Major Grants & Fellowship and Grant Institutions

A&S is pleased to recognize the below faculty who received major grants in FY22:

• Michael Levin, Biology, received $3,922,051 from the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc. for his four two-year project, Re-training molecular networks: a new path toward the biomedicine of cancer and regeneration revealed by a basal cognition approach.
• Michael Levin, Biology, received $2,133,060 from the John Templeton Foundation for his three-year project, Synthetic Living Machines and the Emergence of Purpose.
• Catherine Freudenreich, Biology, received $1,950,000 from the NIH Institute of General Medical Sciences for a five-year project, Replication through DNA Structures and Consequences for Genome Stability. 
• Richard Lerner, Eliot-Pearson Child Study and Human Development, received $999,552 from Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc. for his three-year project, Promoting Healthy Development in South African Youth through Thandas Character Virtues Development Programs.
• Michael Levin, Biology, and Fiorenzo Omenetto, SOE, received $708,848 from U.S. Office of Naval Research for their one-year project, Confocal microscopy for producing high-resolution image control in living skin.
• Krishna Kumar, Chemistry, received $510,455 from Velum Incorporated (original sponsor NIH) for his three-year project, A GIP Companion Drug for Enhancing Metabolic Benefits of Long-Acting GLP-1.
• Rebecca Fauth, and Jessica Goldberg, Eliot-Pearson Child Study and Human Development received $496,364 from Massachusetts Department of Public Health for their two-year project, COVID-19 Disparities Grant: Community-based qualitative data collection.
• Rebecca Fauth, Ann Easterbrooks, and Jessica Goldberg, Eliot-Pearson Child Study and Human Development received $489,875 from Roca, Inc. for her three-year project, Evaluation Services for Roca Young Mothers Program.
• Scott Frost and Colin Orians, Biology, received $449,651 from NSF for their three-year project, Collaborative Research: Using Herbivore Kairomones to Assess Short-term and Legacy Risk Responses in the Early Life Stages of Long-lived Woody Plants.
• Richard Lerner, Eliot-Pearson Child Study and Human Development, received $435,339 from Turnaround for Children, Inc for his eighteen-month project, Tufts IARYD and Turnaround for Children Collaboration.
• Clay Bennett, Chemistry, received $414,747 from NIH for his four-year project, A Continuous Flow-Based Approach to Automated Microbial Oligosaccharide Synthesis.
• Alexander Vilenkin, Physics and Astronomy, received $405,000 from NSF for his three-year project, Fundamental Physics and Cosmology.

In addition to the aforementioned grants, our faculty, staff, and students secured grants and fellowships from numerous corporations and foundations including:

• Administration for Children and Families
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• Alfred P Sloan Foundation
• Atlantic Specialty Coffee, Inc.
• Bedford VA Research Corporation, Inc.
• Boston Globe Foundation
• BRIM Biotechnology
• Brookhaven National Laboratory
• City of Medford
• Devens Enterprise Commission
• Dialysis Clinic, Inc.
• D-Wave Systems
• Emerald Gate Charitable Trust
• Georgia Humanities
• Harvard University
• Health Made Easy LC
• Horticultural Research Institute, Inc.
• Jack Miller Center
• Lahey Clinic, Inc.
• Land Economics Foundation of Lambda Alpha International
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc.
• Research Corporation for Science Advancement
• Rheumatology Research Foundation
• Schuler Education Foundation for Schuler Access Initiative
• Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.
• Technische Universitat Berlin
• The Africa-America Institute
• The Guy Foundation
• University Research Association, Inc.
• Unravel Biosciences, Inc.
• Wave Life Sciences USA, Inc.