NIRT/NER Awards

Award#		Institution name	PI name E-mail, Phone number	Proposal title	NSF funds ($)
FY 2001 NIRT Awards
1	0103447	Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Univ.	Joseph Lyding jlyding@casper.beckman.uiuc.edu (217) 333-8370	Protein Logic	$1,150,000
2	0103473	Texas - Austin, Univ. of	Angela Belcher belcher@mail.utexas.edu (512) 471-1154; has moved to MIT	Biologically Based Assemblies of Electronic Materials at the Nanoscale; Improving on Nature	$1,500,000
3	0103174	Rice University	Vicki Colvin colvin@rice.edu (713)348-5741	Protein Crystals: New Templates for the Construction of Nanostructured Solids	$1,200,000
4	0102662	Univ. of California-Davis I	Ian Kennedy imkennedy@ucdavis.edu (530) 752-2796	Application of Quantum Dots toEnvironmental and Cell Biology	$1,001,117
5	0103002	New York University	Nadrian Seeman ned.seeman@nyu.edu (212) 998-8395	DNA-Based Nanomechanical Devices	$1,500,000
FY 2001 NER Awards
6	0103549	Univ. of California- Los Angeles	Todd Yeates yeates@mbi.ucla.edu (310) 206-4866	Exploration of a Method for Designing Protein Nanomaterials	$95,497
7	0103080	Illinois Institute of Tech.	Rong Wang wangr@iit.edu (312)567-3121	Dynamic Behavior of Ligand-Receptor Interactions in Living Cells on the Nanoscale	$99,945
8	0103076	Univ. of Maryland	Cheng Lee CL143@umail.umd.edu (301) 405-1020	Flow Control Networks for Nanoscale Biofluidics	$99,999
9	0103556	Univ. of California- Davis	Stephen Kowalczykowski sckowalczykowski@ ucdavis.edu (530) 752-5938	Biological Nanomachines: Assembly and Function of Protein-DNA Nanostructures at the Single-Molecule Level	$100,000
10	0103232	Akron, University of	Ping Wang wangp@uakron.edu (330) 972-2096	Construction of Bioactive Nanoparticles and Investigation of the Relationship Between Particle Size and Enzyme Activity	$100,000
11	0103414	Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Univ. of	Jeffrey White white5@uiuc.edu (217) 333-8876	Fluorescence Microscopy with 5nm Resolution for Imaging the Membrane of a Living Cell	$99,367
12	0103468	California-Berkeley, University of	Susan Muller muller2@socrates.berkeley.edu (510) 642-4525	Synthesis and Characterization of Genetically Engineered Protein Polymers: Effects of Sequence Disorder on Structure-Property Relationships	$99,825
13	0103037	VA Polytechnic Inst. Of Technology	Kevin Van Cott kvancott@vt.edu (540) 231-4257	Detection of Specific Biomoleule Adsorption in Ionically Self-Assembly Monolayers via Second Harmonic Generation	$99,999
14	0103470	SUNY-Stony Brook	Vladimir Samuilov vsamuilov@notes.cc. sunysb.edu (631) 632-3209	A Novel Concept of Electrophoretic Separation of Long DNA Moleules with High Resolution at the Nanoscale Dimensions	$100,000
FY 2002 NIRT Awards
15	0210777	U of Pennsylvania	Eric Boder boder@seas.upenn.edu (215) 898-5658	Combinatorial Engineering of Nanomachines: Building Novel Membrane Proteins via De Novo Design and Directed Evolution	$1,395,000
16	0210807	U of CA Davis	Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague gervay@chem.ucdavid.edu (530)754-9577	Probing Viral Adhesion with Nanoengineered Biomembranes and Quantum Dots	$1,132,232
17	0210690	U of CA Los Angeles	Leonard Rome lrome@mednet.ucla.edu (310)825-0709	The Development of Vault Nano-Capsules	$1,750,000
