July 2021 Selected Grants
Below is a brief snapshot of some of the research grants awarded to Boston University faculty in July 2021. View previously selected grants, or a full summary of this month’s awards. For detailed information on research funding, visit Sponsored Research Reporting on the Research Support site.
Pathways of Risk and Resilience for Overlapping Pain and Sensitization
Total Anticipated
$ 3,220,561
Principal Investigator
Tuhina Neogi, School of Medicine
Sponsor
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Alkaloid Biosynthetic Studies
Total Anticipated
$ 1,254,000
Principal Investigator
Pinghua Liu, College of Arts & Sciences
Sponsor
NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Architecting the Cosmos: A Combined System of Optical Phase Change Memory and Optical Links
Total Anticipated
$ 500,000
Principal Investigator
Ajay Joshi, College of Engineering
Sponsor
National Science Foundation
Innate Sensing of HIV in Microglia
Total Anticipated
$ 464,612
Principal Investigator
Hisashi Akiyama, School of Medicine
Sponsor
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Understanding Social Dynamics Through Coevolving Latent Space Networks with Attractors
Total Anticipated
$ 449,985
Principal Investigator
Eric Kolaczyk, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering
Sponsor
National Science Foundation
Bringing Asia to Digital Life: Mobilizing Underrepresented Asian Herbarium Collections in the US to Propel Biodiversity Discovery
Total Anticipated
$ 379,781
Principal Investigator
Ziba Parissa Cranmer, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering
Sponsor
National Science Foundation
Automatically Detecting Lateral Movement in Organizations Using Heterogeneous Data and Graph Representation Learning
Total Anticipated
$ 250,000
Principal Investigator
Gianluca Stringhini, College of Engineering
Sponsor
National Science Foundation
SMAD6-Deficient Zebrafish as a Model for Multifactorial Craniosynostosis
Total Anticipated
$ 206,250
Principal Investigator
Shannon Fisher, School of Medicine
Sponsor
NIH/National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research
Development of a Family-Based Transition Planning Program for Culturally-Diverse Youth on the Autism Spectrum
Total Anticipated
$ 160,000
Principal Investigator
Kristin Long, College of Arts & Sciences
Sponsor
Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Fund
Advanced Research Training Program in Psychiatric Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Research
Total Anticipated
$ 149,814
Principal Investigator
Zlatka Russinova, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College
Sponsor
Administration for Community Living