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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  • 06/01/2024

    Aaron Seitz and Susanne Jaeggi

    Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
    Understanding Mediating and Moderating Factors that Determine Transfer of Working Memory Training This project aims to understand individual differences in working memory training, how they interact with different training procedures, and how this leads to differences in near and far transfer of learning in adolescents with ADHD.Read More
  • 05/22/2024

    John Coley (PI), Brian Helmuth (CoPI), Catie Nielson (CoPI)

    Sponsor: National Science Foundation, STEM Education Directorate (EDU), Education Core Research Program, #2400411 (ECR)
    Cognitive Foundations of Environmental Science Education: Exploring Impacts of Human Exceptionalism on Marine Social-Ecological Systems Thinking Environmental issues are among the most pressing facing humankind. As such, understanding how students learn about environmental science is of supreme importance. Students entering the science classroom bring well-developed intuitive frameworks that help to understand, explain, and predict the…Read More
  • 05/22/2024

    Javier Apfeld

    Sponsor: National Institute of Aging
    Genome-Wide CRISPR Activation: A Novel Strategy for Identifying Anti-Aging Targets This project will characterize and optimize a novel time and cost saving toolkit that allows simple, rapid, and robust activation of gene expression in the widely used model organism C. elegans, bringing new capabilities to systematically test the effect of gene activation in a broad…Read More
  • 05/22/2024

    Randall Hughes and Jon Grabowski

    Sponsor: The Nature Conservancy
    Coastal Sustainability Institute and Nature Conservancy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Coastal Sustainability This grant funds a 2-year postdoctoral researcher who works in collaboration with PIs Hughes and Grabowski in the NU Coastal Sustainability Institute and with colleagues at The Nature Conservancy to address major challenges facing the sustainability and resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems….Read More
  • 04/19/2024

    Esteban Moro-Egido

    Sponsor: NSF
    Mobility Data for Communities (MD4C): Uncovering Segregation, Climate Resilience, and Economic Development from Cell-Phone Records In this project, we plan to build a public mobility data platform for the Boston area that will help neighborhoods and communities use cellphone-generated data to address issues of social equity, racial and socioeconomic segregation, economic development, and climate resilience.Read More
  • 04/19/2024

    Jing-Ke Weng

    Sponsor: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
    A Plant Small-Molecule Discovery Platform to Study Neurodegeneration (CP2-Weng)  The proposed research aims to develop a plant-based drug screening platform to identify small molecules that can disrupt protein and RNA aggregation associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s. The project will utilize the unique lyciumin peptide biosynthesis pathway in plants to generate…Read More
  • 04/19/2024

    Paul Whitford

    Sponsor: NIH
    Elucidating the mechanisms that enable translation in bacterial and eukaryotic ribosomes This award will use theoretical models and high-performance computing to study the ribosome, a massive molecular assembly composed of hundreds of thousands of atoms. The ribosome is responsible for translating our genes into proteins, making its function central to all life. In this study,…Read More
  • 04/19/2024

    Thomas Wales

    Sponsor: NIH/DFCI
     Targeting SHP-1 through a newfound metabolite-regulated cysteine activation site This new project is focused on chemical manipulation and characterization of SHP-1 based on recent insights, gained in large part from the development of mass spectrometry approaches to map small molecule covalent interactions proteome-wide done in the Chouchani laboratory. My research group will apply hydrogen-deuterium exchange…Read More
  • 04/19/2024

    Meni Wanunu

    Sponsor: NIH
    Direct RNA sequencing using electro-optical zero mode waveguides and custom click fluorescent nucleotides Reading the sequence and detecting the diversity of chemical modifications in RNA molecules would be a huge step forward for understanding the biology and disease-causing events in human cells. However, methods that can directly read single molecules are lacking, prompting us to…Read More
  • 04/19/2024

    Needa Brown (Co-I: Srinivas Sridhar)

    Sponsor: Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Women’s Health Innovation Award
    InCITE: A Biomaterial Platform to Overcome Barriers to Drug Delivery The objective of this work is to generate robust pre-IND, translational preclinical data that will support the platform technology, InCITE, Implants for Chemo-Immuno Therapy Enhancement, as a sustained release option to overcome barriers to drug delivery.Read More
  • 03/19/2024

    Dan Distel

    Sponsor: Cell Signaling Technology, 507764
    Annual Environmental and Social Responsibility Grant: Ocean Genome Legacy Student Research in DNA Preservation This grant will support OGL’s long running and successful Student Research in DNA Preservation Program, providing funds for experiments to improve the quality of DNA extracted from frozen biological materials. Freezing at ultra-cold temperatures (>80°C) is considered the “gold standard” for…Read More
  • 03/14/2024

    Randall Hughes, Sara Constantino, Laura Kuhl

    Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Award Number: 2322178
    CIVIC-FA Track A: Kickstarting A Youth-Centered Green Economy For The Environmental Justice Community Of East Boston This research involves understanding how underserved communities get actively engaged in making the transition to a vibrant green economy with improved environmental conditions and community resilience to climate change. To accomplish this goal, the research engages local youth in…Read More

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