SEED GRANT PROGRAM AWARDEES
OVPR Seed Grant Program
The OVPR Seed Grant Program is the regular seed grant program open to faculty in all fields with support from the OVPR. Faculty were asked to submit an abstract and brief proposal, including a timeline that demonstrated how this seed funding would help to develop a highly competitive proposal for extramural funding.
This program awarded 22 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine, School of of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and School of Social Welfare.
Jiaru Bai, Mohammad Delasay, College of Business, Anshul Gandhi, Department of Computer Science
Gabor Balazsi, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mehdi Damaghi, Department of Pathology and Stony Brook Cancer Center
Kristen Brock-Petroshius, School of Social Welfare, Andrew Engelhardt, Department of Political Science, Xia Zheng, School of Communication and Journalism
Shikui Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zhaozheng Yin, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Department of Computer Science, Fang Luo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alina Denham, Department of Family, Population and Preventative Medicine, Amy Hammock, School of Social Work and Program in Public Health, Mohammad Delasay, College of Business
Denis Gruzdev, Emanuelle Pales Espinosa, Bassem Allam, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Jingfang Ju, Department of Pathology
Dennis Lee, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering
Ke Jian Liu, Department of Pathology, Ramana Davuluri, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Mengkun Liu, Xu Du, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michael Mak, Xiangyu Gong, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Luis Medina, Yong Chen, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Josh Plotkin, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Esther Speer, Department of Pediatrics, John Haley, Department of Pathology
William Stewart, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jack McSweeney, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Ulas Sunar, Yi-Xian Qin, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ying Gu, Department of General Dentristry
Sandhya Sundaresan, Thomas McFadden, Department of Linguistics, Owen Rambow, Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computational Science
Adrianus WM van der Velden, Brian Sheridan, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Paul Vaska, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Jules Cohen, Department of Medicine
Jun Wang, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sandeep Mallipattu, Department of Medicine
Sufeng Zhang, Christine DeLorenzo, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Psychiatry: Investigating the Gut-Brain Connection
Jiawei Zhou, Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics and Computer Science, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Department of Computer ScienceThis program awarded 20 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine, the School of Health Professions, and the School of of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
Eric Brouzes, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Kenneth Shroyer, Department of Pathology
Eva Carceles Poveda, Dana Golden, Ria Rajib Shah, Department of Economics
Nilanjan Chakraborty and Kedar Kirane, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IV Ramakrishnan and Georgios Georgakis, Department of Surgery
Christine DeLorenzo, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Biomedical Engineering
Margaret Echelbarger, College of Business
Guanyu Huang, Program in Public Health, John Mak, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Shubham Jain, Department of Computer Science, Craig Beale and Rachel Meaney, Department of Speech Language and Hearing
Hyungjin Kim and Gilbert Rahme, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Luis Martinez, Department of Pathology
Min-Jeong Kim, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Haibin Ling, Department of Computer Science, Yingtian Pan, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Zhenhua Liu, Department of Applied Math and Statistics, Anshul Gandhi, Department of Computer Science
Lisa Muratori, Department of Physical Therapy, Petar Djuric, Department of Electrical Engineering, Shubham Jain, Department of Computer Science, Margaret Schedel, Department of Music and The Institute of Advanced Computational Science, Joshua Plotkin, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Neil Nadkarni, Department of Neurology, Stella Tsirka, Department of Pharmacology, Chao Chen and Prateek Prassana, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Jesus Perez Rios, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Hyowon Seo, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering
Qiaojie Xiong, Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Song Wu, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Wei Yang, Department of Pathology
Donghui Zhu and Juncen Zhou, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne Waltzer, Department of Urology
Qingzhi Zhu, Christopher Gobler, and Yi Zhang, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Michael Zingale, Department of Physics and Astronomy
This program awarded 21 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine, the School of Communication and Journalism, the School of Dental Medicine, and the School of Health Professions.
