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: Towards Sustainable Data Centers: Evaluating Policies for Energy Efficiency and Environmental Responsibility
Gabor Balazsi, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mehdi Damaghi, Department of Pathology and Stony Brook Cancer Center: Regulatory and phenotypic effects of metastatic genes and environments
Kristen Brock-Petroshius, School of Social Welfare, Andrew Engelhardt, Department of Political Science, Xia Zheng, School of Communication and Journalism: Narrative Strategies for Shaping Public Attitudes Towards Transgender Youth Policies: An Experimental Study of Message Effects on Sports and Healthcare Access
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: Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINN) for Accelerated Topology Optimization of High-Performance Power Electronics Components
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: New York State Medicaid Reform to Address Health-Related Social Needs: Improving Operations and Access to Services
Denis Gruzdev, Emanuelle Pales Espinosa, Bassem Allam, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences: Inconspicuous partners: unveiling the functional role of uncultivated Mycoplasmatales in bivalve health and disease
Jingfang Ju, Department of Pathology: Development of Gem-miR-15a as novel therapeutics for pancreatic cancer
Dennis Lee, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering: Fundamental Studies on Bimetallic Conductive MOF-Textile Composites for Chemical Protection Applications
Ke Jian Liu, Department of Pathology, Ramana Davuluri, Department of Biomedical Informatics: Deciphering the carcinogenic and mutagenic effects of mixed environmental exposures
Mengkun Liu, Xu Du, Department of Physics and Astronomy: Quantum Sensing with BOlometric Superconducting Optical Nanoscopy (BOSON)
Michael Mak, Xiangyu Gong, Department of Pharmacological Sciences: Injectable, Biofunctionalized, Tissue-Mimicking Collagen for Bone Regeneration
Luis Medina, Yong Chen, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences: Micro and nanoplastics entry into the Hudson River planktonic food web: Historical revelations from a long-term environmental monitoring program.
Josh Plotkin, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior: Compartment-specific striatal dysfunction induced by dopamine depletion and replacement therapy in Parkinson’s disease
Esther Speer, Department of Pediatrics, John Haley, Department of Pathology: Enhancing energy metabolism during neonatal sepsis as a potential strategy to mitigate chronic kidney dysfunction
William Stewart, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jack McSweeney, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences: Developing Robotic Sea Turtle Swarms to Collect Upper-Ocean Observations
Ulas Sunar, Yi-Xian Qin, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ying Gu, Department of General Dentristry: Early Diagnosis of Periodontal and Peri-implant Disease using Multimodal Imaging
Sandhya Sundaresan, Thomas McFadden, Department of Linguistics, Owen Rambow, Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computational Science: Modelling Shifty Hierarchies In Formal Theory (SHIFT): Anchoring syntactic hierarchies in theory of mind
Adrianus WM van der Velden, Brian Sheridan, Department of Microbiology and Immunology: Role of asparagine metabolism in T cell activation and function
Paul Vaska, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Jules Cohen, Department of Medicine: An Innovative Approach to Molecular Imaging of Primary Breast Cancer
Jun Wang, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sandeep Mallipattu, Department of Medicine: Spatial MISTomics for Studying Chronic Kidney Disease
Sufeng Zhang, Christine DeLorenzo, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Psychiatry: Investigating the Gut-Brain Connection: Targeting Colitis to Modulate Neuroinflammation
Jiawei Zhou, Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics and Computer Science, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Department of Computer Science: Scaling Thought: Efficient Reasoning with LLM Agents for Complex Real-World TasksThis 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: Point of Care Digital Platform for Cervical Cancer Prognosis
Eva Carceles Poveda, Dana Golden, Ria Rajib Shah, Department of Economics: The International Determinants of Shareholder Disagreement
Nilanjan Chakraborty and Kedar Kirane, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IV Ramakrishnan and Georgios Georgakis, Department of Surgery: Data-Enabled Manipulation Planning and Control for Autonomous Robotic Surgical Assistants
Christine DeLorenzo, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Biomedical Engineering: Development of a Blood Glucose Based Correction Factor for Brain Glutamate Estimates
Margaret Echelbarger, College of Business: Children’s Reasoning about Nonobvious Cues to Wealth and Power
Guanyu Huang, Program in Public Health, John Mak, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences: Acquisition of an HCHO Analyzer for Studies of Photochemical Smog and its Health Impact
