FY2027 Significant Sponsored Program Awards Approaching $1Million or Greater

Updated on 11/04/2026

Supplement awards are now included starting FY2024.

October, 2026
Principal Investigator Departments Sponsor Grant Title Total Project Amount
Abbott, Angela R College of Agriculture - Ag Economics IN State Department Of Health / Center Medicare & Medicaid Serv Rural Health Transformation Program: Smart SNAP Education $1,000,000.00
Alexeenko, Alina College of Engineering - Chem Engr Food And Drug Administration Microwave-Assisted Lyophilization for Advanced Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals and Biologics in Glass Containers and Bulk Lyobeads $1,365,711.00
Bermel, Peter A Centers & Institutes - Scalable Asymmetric Lifecycle Engagement SK Hynix Inc / Commerce, U.S. Department Of West Lafayette Indiana Talent Hub for SK hynix $2,746,148.00
Chen, Jun College of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering Energy, U.S. Department Of A Wave-Powered Pumpless Seawater Desalination System $999,523.00
Chynoweth, Brandon C PHL - Hypersonics Lab - PHL - Lab Operating Defense, U.S. Department Of PARI PHL MACH 8 QUIET WIND TUNNEL (M8QT) AND HYPERSONIC WORKFORCE TALENT PIPELINES $7,000,000.00
Field, William E College of Agriculture - Ag & Biological Eng Program National Inst of Food & Agriculture National AgrAbility $2,120,000.00
Gallegos, Julian Leandro College of Health & Human Sci - Nursing Health Resources & Services Admin Rural Indiana Advanced Practice Nursing Pathway: Preparing Nurse Practitioners from Disadvantaged Backgrounds to Serve Rural Communities $2,213,732.00
Hall, Beth Lynelle College of Agriculture - Agronomy National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Adm Midwestern Regional Weather Records Center $4,556,366.00
Herndon, Patricia Ann PEEL - Energy & Energetics Lab - PEEL - PARI Energy and Energetics Lab Critical Materials Group Inc PARI PEEL CMG TO2 $1,954,153.00
Keon, Thomas L Ofc of Academic Affairs - Office of Commercialization and Research Minority Business Development Agency Project ECIA- Entrepreneurship, Commercialization, and Innovation Academy $1,685,273.00
Kulkarni, Milind College of Engineering - Electrical & Computer Eng Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific Hybrid MEMS-photonic integrated circuit based Convolution Accelerator $3,731,188.00
Liu, Julie C College of Engineering - Chem Engr Phs-Nih Nat Inst Arthrit,Muscul,Skin Dis Designing Cartilage Scaffolds that Resist Pro-Inflammatory Environments $3,276,726.00
MacDermid Wadsworth, Shelley College of Health & Human Sci - Human Development and Family Science Army Medical Research Acquisition Activ Supporting Military Family Resilience and Well-Being During PCS Moves $3,000,000.00
Qiao, Li College of Engineering - Aero & Astro Federal Aviation Administration PEASAS 20.0: EAGLE fuels testing $7,035,635.00
Richards, Elizabeth A College of Health & Human Sci - Nursing Health Resources & Services Admin From Pathway to Practice: Building Indiana’s Rural Nursing Workforce $2,943,522.00
Robinson-Rucker, Chanele D College of Health & Human Sci - Human Development and Family Science National Inst of Food & Agriculture Early Learning Matters (ELM) $2,083,807.00
Schoenlein, William E College of Engineering - Biomedical Eng Cook Research Incorporated Pre-Clinical Evaluation Testing Agreement Studies: CI-PEAT (POC), CI-THIN, CI-PEAT and POC $8,488,506.00
Straw, Mark L College of Agriculture - State Egg Board Food And Drug Administration Human Food Contract: Human Food Safety Inspection Program $1,212,117.00
Varma, Amit H PIIL - Infrast. & Innov. Lab - PIIL- Nuclear Infrastructure Battelle Energy Alliance Llc / Idaho National Laboratory PARI PIIL Advanced Construction Technology Initiative (ACTI): Design, Construction, and Quality Management of Steel-Plate Composite (SC) Structures and Containment Vessel Mockup $18,200,013.00
Wiens, Roger Craig College of Science - EAPS Los Alamos National Laboratory / Energy, U.S. Department Of SuperCam Mars Rover Laser Instrument Projects $1,880,000.00
September, 2026
Principal Investigator Departments Sponsor Grant Title Total Project Amount
Bailey, George A Centers & Institutes - TAP/MEP Energy, U.S. Department Of Continuous Security Assessment and Monitoring for Rural and Municipal Utilities $1,119,965.00
Brinton, Christopher Greg College of Engineering - Electrical & Computer Eng National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 2: Heterogeneous Edge Intelligence for Natural Disaster Response Analytics (HEIDRA) $3,494,000.00
