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.

September 2026 Selected Awards

  • Advancing Civic Character at Tufts and Beyond: A Three-Year Institutional Impact Initiative

    Total Anticipated

    $577,379

    Principal Investigator

    Sunah Hyun

    Sponsor

    Wake Forest University

  • AI Institute: Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions

    Total Anticipated

    $850,000

    Principal Investigator

    Taritree Wongjirad

    Sponsor

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Cellular consequences of expressing disease-associated humanized tau variants in the frontal cortex

    Total Anticipated

    $49,320

    Principal Investigator

    Emily Nickerson

    Sponsor

    National Institute on Aging

  • CLEAR - Comprehensive Light-based Evaluation and AI Recognition for Pathogens

    Total Anticipated

    $633,750

    Principal Investigator

    Karen Panetta

    Sponsor

    U.S. Department of Agriculture

  • Collaborative Research: CDS&E: Unlocking the Power of Quantum Computing for Topology Optimization

    Total Anticipated

    $174,996

    Principal Investigator

    Xiaozhe Hu

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (CSGrad4US) - David Tamas Parris

    Total Anticipated

    $159,000

    Principal Investigator

    Megumi Ando

    Sponsor

    Computing Research Association, Inc.

  • Development of an Oral Microbiome Foundation Model for Systemic Diseases Assessment

    Total Anticipated

    $640,990

    Principal Investigator

    Zoe Zhu

    Sponsor

    National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

  • Dual-slope method for enhanced depth sensitivity in frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy

    Total Anticipated

    $2,158,064

    Principal Investigator

    Sergio Fantini

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Ecological thresholds for tick-borne pathogen establishment, spillover and management along urbanization gradients

    Total Anticipated

    $97,951

    Principal Investigator

    Heidi Goethert

    Sponsor

    Columbia University

  • Effectiveness and implementation of a transdiagnostic therapy for addressing mental and behavioral health problems and improving treatment outcomes for people with tuberculosis in India

    Total Anticipated

    $2,586,859

    Principal Investigator

    Ramnath Subbaraman

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health