Shubham Jain, Department of Computer Science, Craig Beale and Rachel Meaney, Department of Speech Language and Hearing: Assistive Wearable Technology to Improve Communication for Individuals with Speech Disorders
Hyungjin Kim and Gilbert Rahme, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Luis Martinez, Department of Pathology: Key Determinants of DNA Replication Catastrophe Signaling in Anti-Cancer Therapy
Min-Jeong Kim, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health: PET Imaging of Reactive Astrocytes and Microglia in Alzheimer's Disease
Haibin Ling, Department of Computer Science, Yingtian Pan, Department of Biomedical Engineering: AI-Empowered Optical Coherence Tomography
Zhenhua Liu, Department of Applied Math and Statistics, Anshul Gandhi, Department of Computer Science: Towards Efficient and Sustainable LLM Deployments
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: Engineering Gait Rehabilitation in Parkinson’s Disease through Music and AI
Neil Nadkarni, Department of Neurology, Stella Tsirka, Department of Pharmacology, Chao Chen and Prateek Prassana, Department of Biomedical Informatics: Multi-Scale Imaging Informatics to Define Inflammatory Dynamics in Stroke Throughout Aging
Jesus Perez Rios, Department of Physics and Astronomy: Decoherence in Quantum Gates Based on Ultracold Molecules
Hyowon Seo, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering: Efficiency at Scale: High-Capacity High-Throughput Electrochemical Carbon Capture Using Sediment Flow and Pulsed Electrolysis
Qiaojie Xiong, Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Song Wu, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics: The Role of Tail Striatal Astrocyte in Regulating Neuronal Plasticity during Associative Learning
Wei Yang, Department of Pathology: PHF8 Promotes Prostate Cancer Metastasis by Epigenetically Upregulating RIPK2
Donghui Zhu and Juncen Zhou, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne Waltzer, Department of Urology: Biodegradable Metallic Stents for Ureteral Obstruction Treatment
Qingzhi Zhu, Christopher Gobler, and Yi Zhang, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences: Overcome the Challenge of Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS) Removal in Aquatic Systems using Molecular Tailoring Technology
Michael Zingale, Department of Physics and Astronomy: Building a Community for Reactive Flow Software Infrastructure
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: Overcoming Carbon-Free Fuel Challenges: Laser-Induced Ammonia Combustion
Niranjan Balasubramanian, Aruna Balasubramanian, and Anshul Gandhi, Department of Computer Science: Significantly Reducing Energy Consumption of Deep Neural Networks
Isadora Botwinick, Department of Surgery, Ulas Sunar, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lucian Manu, Department of Psychiatry, and Charles Mikell, Department of Neurosurgery: Neuromodulation for Delirium in Critically-Ill Patients
Quinton Bruch, Department of Chemistry: Bimetallic Catalysts for Upcycling CO2 and Oxygenase Mimicry
Nicholas Carpino, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Iwao Ojima, Department of Chemistry: Targeting Sts to Optimize Host Antimicrobial Immunity
Holly Colognato, Department of Pharmacological Sciences: Enhancing Regeneration in Demyelinating Conditions by Using Metformin to Promote Myelin Repair
Marine Frouin, Department of Geosciences: Understanding the relationship between the variability of the Radiofluorescence Signal and the Variability in the Geochemistry of Individual feldspar grains
John Haley, Department of Pathology, Robert Rizzo, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Peter Tonge, Department of Chemistry: Development of neutral ceramidase (nCDase) Inhibitors for Colorectal Cancer
Briana Last, Department of Psychology: Policies as Structural Determinants of Sexual and Gender Minority People's Mental Health
Wenbo Li, School of Communication and Journalism: Combating AI-Generated Science Misinformation: Investigating Impact on Racial Minority Communities and Developing Effective Science Communication Strategies
Mina Mahdian, Department of Prosthodontics and Digital Technology, Prateek Prasanna, Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Haibin Ling, Department of Computer Science: Automated Characterization of Carotid Artery Calcification in Dental Cone Beam Computed Tomographic Images as a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease
Sharon Martino, Department of Physical Therapy, Wei Yin, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Adam Gonzalez, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health: Effects of Activity Tracking and Virtual Reality Mindfulness on Stress and Cardiometabolic Health of College Students
Thomas McFadden, John Frederick Bailyn, and Sandhya Sundaresan, Department of Linguistics, and Thomas Graf, Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computational Science: Syntactic Locality: An Interface of Typology, Theory and Computation
Robert Rizzo, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Peter Tonge, Department of Chemistry: Structure-Based Design of Anti-Bacterial Agents Targeting LpxC