Cai, Jianfeng College of Pharmacy - MedChem/Molecul Phar Phs-Nih Nat Inst Allergy Infectious Dis Antimicrobial agents derived from AApeptide biomaterials $2,155,500.00
Campbell, Joseph Andrew College of Science - Computer Science Interior, U.S. Department Of TUTOR: Textbook-to-Task Ontological Grounding for Robotics $1,171,221.00
Cannon, Jason R College of Health & Human Sci - Health Sciences Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of Environment Hlth Sci Mechanisms of PhIP-induced dopaminergic neurotoxicity $1,191,364.00
Davisson, Vincent Jo College of Pharmacy - MedChem/Molecul Phar Phs-Nih Nat Inst Neuro Disorders,Strokes Platinum Based Countermeasures and Combinations with Protective Agents $2,140,571.00
Delaurentis, Daniel A Vice President Research - Purdue Research - Central Support Lilly (Eli) And Company Eli Lilly Development $4,420,038.00
Deng, Qing College of Science - Biological Sciences Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci Neutrophil Migration and Inflammation $2,146,440.00
Donnellan, Andrea Conway College of Science - EAPS National Aeronautics And Space Admin Creating a NASA Surface Topography and Vegetation (STV) Novel Observing System (NOS) $2,556,231.00
Flaherty, Daniel P College of Pharmacy - MedChem/Molecul Phar Phs-Nih Nat Inst Allergy Infectious Dis Optimization of bacterial carbonic anhydrase inhibitors to treat vancomycin-resistant enterococcus $3,874,550.00
Gkritza, Konstantina College of Engineering - Civil and Construction Engineering Utah State University / National Science Foundation Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification (ASPIRE) $7,941,215.00
Heinz, Michael G College of Health & Human Sci - SLHS Phs-Nih Nat Inst Deafness,Comm Disorders A cross-species knowledgebase to facilitate precision auditory neuroscience and audiology $1,858,714.00
Herndon, Patricia Ann PEEL - Energy & Energetics Lab - PEEL - PARI Energy and Energetics Lab Critical Materials Group Inc PARI PEEL CMG TO1 $1,071,289.00
Karpicke, Jeffrey D College of Health & Human Sci - Psychological Sciences Phs-Nih Nat Inst Deafness,Comm Disorders Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Developmental Language Disorder $3,095,670.00
Kim, Tae Yoon College of Engineering - Biomedical Eng Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci Biological Processes Driven by Interactions between Cells and Extracellular Matrices $2,145,119.00
Li, Jianing College of Pharmacy - MedChem/Molecul Phar Virginia Tech / Phs-Nih Nat Inst Allergy Infectious Dis / Virginia Tech Targeting ESKAPE Pathogens with AI-Designed Antimicrobial Peptide $999,380.00
Low-Nam, Shalini T College of Science - Chemistry Phs-Nih Nat Inst Allergy Infectious Dis Signaling mechanisms in activation of chimeric antigen receptor T cells $2,093,945.00
Matosevic, Sandro College of Pharmacy - Industrial and Molecular Pharmaceutics Phs-Nih National Cancer Institute Tumor-responsive, multispecific natural killer cells to reprogram glioblastoma for improved immunotherapy $3,203,827.00
Morgan, John A College of Engineering - Chem Engr Advanced Res Projects Agency - Energy PHOTOSYNTHETIC PRODUCTION OF AROMATIC POLYMER INTERMEDIATES $1,260,000.00
Mukherjee, Partha P College of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering Energy, U.S. Department Of Fundamental Understanding of Electrochemical ? Mechanical Driven Instability of Sodium Metal $2,431,295.00
Ostafe, Raluca College of Science - Biological Sciences Wellcome Leap, Inc Nanobubble-Mediated Antibiotic Delivery for Site-Directed Treatment of Infection While Protecting the Gut Microbiome $1,641,405.00
Scofield, Gregory David PHL - Hypersonics Lab - PHL - Lab Operating Defense Advanced Res Projects Agency PARI PHL Caracara $1,500,000.00
Strachan, Alejandro H Centers & Institutes - NCN National Science Foundation PCL-Test Bed: Purdue Intelligent Codesign Cloud Lab for Non-Equilibrium and Low-Dimensional Materials (ICoN-PCL) $19,032,636.00
August, 2026
Principal Investigator Departments Sponsor Grant Title Total Project Amount
Brosseau-Lapre, Francoise College of Health & Human Sci - SLHS Phs-Nih Nat Inst Deafness,Comm Disorders Developmental Trajectories Characterizing Speech Sound Disorder Persistence and Recovery $2,504,193.00
Chen, Ming College of Science - Chemistry Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci Modeling and Designing Protein-protein Interaction Modulators with Deep Generative Artificial Intelligence $2,079,737.00
