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.

June 2025 Selected Awards

  • 2025 FOP Tooth Processing

    Total Anticipated

    $5,000

    Principal Investigator

    Pamela Yelick

    Sponsor

    International Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva Association

  • A Labor of Love, Necessity, or Greed? The Role of Institutional Advantages in the Misallocation of Entrepreneurial Talent

    Total Anticipated

    $15,000

    Principal Investigator

    Jenny Aker

    Sponsor

    University of Chicago

  • Advancing Anti-Racism in Maternal Health

    Total Anticipated

    $500,000

    Principal Investigator

    Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha

    Sponsor

    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  • Assessing the Effects of Plastics on Intestinal Health: A Comparative Study using 3D Human and Mouse Intestinal Models

    Total Anticipated

    $1,944,362

    Principal Investigator

    Ying Chen

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Banfield Foundation Dentistry Kindness Funds 2025 to 2026

    Total Anticipated

    $15,000

    Principal Investigator

    Gregory Wolfus

    Sponsor

    Banfield Foundation

  • BPC-AE: AccessComputing Fifth Extension

    Total Anticipated

    $376,634

    Principal Investigator

    Elaine Short

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • CAREER: Nanoscale wavefront shaping with multimode photonic integrated circuits

    Total Anticipated

    $547,117

    Principal Investigator

    Aseema Mohanty

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Collaborative Research: FRR: EvoFab - A Robotic Factory Capable of Integrated Evolutionary Design, Fabrication, and Testing of Soft Robots

    Total Anticipated

    $693,800

    Principal Investigator

    Markus Nemitz

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Collaborative Research: RUI: HNDS-I: Data Resources and Analytic Tools to Understand Population Scale Human Mobility for Applications in SBE Research

    Total Anticipated

    $36,640

    Principal Investigator

    Owais Gilani

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Development of a high-throughput discovery pipeline and low-cost distribution network for personalized molecular imaging and therapy

    Total Anticipated

    $66,140

    Principal Investigator

    Yu-Shan Lin

    Sponsor

    The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health