor: Radcliffe Institute

THE CHOW RINGS OF MODULI SPACES OF STABLE SHEAVES

10/03/2019

Steven Lopez

Chemistry
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Sponsor: Mass Life Sciences

In Silico Design of an Array of Multicolor, Hybrid Fluorescent and Photodynamic Chromophores for Cancer Surgery and LightActivated Therapy

09/23/2019

Gregory Fiete

Physics
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Sponsor: NSF

DMREF: Collaborative Research: Design and synthesis of novel materials for spin caloritronic devices

09/17/2019

Steven Lopez

Chemistry
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Sponsor: NSF

Collaborative Resarch: Accelerating the Discovery of Electronic materials through Human-Computer Active Search

09/13/2019

Dan Distel

Marine and Environmental Science
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Sponsor: NOAA

Bioprospecting for industrial enzymes and drug lead compounds in an ancient submarine forest.

09/13/2019

Jonathan Grabowski

Marine and Environmental Science
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Sponsor: NOAA
08/19/2019

Alessandro Vespignani

Physics
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Sponsor: NSF

Collaborative Research: AccelNet: Accelerating Discovery in Multilevel Network Science

07/26/2019

Craig Gruber

Psychology
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$100,000
Sponsor: ARL

Congested and Contested RF Emulations with Colosseum

07/26/2019

Rhea Eskew

Psychology
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Sponsor: NSF

Higher-Order Color: From Cones to Postreceptoral Mechanisms

07/26/2019

Aron Stubbins

Marine and Environmental Science
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Sponsor: NSF

Collaborative Research: CBET: The role of sunlight in determining the fate and microbial impact of microplastics in surface waters

07/25/2019

Alessandro Vespignani

Physics
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Sponsor: CDC

Multiscale modeling of layered pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical intervention during an emerging influenza pandemic

07/23/2019

Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli

Psychology
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Sponsor: BIDMC

A Psychobiological Follow-up Study of Transition from Prodrome to Early Psychosis

07/22/2019

Craig Ferris

Psychology
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Sponsor: Azevan Pharmaceuticals, Inc

A New Drug for the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury

07/22/2019

Alina Marian

Mathematics
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Sponsor: NSF

Universal Series, Chow Rings, and Dualities in the Moduli Theory of Sheaves

07/18/2019

Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli

Psychology
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Sponsor: HMS

Real-time fMRI Neurofeedback as a Tool to Mitigate Auditory Hallucinations in Patients with Schizophrenia

07/17/2019

David DeSteno

Psychology
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Sponsor: Penn State

Nudging Empathy: Harnessing Motivation to Create Sustainable Empathic Choices

07/15/2019

Jonathan Grabowski

Marine and Environmental Science
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Sponsor: TNC

Lenfest Ocean Grant

07/10/2019

Meni Wanunu

Physics
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Sponsor: BWF

Uncovering genome variation in long DNA and repeat-disease biomarkers using nucleic acid-based reporters and nanopore readout

07/02/2019

Mark Williams

Physics
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Sponsor: NIH

11th International Retroviral Nucleocapsid and Assembly Symposium

06/26/2019

Mary Ondrechen

Chemistry
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Sponsor: NSF

D3SC: Mining for mechanistic information to predict protein function

06/21/2019

Leila Deravi

Chemistry
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Sponsor: ARO

Soft, reconfigurable photonic systems inspired by cephalopod chromatophores: A platform to study dispersed light sensing in squid

06/20/2019

Steven Lopez

Chemistry
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Sponsor: BWF

In Silico Design of an Array of Multicolor Chromophores for Cancer Surgery and Light-Activated Therapy

06/19/2019

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Physics
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Sponsor: Scipher

