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.

December 2024 Selected Awards

  • Food is Medicine: Transforming the Prevention and Treatment of Diet -Related Disease (Co-funded by EBCF and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. This is the KFHP/PH portion of the budget. Ref RAS no. 17768)

    Total Anticipated

    $350,000

    Principal Investigator

    Dariush Mozaffarian

    Sponsor

    Kaiser Foundation Health Plan

  • Hanaano Research in Mandera Triangle: Prevention of Acute Malnutrition through Learning and Practical Research

    Total Anticipated

    $649,724

    Principal Investigator

    Anastasia Marshak

    Sponsor

    Concern Worldwide

  • Multi-modal Smart Band-Aid Patch for AI-based Quantification of Pain

    Total Anticipated

    $3,029,000

    Principal Investigator

    Sameer Sonkusale

    Sponsor

    The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

  • Nickel - Pyridylidene Cooperation for Hydrosilylation of Olefinic hydrocarbons

    Total Anticipated

    $110,000

    Principal Investigator

    Yu Zhang

    Sponsor

    American Chemical Society

  • Still at Work: The Arts and Social Justice

    Total Anticipated

    $105,750

    Principal Investigator

    Heather S. Nathans

    Sponsor

    Mary S Mulligan Charitable Trust: C/O Bank of America, N.A.

  • The Future of Community Medicine: The Gene Shapiro Scholars Program (Year 4) & The Feline Patient Care Fund

    Total Anticipated

    $80,000

    Principal Investigator

    Yuki Nakayama

    Sponsor

    GS Humane Corp

  • The Path of the Underrepresented Minority Physician Into Clinical Research A Clinical Research Workforce Discussion: Perspectives On Barriers to Becoming A Principal Investigator of Color

    Total Anticipated

    $25,000

    Principal Investigator

    Jennifer Kim

    Sponsor

    Association of Clinical Research Professionals

  • The Sustainable Financial Benchmarking Lab Project

    Total Anticipated

    $50,000

    Principal Investigator

    Bhaskar Chakravorti

    Sponsor

    New Venture Fund

  • The University in the Environmental Commons

    Total Anticipated

    $571,000

    Principal Investigator

    Alex Blanchette

    Sponsor

    The Andrew W Mellon Foundation

  • Tufts Wildlife Clinic Internships at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

    Total Anticipated

    $400,000

    Principal Investigator

    Maureen Murray

    Sponsor

    Bernice Barbour Foundation