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University of North Carolina at Wilmington: 9 NIH awards ($3.7M) and 33 NSF awards ($10.8M), fiscal years 2021 to 2026
University of North Carolina at Wilmington in Wilmington, NC is funded under 9 NIH awards ($3.7M) and 33 NSF awards ($10.8M) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing climate technologies in Eastern North Carolina (NC) | NSF | Innovation and Technology Ecosystems | 2023 | $995,337 | May 15, 2023 | November 30, 2025 | Kenneth M Halanych | nsf.gov |
| The role of sponges in altering seawater DOM on Caribbean reefs | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $946,705 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Wendy Strangman | nsf.gov |
| MRI: Acquisition of a novel multi sensor-equipped unmanned aerial system (UAS) observatory for coastal mapping | NSF | Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences | 2022 | $850,863 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Philip J Bresnahan | nsf.gov |
| The Role of Histone Chaperones in Histone Acetylation and Nucleosome Dynamics | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | 2022 to 2023 | $784,685 | September 15, 2014 | June 30, 2026 | ANDREWS, ANDREW JOSEPH | reporter.nih.gov |
| CAREER: Uncovering the Gene Regulatory Networks of Coral Skeleton Development | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2026 | $699,589 | June 1, 2026 | May 31, 2031 | Jacob Warner | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Investigating New Frameworks for the Physiology and Functional Significance of Dermal Photoreception in Dynamic Color Change | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2026 | $556,383 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Lorian E Schweikert | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Characterizing the physiological and environmental cycling of abundant osmolytes | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $519,767 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Winifred M Johnson | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Using Multiple Stable Isotopes to Investigate Middle to Late Holocene Ecological Responses by Adelie Penguins in the Ross Sea | NSF | Office of Polar Programs | 2022 | $517,190 | September 15, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Steven D Emslie | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF: Interbacterial and environmental signaling impacts on Vibrio coralliilyticus pathogenesis of coral | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $473,768 | July 15, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Blake K Ushijima | nsf.gov |
| Transfer of function across equivalence classes: Implications for substance use | NIH | National Institute on Drug Abuse | 2024 | $451,750 | April 15, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | BRUCE, KATHERINE ELY | reporter.nih.gov |
| Enhanced delivery of site-specific DNA damaging toxins to prostate cancercells | NIH | National Cancer Institute | 2023 | $447,000 | March 8, 2023 | February 28, 2026 | VARADARAJAN, SRIDHAR | reporter.nih.gov |
| Interaction of β-Hairpin Peptides with Membranes | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | 2024 | $436,429 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2027 | ALMEIDA, PAULO F | reporter.nih.gov |
| CONSTRUCTING A HIGH-RESOLUTION GENE REGULATORY NETWORK OF EMT | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | 2021 | $415,850 | May 1, 2021 | April 30, 2025 | WARNER, JACOB F | reporter.nih.gov |
| EMBRACE-OCE-Growth: The dynamics and drivers of fish-mediated ecosystem functions in Large Marine Ecosystems | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $393,925 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Matthew McLean | nsf.gov |
| Probes of Fundamental QCD Symmetries and BSM Physics Via the Neutral pion, eta and eta' Decays | NSF | Physics Section | 2024 | $383,366 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Liping Gan | nsf.gov |
| Biomarkers of Binge Drinking in Maltreated Adolescents | NIH | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism | 2022 | $379,503 | September 20, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | NOONER, KATE BRODY | reporter.nih.gov |
| Enantioenriched Nitrogen-Containing Small Molecules via Stereoselective Carbon-Carbon Bond Construction | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | 2024 | $369,199 | September 10, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | MORGAN, JEREMY B | reporter.nih.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Spatiotemporal observations of the demise of an ice sheet: Paleo perspectives from Baffin Bay, West Greenland. | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $368,852 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | Shannon Klotsko | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: LIA: Genomic Mechanisms Controlling the Slow Development of the Antarctic Urchin Sterechinus Neumayeri | NSF | Office of Polar Programs | 2022 | $356,975 | September 15, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Jacob Warner | nsf.gov |
| EMBRACE-EAR-Growth: Terrestrial geothermal features as a modern analog for Archaean ammonia flux: Research Experience to Enhance Geoscience Retention | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $336,978 | December 1, 2025 | July 31, 2027 | Joseph D Felix | nsf.gov |
| Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) | NSF | Scholarships, Fellowships, and Traineeships Section | 2024 | $318,000 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Christopher M Finelli | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Surfzone Eddy Dynamics | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $307,226 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Derek J Grimes | nsf.gov |
| UNCW Advance Catalyst: : UNC-by-the-S.E.A. (STEM Equity Access) | NSF | Div. of Equity for Excellence in STEM | 2024 | $299,497 | September 1, 2024 | April 25, 2025 | Kate B Nooner | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Prospects and limitations of predicting a potential collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $284,446 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Dylan McNamara | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Constraining next generation Cascadia earthquake and tsunami hazard scenarios through integration of high-resolution field data and geophysical models | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $274,364 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2027 | Andrea D Hawkes | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Multi-scale Geodetic Monitoring at Axial Seamount | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $250,644 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2028 | Scott L Nooner | nsf.gov |
