Federal Grant Opportunities: September 8

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  7. Education
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  9. Health
  10. Housing and Homelessness
  11. Infrastructure and Transportation
  12. International Development
  13. Science and Technology

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Recent Grant and Contract Awards:

Recipient

Amount

Granting Agency

Actasys, Inc. (Watervliet): High Performance Computational Modeling of Synthetic Jet Actuators for Increased Freight Efficiency in the Transportation Industry

$300,000

Department of Energy

Applied Materials, Inc. (Malta): Modeling High Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS) Plasma Sources for Reactive Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) Processes Used in Fabrication of High Efficiency LEDs

$300,000

Department of Energy

GE Global Research: Develop Turbine End Seals and Turbine Interstage Seals for Utility-scale Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) Power Cycles

$1,725,000

Department of Energy

GE Global Research: Highly Selective and Stable Multivariable Gas Sensors for Enhanced Robustness and Reliability of SOFC Operation

$545,290

Department of Energy

GE Global Research: Minimization of Spatter during Direct Metal Laser Melting (DMLM) Additive Manufacturing Process using ALE3D Coupled with Experiments

$300,000

Department of Energy

Health Research, Inc.: Testing the Efficacy of a Strengths-based Curriculum to Reduce Risk for Future Sexual Violence Perpetration among Middle School Boys

$450,000

HHS National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

Health Research, Inc. / NYS Department of Health: Comprehensive HIV Prevention Project for Health Departments

$2,704,939

HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area

$497,350

National Park Service

Mohawk Innovative Technology: High Temperature Anode Recycle Blower for SOFC

$600,000

Department of Energy

Niskayuna Community Action Program: Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Programs

$125,000

White House Drug Policy Office

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: A Blueprint for Photocatalytic Water Splitting: Mapping Multidimensional Compositional Space to Simultaneously Optimize Thermodynamics and Kinetics

$244,999

National Science Foundation - DMREF: Collaborative Research

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Assessing the Effects of Cross-scale Scale Interactions Mediating Sub-continental Lake Thermal Trends and Carbon Cycling

$299,725

National Science Foundation - MSB-ECA

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Demonstration and Device Level Characterization of Lithium-Ion Batteries with Graphene and Graphene-Silicon Based Anodes in Pouch and Cylindrical Cell Form Factors

$200,000

National Science Foundation - PFI:AIR - TT

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Exploring RNA Conformational Transitions Using High Pressure

$351,956

National Science Foundation

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Integration of Computational Thinking and Science Using Culturally-Based Topics

$2,500,000

National Science Foundation

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Multimodal-Sensor-Enabled Environments with Advanced Cognitive Computing Enabling Smart Group Meeting Facilitation Services

$1,000,000

National Science Foundation - PFI:BIC

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Provably Correct Design of Observation for Fault Diagnosis and State Estimation under Privacy and Network Constraints

$469,247

National Science Foundation - CSR: Small

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Rewiring Escherichia Coli for the Efficient Synthesis of Chondroitin Polysaccharides

$420,000

National Science Foundation - GOALI

Schenectady County: Install Airfield Guidance Signs, Rehabilitate Runway

$2,336,291

Department of Transportation

Siena College: Stellar Mass Content of Galaxy Dark Matter Halos

$197,751

National Science Foundation - RUI

SUNY Albany: Irrational Vertex Algebras, Quantum Modular Forms, and Unrolled Quantum Groups

$138,000

National Science Foundation

SUNY Albany: Privacy Preserving Cooperation among Microgrids for Efficient Load Management on the Grid

$477,483

National Science Foundation - TWC: Small

SUNY Albany: The New Security Calculus - Incentivizing Good User Security Behavior

$497,918

National Science Foundation - SBE: Small

SUNY Research Foundation: Evaluating Methods of Parameterizing Model Error in the HWRF Ensemble Prediction System

$164,036

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

SUNY Research Foundation: Ryan White Title III HIV Capacity Development and Planning Grants

$100,000

HHS Health Resources and Services Administration

Troy Drug Free Community Coalition: Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Programs

$125,000

White House Drug Policy Office

Wadsworth Center: NARMS Cooperative Agreement Program to Enhance and Strengthen Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance in Retail Food Specimens in NYS

$140,609

HHS Food and Drug Administration

TOTAL

$17,210,594

 

 

NIH FY2016 AWARDS - 2nd quarter

Recipient

Amount

NIH Institute/Center

Albany Medical College: An Adjuvant-Independent Dual-Targeted (Multi-Function) Mucosal Vaccine Platform

$125,000

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Albany Medical College: Criteria-Directed Vaccine Generation Via Ag Mimicry, Adjuvancy, and APC-Targeting

$369,626

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Albany Medical College: Cytoskeletal Regulation of Airway Smooth Muscle

$225,000

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Albany Medical College: Early Innate Lymphoid Cell Development

$150,000

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Albany Medical College: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Human Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy

$250,000

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Albany Medical College: Epigenetic Control of Kidney Fibrosis

$150,000

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Albany Medical College: Est1C Regulation of the p53 Pathway in Stress Response

$190,000

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Albany Medical College: Integrin Regulation of Cancer Progression Through Alternative mRNA Splicing and Nonsense-Medidated Decay (NMD)

$237,500

National Cancer Institute

Albany Medical College: Mechanisms and Clinical Relevance of Hypercapia-Induced Skeletal Muscle Atrophy in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

