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.

July 2025 Selected Awards

  • Dissection of Shigella pathogenesis in vivo using a new oral infection mouse model

    Total Anticipated

    $34,507

    Principal Investigator

    Cammie Lesser

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Elucidating spatio-temporal innate immune cell modulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis stress response and replication heterogeneity

    Total Anticipated

    $225,204

    Principal Investigator

    Anna-Lisa Lawrence

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Energy Efficient Vinyl Acetate Synthesis for Solar Panel Encapsulant Applications

    Total Anticipated

    $212,909

    Principal Investigator

    Prashant Deshlahra

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Engineering commensal and probiotic E. coli to efficiently secrete therapeutic payloads

    Total Anticipated

    $654,630

    Principal Investigator

    Cammie Lesser

    Sponsor

    G. Harold and Leila Mathers Charitable Foundation

  • Measuring the Pocket Forests Experience Using Biometrics

    Total Anticipated

    $15,000

    Principal Investigator

    Justin Hollander

    Sponsor

    Devens Enterprise Commission

  • Mechanism of evasion of cyclic oligonucleotide-based anti-phage signaling system

    Total Anticipated

    $453,750

    Principal Investigator

    Wai-Leung Ng

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Mechanisms of nuclear egress in herpesviruses

    Total Anticipated

    $3,768,791

    Principal Investigator

    Ekaterina Heldwein

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Medical Student Primary Care Health Policy Scholars Program

    Total Anticipated

    $12,000

    Principal Investigator

    Wayne Altman

    Sponsor

    Global Impact

  • Osmotic powering of ingestible and wearable devices using cationic and anionic nanofluidic membranes

    Total Anticipated

    $499,993

    Principal Investigator

    Sameer Sonkusale

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • PAT funding FY26

    Total Anticipated

    $280,000

    Principal Investigator

    Jessica Goldberg

    Sponsor

    Parents As Teachers National Center, Inc.