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Victoria Dominguez, Assistant Professor

  • Program: AABA’s Cobb Professional Development Grant
    • Award notice date: March 2024
    • Proposal title: The Influence of Age on Porosity and Remodeling Across the Skeleton
    • Total award: $7,500

Julio Gallego-Delgado, Assistant Professor

  • Program: National Institutes of Health (T34GM149385)
    • Award dates: 04/01/23 - 03/31/2028
    • Proposal Title: U-RISE at Lehman College
    • Total award: $234,052
    • Role: Co-PI (with PI Dr. Donna McGregor of Chemistry)
  • Program: National Institutes of Health (SC2GM144168)
    • Award dates: 09/15/2021 - 08/31/2024
    • Proposal Title: New strategies to study malaria-induced acute kidney injury
    • Total award: $467,755
    • Role: PI

Edward Kennelly, Professor

  • Program: National Institutes of Health (R16GM149468)
    • Award dates: 04/01/2023 - 03/31/2024
    • Proposal title: Discovery of analgesic diterpenoid alkaloids from medicinal Aconitum plants using a metabolomic approach
    • Total award: $145,960
    • Role: PI

Stephen Redenti, Professor

  • Program: National Institutes of Health (SC3GM113782)
    • Award dates: 07/15/2015 - 02/28/2025
    • Proposal title: Modeling Photoreceptor Migration in Biomimetic Microenvironments to Optimize Transplantation
    • Total award: $888,275
    • Role: PI

Moira Sauane, Associate Professor

  • Program: National Institutes of Health (R16GM145561)
    • Award dates: 01/07/2022 – 31/05/2026
    • Proposal title: Turning Initiation Inhibitor for Cancer Therapy
    • Total award: $569,637
    • Role: PI
  • Program: National Institutes of Health (RISE) 
    • Award dates: 06/01/2018 - 05/31/2023
    • Proposal title: Lehman on the RISE
    • Total award: $5,055,794
    • Role: Co-PI

Zhiliang Zheng, Professor

  • Program: National Institutes of Health (R16GM145531)
    • Award dates: 07/15/2022 - 05/31/2026
    • Proposal title: Role of ROP GTPases in sulfate transceptor SULTR1;2-regulated sulfur nutrient sensing
    • Total award: $290,532
    • Role: PI

Benjamin Burton-Pye, Associate Professor

  • Program: Department of Energy - National Nuclear Security Administration (DE-NA0004142)
    • Award dates: 08/01/2023 - 07/31/2028
    • Proposal title: Consortium for Nuclear Forensics
    • Total award: $1,178,981
    • Role: CUNY Lead (Subcontract from the University of Florida)
  • Program: Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences - Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (DE-SC0024597)
    • Award dates: 09/01/2023 - 08/31/2026
    • Proposal title: Building a Diverse Nuclear Energy Workforce: Hunter College/Brookhaven Partnership to Investigate Technetium-99 and Rhenium Speciation in Molten Salts.
    • Total award: $2,221,426
    • Role: Co-PI (with Co-PI's Dr. Donna McGregor and Dr. Gustavo Lopez)

Columba de la Parra, Assistant Professor

  • Program: National Institutes of Health (1R16GM153947)
    • Award dates: 06/01/2024 - 04/30/2028
    • Proposal title: The role of an alternate mechanism of translation initiation in TNBC Metabolism
    • Total award: ~$550,000
    • Role: PI
  • Program: National Institutes of Health (SC2GM139676)
    • Award dates: 09/22/2020 - 05/31/2024
    • Proposal title: Regulation of breast cancer cell metabolism by an alternate cap-dependent mechanism of translation initiation.
    • Total award: $458,836
    • Role: PI

Melissa Deri, Assistant Professor

  • Program: Department of Energy Isotope Program (SC0024683)
    • Award notice date: 08/01/2023 - 07/31/2026
    • Proposal title: Increasing Access to Radioisotopes by Advancing
      Radiochemical Training Capabilities
    • Total award: $750,000
    • Role: PI

Andrei Jitianu, Professor

  • Program: National Science Foundation (1911509)
    • Award dates: 09/01/2019 - 08/31/2024
    • Proposal title: Electrospray Deposition of 'Melting Gels' for Multifunctional Coatings
    • Total award: $254,214
    • Role: PI

Thomas Kurtzman, Professor

  • Program: National Institutes of Health (R35GM144089)
    • Award dates: 07/15/2022 - 04/30/2027
    • Proposal title: Solvation directed drug design: from molecular physics to lead optimization
    • Total award: $1,850,000 
    • Role: PI

Gustavo Lopez, Professor

  • Program: National Institutes of Health (SC3GM139673)
    • Award dates: 08/02/2021 - 07/31/2025
    • Proposal title: Novel Methodologies for the Preservation (and Recovery) of Proteins at Low Temperature
    • Total award: $357,360
    • Role: PI
  • Program: National Science Foundation (1950573)
    • Award dates: 03/15/2020 - 02/28/2025
    • Proposal title: Integrated Design of Materials (IDM) in New York City (IDMinNYC)
    • Total award: $404,925
    • Role: Co-PI (with PI Dr. Donna McGregor)

