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 2025 Selected Awards

  • Core Support for the DuBois Forum, an annual retreat and year-round fellowship for writers, scholars, and artists engaged in the intellectual and artistic traditions W.E.B. Du Bois and his contemporar

    Total Anticipated

    $50,000

    Principal Investigator

    Kendra Field

    Sponsor

    Ford Foundation

  • Design of combination drug therapies for tuberculosis

    Total Anticipated

    $2,625,000

    Principal Investigator

    Bree Aldridge

    Sponsor

    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  • DIA-Tufts Participant Compensation Practices

    Total Anticipated

    $150,000

    Principal Investigator

    Kenneth Getz

    Sponsor

    Drug Information Association, Inc.

  • DMS/NIGMS 2: Building and Testing a Graph Theory Toolbox for Uncovering Redundant Pathways in Genetic Interaction Networks

    Total Anticipated

    $256,616

    Principal Investigator

    Lenore Cowen

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Draper Scholars Program

    Total Anticipated

    $14,346

    Principal Investigator

    Mark Hertzberg

    Sponsor

    The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

  • Equity in Food Affordability: Variation in Food Costs Across Regions and Time

    Total Anticipated

    $25,000

    Principal Investigator

    Christina Economos

    Sponsor

    Farvue Foundation

  • Exploring Factor H recruitment by Treponema pallidum to avoid complement-mediated killing

    Total Anticipated

    $115,500

    Principal Investigator

    Yi-Pin Lin

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Fentanyl Overdose, Anhedonia and Relapse Risk

    Total Anticipated

    $425,475

    Principal Investigator

    Elizabeth Byrnes

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • From risk to resilience: Examining the intersection of extreme weather events, community vulnerability, and health impacts

    Total Anticipated

    $793,443

    Principal Investigator

    Helen Suh

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • FY 2025 RWHAP Part F Dental Reimbursement Program

    Total Anticipated

    $62,569

    Principal Investigator

    Khaled Shaikhi

    Sponsor

    Health Resources & Services Administration