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.

July 2025 Selected Awards

  • Additive Manufacturing of Recombinant Elastic Proteins for Sustainable Non-Woven Textiles

    Total Anticipated

    $23,947

    Principal Investigator

    David Kaplan

    Sponsor

    U.S. Department of Energy

  • An inter-tissue feedback signal that couples muscle activity to glutamate receptor trafficking in distal upstream neurons

    Total Anticipated

    $1,000,000

    Principal Investigator

    Peter Juo

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • CAREER: The Impact of Power on Active Learning in Learning Assistant-supported General and Organic Chemistry Lectures

    Total Anticipated

    $988,134

    Principal Investigator

    Ira Caspari-Gnann

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Chemical Strategies to Reveal Cellular Glycation and Ubiquitination

    Total Anticipated

    $2,781,984

    Principal Investigator

    Rebecca Scheck

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Collaborative Research: EAGER: FDASS: Protect Intellectual Property of Software Code in the Age of Generative AI

    Total Anticipated

    $180,000

    Principal Investigator

    Thomas Cao

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Collaborative Research: Elements- A Transparent-middle-layer computational and data management infrastructure for synoptic applications of cosmogenic-nuclide geochemistry

    Total Anticipated

    $109,289

    Principal Investigator

    Allie Balter-Kennedy

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Collaborative Research: GreenFjord-FIBER, Observing the Ice-Ocean Interface with Exeptional Resolution

    Total Anticipated

    $160,021

    Principal Investigator

    Rebecca Jackson

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Control of regulatory T cell fitness and function by heme synthesis

    Total Anticipated

    $3,235,935

    Principal Investigator

    Xudong Li

    Sponsor

    NIH - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

  • Defining the unique divisome of Clostridioides difficile

    Total Anticipated

    $233,784

    Principal Investigator

    Gregory Harrison

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Development of Novel High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) Tape Cables - Claudia Navarro Scholarship

    Total Anticipated

    $16,000

    Principal Investigator

    Luisa Chiesa

    Sponsor

    Universities Research Association, Inc.