| Adolescent intermittent ethanol induction of neuroimmune signaling disrupts the mature phenotype of surviving hippocampal neuroprogenitors | NIH | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism | 2025 | $249,000 | March 10, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | MACHT, VICTORIA ALICE | reporter.nih.gov |
| NSF Convergence Accelerator Track J: Accelerating commercial marine fish production in US: developing sustainable feeds, establishing feed suppliers and enhancing market acceptance | NSF | Innovation and Technology Ecosystems | 2023 | $244,974 | December 1, 2022 | December 31, 2024 | Md Shah Alam | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Pilot: A Cybertraining Program to Advance Data Acquisition, Processing, and Machine Learning-based Modeling in Marine Science | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) | 2022 | $205,678 | January 1, 2023 | August 31, 2025 | Qianqian Liu | nsf.gov |
| Recovering structured signals: atoms, matrix separation, and applications | NSF | Mathematical Science Section | 2023 | $198,963 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Xuemei Chen | nsf.gov |
| Research Initiation Award: Redox Regulated Phosphorylation of BCAT by PKC | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2024 | $171,767 | October 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Ming Dong | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Resolving Conflicting Thermobarometry and Stratigraphy in the Tethyan Himalaya: is Non-Lithostatic Pressure During Orogenesis Preserved at Crustal Scales? | NSF | Division Of Earth Sciences | 2022 | $153,500 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Peter J Haproff | nsf.gov |
| Effects of digestion on composition and bioavailability of compounds from Ashwagandha: an in vitro study | NIH | National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health | 2023 to 2024 | $148,441 | June 15, 2023 | May 31, 2026 | STRANGMAN, WENDY | reporter.nih.gov |
| RAPID: Diversity and symbiotic relationships of annelids in a poorly known region of the deep Pacific | NSF | Division Of Environmental Biology | 2022 | $107,839 | July 15, 2022 | June 30, 2025 | Kenneth M Halanych | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Do diatoms use proton-pumping rhodopsins as an alternative energy source under high light | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $104,898 | January 15, 2026 | November 30, 2027 | Brittany N Zepernick | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Have Transantarctic Dispersal Corridors Impacted Antarctic Marine Biodiversity? | NSF | Office of Polar Programs | 2022 | $103,766 | October 1, 2021 | February 28, 2026 | Kenneth M Halanych | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Long Term Accommodation to Climate Change | NSF | Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences | 2022 | $96,674 | June 1, 2022 | June 30, 2026 | Michael Benedetti | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Rising seas, failing infrastructure: Characterizing microbial risks from exposure to tidal floods | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $79,998 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Derek J Grimes | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RUI: Testing the link between skeletal labyrinth morphology and habitat in sharks | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $59,862 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Kara E Yopak | nsf.gov |
| I-Corps: Thermostable liquid formulations of mRNAs and mRNA lipid nano-particles pharmaceuticals | NSF | Translational Impacts | 2022 | $50,000 | May 1, 2022 | October 31, 2022 | Ying Wang | nsf.gov |
| Conference: North Carolina Conference on Algebra and Mathematical Physics (NCAMP) 2026 | NSF | Mathematical Science Section | 2026 | $35,000 | October 1, 2026 | September 30, 2027 | Lilit Martirosyan | nsf.gov |
| Travel: NSF Student Travel Grant for the 2023 Empirical Software Engineering International Week (ESEIW) | NSF | Division of Computing and Communication Foundations | 2023 | $20,000 | April 15, 2023 | November 30, 2023 | Lucas Layman | nsf.gov |
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 4 | $1,396,972 |
| 2025 | 1 | $249,000 | 2 | $188,944 |
| 2024 | 4 | $1,331,677 | 14 | $3,027,044 |
| 2023 | 3 | $918,427 | 10 | $2,318,263 |
| 2022 | 2 | $766,903 | 11 | $3,663,804 |
| 2021 | 1 | $415,850 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) | 26-512 | NSF | 47.050 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.050 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| Oceanographic Facilities and Equipment Support | 23-525 | NSF | 47.050 | January 11, 2027 | $47.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 23-520 | NSF | 47.050 | January 21, 2027 | $1 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.050 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.050 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.050 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) | 22-615 | NSF | 47.050 | February 16, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) | 22-603 | NSF | 47.050 | March 1, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | 26-506 | NSF | 47.050 | March 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.050 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | 25-533 | NSF | 47.050 | April 14, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) | 24-588 | NSF | 47.050 | June 1, 2027 | $3.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) | 22-586 | NSF | 47.050 | July 28, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) | 23-601 | NSF | 47.050 | August 18, 2027 | $500,000 | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU - EiR) | 23-598 | NSF | 47.050 | October 19, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| National Science Foundation National Innovation Corps Teams (NSF National I-CorpsTM Teams) Program | 25-549 | NSF | 47.050 | October 6, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS-PRF) | 22-639 | NSF | 47.050 | October 7, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| Facilitating Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: (RUI and ROA-PUI) | 14-579 | NSF | 47.050 | October 14, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
| Geosciences Core Research: Atmospheric, Geospace, Earth and Ocean Sciences (GEO Core) | 26-516 | NSF | 47.050 | October 27, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 11 awards here |
Topics of its NIH awards
- Genetics
- Building Research Capacity at Institutions with Limited NIH Funding
- Behavioral and Social Science
- Substance Misuse
- Alcoholism, Alcohol Use and Health
- Neurosciences
- Pediatric
- Underage Drinking
- Basic Behavioral and Social Science
- Bioengineering
- Child Abuse and Neglect Research
- Health Disparities
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.