Donna McGregor, Associate Professor

  • Program: National Institutes of Health (T34GM149385)
    • Award dates: 04/01/23 - 03/31/2028
    • Proposal title: U-RISE at Lehman College
    • Total award: $234,052
    • Role: PI (with CO-PI Dr. Julio Gallego-Delgado of Biological Sciences)
  • Program: National Science Foundation (1950573)
    • Award dates: 03/15/2020 - 02/28/2025
    • Proposal title: Integrated Design of Materials (IDM) in New York City (IDMinNYC)
    • Total award: $404,925
    • Role: PI (with Co-PI Dr. Gustavo Lopez)

Naphtali O'Connor, Professor

  • Program: National Institutes of Health (SC3GM111194)
    • Award dates: 05/01/2015 - 07/31/2024
    • Hydrogels for treating chronic wounds: a multi-pronged approach
    • Total award: $912,610
    • Role: PI

Liang Zhao, Assistant Professor

  • Program: Google Cyber NYC Institutional Research Program
    • Award notice date: August 2023
    • Dr. Zhao was selected as one of nine CUNY faculty to participate in the inaugural $12 million Google Cyber NYC Institutional Research Program. CUNY, along with Cornell University, Columbia University, and New York University, are the four universities funded by Google to establish NYC as the “global leader in cybersecurity.” Assistant Professor Zhao will study how machine learning models can be made less vulnerable to privacy attacks by augmenting the training process with methods that analyze overall patterns of data rather than focusing on individual sets of data.

Yuri Gorokhovich, Professor

  • NASA/Shared Services Center
    • $77,213.00 from 10/1/2022 - 9/30/2027

Renee Bell, Assistant Professor

  • Program: National Science Foundation (LEAPS-MPS 2316946)
    • Award dates: 09/01/2023 - 08/31/2025
    • Proposal title: Number Fields Generated by Points of Curves and their Galois Groups
    • Total award: $153,842
    • Role: PI

Renato Ghini Bettiol, Associate Professor

  • Program: National Science Foundation (CAREER 2142575)
    • Award dates: 08/01/2022 - 07/31/2027
    • Proposal title: Curvature, Topology, and Geometric Partial Differential Equations, with new tools from Applied Mathematics
    • Total award: $499,964
    • Role: PI

Megan Owen, Associate Professor

  • Program: National Science Foundation (CAREER 1847271)
    • Award dates: 05/01/2019 - 04/30/2025
    • Proposal title: Statistical and Geometric Analysis for Tree-Shaped Data
    • Total award: $412,038
    • Role: PI

Eugene Chudnovsky, Distinguished Professor

  • Program: U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research 
    • Award dates: 2024 - 2027
    • Proposal title: Microwave Absorption by Magnetic Particles in a Dielectric Medium
    • Total award: $487,095
    • Role: PI

Luis Anchordoqui, Professor

  • Program: National Science Foundation (2112527)
    • Award dates: 09/01/2021 - 08/31/2024
    • Proposal title: Intersections of String Phenomenology, Cosmology, and Astrophysics
    • Total award: $234,026
    • Role: PI

Daniel Kabat, Professor

  • Program: National Science Foundation (2112548)
    • Award dates: 09/01/2021 - 08/31/2024
    • Proposal title: Entanglement, Geometry and the Physics of Fields, Strings and Gravity
    • Total award: $270,000
    • Role: PI

Matthew O'Dowd, Associate Professor

  • Program: Schmidt Futures
    • Award notice: August 2020 (for five years)
    • Proposal: To study the structure and evolution of the universe, black holes, quasars and dark energy
    • Total award: $2,940,000
    • Role: PI

Elizabeth Guerrero-Berroa, Assistant Professor

  • Program: National Institutes of Health (SC3GM144199)
    • Award dates: 05/15/2022 - 04/30/2026
    • Program title: The role of depression in cognitive decline of oldest-old African Americans
    • Total award: $306,276
    • Role: PI

Fernando Delgado, President

  • Program: National Science Foundation (1826696)
    • Award dates: 09/01/2018 - 08/31/2024
    • Proposal title: Louis Stokes STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: NYC LSAMP Alliance
    • Total award: $3,977,118
    • Role: PI (Co-PI Dean Pamela Mills et al.).

Jennifer Laird, Assistant Professor

  • Program: The Washington Center for Equitable Growth
    • Award notice: August 2023
    • Dr. Laird 's grant will support research on public-sector unions in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Janus v. AFSCME. The funds will support Laird and two colleagues from Western University and Washington University in St. Louis as they research public-sector unions.

Esther Wilder, Professor

  • Program: National Science Foundation (1832507)
    • Award dates: 10/01/2018 - 09/30/2024
    • Proposal title: A Faculty Development Program to Increase Students' Quantitative Reasoning Skills
    • Total award: $1,500,000
    • Role: PI