Seed for Success Acorn Awards

2023 Seed for Success Acorn Awards

The research grants are in alphabetical order by the PI’s last name and are separated by award year.

• * designates Seed for Success Acorn Award recipients
• + designates those who have left Purdue
• ^ indicates regional campuses

Awardees

• Ryan Alan Altman*, from National Institute of General Medical Science, Fluorination and Fluoroalkylation Strategies for Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry, $2,671,833

• Xiaoping Bao (PI)*, Qing Deng, Bumsoo Han, Sandro Matosevic, Aaron Cohen-Gadol (IU), from National Cancer Institute, Engineer Biomimetic Microfluidic Models to Investigate and Reprogram Tumor Associated Neutrophils for Cancer Therapy, $1,922,681.00

• Jacquelyn P. Boerman*, Dennis Buckmaster, Linda J. Pfeiffer*, Amy R. Reibman, from National Institute of Food & Agriculture, Stakeholder-informed Integrated Video and Data Systems for Improved Dairy Efficiency, $1,000,000.00

• Bryan W. Boudouris, Stephen P. Beaudoin, Edward J. Berger, Weinong W. Chen, Chelsea S. Davis, Christopher S. Goldenstein, Marcial Gonzalez, Amy Susanne Greenan, Marisol Koslowski, Monique Suzanne McClain*, Terrence R Meyer, Davin G. Piercey, Brett Savoie, Steven F. Son, Alejandro H. Strachan, Song Zhang, from Army Research Laboratory, Energetics Materials Basic Research Center, $15,000,000.00

• Jeffrey Edward Dick*, from National Institutes of Health, Nanoelectrochemistry and Single Cell Metabolomics, $1,117,155.00

• Behzad Esmaeili*, from National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: Worker-AI Teaming to Enable ADHD Workforce Participation in the Construction Industry of the Future, $1,200,000.00

• Songlin Fei*, Daniel G. Aliaga*, Bedrich Benes, John J. Couture*, Melba M. Crawford, Rado Gazo*, Ayman F. Habib, Brady S. Hardiman*, Joseph P. Hupy*, Douglass F. Jacobs*, Jinha Jung*, Ningning Nicole Kong*, Zhao Ma, Zhen Yu Qian*, Gang Shao, Guofan Shao*, Mark Daniel Ward, Keith E. Woeste*, Baijian Yang*, Carla B. Zoltowski*, from National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Promoting Economic Resilience and Sustainability of the Eastern US Forests (PERSEUS), $10,000,000.00

• David F. Gleich*, from U.S. Department of Energy, Sparsitute: A Mathematical Institute for Sparse Computations in Science and Engineering, $1,480,268.00

• Mark C. Hall, Scott D. Briggs, Ahmed AbdelKhalek Hassan*, Sanjeev K. Narayanan*, from National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Cdc14 phosphatase - novel roles in drug resistance, virulence, and the response to cell wall stress in fungal pathogens, $2,400,438.00

• Michael A. Hill*, Martin G. Deubler*, from National Institute of Food & Agriculture, NPDN National Database/National Network of Diagnostic Center, $1,056,000.00

• Jen-Yi Huang*, Paul B. Brown, Natalie J. Carroll, Abigail S. Engelberth, Yaohua Feng*, Andrea M. Liceaga*, Jiqin Ni*, Lindsey B. Payne Haugen*, Kwamena Quagrainie, Halis Simsek*, Zhi Zhou*, from National Institute of Food & Agriculture, When Blue is Green: Sustainable Blue Food Systems Driven by Integrated Aquaponics, $10,000,000.00

• Dan Jiao*, Tillmann C. Kubis, from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Readying TCAD for transient, DFT based quantum transport in the THz regime, $1,000,000.00

• Chrystal S. Johnson*, Cornelius L. Bynum*, Siddika Guzey, Weiling Li, from U.S. Department of Education, Project RISE, $2,268,626.00

• Sabre Kais, David John Stewart*, from National Science Foundation IUCRC Phase I, Purdue University: Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT), $1,125,000.00

• Bridgette Kelleher*, Daniel J. Foti*, Sean P. Lane+, Kelly Lynn Lemaire+, Mandy J. Rispoli+, from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Optimizing a Personalized Health Approach for Virtually Treating High-Risk Caregivers During COVID-19 and Beyond, $2,971,906.00

• Young L. Kim*, from National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Maternal mHealth blood hemoglobin analysis with informed deep learning, $1,960,944.00

• Adam J. Kimbrough*, from National Institute on Alcohol Abuse, Identifying the relationship between alcohol and Alzheimer's Disease, $1,716,398.00

• Christian H. Krupke, Ashley A. Adair*, William G. Johnson, Michael R. Langemeier, Darcy E. P. Telenko*, from National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Bio-intensified field crop rotations in the upper Midwest: Quantifying effects upon pest management and yield, $1,499,944.00

• Jianing Li*, from National Institute of General Medical Science, Project Name: Precision Design of Antimicrobial Peptides Against Bacterial Infections, $1,211,712.00

• Shihuan Kuang, Christina R. Ferreira, James Frederick Markworth*, Chi Zhang*, from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Metabolic regulation of muscle satellite cell homeostasis, $2,514,970.00

• Sa Liu, Brandon E. Boor*, from National Institute of Environmental Health Science, Addressing Tetrachloroethylene Exposure in an Impacted Community: Residents’ Concerns, Neurotoxic Effects, and Exposure Reduction, $2,844,752.00

