Active Grants

Investigation of VP40 mutations found in previous outbreaks on the assembly and budding of viruses
Principal Investigator: Prem Chapagain - Sponsor: Purdue University - Award No. 800008519 - End date: 11/30/2019 - Total Amount: $10,974

Southeastern Regional CoE in Vector-Borne Diseases: The Gateway Program
Principal Investigator: Matthew DeGennaro - Sponsor: University of Florida - Award Number: 800007941 - End Date: 12/29/2019 - Total Project Amount: $1,218,488

Development of high-throughput analytical tools for the identification and quantification of juvenile hormone levels of expression using fast, gas post-ionization separations
Principal Investigator: Francisco Fernandez-Lima - Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - Award Number: 800006515 - End Date: 5/31/2020 - Total Project Amount: $249,361.27

CAREER: Development of gas-phase, post-ionization structural tools for the study of DNA-protein complexes
Principal Investigator: Francisco Fernandez-Lima - Sponsor: National Science Foundation - Award Number: 800007608 - End Date: 1/31/2022 - Total Project Amount: $615,000

CAREER: Investigate 3D extracellular potential distribution at single cell level
Principal Investigator: Jin He - Sponsor: National Science Foundation - Award Number: 800004977 - End Date: 7/31/2020 - Total Project Amount: $500,234

Targeting transcription-coupled DNA supercoiling for discovering antibiotics
Principal Investigator: Fenfei Leng - Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - Award Number: 800008396 - End Date: 6/30/2020 - Total Project Amount: $478,360

CAREER: Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms of Parasite Infection in Insects
Principal Investigator: Jun Li - Sponsor: National Science Foundation - Award Number: 800008545 - End Date: 5/31/2020 - Total Project Amount: $377,916.00

STIPENDS: CAREER: Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms of Parasite Infection in Insects
Principal Investigator: Jun Li - Sponsor: National Science Foundation - Award Number: 80008821 - End Date: 5/31/2020 - Total Project Amount: $13,800

Fungal metabolites block malaria transmission
Principal Investigator: Jun Li - Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - Award Number: 80008850 - End Date: 6/30/2022 - Total Project Amount: $2,588,057

Trinucleotide repeat instability via DNA damage and repair - Sponsor: Environmental Health Sciences - Award Number: 800002771 - End Date: 10/31/2019 - Total Project Amount: $1,601,904 - Principal Investigator: Yuan Liu

CAREER: Self-assembled Biodegradable Conjugated Polymers for RNA Interference
Principal Investigator: Joong-ho Moon - Sponsor: National Science Foundation - Award Number: 800003396 - End Date: 8/31/2019 - Total Project Amount: $499,476

Regulation of Juvenile Hormone titers in mosquitoes
Principal Investigator: Fernando Noriega - Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - Award Number: 800005417 - End Date: 5/31/2020 - Total Project Amount: $2,287,758.53

The impact of host diet on transmission of endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria
Principal Investigator: Laura Serbus - Sponsor: National Science Foundation - Award Number: 800006917 - End Date: 6/30/2020 - Total Project Amount: $650,610

Control of DNA topology
Principal Investigator: Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh - Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - Award Number: 800009595 - End Date: 6/30/2021 - Total Project Amount: $1,313,437.00

Aptamer-Based, Exonuclease-Amplified, Colorimetric, Onsite Screening of Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and Mephedrone in Oral Fluid
Principal Investigator: Yi Xiao - Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - Award Number: 800004388 - End Date: 9/29/2019 - Total Project Amount: $337,239

Novel Chemotherapeutic Treatment for Prostate Cancer
Principal Investigator: Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh, Irina Agoulnik, Yuan Liu - Sponsor: Community Foundation of Broward - Award Number: 800011401 - End Date: 6/30/2020 - Total Project Amount: $100,000.00

Control of DNA Topology (supplement - to support research participation of an underrepresented undergraduate student)
Principal Investigator: Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh - Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - Award Number: 800010648 - End Date: 6/30/2021 - Total Project Amount: $45,016.00

Understanding mosquito ovary dynamics and reproductive fitness using Mass Spectrometry Imaging
Principal Investigator: Francisco Fernandez Lima - Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - Award Number: 800009409 - End Date: 5/31/2020 - Total Project Amount: $183,125.00

Genomic instability, susceptibility to oxidative stress and cellular senescence
Principal Investigator: Marcus Cooke - Sponsor: Environmental Health Sciences - Award Number: 800007518 - End Date: 4/30/2020 - Total Project Amount: $366,250.00

Personalized Ex Vivo Drug Screening and Genomics Profiling to Guide Individualized Treatments for Children with Relapsed or Refractory Solid Tumors and Leukemias
Principal Investigator: Diana Azzam - Sponsor: Florida Department of Health - Award Number: 800009443 - End Date: 4/20/2022 - Total Project Amount: $700,000.00

Identifying mosquito olfactory receptors for human odor by measuring mRNA expression levels
Principal Investigator: Matthew DeGennaro - Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - Award Number: 800009768 - End Date: 11/30/2020 - Total Project Amount: $393,748.00

Development of high-throughput analytical tools for the identification and quantification of juvenile hormone levels of expression using fast, gas post-ionization separations
Principal Investigator: Matthew DeGennaro - Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - Award Number: 800007484 - End Date: 5/31/2020 - Total Project Amount: $11,589.89

Marburg Virus Prophylactic Medical Countermeasure
Principal Investigator: Prem Chapagain - Sponsor: Luna Health Sciences Group Luna Innovations - Award Number: 800009868 - End Date: 10/31/2019 - Total Project Amount: $49,999.00

Computational modeling of lantibiotics interactions with lipid II and membrane
Principal Investigator: Prem Chapagain - Sponsor: Oragenics, Inc. - Award Number: 800011169 - End Date: 2/29/2020 - Total Project Amount: $100,000.00

ID3, epigenetic reprogramming, and hyper-proilferative vascular remodeling
Principal Investigator: Quentin Felty - Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - Award Number: 800009825 - End Date: 1/31/2022 - Total Project Amount: $439,500

Homogeneous Nuclease-Assisted SELEX for Rapid Isolation of Cross-Reactive Aptamers for Synthetic Cannabinoid detection
Principal Investigator: Yi Xiao - Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse - Award Number: 800011266 - End Date: 2/28/2021 - Total Project Amount: $380,000.00

Rapid isolation of high-affinity DNA aptamers for small-molecule targets via nuclease-assisted SELEX
Principal Investigator: Yi Xiao - Sponsor: National Science Foundation - Award Number: 800010829 - End Date: 7/31/2022 - Total Project Amount: $354,534.00

Transdisciplinary Training in Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences
Principal Investigator: Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh, Lidia Kos - Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - Award Number: 800010177 - End Date: 6/30/2024 - Total Project Amount: $1,496,250.00

AHTP-comet: development of an automated, high throughput
Principal Investigator: Marcus Cooke - Sponsor: Engineering Resources Group Inc. - Award Number: 800009746 - End Date: 1/31/2020 - Total Project Amount: $76,152.00

Development of Multidimensional, Linear and Differential Ion Mobility MS Separations for Middle-Down Proteoforms
Principal Investigator: Francisco Alberto Fernandez Lima - Sponsor: National Institutes of Health - Award Number: 800010615 - End Date: 6/30/2023 - Total Project Amount: $1,833,722.00

Toxicant-induced neurotoxicity mediated by glia-neuron and gene-environment interactions in Parkinson's disease
Principal Investigator: Kim Tieu - Sponsor: National Institutes of Health/NIEHS - Award Number: 800010334 - End Date: 4/30/2027 - Total Project Amount: $6,702,610.00

Evaluation of antimicrobial polymer in Colgate formulations
Principal Investigator: Joong-ho Moon - Sponsor: Colgate-Palmolive Company - Award Number: 800012011 - End Date: 9/18/2020 - Total Project Amount: $55,000.00