SRA - Scipher

06/14/2019

Rebecca Shansky

Psychology
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Sponsor: NIH

Mapping mesocortical contributions to estrous-dependent learning processes

06/10/2019

George O'Doherty

Chemistry
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Sponsor: BIDMC

Targeted modification of the apramycin 2-deoxystreptamine ring to block aminoglycoside modifying enzyme-based inactivation and enhance potency against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens

05/31/2019

Steven Lopez

Chemistry
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Sponsor: BWF

Burroughs Research Travel Grant

05/31/2019

Charles Hillman

Psychology
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Sponsor: KUMC

Antioxidant Imaging Marker of Investigating Gains in Neurocognition in an Intervention Trial of Exercise (AIM-IGNITE)

05/24/2019

Herbert Levine

Physics
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Sponsor: NSF

Spatial Patterning in the Progressing Tumor - The Role of Notch

05/23/2019

Alina Karma

Physics
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Sponsor: Dartmouth College

Structure-property-processing correlations in freeze-cast Biomimetic Materials

05/21/2019

Paul Whitford

Physics
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Sponsor: NSF

Quantifying the effects of ions and collective rearrangements during ribosome function

05/16/2019

Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli

Psychology
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Sponsor: Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc

Sponsored Research Agreement with Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

05/15/2019

Eugene Smotkin

Chemistry
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Sponsor: ARO

Quantum Theory and Measured Turnover Rates: Perovskite Chemical Transistors for Non-Faradaic Alkane Isomerization

05/14/2019

James Halverson

Physics
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Sponsor: NSF

CAREER: Physics Implications of the String Landscape
via Formal Theory and Data Science

05/07/2019

Alexander Ivanov

Barnett
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Sponsor: AB Sciex

Collaborative Agreement with AB Sciex

05/07/2019

Jennifer Bowen

Marine and Environmental Science
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Sponsor: WHRC

Collaborative Research: TIDE: Legacy effects of long-term nutrient enrichment on recovery of saltmarsh ecosystems

05/07/2019

Scyphers, S

Marine and Environmental Science
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Sponsor: TNC

Northeastern University’s Coastal Sustainability Institute and The Nature Conservancy Joint Coastal Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellows Program

03/28/2019

Charles Hillman

Psychology
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Sponsor: KUMC

Antioxidant Imaging Marker of Investigating Gains in Neurocognition in an Intervention Trial of Exercise (AIM-IGNITE)

03/28/2019

Slava Epstein and Meni Wanunu

Biology/Physics
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Sponsor: Raytheon BBN

INSPECT: In situ Phenotype Evaluation using CMOS Technology

03/25/2019

George O’Doherty

Chemistry
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Sponsor: BIDMC

Targeted modification of the apramycin 2-deoxystreptamine ring to block aminoglycoside modifying enzyme-based inactivation and enhance potency against multidrug-resistant Gram- negative pathogens

03/13/2019

Alain Karma

Physics
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Sponsor: NSF

NSF-BSF: DYNAMICS OF MATERIALS FAILURE

03/07/2019

Leila Deravi

Chemistry
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Sponsor: ONR

A Scalable Platform for Electroresponsive Optical Displays Inspired by Cephalopods

03/05/2019

Paul Hand

Mathematics
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Sponsor: NSF

CAREER: Signal Recovery from Generative Priors

03/05/2019

Sanjeev Mukerjee

Chemistry
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Sponsor: ARO

Harvesting Localized Plasmons on Noble Metal Nanostructures for Efficient Electrochemical and Photochemical Reactions

03/04/2019

Qingying Jia

Chemistry
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Sponsor: MTTC

The development of efficient platinum-group metal free catalysts to generate high purity hydrogen gas from water

02/27/2019

John Engen

Chemistry
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Sponsor: Novartis

SRA – Exploration of biophysical methods to study the importance of KRAS protein flexibility in solution

02/22/2019

Roman Manetsch

Chemistry
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Sponsor: NIH

Development of Streptothricin Class Antimicrobials as Novel Therapeutics

02/21/2019

Randall Hughes

Marine Science
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Sponsor: NSF

Collaborative Research: Trait differentiation and local adaptation to depth within meadows of the foundation seagrass Zostera marina