FY 2002 NER Awards
18	0210854	Univ of Arizona	Raymond Goldsteingold@physics.arizona. edu (520) 621-1065	Dynamics of Flagellar Polymorphism	$99,911
19	0209687	PA St Univ University Park	William Hancockwoh1@psu.edu (814)863-0492	Oligonucleotide-directed alignment of cytoskeletal filaments for nanoscale assembly	$95,000
20	0210365	Virginia Commonwealth Univ	Jae-Hoon Junjun_77845@yahoo.com (804)827-1777	Nanoengineering and Characterization of Electrospun Collagen Matrix	$90,479
21	0210384	Oregon State University	Gregory Rorrer rorrerfl@che.orst.edu (541) 737-3370	Biosynthesis of Germanium Oxide Nanoparticles	$100,000
22	0210005	Iowa State University	Vladimir Tsukruk Alex_Smirnov@ncsu. edu 515-294-6904	Multi-nanolayered bio-inspired membranes	$10,000
23	0210656	North Carolina State Univ	Orlin Velev odvelev@unity.ncsu.edu 919-513-4318	Bioelectronic interfacing of living cells via self-assembled microwires	$90,000
24	0210220	Johns Hopkins University	Michael Yu yu@jhu.edu 410-516-8935	Biotemplate Directed Assembly of Nanocrystal Arrays	$100,000
FY 2003 NIRT Awards
25	0304055	Rensselaer Polytech Inst	George Belfort belfog.rpi@edu 518-276-6948	Inteins as Nanoswitches for Biotechnology: Linking Molecular Modeling with Biophysical and Genetic Methods (F co-PIs)	$1,215,191
26	0304316	University of Michigan	Ronald Larson rlarson@engin.umich edu 734-936-0772	Manipulation of DNA-Protein Interactions at the Nano-Scale (F co- PI)	$1,400,000
27	0304494	Univ of Nebraska Lincoln	Randolph Lewis silk@uwyo.edu 307-766-2147	Spider Silk Proteins	$999,668
28	0304062	Johns Hopkins University	Mathias Loesche loesche@physick.unileipzig.de 410-516-4772	Nanoscale Engineering of Bilaterally Accessible Biomembrane Mimics	$1,100,069
29	0304569	University of Florida	Weihong Tan tan@chem.ufl.edu 352-846-2410	Nanoscale arrays for direct RNA profiling in single cells and their compartments	$1,735,727
FY 2003 NER Awards
30	0304657	University of Southern California	Ching-An Peng capeng@usc.edu 213-740-2067	Ultrasonic Standing Wave Manipulation of Retroviral Gene Delivery to Hematopoietic Cells	$100,000
31	0303442	University of Texas Austin	Christine Schmidt schmidt@che.utexas. edu 512-471-1690	Directed Microelectronic Interfacing with Living Cells via Nanocrystal Quantum Dots	$100,000
32	0303808	Rutgers University New Brunswick	Maria Tomassone silvina@soemail. rutgers.edu 732-445-2972	Continuous Flow Induced Phase Inversion: a New Method for Manufacturing Drug Delivery Biopolymer Nanoparticles	$1,000,000
33	0304051	University of Delaware	Eric Furst furst@che.udel.edu 302-831-0102	New Nanoscale Probes of Molecular Motors	$100,000
34	0304521	Purdue University	Thomas Webster twebster@ecn.purdue.edu 765-494-2995	Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Novel Biologically- Inspired Nanostructured Materials as Bone Prostheses	$100,000
35	0304675	Harvey Mudd College	Shenda Baker shenda_baker@hmc.edu 909-621-8643	Templated Antibody Nanoarrays For Biosensor Applications	$99,828
36	0304149	University of Illinois Urbana Champaign	Leslie Allen 1-allen9@uiuc.edu 217-333-7918	Nanoliter Biocalorimetry on a Chip for Ultrafast Combinatorial Analysis of Proteins	$99,999
			Total awards (examples):		$20,158,853