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 December 1 and December 31, 2021. 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 December 2021 New Grant Awards Report (pdf).
Summary of Large December 2021 Grant Awards |
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PI Name |
PI College/Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
|
Narasimhan, Meera |
School of Medicine - Neuropsychiatry |
"Access Improvement/rural Outreach Initiatives in Partnership with SC Office of Rural Health Contract #1599 SC DHHS Services for Purchase and Provision of Rural Outreach Program" |
SC Department of Health and Human Services/HHS |
$3,783,000 |
|
Sahin, Ozgur |
College of Pharmacy - Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. |
Overcoming chemoresistance in triple negative breast cancer |
National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH |
$1,113,030 |
|
Jenerette, Coretta |
College of Nursing - Nursing |
SC Nursing Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities & Inequities |
SC Department of Health and Environmental Control(DHEC)/CDC/HHS |
$1,000,000 |
|
McCarthy, Cameron |
School of Medicine - Basic Science Research |
Autophagy regulates β-hydroxybutyrate synthesis to prevent hypertension-associated premature vascular aging |
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)/NIH |
$746,999 |
|
Smithwick, Julie |
Arnold School of Public Health - Center for Community Health Alignment |
Community Health Workers Changing Outcomes in South Carolina |
SC Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare/SCDHHS |
$551,040 |
|
Zeng, Qiang |
College of Engineering & Comp. - Computer Science & Engineering |
CAREER: Towards Secure and Usable IoT Authentication Under Constraints |
National Science Foundation (NSF) |
$545,666 |
|
Sadati, Monirosadat |
College of Engineering & Comp. - Chemical Engineering |
CAREER: Crystallization of Chiral Liquid Crystals Under Curved Confinement |
National Science Foundation (NSF) |
$524,988 |
|
Bennett, Kevin |
School of Medicine - Family & Preventive Medicine |
Activation and Expansion of the Libraries and Health Innovations Program |
SC Department of Health & Environmental Control (SCDHEC)/CDC |
$500,000 |
|
Lauterbach, Jochen |
College of Engineering & Comp. - Chemical Engineering |
Compact Catalytic Membrane Reactor for One-Step High-Efficiency Ammonia Synthesis at Moderate Temperatures and Pressures |
E2H2NANO, LLC/DOE |
$449,855 |
|
Shimpalee, Sirivatch |
College of Engineering & Comp. - Chemical Engineering |
Thermocatalytic Ethylene Production Using Targeted RF Induction Heating TO 0000585742 |
Battelle Savannah River Alliance, LLC (BSRA)/SRNL/DOE |
$385,000 |
12 January 2022