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.
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 |
December 2021 Awards by College
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Smithwick, Julie | Center for Community Health Alignment | Community Health Workers Changing Outcomes in South Carolina | SC Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare/SCDHHS | $551,040 |
| Norman, Robert | Environmental Health Sciences | South Carolina SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance | SC Department of Health & Environmental Control (DHEC)/CDC | $81,600 |
| Alberg, Anthony | Epidemiology & Biostatistics | Estimation of the Population Burden of Secondhand Smoke Caused Mortality in South Carolina Adults | SC Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) | $60,000 |
| Draper, Carrie | Health Prom., Educ. & Behavior | Project 5. Local Food Policy Councils | SC Department of Social Services (SCDSS)/USDA | $153,178 |
| Draper, Carrie | Health Prom., Educ. & Behavior | Project 6. Strengthening and Expanding Transportation | SC Department of Social Services (SCDSS)/USDA | $191,510 |
| Thrasher, James | Health Prom., Educ. & Behavior | Predicting and Understanding the Use of Nicotine Products In a Rapidly Evolving Nicotine Marketplace: The International Nicotine Product, Regulatory Policy, and Market (INPRAM) Study. | Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)/NIH | $140,173 |
| Crouch, Elizabeth | Health Services Policy & Mgmt | Improving STD Prevention and Care Through Partnerships | CDC Foundation/CDC/HHS | $308,744 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| DeWitte, Sharon | Anthropology | Paleoepidemiological and aDNA study of a Neolithic Settlement in Northern China – In Search of the Earliest Plague Epidemic | Texas A&M University Health Science Center/NSF | $28,071 |
| Spirek, James | Archaeology & Anthropology | A New Andalucía: Surveying for the Flagship of Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón in South Carolina | SC Department of Archives and History | $250,000 |
| Kupfer, John | Geography | Managing fire in longleaf pine ecosystems: Current constraints and the longer-term challenges of landscape transformation and anthropogenic climate change | NC State University/SECASC/USGS/DOI | $60,437 |
| Decker, Scott | Psychology | Integrating instructional and diagnostic testing in multi-tiered models to identify children with dyslexia using a neuropsychological approach | The Woodcock Institute | $15,000 |
| Decker, Scott | Psychology | Predicting at-risk reading outcomes in multi-tiered models using diagnostic cognitive and neuro-cognitive tests | The Woodcock Institute | $15,000 |
| Will, Elizabeth | Psychology | A Longitudinal Outcome Study of the Symptom Progression and Diagnostic Stability of Autism in Children with Down syndrome | Jerome Lejeune Foundation | $49,592 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Lauterbach, Jochen | Chemical Engineering | Compact Catalytic Membrane Reactor for One-Step High-Efficiency Ammonia Synthesis at Moderate Temperatures and Pressures | E2H2NANO, LLC/DOE | $449,855 |
| Meekins, Benjamin | Chemical Engineering | Nuvera 5 Samples -- December 2021 | Nuvera Fuel Cells, LLC | $4,250 |
| Ritter, James | Chemical Engineering | Evaluation of Adsorbents for Hydrocarbon Adsorption | Coldstream Energy, LLC | $150,000 |
| Sadati, Monirosadat | Chemical Engineering | CAREER: Crystallization of Chiral Liquid Crystals Under Curved Confinement | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $524,988 |
| Shimpalee, Sirivatch | Chemical Engineering | Thermocatalytic Ethylene Production Using Targeted RF Induction Heating TO 0000585742 | Battelle Savannah River Alliance, LLC (BSRA)/SRNL/DOE | $385,000 |
| Ziehl, Paul | Civil & Environmental Eng. | Optimized Stringer Design | The Boeing Company | $124,388 |
| Bakos, Jason | Computer Science & Engineering | A Unified Machine Learning Framework for Corrosion Surveillance | Savannah River National Lab/DOE | $246,815 |
| Valafar, Homayoun | Computer Science & Engineering | The Smartwatch Pilot Project | Pennington Biomedical Research Center/Louisiana State University | $10,000 |
| Zeng, Qiang | Computer Science & Engineering | CAREER: Towards Secure and Usable IoT Authentication Under Constraints | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $545,666 |
| Huang, Xinyu | Mechanical Engineering | Ply friction measurement technique development | The Boeing Company | $97,259 |
| Knight, Travis | Mechanical Engineering | Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research, Development and Planning Project | E4 Carolinas Inc./EDA/DOC | $24,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Everhart, Kayla | Nursing | Evaluation of a blood warming device for packed red blood cell transfusions to decrease hypothermia in very preterm infants | The Gerber Foundation | $327,097 |
| Jenerette, Coretta | Nursing | SC Nursing Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities & Inequities | SC Department of Health and Environmental Control(DHEC)/CDC/HHS | $1,000,000 |
| Vick, Lori | Nursing | National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) Mini Nurse Academy | National Black Nurses Association, Inc. | $10,382 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Sahin, Ozgur | Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. | Overcoming chemoresistance in triple negative breast cancer | National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH | $1,113,030 |
| Hastings, Tessa | Pharm - Clin Pharm & Outcomes Sciences | Increasing Access to Pediatric Vaccinations through Rural SC Community Pharmacies | SC Research Foundation (SCRF)/The Fullerton Foundation | $147,877 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Harrill, Richard | Hotel, Restaurant & Tour Mgmt | Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center Expansion: Standards, Practices, and Projections | Columbian Metropolitan Convention Center | $15,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Morris, Carolyn | Children's Law Center | De-incarcerating South Carolina's Status Offenders | SC Department of Public Safety/DOJ | $193,939 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| McCarthy, Cameron | 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 |
| Webb, Robert (Clinton) | Basic Science Research | Leucine-Rich Repeat-Containing 8 Proteins (LRRC8s) in Volume Regulated Anion Channels (VRACs)Facilitate Extracellular Superoxide Entry Into Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells | Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) | $5,000 |
| Bennett, Kevin | Family & Preventive Medicine | Activation and Expansion of the Libraries and Health Innovations Program | SC Department of Health & Environmental Control (SCDHEC)/CDC | $500,000 |
| Yates-Wilson, Beverly | Internal Medicine | Fresh Food Access | Prisma Health Midlands | $34,000 |
| Narasimhan, Meera | 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 |
| Cramer, Stuart | Pediatrics | COG Study: ANBL1531 Jubilant Draximage, Inc. | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Contracting on behalf of the Children's Oncology Group (COG)/Jubilant Draximage, Inc. | $2,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Trilk, Jennifer | Medicine Greenville | Creating Pathways to Advance Lifestyle Medicine Training into Undergraduate Medical Education. | American College of Lifestyle Medicine | $274,927 |
To request a PDF copy of this report, please contact Elizabeth Renedo at renedoe@mailbox.sc.edu