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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  • 05/07/2026

    Damon Hall

    Sponsor: Sarah K. deCoizart Perpetual Trust
    Unveiling municipal policy innovations for insect pollinator conservation: Lessons for Rusty-patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis) recovery  This two-year project investigates municipal insect pollinator conservation policy innovations across New England, focusing on habitat recovery for the endangered Rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis). Despite severe pollinator declines driven by habitat loss, cities demonstrate surprising bee diversity due to diverse landscaping choices…Read More
  • 05/07/2026

    Bindu Veetel 

    Sponsor: City of Boston
    SuccessLink Summer 2026 Grant  The SuccessLink Summer Grant will pay Boston Public School students a wage to participate in the Bridget to Calculus Summer Program. Designed for rising juniors and seniors from Boston Public Schools, the program provides rigorous Precalculus and Calculus instruction to prepare students for AP Calculus. Beyond core math, students choose one STEM enrichment elective — Biology,…Read More
  • 05/07/2026

    Rik Dhar and Meni Wanunu 

    Sponsor: KRI/DARPA
    SNAPS: Stepper-Track Nanopore Array for Protein Sequencing  This project develops a new technology to read the sequence of proteins directly, similar to how DNA sequencing works. The SNAPS platform uses tiny pores to analyze individual protein molecules in real time, overcoming major limitations of current methods that require large samples and cannot read long protein sequences intact. This breakthrough…Read More
  • 05/07/2026

    Aaron Seitz and Susanne Jaeggi 

    Sponsor: Penn State/National Institutes of Health
    THE NIH PRECISION BRAIN HEALTH NETWORK: Open and Inclusive Measurement of Neuropsychological Change for AD/ADRD Primary Prevention Trials  Drs. Seitz and Jaeggi are developing a digital platform to standardize how researchers measure brain health across diverse populations. Their Portable Adaptive Rapid Testing (PART) system provides flexible smartphone-based tests for hearing, vision, and cognitive abilities that…Read More
  • 05/07/2026

    Dacheng Lin

    Sponsor: NASA
    Unraveling the Final Stage of a Unique Hard Tidal Disruption Event  This project studies what happens when a star gets too close to a massive black hole and is torn apart by gravitational forces—an event called a tidal disruption. Using the Chandra X-ray telescope, researchers will observe a recently discovered nearby event that showed unusual behavior, aiming…Read More
  • 05/07/2026

    Hai-Ping Cheng 

    Sponsor: Stanford/Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
    Mirror Coatings for Next-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors: A Path to Discovery  Dr. Hai-Ping Cheng is developing better materials for ultra-precise optical instruments used in space-based research. Her team uses computer simulations and artificial intelligence to understand how tiny impurities affect the performance of optical coatings, and to design new materials with improved properties. This work supports…Read More
  • 05/07/2026

    Clemens Bauer Hoss 

    Sponsor: MGH
    Real-time fMRI Neurofeedback Research Program  Dr. Clemens Bauer Hoss uses real-time brain imaging to help patients gain control over the neural circuits involved in their psychiatric symptoms. His lab is testing whether patients with treatment-resistant conditions like schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder can learn to regulate their own brain activity through neurofeedback training. This research, funded by…Read More
  • 05/07/2026

    Kim Lewis 

    Sponsor: Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery Innovator
    Platform for Discovering Antibiotics Targeting Gram Negative Pathogens  Kim Lewis will lead a team that will develop an advanced platform to resolve intractable bottlenecks in antibiotic discovery. The focus will be on 30 targets in the cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria. An AI-based search of genomic libraries for biosynthetic gene clusters associated with these targets…Read More
  • 05/07/2026

    Virgine Sjoelund

    Sponsor: Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
    Infrastructural Support to Establish a Single-Cell Proteomics Facility at Northeastern University  Northeastern University’s Mass Spectrometry Facility has been awarded a $2.2 million research infrastructure grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) to build a cutting-edge core supporting single-cell proteomics research. The award, through the Center’s Research Infrastructure program, will establish a fully integrated pipeline that enables researchers to…Read More
  • 05/07/2026

    Vivek Venkatachalam

    Sponsor: Brandeis University
    Establishing sensory functions of pharyngeal enteric neurons in C. elegans  Enteric neurons of the gut play important roles in sensing internal cues such as ingested chemicals and mechanical stimuli, and in turn, regulate gut motility, digestive processes, and gut-brain interactions. We will investigate how enteric neurons of the foregut in the nematode C. elegans detect…Read More
  • 05/07/2026

    Alexander Ivanov

    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Robust ultra-high sensitivity proteomic technologies for limited samples  The proposed research will be focused on technology development for ultra-high sensitivity deep proteomic, glycomic, and spatial multiomic analysis of limited biological and clinical samples. Comprehensive molecular characterization of such samples at the level of digested proteins, released glycans, intact proteoforms, native non-covalent protein complexes, and protein interactions is presently an…Read More
  • 05/07/2026

    Laurel Gabard-Durnam

    Sponsor: Gates Foundation
    This increased investment of $8 million from the Gates Foundation to expands Dr. Gabard-Durnam’s research program centered around using EEG to benchmark early brain development in global and low-resource settings. This investment will now include rolling out scalable infant EEG metrics in early maternal and neonatal RCTs as an intervention outcome measure, and a focus on building cloud-based EEG…Read More

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