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: Topology Optimization for the Design of Deployable Personalized Medical Devices
Neelima Sehgal, Department of Physics and Astronomy: Enabling the Sharpest Baby Picture of Our Universe
Maya Shelly, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior: Mechanistic Elucidation of Active Forgetting in the Management of Memory
Jawaad Sheriff and Danny Bluestein, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wadie F. Bahou, Department of Medicine, and Yuefan Deng, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics: Platelet Mechanical Stiffness and Shear-Mediated Response Across the Lifespan
Josef Stiegler, Kimberley Chapelle, and Andrew J. Moore, Department of Anatomical Sciences: Paleontology of Early Dinosaurs and Their Kin at the Snyder Quarry: An Exceptional Late Triassic Site in the Chama Basin of Northern New Mexico
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: Mechanisms of Ciliary Membrane Shaping in Airways
Peter Tonge and Alyssa Pollard, Department of Chemistry: Targeted Degradation of Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) and Tryptophan 2,3- Dioxygenase (TDO) as a Novel Anti-Cancer Strategy
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: Reconstructing paleo-fisheries and the paleoenvironment of Lake Turkana, Kenya, to understand drivers of ecosystem change and fisheries resilience
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: Pilot feasibility study probing the role of the microbiome as a mechanism of mediating signaling along the gut-brain axis in major depressive disorder
Himanshu Gupta, Department of Computer Science, Prateek Prasanna, Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Aaron Sasson, Department of Surgery: Computational Methods to Minimize Bile-Duct Injuries in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
Marc Halterman, Department of Neurology, and Dima Kozakov, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics: NeuroTag: GFP-tagging the ER-stress proteome to address bottlenecks in stroke therapeutics discovery
Jacob Houghton, Department of Radiology: Development and dosimetry of Pb-203/212 host:guest pretargeting
Hwan Kim, Jorge Benach, and Ilia Rochlin, Department of Microbiology and Immunology: Characterize the ability of H. longicornis to acquire and transmit R. amblyommatis
Jeffrey Lipshultz and Robert B. (Barney) Grubbs, Department of Chemistry: Upgrading of Simple and Macromolecular Alcohols via Catalytic Alkoxyl Radical β-Scission
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: A Real-Time, Objective Measure of Consciousness
Robert Scott Powers, Kenneth Shroyer, and Natalia Marchenko, Department of Pathology, and Thomas MacCarthy, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics: Integrating single-cell and spatial genomics with computational modeling to elucidate the K17-GATA6 genetic regulatory network in pancreatic cancer
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: Low Intensity Vibration Mitigates Muscle/Bone/Brain Failure in a Mouse Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Jun Wang, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Sandeep Mallipattu, Department of Medicine: Advanced Single-Cell Proteomic Study of Kidney Diseases
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: Quantum Algorithms for Conformal Geometry with Speedup for Medical Imaging Processing and Other Applications
Stanislaus Wong and Iwao Ojima, Department of Chemistry, and Dima Kozakov, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics: Development of Nanoscale Metal Oxide Platforms for Theranostics
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: The molecular and cellular aberrations in human astrocytes derived from female RTT patient iPSCs
Elizabeth Boon, Department of Chemistry: NO/NosP signaling as an early warning system for NO detoxification in P. aeruginosa
Rezaul Chowdhury, Department of Computer Science: Efficient Algorithms and a Compiler for Parallel Nonlinear Stencil Computations
Sean Clouston, Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine, and Terry Button, Department of Biomedical Engineering: Artificial Intelligence-Based Lifestyle Intervention to Maintain Health in Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment and High Blood Pressure
Grigori Enikolopov, Department of Anesthesiology, Natalia Peunova, Department of Anesthesiology and Center for Developmental Genetics, and Dimitris Samaras, Department of Computer Science: Evaluating cilia motion coordination using machine learning
Bettina Fries, Department of Medicine, and Gabor Balaszi, Department of Biomedical Engineering: Investigation of in vivo derived Candida glabrata population
Shubham Jain, Anshul Gandhi, and Samir Das, Department of Computer Science: Enabling Live Video Analytics for Mobile Cameras
Ali Khosronejad, Department of Civil Engineering, and Dimitris Samaras, Department of Computer Science: Data-driven physics-based reduced-order models for effective design of offshore wind farms
Qingyun Li, Department of Geosciences, and Xinwei Mao, Department of Civil Engineering: Characterization of Microbial Induced Carbonate Precipitates formed through Denitrification