Chopra, Gaurav College of Science - Chemistry Stanford University / National Science Foundation PCL-Test Bed: Development and Application of Standards for Automation of Science $3,347,945.00
Delaurentis, Daniel A / Rhoads, Jeffrey Frederick Vice President Research - Purdue Research - Central Support Air Force Research Laboratory Research, Technology Transition, and Workforce Development at Scale with Speed: A Proposal to Establish the Midwest AFRL Regional Research Convergence Hub (M-ARRCH) $23,884,099.00
Guo, Jingchuan College of Pharmacy - Pharm Prtc Phs-Nih National Institute On Aging intelligent Social risk Management in AD/ADRD paTients $2,736,012.00
Meyer, Scott E College of Engineering - Zucrow Lab Gen Op Rolls-Royce North America Inc / Defense, U.S. Department Of External Heat Source Testing $4,291,950.00
Oliver-Jischke, Haley Vice Provost for Teaching & Le - VP for Teaching & Learning Admin National Science Foundation 2026-2027 NSF GRFP -Award Only $2,765,416.00
Richards, Elizabeth A North Central Nursing Clinic - NCNC Admin Health Resources & Services Admin Richards-HRSA-2026 Health Center Cluster $2,604,959.00
Robinson-Rucker, Chanele D College of Health & Human Sci - Human Development and Family Science Air Force U.S. Dept of the Early Learning Matters - NAF Blanket Purchase Agreement $9,928,349.00
Schultz, Kelly Melissa College of Engineering - Chem Engr Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci Purdue Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Training Program $1,462,513.00
Sivasankar, Preeti Mahalakshmi College of Health & Human Sci - SLHS Univ Of Illinois At Champaign-Urbana / Phs-Nih National Institute On Aging Impact of wearable biofeedback for the rehabilitation and tele-rehabilitation of neurogenic dysphagia $1,127,600.00
Zhou, Yun College of Agriculture - Botany & Plant Path Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Plant Stem Cell Division and Differentiation $1,987,135.00
July, 2026
Principal Investigator Departments Sponsor Grant Title Total Project Amount
Chan, Deva D College of Engineering - Biomedical Eng Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci Role of Hyaluronan in Modulating Multiscale Biological Responses to Mechanical Stimuli $2,110,955.00
Gejji, Rohan M College of Engineering - Aero & Astro FTAI Aviation Ltd FTAI Power Combustion DLE Rig Test $2,296,036.00
Harbor, Jonathan Martin Purdue Global - Purdue Global Education, U.S. Department Of Veteran Student Support Service Project $1,361,820.00
Huang, Fang College of Engineering - Biomedical Eng Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci Ultra-high resolution structural and molecular imaging of cells and tissues $2,375,660.00
MacDermid Wadsworth, Shelley College of Health & Human Sci - Human Development and Family Science Lilly Endowment Inc. Building Supportive Communities for Military and Veteran Families $3,500,000.00
Manfra, Michael James Centers & Institutes - Birck Nanotechnology Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Quantum Computing $10,686,930.00
Olson, Matthew College of Science - Biological Sciences Phs-Nih Nat Inst Allergy Infectious Dis Differentiation, fate, and function of pathogenic T helper cells in graft-versus-host disease $3,775,685.00
Paniagua-Perez, Guillermo College of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering MBDA France Compact expansion machine for supersonic flows $1,284,905.00
Paniagua-Perez, Guillermo College of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd Development of an Infrared Measurement and Diagnostic System for Rotating Turbine Blades $1,293,370.00
Paniagua-Perez, Guillermo College of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering Green Constellation Inc Rotating Detonation Steam Generator Digital Twin $1,037,882.00
Stewart, Ranae K Centers & Institutes - TAP/MEP National Institute Of Standards & Tech Purdue University – MEP Center for State of Indiana $6,606,362.00
Tao, Chengcheng Polytechnic Institute - Bowen School of Construction IN Department Of Transportation / Transportation, U.S. Department Of Integration of SCRIM and Emerging Data Sources into Network Friction Testing Program for Immediate and Long-Term Needs $1,610,865.00
Zhang, Zhong-Yin College of Pharmacy - MedChem/Molecul Phar Phs-Nih National Cancer Institute Targeting PTPN22 for Novel Cancer Immunotherapeutic Agents $2,888,737.00

 *Received supplement award this fiscal year.

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