Dimitris Assanis and David Hwang, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Niranjan Balasubramanian, Aruna Balasubramanian, and Anshul Gandhi, Department of Computer Science
Isadora Botwinick, Department of Surgery, Ulas Sunar, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lucian Manu, Department of Psychiatry, and Charles Mikell, Department of Neurosurgery
Quinton Bruch, Department of Chemistry
Nicholas Carpino, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Iwao Ojima, Department of Chemistry
Holly Colognato, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Marine Frouin, Department of Geosciences
John Haley, Department of Pathology, Robert Rizzo, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Peter Tonge, Department of Chemistry
Briana Last, Department of Psychology
Wenbo Li, School of Communication and Journalism
Mina Mahdian, Department of Prosthodontics and Digital Technology, Prateek Prasanna, Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Haibin Ling, Department of Computer Science
Sharon Martino, Department of Physical Therapy, Wei Yin, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Adam Gonzalez, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Thomas McFadden, John Frederick Bailyn, and Sandhya Sundaresan, Department of Linguistics, and Thomas Graf, Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computational Science
Robert Rizzo, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Peter Tonge, Department of Chemistry
Chander Sadasivan, Department of Neurosurgery, Shikui Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and David Gu, Department of Computer Science and Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Neelima Sehgal, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Maya Shelly, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Jawaad Sheriff and Danny Bluestein, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wadie F. Bahou, Department of Medicine, and Yuefan Deng, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Josef Stiegler, Kimberley Chapelle, and Andrew J. Moore, Department of Anatomical Sciences
Ken-Ichi Takemaru, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Michael Airola, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Christopher Percival, Department of Anthropology, and Natalia Peunova, Department of Anesthesiology
Peter Tonge and Alyssa Pollard, Department of Chemistry
This program awarded 13 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine, and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
Josephine Aller and Michael G. Frisk, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and Gregory A. Henkes, Department of Geosciences
Olga Aroniadis, Department of Medicine, Ramin Parsey, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health and Department of Radiology, and Christine DeLorenzo, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health and Department of Biomedical Engineering
Himanshu Gupta, Department of Computer Science, Prateek Prasanna, Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Aaron Sasson, Department of Surgery
Marc Halterman, Department of Neurology, and Dima Kozakov, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Jacob Houghton, Department of Radiology
Hwan Kim, Jorge Benach, and Ilia Rochlin, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Jeffrey Lipshultz and Robert B. (Barney) Grubbs, Department of Chemistry
Sima Mofakham, Department of Neurosurgery and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Charles Mikell, Department of Neurosurgery, and Petar Djuric, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robert Scott Powers, Kenneth Shroyer, and Natalia Marchenko, Department of Pathology, and Thomas MacCarthy, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Clinton Rubin, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Addolorate (Dada) Pisconti, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, and Holly Colognato and Styliani-Anna (Stella) E. Tsirka, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Jun Wang, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Sandeep Mallipattu, Department of Medicine
Tzu-Chieh Wei, C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Xianfeng (David) Gu, Department of Computer Science and Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Stanislaus Wong and Iwao Ojima, Department of Chemistry, and Dima Kozakov, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
This program awarded 19 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine, and the School of Health Professions.
Nurit Ballas, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Elizabeth Boon, Department of Chemistry
Rezaul Chowdhury, Department of Computer Science
Sean Clouston, Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine, and Terry Button, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Grigori Enikolopov, Department of Anesthesiology, Natalia Peunova, Department of Anesthesiology and Center for Developmental Genetics, and Dimitris Samaras, Department of Computer Science
Bettina Fries, Department of Medicine, and Gabor Balaszi, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Shubham Jain, Anshul Gandhi, and Samir Das, Department of Computer Science
Ali Khosronejad, Department of Civil Engineering, and Dimitris Samaras, Department of Computer Science
Qingyun Li, Department of Geosciences, and Xinwei Mao, Department of Civil Engineering
Fang Luo and Ji Liu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, David Gu, Department of Computer Science, and Shikui Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Erich Mackow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Ryan Parsons, Department of Psychology
Troy Rasbury, Department of Geosciences, and Vitaly Citovisky, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Russell Rozensky and Lisa M. Endee, School of Health Professions, and Christine DeLorenzo, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Emre Salman and Milutin Stanacevic, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Esther Speer, Department of Pediatrics, and Sandeep Mallipattu, Department of Medicine
Adrianus Van Der Velden, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Charles Vorkas, Department of Medicine
Lonnie Wollmuth, Markus Riessland, and Joshua Plotkin, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Anil Yazici, Department of Civil Engineering, Donovan Finn, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and Clara Tran, Stony Brook University Libraries
This program awarded 15 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine, and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
Eric Brouzes, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Yong Chen, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Matthew Dawber, Cyrus Dreyer, and Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Bruce Demple, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, and John Haley, Department of Pathology
Carly Gomes, Department of Pediatrics, and Howard Sirotkin, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Jason Jones, Department of Sociology
Min-Jeong Kim, Nikhil Palekar, and Sara Weisenbach, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Jordan Kodner, Ellen Broselow, and Robert Hoberman, Department of Linguistics, and Owen Rambow, Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computational Science
Ed Luk, Benjamin Martin, and David Matus, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Arianna Maffei and Mary Kritzer, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Carrie McDonough, Department of Civil Engineering, Bruce Demple, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, and Arjun Venkatsesan, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Yingtian Pan and Congwu Du, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Styliani-Anna E. Tsirka, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Prateek Prasanna, Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Kartik Mani, Department of Radiation Oncology
Howard Sirotkin and Lonnie Wollmuth, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Yongjun Zhang, Department of Sociology and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science, and Siwei Cheng, New York University
This program awarded 11 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine, the School of Communication and Journalism, and the School of Social Welfare.
