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Tennessee State University: 8 NIH awards ($9.6M) and 39 NSF awards ($20.7M), fiscal years 2021 to 2026
Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN is funded under 8 NIH awards ($9.6M) and 39 NSF awards ($20.7M) in the NIH and NSF award files, read 2026-11-03. NIH fiscal years 2021 to 2025; NSF fiscal years 2022 to 2026.
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Awards
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| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (3 of 3) MMC, VICC & TSU: Partners in Eliminating Cancer Disparities | NIH | National Cancer Institute | 2021 to 2025 | $3,809,303 | September 23, 2011 | August 31, 2026 | WHALEN, MARGARET M | reporter.nih.gov |
| Implementation Project: Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Research-Based Experiential Learning into STEM Curriculum to Enhance Education and Student Retention | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2026 | $3,000,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Lin Li | nsf.gov |
| Tennessee State University - Fisk - Illinois Partnership for Research and Education in Materials | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2024 | $2,240,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2030 | Richard Mu | nsf.gov |
| Engaging Partners in Caring Communities (EPICC): Building capacity to implement health promotion programs in African American churches | NIH | National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities | 2023 to 2025 | $2,182,108 | September 23, 2021 | April 30, 2027 | SELOVE, REBECCA | reporter.nih.gov |
| Implementation Project: Enhancement of CUREs-based Curriculum and Immersive Engineering Studio to Enhance Engineering Education and Retention of Underrepresented Engineers at TSU | NSF | Div. of Equity for Excellence in STEM | 2023 | $1,825,050 | July 15, 2023 | May 2, 2025 | Lin Li | nsf.gov |
| Engaging Partners in Caring Communities (EPICC): Building capacity to implement health promotion programs in African American churches | NIH | Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health | 2021 | $1,772,784 | September 23, 2021 | August 31, 2023 | SELOVE, REBECCA | reporter.nih.gov |
| CAREER: Investigating the molecular rules of legume partner selection | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2026 | $1,088,069 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Sonali Roy | nsf.gov |
| Excellence in Research: Enhancing Thermal Transport in Polymers via Phonon Polaritons | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $956,696 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Richard Mu | nsf.gov |
| Excellence in Research: Mechanism of plant-bacterial interactions in bacterial wilt pathosystem | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2024 | $836,100 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Korsi Dumenyo | nsf.gov |
| CREST HBCU-RISE: Advancing Theoretical Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure for Modern Data Science Challenges | NSF | Education Capacity Building & Transformation Section | 2024 | $813,382 | September 15, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Ali S Sekmen | nsf.gov |
| Excellence in Research of dietary blueberry delays aging and reverses aging-induced physical dysfunctions by regulating PPAR pathway | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $709,161 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Hongwei Si | nsf.gov |
| U-RISE at Tennessee State University | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | 2022 to 2024 | $625,357 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2025 | WHALEN, MARGARET M | reporter.nih.gov |
| EXCELLENCE-IN-RESEARCH: FATE AND TRANSPORT OF EMERGING PFASS-F-53B AND GENX IN SOIL | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $600,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Lin Li | nsf.gov |
| Excellence in Research: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Learning Analytics to Predict Student Performance in STEM Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2025 | $600,000 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Jing Yan | nsf.gov |
| Excellence in Research: 2D Heterostructure Materials Based CRISPR Sensors for Detection of Salmonella and its serotypes | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $588,345 | October 15, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Ali Taheri | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: The HBCU Ujima Collective: Building Research Capacity at HBCUs through a Grow Your Own Research Corps Model | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2024 | $580,001 | September 15, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Lin Li | nsf.gov |
| Excellence in Research: De Novo Protein Modeling, Beyond Topology Determination Problem | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $535,066 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Kamal Al Nasr | nsf.gov |
| BRC-BIO: Bioconversion of Food Waste with Non-model Organisms | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $502,793 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Joshua A OHair | nsf.gov |
| BRC-BIO: MediCARGO- Decoding peptide perception during Medicago-Sinorhizobium symbiosis using CRISPR-cas9 As a Reverse Genetics tool | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2022 | $497,100 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Sonali Roy | nsf.gov |
| Tennessee State University Needs Assessment and Five Pillar Strategic Action Plan | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | 2024 to 2025 | $494,980 | September 5, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | QUICK, QUINCY ANTOINE | reporter.nih.gov |
| Excellence in Research’: Mechanistic Modelling and Validation Approaches to Decontaminate (+) ssRNA Viruses using Ultra-Violet Technologies | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $453,358 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Ankit Patras | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: Panoramic Institutional Assessments: A Playbook for Advancing Research Capacity | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2024 | $436,468 | September 15, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Xiaofei Wang | nsf.gov |
| Targeted Infusion Project: Infusing Computational Fluid Dynamics into Mechanical and Architectural Engineering Curricula through an Integrated Multimodal Learning Framework | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2025 | $400,000 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Muhammad K Akbar | nsf.gov |
| Targeted Infusion Project: Increasing Mathematics Potential by Addressing Collegiate-level Teacher Professional Development (IMPACT PD) at Tennessee State University | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2026 | $399,999 | October 1, 2026 | September 30, 2029 | Martene Stanberry | nsf.gov |
| Targeted Infusion Project: Collaborative Cloud-Edge Artificial Intelligence in Cyber-physical Systems | NSF | Div. of Equity for Excellence in STEM | 2022 | $399,795 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2025 | Kamrul Hasan | nsf.gov |
| Targeted Infusion Project Development of a CRISPR Cas9 based gene editing technology curriculum at Tennessee State University | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2022 | $397,565 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Sonali Roy | nsf.gov |
| Broadening Participation Research: Understanding faculty attitudes, competency, and perceptions of providing career advising to African American STEM students at HBCUs | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2023 | $349,991 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Marie S Hammond | nsf.gov |
| Research Initiation Award: Deciphering Multi-scale Mechanisms governing the Chemo-mechanical behavior of Crosslinked Polymers | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2024 | $303,126 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Ranganathan Parthasarathy | nsf.gov |
| Research Initiation Award: A Boltzmann Model for Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics/Chemistry Transport Phenomena in Porous Media | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2022 | $298,715 | May 15, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Muhammad K Akbar | nsf.gov |
| Effect of TRB3 and Leucine Supplement on Beige Fat Formation | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | 2024 to 2025 | $284,000 | July 19, 2024 | June 30, 2028 | KOH, HO-JIN | reporter.nih.gov |
| MARC Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research at Tennessee State University | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | 2021 | $271,342 | June 1, 1980 | May 31, 2023 | WHALEN, MARGARET M | reporter.nih.gov |
| Planning grant Increasing geoscience graduate students in Tennessee's flagship state university | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $239,992 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Reginald S Archer | nsf.gov |
| Catalyst DataWISE: Data Science Workforce Initiative for Skills and Education | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2026 | $200,000 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2028 | Fenghui Yao | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: CISE-MSI: DP: CPS: Cyber Resilient 5G Enabled Virtual Power System for Growing Power Demand | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2022 | $191,580 | October 1, 2022 | June 30, 2026 | Sagnika Ghosh | nsf.gov |
| Catalyst Research on Broadening Participation in STEM Project: Application of AR/VR Technology Based on Project-oriented CDIO Approach to Enhance STEM Education in HBCUs | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2024 | $175,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Shihui Liu | nsf.gov |
| CISE MSI: RPP: IIS: Deep Clustering of Unlabeled Tabular Data for Transfer Learning in Heterogeneous Feature Space | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2024 | $173,149 | January 1, 2025 | November 30, 2026 | Manar Samad | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: CISE-MSI: RCBP-RF: CNS: Enabling Secured and Artificial Intelligence Assisted Cell-Free Communications | NSF | Division Of Computer and Network Systems | 2022 | $157,432 | October 15, 2022 | September 30, 2025 | Kamrul Hasan | nsf.gov |
| Catalyst Project: Microstructural Evolution and Constitutive Modeling of Creep and Elevated Temperature Quasi-Static Tensile Deformation in Additively Manufactured Grade 91 Alloy | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2022 | $149,988 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2025 | Abiodun Fasoro | nsf.gov |
| AGTC: Attaining Genomics Talent Cloud through Undergraduate Research Education | NIH | National Human Genome Research Institute | 2024 | $122,981 | September 20, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | WANG, XIAOFEI | reporter.nih.gov |
| Collaborative Research:CISE-MSI:RCBP-RF:CNS:Orchestration of Network Slicing for 5G-Enabled IoT Devices Using Reinforcement Learning | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $120,000 | October 1, 2023 | June 30, 2026 | Sagnika Ghosh | nsf.gov |
