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.

December 2025 Selected Awards

  • Aristotle's Poetics in Greek, Arabic, and Latin: Towards a Variorum Edition

    Total Anticipated

    $300,000

    Principal Investigator

    Gregory Crane

    Sponsor

    National Endowment for the Humanities

  • CAREER: Unveiling the stability rheology and topology of active fluids

    Total Anticipated

    $500,000

    Principal Investigator

    Tong Gao

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Characterizing Dog Youth Interactions Using Behavior and Relationship Data: From Evidence Generation to Clinical and Public Dissemination

    Total Anticipated

    $100,000

    Principal Investigator

    Megan Mueller

    Sponsor

    Mae Philanthropies

  • Climate Policy Lab

    Total Anticipated

    $500,000

    Principal Investigator

    Kelly Sims Gallagher

    Sponsor

    William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

  • Collaborative Research: GLACIOME: Developing a Comprehensive Model of the Coupled Glacier-Ocean-Melange System

    Total Anticipated

    $127,791

    Principal Investigator

    Rebecca Jackson

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Deciphering mechanisms of T-cell subset recruitment and contributions to cardiac pathology in Heart Failure with

    Preserved Ejection Fraction

    Total Anticipated

    $70,676

    Principal Investigator

    Zachary Robbe

    Sponsor

    American Heart Association, Inc.

  • EconoFact

    Total Anticipated

    $25,000

    Principal Investigator

    Michael Klein

    Sponsor

    Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc.

  • Elucidating the interplay between AD genetic variants using human iPSC-derived microglia-like cells

    Total Anticipated

    $100,625

    Principal Investigator

    Giuseppina Tesco

    Sponsor

    Cure Alzheimer's Fund

  • Functional profiling of OSP-specific and other antibodies during Shigella infection

    Total Anticipated

    $49,500

    Principal Investigator

    Cammie Lesser

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Investigating mediodorsal thalamus representations underlying human cognitive flexibility

    Total Anticipated

    $284,731

    Principal Investigator

    Michael Halassa

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health