02/21/2019

Michael Pollastri

Chemistry
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Sponsor: NIH

Lead optimization of hits identified from virtual and experimental screens of multiple industrial libraries DNDi

02/18/2019

Arun Bansil

Physics
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Sponsor: DOE; Temple University

A Center for Complex Materials from First Principles

02/15/2019

David Kimbro

Marine & Environmental Science
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Sponsor: NSF

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Quantifying mechanisms by which Hurricane Michael facilitates a stable-state reversal on oyster reefs

02/14/2019

Mark Patterson

Marine & Environmental Science
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$75,000
Sponsor: Schmidt Foundation

MantaRay Commercialization Strategy

02/13/2019

Kim Lewis

Biology
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$86,711
Sponsor: ARO / Harvard

Identifying pathogenic bacteria by phenotyping individual cells

02/13/2019

David Kimbro

Marine & Environmental Science
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$22,994
Sponsor: OSU

A Collaborative Science Program for the National Estuarine Research Reserve System: Connecting End Users Throughout the Applied Research Process Primary Sponsor: Department of Commerce

02/05/2019

Steven Scyphers

Marine & Environmental Science
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$92,906
Sponsor: TNC

Northeastern University’s Coastal Sustainability Institute and The Nature Conservancy Joint Coastal Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellows Program

02/05/2019

Roman Manetsch

Chemsitry
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$66,000
Sponsor: NIH / BIDMC

Plasmid Eviction as a Novel Adjunctive Antimicrobial Target

02/05/2019

David DeSteno

Psychology
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$234,439
Sponsor: John Templeton Foundation

Academic Ideas in the Public Sphere: Teaching Scientists and Philosophers How to Communicate with the “General Reader”

02/04/2019

Samuel Scarpino

Marine & Environmental Science
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$100,000
Sponsor: The Gates Foundation / IPRD

Development and Maintenance of a Suite of Application Programmer Interfaces (API) and Data Standards

02/01/2019

Jonathan Grabowski

Marine & Environmental Science
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$7,500
Sponsor: Town of Essex

Feasibility Study for An Essec Bay Living Shoreline Primary Sponsor: Commonwealth of Massachusetts

01/31/2019

Peter Bex

Psychology
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$428,451
Sponsor: NIH

Eye Movement Rehabilitation in Low Vision Patients

01/29/2019

Jonathan Grabowski

Marine Science Center
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$84,330
Sponsor: TNC

Addressing Constraints to Shellfish Aquaculture Through Quantifying Ecosystem Services and Public Perceptions in the Northeast

01/28/2019

Kim Lewis

Biology
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$1,687,500
Sponsor: SACF

Development of Disulfiram to Treat Lyme Disease

01/28/2019

Kim Lewis

Biology
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Sponsor: SACF

Development of Hygromycin A to Treat Lyme Disease

01/22/2019

I Kovacs

Physics
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Sponsor: BWF

Physics Uncovering the Organizing Principles of Genetic Interaction Networks

01/11/2019

Lisa Barrett

Psychology
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Sponsor: John Templeton Foundation

Building Online Resources for Scientists and Philosophers Communicating with the “General Reader”

01/10/2019

Alessandro Vespignani

Physics
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Sponsor: NIH / BCH

Development of an Open-Source and Data-Driven Modeling Platform to Monitor and Forecast Disease Activity

01/09/2019

Alexander Ivanov

Biology
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Sponsor: Medimmune

SRA – Medimmune

01/04/2019

Rebecca Shansky

Psychology
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Sponsor: Mindlin Foundation

Endocannabinoid Modulation of Stress Coping

01/03/2019

Dagmar Sternad

Biology
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Sponsor: Simons Foundation

Characterization of predictive abilities in individuals with ASD using web-based interception

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