Recently Funded Projects

Delaware INBRE
LENGTH: 4 yr. 9 mo.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Melinda Duncan, Anjana Bhat, Jeremy Bird, Jeffrey Caplan, Chuming Chen, Yixiang Deng, Shanshan Ding, Lisa Jaremka, Christopher Kloxin, Laura Lessard, Karol Miaskiewicz, Jennifer Peterson, Shawn Polson, Wei Qian

Expanding our Partnership: Steps Towards a Cure
LENGTH: 11 mo.
SPONSOR: Delaware Community Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Christopher Martens, Austin Brockmeier, Matthew Cohen, Curtis Johnson, Alyssa Lanzi, Ryan Pohlig, Megan Wenner, Zhihao Zhuang

Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Multiscale Biomolecular Sensing
LENGTH: 4 yr. 9 mo.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Donald Watson

Pathway to $10 Per Gram: A Technology Roadmap for Cost-Effective mAb Manufacturing
LENGTH: 3 yr.
SPONSOR: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Kelvin Lee

INBRE V
LENGTH: 4 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Economic Development Office
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Melinda Duncan

E-RISE RII: Water in the Changing Coastal Environment of Delaware – Saltwater Intrusion
LENGTH: 4 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Kent Messer, Wei-Jun Cai, Samantha Clem, Holly Michael, Pinki Mondal, Leah Palm-Forster, Amy Slocum, Carolyn Voter

Discovery of Chemical Probes and Therapeutic Leads
LENGTH: 4 yr. 9 mo.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Joseph Fox

Strengthening Partnerships for Advancing Research Capacity in Delaware
LENGTH: 4 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Amy Slocum, Chuming Chen, John Huffman, Julius Korley, Xi Peng, Amalea Rassias, K Wommack, Cathy Wu

Delaware’s Quality Improvement System (Delaware Stars and Professional Development)
LENGTH: 1 yr.
SPONSOR: Delaware Department of Education
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Kristy Jo Sheffler

Peptidoglycan Fragment Library to Investigate Innate Immune Responses
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Catherine Grimes

MARACOOS: Continuing to Strengthen Mid-Atlantic Infrastructure, Data Products and Services
LENGTH: 3 yr.
SPONSOR: National Oceanic/Atmospheric Admin.
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Gerhard Kuska, Mary Ford

MRI: Track 2 Acquisition of a 600 MHz Dynamic Nuclear Polarization NMR System for Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Training
LENGTH: 3 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Tatyana Polenova, Shi Bai, Caitlin Quinn

FEC: Tri-State Collaborative for Defluorination of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
LENGTH: 4 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Dongxia Liu

Importance of Muscle-Subtendon Units in Achilles Tendinopathy
LENGTH: 4 yr. 10 mo.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Stephanie Cone

E-CORE RII: Strengthening Partnerships for Advancing Research Capacity in Delaware
LENGTH: 4 yr.
SPONSOR: State of Delaware-General
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Amy Slocum

Dissecting the Protective Role of Cardiac Hsp90ß Ablation/Inhibition
LENGTH: 4 yr. 11 mo.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Chi Keung Lam, Elise Corbin, Jason Gleghorn

H2CIRC- Circular Recycling for the Hydrogen Economy
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Ajay Prasad, Marianthi Ierapetritou, Raul Lobo, Randolph McGee, Levi Thompson, Dionisios Vlachos, Bingqing Wei

Benefits and Harms of Antihypertensive Management Strategies for Nursing Homes Residents with ADRD
LENGTH: 4 yr.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Daniel Harris

Recycling of Polyolefins Via Novel Electrothermochemical Processing
LENGTH: 3 yr.
SPONSOR: US Department of Energy
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Dionisios Vlachos, Kelvin Fu; Marianthi Ierapetritou; Dongxia Liu; Weiqing Zheng

Neuromorphic Computing Circuit Primitive Testbeds
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: US Department of Energy
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Yuping Zeng

Scalable Stable Perovskite Solar Cells for Soldier and Small Unit Tactical Energy Technology
LENGTH: 1 yr. 6 mo.
SPONSOR: Department of the Army
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: William Shafarman

Probing Spatiotemporal Mechanobiology Through Novel Dynamic Material Platforms
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Elise Corbin

Northeast Agriculture Risk Management Education Center
LENGTH: 3 yr.
SPONSOR: US Department of Agriculture
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Laurie Wolinski

Cellular Heterogeneity and Niche Regulation in TMJ
LENGTH: 4 yr. 9 mo.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Joohyun Lim

Transcriptional Control of Gene Expression in the Lens
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Salil Lachke

Smith-Lever Act Capacity Grant
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: National Institute of Food & Agriculture
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Erik Ervin

Graduate Research Fellowship Program
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Louis Rossi, Ariel Alperstein, Christina Barbieri, Federica Bianco, Mark Blenner, Ho Ming Chow, Zoubeida Dagher, Vincenzo Ellis, Elizabeth Farley-Ripple, Catherine Fromen, Lars Gundlach, Edward Hale, Aditya Kunjapur, Abraham Lenhoff, Miling Li, Xin Lu, Peter Mende-Sie

Bacterial Cytochrome C Biogenesis Synthase Function, Specificity and Evolution
LENGTH: 5 yr.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Molly Sutherland

UniProt Partnerships with Common Fund Data Ecosystem Resources for Protein-Centric Functional Genomics
LENGTH: 2 yr.
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Cathy Wu, Chuming Chen

Advancing Sustainable Economic and Environmental Development Through the Creation of Production Systems for a Fisheries & Aquaculture Innovation Center
LENGTH: 4 yr.
SPONSOR: National Oceanic/Atmospheric Admin.
ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Edward Hale