Fang Luo and Ji Liu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, David Gu, Department of Computer Science, and Shikui Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering: Multifaceted Math Integration Platform for Energy Network Innovation
Erich Mackow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology: Developing Reverse Genetic Systems for Powassan Virus and Hantavirus
Ryan Parsons, Department of Psychology: Neural circuit activity underlying sex differences in fear expression
Troy Rasbury, Department of Geosciences, and Vitaly Citovisky, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology: Boron Transport Mechanisms in Plants
Russell Rozensky and Lisa M. Endee, School of Health Professions, and Christine DeLorenzo, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health: Stony Brook University Evaluation of Sleep, Depression, Fatigue among Stony Brook Students
Emre Salman and Milutin Stanacevic, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Energy-Efficient Design Methodologies for ReRAM-based Deep Neural Network Accelerators on the Edge
Esther Speer, Department of Pediatrics, and Sandeep Mallipattu, Department of Medicine: Novel therapeutic approach in a murine model of neonatal sepsis-induced acute kidney injury
Adrianus Van Der Velden, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Charles Vorkas, Department of Medicine: Role of Inflammatory Monocytes in the Granulomatous Response to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Lonnie Wollmuth, Markus Riessland, and Joshua Plotkin, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior: Impact of genetic risk factors for Parkinson's Disease on the membrane properties of human stem cell-derived dopamine neurons
Anil Yazici, Department of Civil Engineering, Donovan Finn, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and Clara Tran, Stony Brook University Libraries: Transforming Libraries into Community Resilience Hubs: A Pilot Project in New York's Long Island Region
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: Platform for High Spatial and Transcriptomic Resolution
Yong Chen, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences: Analyzing the historical Hudson River Biological Monitoring Program to develop an integrated program for long-term monitoring of Hudson River ecosystem dynamics
Matthew Dawber, Cyrus Dreyer, and Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Department of Physics and Astronomy: Towards designer superlattice potentials in 2D material-ferroelectric oxide composites: Developing ordered nanoscale domains
Bruce Demple, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, and John Haley, Department of Pathology: A new generation of molecular probes to assess cellular DNA repair pathways
Carly Gomes, Department of Pediatrics, and Howard Sirotkin, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior: Modulating NMDA receptors to minimize neuronal injury in neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
Jason Jones, Department of Sociology: Predicting the Self with Machine Translation
Min-Jeong Kim, Nikhil Palekar, and Sara Weisenbach, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health: Imaging of Neuroinflammation in Older Adults with Persistent Post-COVID Cognitive Impairment
Jordan Kodner, Ellen Broselow, and Robert Hoberman, Department of Linguistics, and Owen Rambow, Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computational Science: Arabic Morphology in Theory, Learning, and Practice
Ed Luk, Benjamin Martin, and David Matus, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology: A pipeline to develop antibody-based tools to visualize and manipulate molecules in living systems
Arianna Maffei and Mary Kritzer, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior: Defining the electrophysiological characteristics of functional subdivisions of the subthalamic nucleus: Implications for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease
Carrie McDonough, Department of Civil Engineering, Bruce Demple, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, and Arjun Venkatesan, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences: "Forever Chemicals" Close to Home: Assessing Human Exposure, Metabolism, and Toxicity for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Consumer Products
Yingtian Pan and Congwu Du, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Styliani-Anna E. Tsirka, Department of Pharmacological Sciences: AI-enhanced Multimodality Optical Platform to Image Tumor Microenvironment in Awake Brain
Prateek Prasanna, Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Kartik Mani, Department of Radiation Oncology: Quantitative Image-based Response Prediction in Patients Receiving Radiation for Primary Brain Cancer or Intracranial Metastases
Howard Sirotkin and Lonnie Wollmuth, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior: Developing Prime Editing to Model Autism
Yongjun Zhang, Department of Sociology and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science, and Siwei Cheng, New York University: Human Mobility and Segregation in the U.S.
