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

  • Health Policy Research

    Total Anticipated

    $124,000

    Principal Investigator

    Shelly Peyton

    Sponsor

    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  • In vitro cultivation and genome sequencing/annotation of Enterocytozoon bieneusi

    Total Anticipated

    $1,213,649

    Principal Investigator

    Saul Tzipori

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Insect and Animal Cell Growth on Low Carbon Chain Substrates

    Total Anticipated

    $199,989

    Principal Investigator

    David Kaplan

    Sponsor

    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  • International Security Studies Program 2025-2026

    Total Anticipated

    $420,000

    Principal Investigator

    Richard Shultz

    Sponsor

    Sarah Scaife Foundation Inc

  • Investigation of the geographic, sociodemographic, and patient specific disparities in plant-based food consumption in youth to inform strategies that promote health equity and improve health outcomes

    Total Anticipated

    $106,185

    Principal Investigator

    Sydney Grob

    Sponsor

    National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

  • Lagrangian transport in active matter flows

    Total Anticipated

    $1,300,000

    Principal Investigator

    Jeffrey Guasto

    Sponsor

    Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

  • Mapping the Collagenome with Stapled Collagen-Mimetic Peptides

    Total Anticipated

    $800,000

    Principal Investigator

    Joshua Kritzer

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Microbial Determinants of Excessive Inflammation and Severe Lyme Disease

    Total Anticipated

    $3,315,179

    Principal Investigator

    Klemen Strle

    Sponsor

    NIH - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

  • NSF-DBT: Exploiting codon usage bias to maximize the productivity of recombinant Komagataella phaffii

    Total Anticipated

    $545,000

    Principal Investigator

    Nik Nair

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Pulse-oximetry method for un-biased assessment of arterial saturation

    Total Anticipated

    $741,547

    Principal Investigator

    Giles Blaney

    Sponsor

    National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering