July 2026 Grants and Awards
Targeting ESKAPE Pathogens with AI-Designed Antimicrobial Peptide
Principal Investigator:
Mohamed Seleem
Professor
Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
Sponsor:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Feyenman: Developing and Evaluating Computational Transparency Approaches for Understanding AI Systems
Principal Investigator:
Kirk Cameron
Managing Director of the Institute for Advanced Computing
Institute for Advanced Computing
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
CITY-AI: CyberTraining for AI-Enabled Intelligent Urban Informatics and Smart City Innovation
Principal Investigator:
Fangzheng Lyu
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Exploring the Feasibility of Recoilless Resonant Neutrino Absorption
Principal Investigator:
Vsevolod Ivanov
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech National Security Institute
Sponsor:
Department of Energy
Code Invariants in Classical and Quantum Error Correction
Principal Investigator:
Guiseppe Cotardo
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
College of Science
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Discovery and Development of Millipede Alkaloids as a New Generation of Painkillers
Principal Investigator:
Emily Mevers
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of Science
Sponsor:
National Center for Complmentary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health
Integrating Phylogenomics and Traits to Reveal the Eco-Evolutionary Range Dynamics of Anopheline Mosquitos
Principal Investigator:
Anton Suvorov
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
College of Science
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Advancing Chronic Pain Care in Rural Seniors: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to Improve Understanding, Assessment, and Comorbidity Risk Prediction
Principal Investigator:
Huaiyang Zhong
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
College of Engineering
Sponsor:
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
Data Centers: Understanding Economic Considerations and Opportunities for Water and Wastewater Utilities
Principal Investigator:
Landon Marston
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Sponsor:
Water Research Foundation
Efficacy of Mating Disruption Treatments Against Spongy Moth
Principal Investigator:
Ksenia Onufrieva
Research Scientist
Department of Entomology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Sponsor:
United States Department of Agriculture