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: Robotic-Arm Augmented Wheelchair for Enabling Independent Living of People with Quadriplegia
Melissa Bessaha and Miguel Munoz-Laboy, School of Social Welfare: Building a Network of Community Organizations and Local Health Agencies to Prevent Loneliness Among Recent Migrant Youth and Emerging Adults
Steven Skiena, Department of Computer Science, and Sean Clouston, Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine and Program in Public Health: AI Video Analysis to Identify CTE and Dementia Symptoms
Imin Kao, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fazel Khan, Department of Orthopaedics, and Brendan F. Boyce, Department of Pathology: Innovative Technology using Raman Spectroscopy for In-vivo Assessment of Soft Tissue Sarcomas Margin Status During Surgery
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: Automatic sense-defense system against SARS-CoV-2 and other RNA viruses
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: Real-time HDR brachytherapy source tracking and dose verification in vivo using a 4D tomosynthesis imaging system
Ruobing Li, School of Journalism, Lijiang Shen, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State University: The Role and Influence of Mass Media on COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Daniel P. Raleigh, Department of Chemistry, Carlos Simmerling, and Ken Dill, Department of Chemistry and the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology: Controlling the stability of amyloid fibers to modulate human disease and to design novel bio-inspired materials
Natalia Marchenko, Department of Pathology, and Wadie Bahou, Department of Medicine: BLVRB is the metabolic driver in breast cancer
Hwan Kim and Jorge Benach, Department of Microbiology and Immunology: Exploring virulence potential of Rickettsia amblyommatis for Spotted Fever pathogenesis
Weisen Shen and William Holt, Department of Geosciences, and Isaiah Nengo, Department of Anthropology and the Turkana Basin Institute: A seismic nodal array investigation to the Turkana Basin, Kenya
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: Molecular mechanisms that initiate principle dendrite polarization during embryonic neuronal development
Alexander Orlov and Anatoly Frenkel, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering: Observing and modelling new ceramics materials that can breathe out uniform and tunable nanoparticles
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: A Smart Artificial Pancreas for Patients with Diabetes
Mengkun Liu, Dmitri Kharzeev, Jennifer Cano and Xu Du, Department of Physics and Astronomy: Building Quantum transducers at GHz to IR frequencies using topological materials
Heather Lynch, Department of Ecology and Evolution, and Monica Bugallo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Moving beyond mark-recapture: Advanced Bayesian inference for inferring demographic rates from unmarked individuals
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: Next Generation Orally-Activated Multi-Modal Assistive Technologies for People with Severe Disabilities
Jonathan Rudick, Robert B. Grubbs, and Scott Laughlin, Department of Chemistry, Daniel Knopf, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences: Biomimetic Polymers and Coatings to Combat Freezing and Icing
Erich Mackow and Jorge Benach, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Infectious Diseases: Determinants of Powassan Virus Pathogenesis in Human Brain Endothelial Cells
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: Multi-Scale, Structure-Reactivity Modeling of Nanowire-Based Single Site Catalysts for Small-Molecule Reactions
Helen Hsieh, Department of Surgery and Lonnie Wollmuth, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior with her proposal: The Impact of Gut-Brain Interactions on Brain Development in Premature Infants
Lauren Richmond and Suparna Rajaram, Department of Psychology with their proposal: Investigation of the Protective Effect of Social Connections on the Neurobiological Underpinnings of Memory in Aging
Roy Price, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and Gregory Henkes, Department of Geosciences with their proposal: A Proxy for Life Detection on Other Planetary Bodies: Calcium Carbonate Clumped Isotope Geochemistry from Serpentinizing Environments
Petar Djuric, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Charles Mikell and Sima Mofakham, Department of Neurosurgery with their proposal: Exploring the Latent Structure of Consciousness
