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.

January 2025 Selected Awards

  • Cultivated Insect Cells for Pet Food Ingredients

    Total Anticipated

    $36,000

    Principal Investigator

    David Kaplan

    Sponsor

    MassVentures

  • Diet-Associated Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Zeroing in on a Cause

    Total Anticipated

    $177,947

    Principal Investigator

    Lisa Freeman

    Sponsor

    American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation, Inc

  • Dietary saturated fat replacement and polyunsaturated fat intake and effect on blood lipids (RFTO 95)

    Total Anticipated

    $33,305

    Principal Investigator

    Alice H. Lichtenstein

    Sponsor

    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  • Dietary saturated fat replacement and polyunsaturated fat intake and risk of cardiovascular events in adults (RFTO 96 TO 13.2)

    Total Anticipated

    $33,305

    Principal Investigator

    Alice H. Lichtenstein

    Sponsor

    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  • DURIP: facilitating cross-kingdom biophysical communication

    Total Anticipated

    $192,477

    Principal Investigator

    Michael Levin

    Sponsor

    U.S. Army Research Office

  • Dynamic Biological Hydrogels to Modulate Cardiac Remodeling Following Myocardial Infarction

    Total Anticipated

    $1,539,756

    Principal Investigator

    Lauren Black III

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Engaging aging minds: Labor force participation, stimulating activities, and cognitive aging across diverse international settings (RFA-AG-24-032)

    Total Anticipated

    $98,084

    Principal Investigator

    Leah Abrams

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Epigenetic regulation of sporulation in Clostridioides difficile

    Total Anticipated

    $465,446

    Principal Investigator

    Aimee Shen

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Establishment of basal epithelial identity by papillomavirus oncoproteins

    Total Anticipated

    $200,063

    Principal Investigator

    Elizabeth White

    Sponsor

    NIH - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

  • Foundations of Hardware- and Software-Based Error Detection and Recovery Systems

    Total Anticipated

    $997,163

    Principal Investigator

    Jeffrey Foster

    Sponsor

    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency