Funded Proposals

All of the below Proposals were selected for Funding. Click a picture to view the abstract and full list of members.
Cytotherapeutic Cell Manufacture at Texas A&M University

Leader: Carl Gregory
Total Members: 7
Cycle: 2018
Autonomous material discovery and manufacturing via Artificial Intelligence

Leader: Bukkapatnam, Satish T
Total Members: 12
Cycle: 2018
Point-of-care diagnosis and monitoring of respiratory disease through exhaled breath analysis

Leader: Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Total Members: 8
Cycle: 2018
Monitoring Rapidly Changing Arctic Ecosystems Using High-Resolution Satellite-Based Datasets and Art

Leader: Julie Loisel
Total Members: 10
Cycle: 2018
Pathways to Sustainable Urban Water Security: Desalination and Water Reuse in the 21st Century

Leader: Jepson, Wendy E
Total Members: 8
Cycle: 2018
CRISPR Gene Editing for Healthier Foods and Improved Crop Resilience

Leader: Michael Thomson
Total Members: 16
Cycle: 2018
Multi-functional and sustainable materials for 3D-printing environmentally adaptive resilient buildi

Leader: Zofia Rybkowski
Total Members: 6
Cycle: 2018
Mastering Friction to Reduce Current and Future Energy Demands

Leader: Batteas, James D
Total Members: 14
Cycle: 2018
Engineering brain health using an adaptive wireless optogenetic neurostimulator

Leader: Stephen Maren
Total Members: 8
Cycle: Round 2
Biology hidden in RNA structures and epi-modifications

Leader: Xiuren Zhang
Total Members: 8
Cycle: Round 2
Project X-CEL: Eliminating Bias in School Discipline through Teacher Training

Leader: Blake, Jamilia J
Total Members: 12
Cycle: Round 2
Digital Twin City for Age-friendly Communities: Crowd-biosensing of Environmental Distress

Leader: Ahn, Changbum R
Total Members: 7
Cycle: Round 2
A Brain-Inspired Approach to Rapid and Energy Efficient Information Processing: AI on the Fly

Leader: Banerjee, Sarbajit
Total Members: 13
Cycle: Round 2
New Quantum Materials for Building the Next-generation Quantum Systems

Leader: Dong Son
Total Members: 6
Cycle: Round 2
3D Printed Bio-artificial Pancreas to Treat Diabetes

Leader: Gaharwar, Akhilesh K
Total Members: 7
Cycle: Round 2
Mitigating Mental Health Stigma in Higher Education Through Complementary Facilitated Dialogues, Rem

Leader: Sasangohar, Farzan
Total Members: 9
Cycle: Round 2
Electroceuticals as AI-based Smart Therapies for Brain Disorders

Leader: Reddy, Doodipala S
Total Members: 12
Cycle: Round 3
Developing a SmallSat Mission to Track the Global Movement of Water, Carbon, and Sediment across Lan

Leader: Allen, George
Total Members: 4
Cycle: Round 3
Engineering Nanomedicine for Non-invasive Cancer Therapy

Leader: Shiren Wang
Total Members: 6
Cycle: Round 3
A multidisciplinary platform for the identification of cancer and COVID-19 therapeutics

Leader: Liu, Wenshe
Total Members: 13
Cycle: Round 3
Disaster City Digital Twin: Integrating Machine and Human Intelligence to Augment Flood Resilience

Leader: Mostafavidarani, Ali
Total Members: 14
Cycle: Round 3
Integrated Nanophotonics for Next-Generation Internet of Things (IoT)

Leader: Wong, Zi Jing
Total Members: 6
Cycle: Round 3
Identifying the Neuronal Basis for Magnetosensation and Orientation in Insects

Leader: Fernandez Gonzalez, Alma
Total Members: 13
Cycle: Round 3
Texas A&M Lunar Surface Experiments Program

Leader: Bullard, Jeffrey Wayne
Total Members: 12
Cycle: Round 3
Understanding the Impact of Expansion of Health Insurance Coverage in Texas on Financial Well-being

Leader: Ukert, Benjamin
Total Members: 4
Cycle: Round 4
Mapping and Meeting the Directed Evolution of a Pandemic

Leader: Neuman, Benjamin
Total Members: 15
Cycle: Round 4
MitoX: Targeting Mitochondria to Improve Human Health

Leader: Porter, Weston W
Total Members: 10
Cycle: Round 4
Design and delivery of personalized, AI-assisted, accessible, positive-affect treatments for depress

Leader: MacNamara, Annmarie E
Total Members: 6
Cycle: Round 4
The Gulf Coast Heritage Preparedness Initiative

Leader: Andrea Roberts
Total Members: 14
Cycle: Round 4
Effective Real-World Telemonitoring of Chronic Disease for the Underserved

Leader: Lawley, Mark A
Total Members: 9
Cycle: Round 4
A Multidisciplinary Platform to Develop Thermally Stable and Highly Efficient mRNA Vaccines

Leader: Sun, Qing
Total Members: 8
Cycle: Round 4
Saving Babies Born with Birth Defects: Crafting Epigenetic Risk Scores to Reduce Racial Disparity in

Leader: Morris, Theresa M
Total Members: 7
Cycle: Round 4