Fusheng Wang, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Richard Rosenthal, Psychiatry and Behavior Health, Wei Hou and Elinor Schoenfeld, Preventive Medicine with their proposal: Al Based Opioid Overdose Prevention
Gordon Taylor and Steven Beaupre, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences with their proposal: Do Microplastic Contaminants Distort our Understanding of the Ocean's Carbon Cycle?
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: Cortical clusters formation underlying the neural coding of expectation
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: Towards a Bionic Spine: Kinodynamic Holistic Spine Modeling and Development of Novel Implants for Spinal Restoration
Gabrielle Russo, Department of Anthropology and Isaiah Nengo, Turkana Basin Institute with their proposal: Paleontological reconnaissance at Napenagila South: a new potentially early Miocene primate site in West Turkana, Turkana Basin, Kenya
Stacey Scott, Kristin Bernard, Department of Psychology, and Krishna R. Veeramah, Department of Ecology & Evolution with their proposal: Integrating Epigenomics with Life Stress Measurement to Predict Accelerated Aging
Flaminia Talos, Department of Urology and Pathology and Daifeng Wang, Department of Biomedical Informatics with their proposal: A new bladder cancer model based on tissue reprogramming and gene targeting
Stella Tsirka Department of Pharmacological Sciences and John Haley, Department of Pathology with their proposal: Feasibility Studies for small molecule inhibitors targeting Neuropilin-1 in glioma
Laura Wehrmann, School of Marine and Atmospheric with her proposal: First insights into the biogeochemical cycling of (bioessential) trace metals in the proglacial zones of Arctic glaciers (Coastal Svalbard, Norway)
Tzu-Chieh Wei and Dominik Schneble, Department of Physics and Astronomy with their proposal: Harnessing a Novel Ultracold-Atom Platform for Quantum Simulations and Information Processing
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: The Very Extended Phenotype: connecting genetics and evolution to ecological function
Surita Bhatia, Chemistry and Elizabeth Boon, Chemistry: Scalable Nanostructured Coatings for Prevention of Microbial Biofilm Formation
Holly Colognato, Pharmacology and Maricedes Acosta Martinez, Physiology and Biophysics: Exploration of late pregnancy extracellular vesicles as regulators of oligodendrocyte biology
Anshul Gandhi, Computer Science and Erez Zadok, Computer Science: Exploiting Analytical Models to Realize the Full Performance and Parallelization Potential of Modern Storage Architectures for Big Data Applications
Martin Kaczocha, Anesthesiology and Michelino Puopolo, Anesthesiology: Leukotriene B4: A Novel Target for Postoperative Pain Control
David Komatsu Orthopaedics, Yi-Xian Qin, Biomedical Engineering, and Sardar MZ Uddin, Orthopaedics: Enhancement of Bone Regeneration through Apoptosis Modulation
Greg Zelinsky, Psychology, Dimitrios Samaras, Computer Science, Kenneth Shroyer, Pathology, and Joel Saltz, Bioinformatics: Predicting the attention trajectories of digital pathologists: Towards understanding the variability in cancer diagnosis
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: We See You: A Retrospective for Dr. Annie Mae Walker
Agnieszka Bialkowska, Department of Medicine, Aleksandra Krajewski , Department of Plastic Surgery, Rebecca Spiegel, Department of Neurology, Stella Tsirka, Department of Pharmacological Sciences: The 20th Women in Medicine and Science Research Day 2026
Gabrielle Antoinette Russo, Department of Anthropology, Gregory Henkes, Department of Geosciences,Marine Frouin, Department of Geosciences: 2025 TBI Research and Education Conference
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: Stony Brook Women’s Health Research Conference
Javier Uriarte, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, Tamara Fernando, Department of History, Michael Rubenstein, Department of English: Global Waterways: Between The Natural World and the Built Environment
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: Spring 2025 Photochemistry Supergroup
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: Contaminants of Emerging Concern, perspectives from Stony Brook University
Robert Harrison, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Eva Siegmann, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Joseph Schuchart, Institute for Advanced Computational Science: Expanding Horizons in AI Workshop
