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 2024 Selected Awards

  • Cost-Effectiveness of Health System and State-Level Strategies to Improve Diet and Reduce Cardiometabolic Diseases

    Total Anticipated

    $778,531

    Principal Investigator

    Dariush Mozaffarian

    Sponsor

    National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

  • Defining and Exploiting the Neuronal Identity of Cancers

    Total Anticipated

    $924,560

    Principal Investigator

    Madeleine Oudin

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Developing Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Tools for Region-Specific Pain Circuits

    Total Anticipated

    $2,370,000

    Principal Investigator

    Nisha Iyer

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Development of a New Welding Suite

    Total Anticipated

    $105,000

    Principal Investigator

    Gary Leisk

    Sponsor

    Richard H. Lufkin Memorial Fund: C/O Bank of America, N.A.

  • Dog Aging Project

    Total Anticipated

    $500,000

    Principal Investigator

    Daniel Promislow

    Sponsor

    Glenn Foundation for Medical Research

  • Evaluation of siRNA-based drugs as pro-regenerative disease-modifying therapeutics for age-related olfactory loss

    Total Anticipated

    $177,437

    Principal Investigator

    James Schwob

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Examination of Xylazine Exposure and the Risk of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in People Who Inject Drugs

    Total Anticipated

    $453,750

    Principal Investigator

    Shikhar Shrestha

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Exploring alterations of consciousness through music: basic and clinical research

    Total Anticipated

    $14,580

    Principal Investigator

    Aniruddh Patel

    Sponsor

    Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

  • Forgiveness _A Pathway to Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions from Rwanda to the World

    Total Anticipated

    $145,611

    Principal Investigator

    Jonathan Tirrell

    Sponsor

    Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc.

  • Health Policy Research Scholars (Marcia Rahman)

    Total Anticipated

    $124,000

    Principal Investigator

    Marcia Rahman

    Sponsor

    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation