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.

June 2026 Selected Awards

  • NSF TTP-T: Transforming Levee Monitoring and Risk Assessment through Translating Hybrid Digital Twin Innovation into Practice

    Total Anticipated

    $1,149,014

    Principal Investigator

    Farshid Vahedifard

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Providing Science Leadership to the Blue Nature Alliance

    Total Anticipated

    $166,158

    Principal Investigator

    Randi Rotjan

    Sponsor

    Conservation International

  • Reactivation of Prostate Cancer Proliferation from Dormancy by Osteoclastic Tunneling Nanotubes

    Total Anticipated

    $433,759

    Principal Investigator

    Russ Taichman

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Redfern

    Total Anticipated

    $474,293

    Principal Investigator

    Fiorenzo Omenetto

    Sponsor

    Leidos Biomedical Research

  • Repairing and Empowering Policy and Planning Fellowship Program

    Total Anticipated

    $200,000

    Principal Investigator

    Penn Loh

    Sponsor

    Henry R. Luce Foundation

  • Role of Lipoteichoic Acid Biogenesis in Regulating Clostridioides difficile Physiology

    Total Anticipated

    $46,302

    Principal Investigator

    Julianne Dressler

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Strengthening Coastal Resilience through Tribal Led Monitoring and Adaptive Modeling of Bluff Stability at the Gay Head Cliffs

    Total Anticipated

    $320,987

    Principal Investigator

    Farshid Vahedifard

    Sponsor

    Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah

  • The effect of fresh mango consumption on cardiometabolic outcomes in individuals with pre-diabetes

    Total Anticipated

    $28,525

    Principal Investigator

    Nirupa Matthan

    Sponsor

    Loma Linda University

  • Trauma Effects on Men's Sperm miRNA Function in Epigenetic Inheritance

    Total Anticipated

    $453,750

    Principal Investigator

    Larry Feig

    Sponsor

    NIH - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development