The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to share our monthly report listing new grant awards UofSC faculty researchers across the university system received between Monday, August 1 and Wednesday, August 31, 2022. Please note that some awards received toward the end of that period might have missed the reporting cut-off. In such cases, the award will be listed in the next monthly report. Our office is proud to share these successes with the university research community. Please join us in congratulating our excellent researchers on their new grant awards.
Get the August 2022 New Grant Awards Report (pdf).
Summary of Large August 2022 Grant Awards |
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PI Name |
PI College/Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Hebert, James Murphy, Angela Hosfeth, Lorne |
Arnold School of Public Health - Epidemiology & Biostatistics | A Transdisciplinary Approach to Investigating Metabolic Dysregulation in Obese Parent and Child Dyads and Risk of Colorectal Cancer | National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH | $5,869,948 |
| Weist, Mark | College of Arts and Sciences - Psychology | Development and Implementation of a SC School Behavioral Health Academy | South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) | $3,224,526 |
| Roninson, Igor | College of Pharmacy - Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. | Preventing adaptive drug resistance through Mediator kinase inhibition | National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH | $3,043,009 |
| Imran, Jasim | College of Engineering & Comp. - Civil & Environmental Eng. | LEAP-HI: A data-driven Fragility Framework for Risk Assessment of Levee Breach | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $2,000,000 |
| Xu, Peisheng | College of Pharmacy - Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. | Cancer cell selective killing nanoparticle for advanced ovarian cancer treatment | National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH | $1,692,530 |
| Fadel, Jim | School of Medicine - Pharm., Physiology & Neuroscience | Hypocretin/orexin modulation of cognitive correlates of brain aging | National Institute on Aging (NIA)/NIH | $1,100,907 |
| Heyden, Andreas | College of Engineering & Comp. - Chemical Engineering | Collaborative Research: ECO-CBET: Coupled homogeneous and heterogeneous processes for an environmentally sustainable lignin-first biorefinery | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $860,000 |
| Rosario, Astrid | University of SC Upstate - UPS Science & Eng | Increasing Undergraduate Success in Science through Learning Cohorts Focused on Career Readiness | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $749,998 |
| Francis, Tanner | College of Pharmacy - Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. | Substance P-Mediated Enhancement of Salience for Cues Predicting Aversive Outcomes | National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)/NIH | $734,503 |
| Khan, Asif | College of Engineering & Comp. - Electrical Engineering | Development of A New High Temperature Source Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition System (HTS-MOCVD) for Next Generation IIIA/B-Nitrides | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $629,656 |