• Georgia Malandraki*, Bruce A. Craig, Jessica E. Huber, from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Rehabilitation of Airway Protection in Parkinson's Disease: Comparing In-person and Telehealth Service Delivery Models, $1,459,823.00

• Steven K. McKinley* National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Military Teen Adventure Camp, $1,140,000.00

• Dharmendra K. Mishra*, Karen A. Hudson*, Katherine Martin Rainey, Senay Simsek*, from United Soybean Board, Building Infrastructure and Connectivity for Small and Medium Scale Processing of Soy-Based Value-Added Products: A Multistate Approach, $1,100,000.00

• Shaoshuai Mou, Christopher Greg Brinton, James Michael Goppert, David Iseri Inouye, Shreyas Sundaram*, Song Zhang, Michael D. Zoltowski*, from Office of Naval Research, Threat & Situational Understanding with Networked-Online Machine Intelligence (TSUNOMI), $4,372,073.00

• Cody James Mullen*, Randolph Duane Hubach*, from Health Resources and Services Administration, Purdue University Community Health Worker Training Program, $2,407,068.00

• F. Richard Olenchak*, Kristen K. Seward, Anne Traynor, from U.S. Department of Education, Underrepresented Students in Gifted & Talented Education: Positive Psychology Identification & Service, $2,808,089.00

• Michael John Poderycki*, Vincent Jo Davisson, Matthew Olson, Bartlomiej P. Rajwa, from DEFENSEWERX, Biotechnology Biosurveillance Phase 2, $1,000,000.00

• Linda S. Prokopy, Beth Lynelle Hall, Austin M. Pearson*, Hans F. Schmitz*, Aaron W. Thompson, Amy F. Thompson*, Melissa J. Widhalm*, from National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Integrated Midwest Partnerships for Actionable Climate Tools and Training (IMPACT2): Supporting System Transformation on Working Lands, $1,500,000.00

• David J. Purpura, Robert J. Duncan, Sarah Henkel Eason, Jennifer K. Finders*, Catherine McBride, Valerie Knopik, Sara A. Schmitt, from National Science Foundation, STEM Ed PRF: The PURPOSE Postdoctoral Training Initiative, $1,250,000.00

• Kurt David Ristroph*, from Food and Drug Administration, An integrated platform for continuous RNA nanoparticle formulation and drying, $1,181,788.00

• Matthew Louis Scarpelli*, Robin T. Bentley*, Bennett D. Elzey, Philip S. Low, Isabelle F. Vanhaezebrouck*, from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Improving glioma radiotherapy by theragnostic targeting of tumor-supporting macrophages, $1,906,450.00

• Kristen K. Seward*, Alissa P. Cress*, Marcia L. Gentry, Yukiko Maeda*, Nielsen L. Pereira, Jennifer C. Richardson, from U.S. Department of Education, Having Opportunities Promotes Excellence: Developing Scholar Identities Among Underserved Youth with Gifts and Talents, $3,537,136.00

• Muhammad Shahbaz*, from Semiconductor Research Corporation, Evolvable Computing for Next Generation Distributed Computer Systems, $1,250,000.00

• Shweta Singh*, Vaneet Aggarwal, Kari L. Clase, Zoltan Nagy, Gintaras V. Reklaitis, Xiaohui Carol Song, from National Science Foundation, FMRG: Eco: Cyber Enabled Transformation to Circular Supply Chains for Sustainable Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Networks, $3,000,000.00

• Aaron James Specht*, from National Institute on Aging, HRS Yrs 29-34: Heavy Metal Exposures Supplement, $1,286,734.00

• Brian Michael Tackett*, Bryan W. Boudouris, Rajamani P. Gounder, Jeffrey P. Greeley, Jeffrey T. Miller, from U.S. Department of Energy, Low-Temperature Electrocatalytic Manufacturing of Essential Chemical Building Blocks, $2,643,895.00

• Michelle S. Thompson*, from National Aeronautics and Space Administration, An Experimental Investigation of Space Weathering Processes on the Surface of Mercury, $1,278,282.00

• Mohit S. Verma, Arezoo Motavalizadeh Ardekani, Greg S. Fraley, Jonathan A Pasternak, Jon Schoonmaker*, Patrick A. Zollner, from Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, A universal field-deployable test for measuring and predicting the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in any host species, $2,729,261.00

• David M. Warsinger*, James E. Braun, Davide Ziviani*, from U.S. Department of Energy, MemDry: Vapor-Selective Membrane Heat Exchanger Cycle for Efficient Passive and Active Convective Drying, $1,894,252.00

• Roger Craig Wiens*, from U.S. Department of Energy / Triad National Security, LLC, SuperCam Mars Rover Laser Instrument Projects, $1,559,424.00

• George R. Wodicka, Andrew O. Brightman*, Abigail D. Cox, Daniel J. Foti, Perry M. Kirkham*, Aaron Edward Lottes*, Natasha Nicole Nikolaidis*, Natalia Maria Rodriguez*, Dennis Savaiano, Thomas G. Sors, Pavlos Vlachos, from National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, $6,849,951.00

• Chongli Yuan*, Jennifer L. Freeman, Fang Huang, Yang Yang, from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Mechanisms of gene-environment interaction in developmental lead exposure leading to Alzheimer’s disease phenotypes, $3,725,717.00

• Vasileios Zikas*, from Algorand Foundation, MEGA-ACE: Multidisciplinary Educational Global Alliance for Algorand Center of Excellence, $7,946,351.00

• Patrick Zollner, Jeffrey Holland*, from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alternative Management Strategies to Address Multiple Interacting Stressors on Least Bell’s Vireo Populations, $1,667,089.00