Nilanjan Chakraborty, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Haibin Ling, Xiaojun Bi, and I. V. Ramakrishnan, Department of Computer Science, and Brooke Ellison, School of Health Technology and Management
Melissa Bessaha and Miguel Munoz-Laboy, School of Social Welfare
Steven Skiena, Department of Computer Science, and Sean Clouston, Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine and Program in Public Health
Imin Kao, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fazel Khan, Department of Orthopaedics, and Brendan F. Boyce, Department of Pathology
Gabor Balazsi, Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Erich R. Mackow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology & Center for Infectious Diseases
Xin Qian and Adrian Howansky, Departments of Radiation Oncology and Radiology, Zhigang Xu and Samuel Ryu, Department of Radiation Oncology, and Wei Zhao, Department of Radiology
Ruobing Li, School of Journalism, Lijiang Shen, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
Daniel P. Raleigh, Department of Chemistry, Carlos Simmerling, and Ken Dill, Department of Chemistry and the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
Natalia Marchenko, Department of Pathology, and Wadie Bahou, Department of Medicine
Hwan Kim and Jorge Benach, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Weisen Shen and William Holt, Department of Geosciences, and Isaiah Nengo, Department of Anthropology and the Turkana Basin Institute
This program awarded 8 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine, and the School of Health Professions.
Maya Shelly, Department of Neurology and Behavior
Alexander Orlov and Anatoly Frenkel, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering
Shan Lin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Scott Smolka, Department of Computer Science, and Marina Charitou, School of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Mengkun Liu, Dmitri Kharzeev, Jennifer Cano and Xu Du, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Heather Lynch, Department of Ecology and Evolution, and Monica Bugallo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Brooke Ellison, School of Health Technology and Management, Xiaojun Bi, Department of Computer Science, Mikhail Gouzman, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Kimberly Noel, Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine
Jonathan Rudick, Robert B. Grubbs, and Scott Laughlin, Department of Chemistry, Daniel Knopf, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Erich Mackow and Jorge Benach, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Infectious Diseases
This program awarded 7 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine, and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
Stanislaus Wong, Ping Liu, Chemistry, Anatoly Frenkel and Dilip Gersappe, Materials Science and Chemical Engineering with their proposal
Helen Hsieh, Department of Surgery and Lonnie Wollmuth, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior with her proposal
Lauren Richmond and Suparna Rajaram, Department of Psychology with their proposal
Roy Price, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and Gregory Henkes, Department of Geosciences with their proposal
Petar Djuric, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Charles Mikell and Sima Mofakham, Department of Neurosurgery with their proposal
Fusheng Wang, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Richard Rosenthal, Psychiatry and Behavior Health, Wei Hou and Elinor Schoenfeld, Preventive Medicine with their proposal
Gordon Taylor and Steven Beaupre, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences with their proposal
This program awarded 8 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine, and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
Alfredo Fontanini and Giancarlo La Camera, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior with their proposal
Jeffrey Ge, Mechanical Engineering, Daniel Birk, Department of Neurosurgery; Nilanjan Chakraborty and Shikui Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering; David Rubenstein, Department of Biomedical Engineering; and T. A. Venkatesh, Department of Materials and Chemical Science Chemistry with their proposal
Gabrielle Russo, Department of Anthropology and Isaiah Nengo, Turkana Basin Institute with their proposal
Stacey Scott, Kristin Bernard, Department of Psychology, and Krishna R. Veeramah, Department of Ecology & Evolution with their proposal
Flaminia Talos, Department of Urology and Pathology and Daifeng Wang, Department of Biomedical Informatics with their proposal
Stella Tsirka Department of Pharmacological Sciences and John Haley, Department of Pathology with their proposal
Laura Wehrmann, School of Marine and Atmospheric with her proposal
Tzu-Chieh Wei and Dominik Schneble, Department of Physics and Astronomy with their proposal
This program awarded 7 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Renaissance School of Medicine.
