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

  • REPP Winter Workshop 2024

    Total Anticipated

    $15,000

    Principal Investigator

    Penn Loh

    Sponsor

    Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

  • Salivary flow patterns in subjects with Sjogren's disease and in healthy controls

    Total Anticipated

    $2,000

    Principal Investigator

    Vidya Sankar

    Sponsor

    American Academy of Oral Medicine

  • SCC-IRG Track 1: Reducing the Vulnerability of Disadvantaged Communities to the Impacts of Cascading Hazards Under a Changing Climate

    Total Anticipated

    $235,418

    Principal Investigator

    Farshid Vahedifard

    Sponsor

    National Institute of Food and Agriculture

  • Targeting alternative splicing of sodium channels to treat pediatric developmental epileptic encephalopathies

    Total Anticipated

    $710,483

    Principal Investigator

    Madeleine Oudin

    Sponsor

    G. Harold and Leila Mathers Charitable Foundation

  • The ReSentencing Project, journal and archive: reflecting on incarceration with a different type of sentence

    Total Anticipated

    $15,000

    Principal Investigator

    Hilary Binda

    Sponsor

    National Endowment for the Arts

  • The use of existing laws and newly passed to impact voter registration

    Total Anticipated

    $130,000

    Principal Investigator

    Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg

    Sponsor

    Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc [Do Not Share]

  • TUSDM Cares for Veterans

    Total Anticipated

    $15,000

    Principal Investigator

    Kathryn Dolan

    Sponsor

    Massachusetts Dental Society

  • Ultra-Processed Food Consumptions and Breast Cancer Risk and Mortality in Two Large Prospective Cohort Studies

    Total Anticipated

    $1,500

    Principal Investigator

    Zhongyao Li

    Sponsor

    Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation

  • Understanding and manipulating single-atom alloy metal-support interactions for use in selective catalytic hydrogenation reactions

    Total Anticipated

    $110,000

    Principal Investigator

    Nathaniel Eagan

    Sponsor

    American Chemical Society

  • Using Eclipsing Binaries to Dramatically Improve the M-Dwarf Mass-Radius-Metallicity-Temperature Relation

    Total Anticipated

    $67,221

    Principal Investigator

    David Martin

    Sponsor

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration