Department of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
z Yan Li (Co-PI). Improving Time and Resource Efficiency with Capillary Nanofluidic Protein
Detection. Funded by Florida State University, Equipment and Infrastructure Enhancement
Grant (EIEG). Total award $40,000.
z Yan Li (PI), Ravi Chella & Teng Ma. Introduction to current good manufacturing practices
(cGMP) for future process engineers. Funded by Florida State University, Student Technology
Committee. Total award $32,009.
z Bruce R. Locke, Farrukh Alvi, Igor Alabugin, “Reaction Processes in Organic Droplet Spray
Plasma Reactors,” The National Science Foundation, $351,999.
z Bruce R. Locke, National Science Foundation, Reaction Processes in Organic Droplet Spray
Plasma Reactors, (P.I., co-P.I. Dr. Igor Alabugin, co-P.I. Dr. Farrukh Alvi), $352,000.
z Teng Ma, James King Biomedical Research Program, Florida Department of Health,
“Development of a Bioreactor Strategy for Scalable Expansion of Human Mesenchymal Stem
Cell Aggregates for Heart Disease (3KF05)”.
z Teng Ma (PI), Samuel C. Grant (co-PI), James King Biomedical Research Program, Florida
Department of Health, “Translation of human mesenchymal stem cell therapy for stroke
treatment: bioreactor expansion, functional activation, and intranasal delivery (4KB09).”
$400,000.
z Anant K. Paravastu has won a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career
Development Award, also known as a CAREER Award, totaling $404,992 to advance his
research into “designer” proteins.
z Subramanian Ramakrishnan, Ultra-light Weight Hybrids, Foams and Green Bodies:
Structure-Property Relationships in Novel Polymer Grafted Magnetic Nanoparticles, NASA,
$120,000.
z Subramanian Ramakrishnan, Thurgood Marshall Fund - Sponsored by the Department
of Defense Research and Engineering/Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) –
Undergraduate Research to Retain and Graduate Students in STEA (Science, Technology,
Engineering, Agriculture & Mathematics) - $25,000 over summer 2013. Structure-Property
Relationships in Polymer Grafted Nanoparticles: Towards Novel Nanocomposites for Defense
Applications.
z Subramanian Ramakrishnan, Towards Ultra-light Weight Hybrids, Foams and Green Bodies:
Structure-Property Relationships in novel Polymer grafted nanoparticles, Department of
Defense, S. Ramakrishnan, PI, $478,449.
z Subramanian Ramakrishnan, Connecting Nanoscale Structure and Dynamics to Rheology
and Flow of Glassy Nanocolloidal Suspensions, National Science Foundation, PI: R. Leheny,
Co-PI: S. Ramakrishnan, Amount: $349,771.
z Subramanian Ramakrishnan, Research Initiation Award Grant - Colloidal Mixtures:
Microstructure and Mechanics, NSF, Principal Investigator: Subramanian Ramakrishnan,
Amount: $199,871.
z Theo Siegrist, US Department of Energy, DE-SC0008832, “Discovery and Crystal Growth of
new Oxide Phases from Metal Fluxes,” $600,000.
Faculty Honors and Grants
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