H. Resit Akcakaya, Ecology and Evolution and Liliana Davalos, Ecology and Evolution
Surita Bhatia, Chemistry and Elizabeth Boon, Chemistry
Holly Colognato, Pharmacology and Maricedes Acosta Martinez, Physiology and Biophysics
Anshul Gandhi, Computer Science and Erez Zadok, Computer Science
Martin Kaczocha, Anesthesiology and Michelino Puopolo, Anesthesiology
David Komatsu Orthopaedics, Yi-Xian Qin, Biomedical Engineering, and Sardar MZ Uddin, Orthopaedics
Greg Zelinsky, Psychology, Dimitrios Samaras, Computer Science, Kenneth Shroyer, Pathology, and Joel Saltz, Bioinformatics
Special Initiative Seed Grant Program
The Special Initiative Seed Grant Programs focus on specific research goals or fields. The programs are managed by the Office of Proposal Development with support from the OVPR and other departments.
This program awarded 10 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine, and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
Supported by the Office of the Provost, Office of the Executive Vice President for Health Sciences, Office of the President
Abena Asare, Department of Africana Studies
Agnieszka Bialkowska, Department of Medicine, Aleksandra Krajewski , Department of Plastic Surgery, Rebecca Spiegel, Department of Neurology, Stella Tsirka, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Gabrielle Antoinette Russo, Department of Anthropology, Gregory Henkes, Department of Geosciences,Marine Frouin, Department of Geosciences
Heidi Preis, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cassandra Heiselman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Marci Lobel, Department of Psychology, Petar Djuric, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Javier Uriarte, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, Tamara Fernando, Department of History, Michael Rubenstein, Department of English
Jeffrey Lipshultz, Department of Chemistry, Benjamin Levine, Department of Chemistry and IACS, Christopher Johnson, Department of Chemistry, Quinton Bruch, Department of Chemistry, Hyowon Seo, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering
Luis Medina, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Jaymie Meliker, Program and Public Health, Christine Gilbert, School of Communication and Journalism and School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Lokesh Padhye, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Robert Harrison, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Eva Siegmann, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Joseph Schuchart, Institute for Advanced Computational Science
Stephen Baines, Department of Ecology & Evolution
Valerio Dao, Department of Physics and Astronomy
This program awarded 4 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Renaissance School of Medicine.
Supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research
Shipra Agrawal, Department of Nephrology and Hypertension
Xi Chen, Department of Psychology
Joshua Plotkin, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Ulas Sunar, Department of Biomedical Engineering
This program awarded 7 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine, and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
Supported by the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Executive Vice President of Health Sciences, the Office of the Vice President for Research
Fei Chen, Department of Pathology, Xinwei Mao, Department of Civil Engineering
Brian Colle, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Christine Gilbert, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and School of Communication and Journalism, Susan Brennan, Department of Psychology, Arie Kaufman, Department of Computer Science
Manisha Desai, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Christopher Sellers, Department of History, Kathleen Fallon, Department of Sociology, Linda O'Keeffe, Department of Art
Klaus Mueller, Department of Computer Science, Reuben Kline, Department of Political Science, Wenbo Li, School of Communication and Journalism
Alexander Orlov, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Rigoberto Burgueno and Marija Krstic, Department of Civil Engineering
Oliver Shipleyand Yong Chen, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Gregory Henkes, Department of Geosciences
Fusheng Wang, Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Computer Science, Richard Rosenthal, Department of Psychiatry, Jaymie Meliker, Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine, Kevin Reed and Minghao Qiu, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
This program awarded 7 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine, and the School of Health Professions.
Supported by the Office of the Provost, Office of the Executive Vice President for Health Sciences, Office of the President
Anshul Gandhi, Department of Computer Science, and Zhenhua Liu, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Leonie Huddy, Eric Groenendyk, and Andrew Engelhardt, Department of Political Science
Ke Jian Liu and Fei Chen, Department of Pathology, and Paolo Boffetta, Department of Family, Popoulation, and Preventative Medicine
Agnes McConlogue Ferro and Christina Burke, Department of Physical Therapy, Kathleen McGoldrick, Health Science Program, and Alex Doboli, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thomas McFadden, John Bailyn, Sandhya Sundaresan, Department of Linguistics and Thomas Graf, Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computational Science
Iwao Ojima, Department of Chemistry
Benedict Robinson, Department of English, and Richard Gerrig, Department of Psychology
This program awarded 4 projects from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Renaissance School of Medicine.
Supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research
Shikui Chen, Jeffrey Ge, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Xianfeng (David) Gu, Department of Computer Science: Deep Learning-Driven Topology Optimization for Soft Robot Motion Planning and Design
Maya Shelly, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior: The Role of Non-Vesicular Lipid Transport at ER-PM Contact Sites in Phosphoinositide Signaling in Early Dendrite Development
Flaminia Talos, Department of Urology, and Wei Yang, Department of Pathology: Investigating targetable mechanisms of altered cell states in castration-resistant prostate cancer
Dongyan Tan, Department of Pharmacological Sciences: The role of INO80 chromatin remodeler in DNA damage repair
This program awarded 4 projects from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Renaissance School of Medicine.
Supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research, Office of the Provost, Office of the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences
Brian McMahon, Adam Singer, and Henry Thode, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Richard Rosenthal, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Congwu Du and Yingtian Pan, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Shao-Jun Tang, Department of Anesthesiology
Martin Kaczocha, Department of Anesthesiology, and Iwao Ojima, Department of Chemistry
Richard Rosenthal, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Fusheng Wang, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Computer Science, and Klaus Mueller, Department of Computer Science
This program awarded 5 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences and Renaissance School of Medicine.
Supported by the Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Office of the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, and Office of the Vice President for Research
Hwan Kim, Jorge Benach, Erich Mackow, Ilia Rochlin, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Andrew Handel, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Markus Riessland, Neurobiology and Behavior, Christine DeLorenzo, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Carine Maurer, Department of Neurology
Markus Seeliger, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Ivet Bahar, Laufer Center, Iwao Ojima, Department of Chemistry, and Robert Rizzo, Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Maya Shelly, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stanislaus Wong, Department of Chemistry, and Miultin Stanacevic, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Charles Vorkas, Department of Medicine and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Luis Marcos, Department of Medicine, Jorge Benach, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Thomas MacCarthy, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Andrew Handel, Department of Pediatrics
This program awarded 2 projects from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Supported by Office of the President, Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice President for Research
Himanshu Gupta, Aruna Balasubramanian, Xianfeng (David) Gu, Omkant Pandey, Supartha Podder, C. R. Ramakrishnan, Nengkun Yu, Department of Computer Science and and Jon Longtin, Department of Mechnical Engineering
Leon Shterengas,Sergey Suchalkin, Dmitri Donetsky, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Eden Figueroa, and Jennifer Cano, Department of Physics and Astronomy
This program awarded 6 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Renaissance School of Medicine.
Supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research
In the Spring 2022 semester, the Office of the Vice President for Research announced a second round of the revise and resubmit seed funding program to provide support for the resubmission efforts of PIs/teams who received highly favorable summary statements on prior, unfunded external grant proposals. The program was designed to help faculty address concerns and gaps in the original submissions as indicated by the reviewers. Interested faculty were asked to submit a brief proposal, including a copy of the external reviewer feedback from their previously submitted proposal. The following projects were selected for funding with an award start date of May 1, 2022.
Erich Mackow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology: SARS-CoV-2 Infected Alveolar Epithelial Cells Aberrantly Activate Endothelial Cells
Leonie Huddy, Oleg Smirnov, and Katherine Sawyer, Department of Political Science: Exploring the Dynamics of Mass Violent Protest in the United States
Zhaozheng Yin and Fusheng Wang, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Department of Computer Science, Ruwen Qin, Department of Civil Engineering, and Ming Leu, Missouri University of Science and Technology: FMRG: Cyber: GOALI: Worker-Centric Manufacturing of the Future: Worker Understanding, Assistive Intelligence, and Big Data Analytics
David Matus, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology: Elucidating the invasive-proliferative switch
Shuai Mu and Michael Ferdman, Department of Computer Science, and Peter Milder, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Distributed Protocol Offload using FPGA SmartNICs
Wei Yin and Congwu Du, Department of Biomedical Engineering: Astrocyte iNOS regulates cocaine-induced vasoconstriction in cocaine addiction
This program awarded 4 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences and Renaissance School of Medicine.
Supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research
In the Fall 2021 semester, the Office of the Vice President for Research announced a special initiative pilot seed funding program to provide support for the resubmission efforts of PIs/teams who received highly favorable summary statements on prior, unfunded NIH grant proposals. The program was designed to help faculty address weaknesses and gaps in the original submissions as indicated by the reviewers. Interested faculty were asked to submit a brief proposal, including a copy of the summary statement from their previously submitted proposal. The following projects were selected for funding with an award start date of February 1, 2022.
