The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to share our monthly report listing new grant awards USC faculty researchers across the university system received between Saturday, April 1 and Sunday, April 30, 2023. 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 April 2023 New Grant Awards Report (pdf).
Summary of Large April 2023 New Grant Awards |
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PI Name |
PI College/Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Zhu, Jun | College of Pharmacy – Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. | Effects of HIV-1 Tat protein and methamphetamine on VMAT2-mediated dopamine transmission in the context of neuroHIV and drug abuse | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)/NIH | $3,223,760 |
| Abraham, Michele | Darla Moore School of Business – Small Business Dev. Ctr. | SC Small Business Development Centers Program Announcement - SBA 2023 Funding Opportunity | Small Business Administration | $1,994,745 |
| Ginn, Herbert | College of Engineering & Comp. – Electrical Engineering | ONR: Packet-Based Energy Routing for Power Distribution Systems | Office of Naval Research (ONR)/DOD | $1,000,000 |
| Pinckney, James | College of Arts and Sciences – Biological Sciences | Collaborative Research: THE BENTHIC MICROALGAL SUBSIDY IN ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEMS | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $844,365 |
| Crichigno, Jorge | College of Engineering & Comp. – IIT - Engineering | Preparing Cyber Warfare Professionals by Integration of Curriculum, Experiences, and Internships | Office of Naval Research (ONR)/DOD | $599,999 |
| Stone, Joshua | College of Arts and Sciences – Biological Sciences | Collaborative research: Ecological and biogeochemical role of Rhizaria in the oligotrophic ocean | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $406,981 |
| Andersen, Tia | College of Arts and Sciences – Criminology & Criminal Justice | Understanding How Mentoring Can Disrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline and Promote Positive Youth Development | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $403,569 |
| Shtutman, Michael | College of Pharmacy – Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. | Targeting Immunometabolism: a novel role for itaconate in the treatment of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder and cocaine use disorder | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)/NIH | $400,798 |
| Oskeritzian, Carole | School of Medicine – Path, Microbio. & Immunology | Novel modalities for prostate cancer screening: mast cells as predictors of disease, disease aggressiveness and marks of disease disparity | National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH | $383,117 |
| Yates-Wilson, Beverly | School of Medicine – Internal Medicine | Renovation of FoodShare SC Distribution Hub and Training Center | SC Research Foundation (SCRF)/SC Department of Health & Human Services (SCDHHS) | $200,000 |