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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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2024

    Art Kramer and Chuck Hillman

    Sponsor: NIH/NIA
    Breaking prolonged sitting with high intensity interval training to improve cognitive and brain health in older adults Capitalizing on Physical Activity intensity as the major limiting factor in peripheral catecholamine increase, we propose a randomized crossover trial to compare 2 conditions lasting 3.5 h each: sitting interrupted by 6-min HIIT every 30 min (HIIT Breaks),…Read More
  • 2024

    Laszlo Barabasi

    Sponsor: NSF 2243104; University of Michigan PTE: SUBK00018203
    Center for Complex Particle Systems (Compass) Robustness under variable conditions is an essential property that biological organisms and human networks acquire by adopting a dynamic hierarchical structure. Moreover, complex organization spontaneously emerges from simple constitutents if they are numerous, strongly interacting and diverse. A nearly identical set of attributes is characteristic of colloidal particles, ranging…Read More
  • 2024

    Jing-Ke Weng

    Sponsor: Food Allergy Science Initiative (FASI)
    The role of phytochemicals in food allergy This project investigates the role of phytochemicals in food allergies, focusing on identifying plant secondary metabolites that influence allergic reactions and developing potential therapeutics for food allergies. Jing-Ke Weng’s lab aims to advance understanding of food allergy causes and mechanisms through interdisciplinary research on plant chemistry and its…Read More
  • 2024

    Charles Hillman

    Sponsor: R01 AG083156
    Examining the Persistence of Neurocognitive Benefits of Exercise In this 5-year follow-up to the IGNITE exercise intervention study we will examine whether exercise has a delayed or protracted benefit to neurocognitive outcomes including Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology. We will also examine whether we can predict long-term exercise engagement by utilizing the rich biological and psychological data…Read More

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