$143,200

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Albany Medical College: Plk1 Regulation of Airway Smooth Muscle

$395,000

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Albany Medical College: Remodeling of the Fibronectin Matrix - Role in Chronic Wounds

$132,000

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

GE Global Research: Nanoparticle CT Contrast Agents for Reduced Radiation Dose and New Imaging Application

$546,799

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

GE Global Research: Secretion Encoding for Multiparameter Functional Immune Assays

$275,442

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Kitware: Accelerating Community-Driven Medical Innovation with VTK

$385,464

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Kitware: Advanced Virtual Simulator for Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery Training and Credentialing

$671,894

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Kitware: Quantitative Ultrasound Analysis of Vascular Morphology for Cancer Assessment

$624,418

National Cancer Institute

Regenerative Research Foundation: Quantifying Changes in Neural Stem Cell Lineages in the Aging Niche

$268,994

National Institute on Aging

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: A Probabilistic Closed-Loop Artificial Pancreas to Handle Unannounced Meals

$243,746

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Biomolecular Science and Engineering Training Program

$263,256

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Cell Chirality Based in Vito Models for Embryonic Development and Abnormalities

$119,656

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Development and Validation of a Virtual Airway Skill Trainer (VAST)

$551,947

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Differentiating Embryonic Stem Cells Toward Arterial and Venous Endothelial Cells

$310,274

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Enhanced Neuroprotection Following Acute SCI Using Fibrous Materials

$175,000

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Genome-Inspired Pathway to Aptamer Discovery

$150,000

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Grating-based X-ray Phase-contrast Tomography Methods

$225,000

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Individually Tailored Lighting System to Improve Sleep in Older Adults

$406,219

National Institute on Aging

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Methodology Issues in a Tailored Light Treatment for Persons with Dementia

$348,353

National Institute on Aging

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Modulating Stretch Activation to Restore Muscle and Heart Function

$154,000

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Non-Invasive Local Diagnosis of Surgical Infections

$174,571

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Remodeling the Microtubule Cytoskeleton for Polarized Transport

$190,000

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Synthetic Heparan Sulfate - Probing Biosynthesis to Prepare Defined Drugs

$330,895

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

SUNY Albany: Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at the University at Albany, SUNY

$227,000

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

SUNY Albany: Engineering Functional Salivary Glands Using Micropatterned Scaffolds

$313,533

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

SUNY Albany: Gamma Crystallin Modifications and Mechanisms of Lens Opacity

$225,000

National Eye Institute

SUNY Albany: Immigration Enforcement and the Health of Immigrants and their Children

$179,848

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

SUNY Albany: Intron Dynamics in Bacteria

$599,287

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

SUNY Albany: Mechanisms Transducing Insulin and Insulin Resistance in the Hippocampus

$392,817

National Institute on Aging

SUNY Albany: Metabolic Mechanisms of Naphthalene Toxicity in Lung

$639,979

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

SUNY Albany: Post-translational Regulation of Recombinase Function by Intein Splicing

$58,002

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

SUNY Albany: The Endowment for Community-based Health Disparities Research and Training

$2,000,000

National Institutue on Minority Health and Health Disparities

SUNY Albany: Trans-Regulation of RNA-Binding Protein Motifs by MicroRNA

$125,000

National Human Genome Research Institute

SUNY Albany: Vitamin D and HA Signaling in TNBC

$26,409

National Cancer Institute

SUNY Albany: Vitamin D and HA Signaling in TNBC

$26,489

National Cancer Institute

SUNY Albany: Vitamin D and HA Signaling in TNBC

$228,750

National Cancer Institute

SUNY Polytechnic Institute: Novel Theranostic Approaches to Identify and Treat Tinnitus Using Functionalized Nanoparticles

$99,753

National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Wadsworth Center: A Community Mycobacterial Systems Resource

$626,746

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Wadsworth Center: Aflatoxin B1 Hepatocarcinogenesis in the mGSTA3-/- Mouse

$221,263

National Cancer Institute

Wadsworth Center: cAMP Signaling Pathways within Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

$250,000

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Wadsworth Center: Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies

$729,133

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Wadsworth Center: Centrosomal and Centrosome-independent Mechanisms in Mitotic Spindle Assembly

$282,000

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Wadsworth Center: Characterization of the Abundant Small Proteome of Mycobacteria

$132,800

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Wadsworth Center: Development of a Preclinical Assay to Predict Efficacy of Ricin Toxin Subunit Vaccines

$828,528

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Wadsworth Center: High-throughput Application of CRISPR Technology to Identify Gene Function in Salmonella

$125,000

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Wadsworth Center: Intestinal P450 and Xenobiotic Metabolism

$278,500

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Wadsworth Center: Latitudinal Landscape Genomics and Ecology of Anopheles Darlingi

$253,408

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Wadsworth Center: Mechanism of MALT1 Regulation by a Novel Ubiquitin Ligase

$125,000

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Wadsworth Center: Mechanisms of IgA-mediated Immunity to Salmonella

$50,000

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Wadsworth Center: Quantitative Modeling of MicroRNA -Target Interactions in Cell Fate Transition

$435,990

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Wadsworth Center: Structural Aspects of Protein Synthesis in the Mammalian Mitochondria

$335,641

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Wadsworth Center: Use of Whole Genome Sequencing for Tuberculosis Diagnostics

$50,000

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

TOTAL

$18,649,130

 


 
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