Sponsored Awards

Tufts University faculty routinely receive sponsored awards that facilitate their search for solutions to some of the greatest challenges that we face. Each month, we share information about some of these awards to show the extent—and prospective impact—of Tufts research.

February 2025 Selected Awards

  • A Cloud Data Resource to Accelerate Tuberculosis Research

    Total Anticipated

    $24,732

    Principal Investigator

    Bree Aldridge

    Sponsor

    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  • A Unified Bioindustrial Review of the State of Biomaterial Preservative Technologies

    Total Anticipated

    $459,091

    Principal Investigator

    David Kaplan

    Sponsor

    BioMADE

  • Analysis of the heterogeneity of cell death responses in the influenza virus-infected cells

    Total Anticipated

    $443,401

    Principal Investigator

    Alexei Degterev

    Sponsor

    NIH - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

  • Capturing HSV entry glycoprotein complexes

    Total Anticipated

    $438,642

    Principal Investigator

    Ekaterina Heldwein

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Characterizing Lung Resident B1 cells and their Impact on Lung Homeostasis during Development

    Total Anticipated

    $135,486

    Principal Investigator

    Kimberly Carroll

    Sponsor

    National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

  • Development of Inflammatory and Kidney Disease Diagnostics Based on Zwitterionic Hydrogel Microparticle Arrays Equipped with Peptide-G-quadruplex DNA Bifunctional Hybrid Receptors

    Total Anticipated

    $312,941

    Principal Investigator

    Hyunmin Yi

    Sponsor

    National Research Foundation of Korea

  • Immune pathways safeguard endothelial integrity and mitigate atherosclerotic severity in aging: a novel taget

    Total Anticipated

    $400,000

    Principal Investigator

    Shruti Sharma

    Sponsor

    The Smith Family Foundation

  • Ortho-Para Helium Abundance instrument (OPHeliA) Technology Demonstration

    Total Anticipated

    $70,000

    Principal Investigator

    Robert White

    Sponsor

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  • Precision metering and autonomous separation of blood components for pre-clinical microsampling at the point-of-care

    Total Anticipated

    $1,949,685

    Principal Investigator

    Charlie Mace

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Protecting Workers against Light and Noise Pollution

    Total Anticipated

    $4,514

    Principal Investigator

    Muhammad Naeem

    Sponsor

    University of Chicago