Jun Chung, Jingfang Ju, and Young Hwa Song, Department of Pathology, and Wei Hou, Department of Family, Population & Preventive Medicine: Chemically modified tumor suppressing micro-RNA as a novel therapeutic option for Triple Negative Breast Cancers
Sima Mofakham and Charles Mikell, Department of Neurosurgery, Petar Djuric, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Chuan Huang, Department of Radiology: Modeling the latent structure of coma and consciousness
Aaron Neiman, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology: Mechanisms of de novo membrane assembly
Chander Sadasivan, Department of Neurosurgery, and Miriam Rafailovich, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering: A Dynamic Intrasaccular Biodegradable Polymer for Accelerated Remodeling of Cerebral Aneurysms
This program awarded 6 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research
In the Spring 2020 semester, the Office of the Vice President for Research announced a special initiative seed funding program to foster inter-institutional collaborations on Quantum Information Science and Technology (QIST) research. The program was designed to provide seed funds to projects with the potential to evolve into statewide research networks. Interested faculty were asked to submit brief proposals that included a project description, explanation of partnerships, budget justification, and targeted external funding opportunities. The following projects were selected for funding with an award start date of June 1, 2020.
Peng Zhang and Ji Liu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University, Predrag Krstic, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University: Quantum Grid: Empowering a Resilient and Secure Power Grid through Quantum Engineering
Bonita London, Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University: Educating and Training the Quantum-smart workforce: Development of a Comprehensive Needs Assessment Tool for Workforce Development
Dominik Schneble and Eden Figueroa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Olli-Pentti Saira, Computational Science Initiative, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and David Pappas, Quantum Processing Group, National Institute for Standards and Technology: Towards transduction of electromagnetic qubits via photon storage in an ultracold atomic gas
Himanshu Gupta and C.R. Ramakrishnan, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Eden Figueroa, Tzu-Chieh Wei, and Vladimir Korepin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University: Quantum Network Infrastructure for Entanglement Sharing
Eden Figueroa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Herbert Fotso, Department of Physics, University at Albany, and Vinon Menon, Department of Physics, The City College of New York: Towards next generation room temperature quantum memories
Tzu-Chieh Wei and Vladimir Korepin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Himanshu Gupta and C.R. Ramakrishnan, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University: Distributed Quantum Algorithms and Applications to Quantum Sensing
This program awarded 14 projects from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Renaissance School of Medicine.
Supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research
The Office of the Vice President for Research and the Institute for Engineering-Driven Medicine joined together to provide funding for this special initiative seed grant program in the Spring 2020 semester. Faculty were asked to submit a brief proposal that included the specific aims, research methods, potential impact, and timeline of their projects as well as plans for developing highly competitive proposals for extramural funding. The call for applications, which was open for less than three weeks, received 63 submissions from Principal Investigators in the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Medicine, and School of Social Welfare. The following projects were selected for funding with an award start date of May 22, 2020.
Nancy Reich, Janet Hearing, Patrick Hearing, and Hwan Kim, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Carlos Simmerling, Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology and Evangelos Coutsias, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Matthew Lerner, Department of Psychology and Jennifer Keluskar, Department of Psychiatry and Behavorial Health
Peter Tonge, Department of Chemistry, Dima Kozakov, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and David Thanassi, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Shobana Shankar, Department of History
Markus Seeliger, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, and David Liu, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University
Erich Mackow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Brady Nelson, Lauren Richmond, and Jessica Schleider, Department of Psychology
Liliana Davalos, Department of Ecology and Evolution, and Jaymie Meliker, Department of Family, Population and Preventative Medicine
Heidi Preis and Marci Lobel, Department of Psychology, and Brittain Mahaffey, Department of Psychiatry and Behavorial Health
Nicholas Carpino and Erich Mackow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Chao Chen, Prateek Prasanna, and Janos Hajagos, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Wadie Bahou and Dmitri Gnatenko, Department of Medicine, Cecilia Avila, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, and Wei Zhu, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Prateek Prasanna, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Dimitris Samaras, Department of Computer Science, and Elaine Gould, Department of Radiology
Arie Kaufman, Department of Computer Science and Marlene Zawin, Department of Radiology
Miguel Garcia-Diaz, Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Robert Rizzo, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Peng Zhang and Yuefan Deng, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Miriam Rafailovich, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering and Marcia Simon, Department of Oral Biology and Pathology