Stephen Baines, Department of Ecology & Evolution: Common Ground: Building community around ecosystem resilience
Valerio Dao, Department of Physics and Astronomy: QCD@LHC25
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: Modulating Splicing in Podocytes
Xi Chen, Department of Psychology: Using multi-domain cognition, fMRI, and PET to detect early AD deficits
Joshua Plotkin, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior: Abnormal striatal cholinergic signaling and compulsive behaviors
Ulas Sunar, Department of Biomedical Engineering: Optimizing Quantitative Fluorescence Imaging for Head and Neck Cancer: A Pilot Study
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: Climate change exacerbates environmental 1,4-dioxane contamination and its adverse impact on public health
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: Integrating Visualization and a Novel Stakeholder Interaction Approach to Better Protect Our Communities from Climate Change
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: Climate justice through community and arts based research: Building collaborative solutions for marginalized communities on Long Island
Klaus Mueller, Department of Computer Science, Reuben Kline, Department of Political Science, Wenbo Li, School of Communication and Journalism: Adaptive LLM-Driven Communication for Climate Change Mitigation: Targeting Causal Beliefs for Action
Alexander Orlov, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Rigoberto Burgueno and Marija Krstic, Department of Civil Engineering: New approaches to decarbonizing the US construction and cement industries
Oliver Shipleyand Yong Chen, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Gregory Henkes, Department of Geosciences: Assessing ecosystem responses of the Hudson River Estuary, New York, to historical climate change through compound-specific isotope analysis and archival collections accessibility.
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: Building a Comprehensive Repository of Health and Climate Databases to Study the Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health with a Pilot Study on Opioid Overdose
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: ACM Sigmetrics 2025
Leonie Huddy, Eric Groenendyk, and Andrew Engelhardt, Department of Political Science: Studying Political Behavior in Turbulent Times
Ke Jian Liu and Fei Chen, Department of Pathology, and Paolo Boffetta, Department of Family, Popoulation, and Preventative Medicine: 12th Conference on Metal Toxicity and Carcinogenesis
Agnes McConlogue Ferro and Christina Burke, Department of Physical Therapy, Kathleen McGoldrick, Health Science Program, and Alex Doboli, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Inclusion Done Right! Conference
Thomas McFadden, John Bailyn, Sandhya Sundaresan, Department of Linguistics and Thomas Graf, Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computational Science: Locality: typology, theory and computation
Iwao Ojima, Department of Chemistry: Frontiers of Neuroscience ad Drug Discovery
Benedict Robinson, Department of English, and Richard Gerrig, Department of Psychology: The Fiction Lab
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: Emergency Department SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment) program outcome evaluation
Congwu Du and Yingtian Pan, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Shao-Jun Tang, Department of Anesthesiology: A novel optical platform for in vivo imaging of opioid-induced structural plasticity in the pain neural circuits
Martin Kaczocha, Department of Anesthesiology, and Iwao Ojima, Department of Chemistry: Development of Brain-Penetrant FABP5 inhibitors to Treat Opioid Addiction
Richard Rosenthal, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Fusheng Wang, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Computer Science, and Klaus Mueller, Department of Computer Science: Interactive Visual Analytics with Causal Explanations to Support Clinicians to Understand Opioid Risk of Patients with Machine Learning
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: Understanding the biological significance of tick-borne polymicrobial infections
Markus Riessland, Neurobiology and Behavior, Christine DeLorenzo, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Carine Maurer, Department of Neurology: Targeting neuroinflammation induced by senescent cells in Parkinson's Disease to improve outcomes
