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 2024 Selected Awards

  • Growing MA Farm and Food Access Partnerships

    Total Anticipated

    $100,000

    Principal Investigator

    Jennifer Hashley

    Sponsor

    Angell Foundation

  • Human endogenous provirus inhibition of HIV replication

    Total Anticipated

    $3,507,389

    Principal Investigator

    John Coffin

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Incidence of Burnout Among Doctor of Physical Therapy Faculty: A Feasibility Study

    Total Anticipated

    $16,200

    Principal Investigator

    Liana Wooten

    Sponsor

    Academy of Peciatric Physical Therapy

  • Lateral hypothalamus circuits in stress-induced blunting of alcohol aversion & escalation of alcohol self-administration

    Total Anticipated

    $742,327

    Principal Investigator

    Marcus Weera

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • LGBT+ Inclusion in STEM grant

    Total Anticipated

    $24,595

    Principal Investigator

    Timothy Atherton

    Sponsor

    University of Strathclyde

  • Measuring Dust Evolution Over the Past 10 Billion Years With 3-12 micron Spectra for 60 High-Redshift Galaxies

    Total Anticipated

    $44,259

    Principal Investigator

    Anna Sajina

    Sponsor

    Space Telescope Science Institute

  • Mechanisms of Genome Instability Mediated by Simple DNA Repeats

    Total Anticipated

    $2,870,488

    Principal Investigator

    Sergei Mirkin

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • ORC Returning Citizens Support(RCS)

    Total Anticipated

    $20,000

    Principal Investigator

    Hilary Binda

    Sponsor

    City of Boston, MA

  • PREVENTING FAMINE IN A CHANGING WORLD

    Total Anticipated

    $99,999

    Principal Investigator

    Paul Howe

    Sponsor

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Italy

  • Projecting All Pediatric Only Rare Conditions for the US Market

    Total Anticipated

    $158,329

    Principal Investigator

    Joseph DiMasi

    Sponsor

    Everylife Foundation