| Planning: Excellence in Research: Extending the impact of research using Social Cognitive Career Theory through meta-analysis and systematic review | NSF | OIA-Office of Integrative Activities | 2023 | $99,999 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2025 | Marie S Hammond | nsf.gov |
| Planning: Integrating Distributed Energy Resources with Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings for Net Zero Energy and Community Resilience | NSF | Office of Integrative Activities | 2023 | $99,999 | September 15, 2023 | August 31, 2024 | Sagnika Ghosh | nsf.gov |
| Planning: Energy-harvesting Concrete Batteries for Smart Buildings and Cities | NSF | OIA-Office of Integrative Activities | 2023 | $99,183 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2025 | Shihui Liu | nsf.gov |
| Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) | NSF | Scholarships, Fellowships, and Traineeships Section | 2022 | $79,750 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Richard Mu | nsf.gov |
| I-Corps: Translation Potential of Bacterial Endophytes for Growth Promotion and Disease Management in Organic Vegetable Production | NSF | Pathways for Translation Section | 2024 | $50,000 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Margaret T Mmbaga | nsf.gov |
| I-Corps: Translation Potential of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Driven control platform for localized, intelligent power systems | NSF | Pathways for Translation Section | 2026 | $50,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2027 | Mohammad Habibi | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Multiscale study of oscillating flow and multiphase heat transfer in porous media | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $4,293 | September 1, 2022 | February 29, 2024 | Leitao Chen | nsf.gov |
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 5 | $4,738,068 |
| 2025 | 4 | $1,989,874 | 8 | $4,536,385 |
| 2024 | 6 | $2,257,564 | 12 | $4,705,447 |
| 2023 | 3 | $1,723,846 | 10 | $2,999,192 |
| 2022 | 2 | $814,999 | 12 | $3,722,053 |
| 2021 | 3 | $2,776,572 | 0 | $0 |
Open federal funding opportunities
From Grants.gov: notices that funded awards in this table, and open notices on the same agency and assistance listing.
| Open opportunity | Number | Agency | Listing | Closes | Award ceiling | Why it matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. National Science Foundation State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs: | 26-513 | NSF | 47.076 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.076 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Fostering Interdisciplinary Networks to Develop Emergent and Responsive Solutions Foundry (NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY) | 26-507 | NSF | 47.076 | November 18, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) | 23-595 | NSF | 47.076 | December 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| IUSE: Innovation in Two-Year College STEM Education (ITYC) | 23-584 | NSF | 47.076 | December 9, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) | 21-595 | NSF | 47.076 | January 11, 2027 | $3.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU) | 23-510 | NSF | 47.076 | January 20, 2027 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 23-520 | NSF | 47.076 | January 21, 2027 | $1 million | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (NSF SaTC) | 25-515 | NSF | 47.076 | January 25, 2027 | $1.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.076 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.076 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.076 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) | 22-603 | NSF | 47.076 | March 1, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) | 25-514 | NSF | 47.076 | March 2, 2027 | $5 million | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | 26-506 | NSF | 47.076 | March 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program | 24-529 | NSF | 47.076 | March 25, 2027 | $1 million | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Education Innovation and Scholarship for Service (CyberAI SFS) | 26-503 | NSF | 47.076 | April 5, 2027 | $2.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) | 24-586 | NSF | 47.076 | April 6, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.076 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
| IUSE / Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED) | 24-564 | NSF | 47.076 | April 13, 2027 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.076 as 17 awards here |
Topics of its NIH awards
- Building Research Capacity at Institutions with Limited NIH Funding
- Health Disparities
- Minority Health
- Clinical Research
- Prevention
- Social Determinants of Health
- Behavioral and Social Science
- Clinical Trials and Supportive Activities
- Dissemination and Implementation Research
- Health Disparities Research
- Health Disparities and Racial or Ethnic Minority Health Research
- Dental/Oral and Craniofacial Disease
Updated November 3, 2026. Read from NIH RePORTER ExPORTER and NSF Award Search. Published by NIH and NSF as U.S. government data. NIH awards are fiscal years 2021 to 2025 (NIH files published to 2026-07-09); NSF awards are fiscal years 2022 to 2026 (NSF files published to 2026-11-02). NIH amounts are the total cost of each fiscal year in the window; NSF amounts are the funds obligated in the window. Organizations are matched on the UEI. Open opportunities come from Grants.gov and match on agency and assistance listing number, and on the notice number NIH prints on an award. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.