Markus Seeliger, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Ivet Bahar, Laufer Center, Iwao Ojima, Department of Chemistry, and Robert Rizzo, Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics: Center for High Throughput Structure-Based Drug Discovery (SBU-DD)
Maya Shelly, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stanislaus Wong, Department of Chemistry, and Miultin Stanacevic, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Bio-Magnetogenetic Control of Spatially Restricted Intracellular Protein-Activity During Rodent Embryonic Neuronal Development And in Neurodevelopmental Pathologies
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: Innate lymphocyte responses to acute human babesiosis
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: Center for Quantum Computing and Networks
Leon Shterengas,Sergey Suchalkin, Dmitri Donetsky, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Eden Figueroa, and Jennifer Cano, Department of Physics and Astronomy: Devices for quantum sensing and communication
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: Interferon-lambda as a Broad-spectrum Antiviral Drug for COVID-19
Carlos Simmerling, Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology and Evangelos Coutsias, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics: Multiscale molecular simulations to develop inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus membrane fusion protein
Matthew Lerner, Department of Psychology and Jennifer Keluskar, Department of Psychiatry and Behavorial Health: Psychosocial Impact of COVID-19-Induced Social Isolation (PICSI) on Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Longitudinal Study
Peter Tonge, Department of Chemistry, Dima Kozakov, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and David Thanassi, Department of Microbiology and Immunology: Targeted degradation of the SARS-CoV-2 Mpro protease as a novel therapy for treating COVID-19 infection
Shobana Shankar, Department of History: Adapting Social Behaviors during the Ebola and COVID-19 Emergencies: A Household-Level Analysis from the West African Region
Markus Seeliger, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, and David Liu, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University: Structure-based Development of Novel Cyclophilin Inhibitors for Studying and Blocking Viral Replication of Human Coronaviruses
Erich Mackow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology: Therapeutic Targeting SARS-CoV-2 Induced ACE2/Bradykinin Pulmonary Edema
Brady Nelson, Lauren Richmond, and Jessica Schleider, Department of Psychology: Effect of The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic on the Academic, Career, Mental, Psychosocial, and Physical Functioning of the SBU Community
Liliana Davalos, Department of Ecology and Evolution, and Jaymie Meliker, Department of Family, Population and Preventative Medicine: Inter-Species Modeling for Spillback/Spillover Avoidance
Heidi Preis and Marci Lobel, Department of Psychology, and Brittain Mahaffey, Department of Psychiatry and Behavorial Health: The COPE Study (COVID-19 Pregnancy Experiences)-- Experiences of Women Pregnant During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associated Health Impacts
Nicholas Carpino and Erich Mackow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology: Investigating the role of the Sts enzymes in coronavirus-induced hyper-inflammation: establishing a foundation for immunomodulatory-based therapeutic intervention.
Chao Chen, Prateek Prasanna, and Janos Hajagos, Department of Biomedical Informatics: COVID-19 Prognosis with Interpretable Deep Learning Methods
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: Biomarker Identification for COVID-19 Risk Stratification in Maternal Fetal Heath
Prateek Prasanna, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Dimitris Samaras, Department of Computer Science, and Elaine Gould, Department of Radiology: The Virus is in the Details: Discovering Subtle COVID-19 Visual Features on Chest X-rays Using Machine Learning
Arie Kaufman, Department of Computer Science and Marlene Zawin, Department of Radiology: Use of Chest CT and Machine Learning for Diagnosis and Management of COVID-19 Patients
Miguel Garcia-Diaz, Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Robert Rizzo, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics: Pharmacological inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 replication
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: Multiscale Modeling of Binding SARS-CoV-2 to Various Substrates