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NSF program BIOSENS-Biosensing (790900): 108 awards, $43M to 70 organizations
108 NSF awards ($43M) under the program element BIOSENS-Biosensing (790900) to 70 organizations, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, read 2026-11-03.
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- Program element code
- 790900
- Directorate
- Directorate for Engineering
- Division
- Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems
Awards
108 awards in the window.
| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DMREF: DNA-Nanocarbon Hybrid Materials for Perception-Based, Analyte-Agnostic Sensing | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $1,995,603 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Anand Jagota | nsf.gov |
| Mechanisms of a Natural Bacterial Biosensor Using RT-DNA | NSF | Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences | 2022 | $1,148,427 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2025 | Seth L Shipman | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Closed-loop control of microbial communities by integrating optogenetics and metabolite biosensing | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $947,750 | June 15, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Jose L Avalos | nsf.gov |
| DREAM Sentinels: Selection of aptamers that target viral variants with high specificity | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2023 | $718,956 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2025 | Hsin-Chih Yeh | nsf.gov |
| DREAM Sentinels: Multiplexable and programmable cell-free ADAR-mediated RNA sensing platform (cfRADAR) for quick and scalable response to emergent viral threats | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $700,000 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Xiaojun Lian | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Studying Tendon Cell Mechanobiology in the Native Tissue Environment | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $677,682 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Spencer Szczesny | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Electrochemiluminescence in Microfluidics for Mechanistic Studies of Redox Reactions and Single Particle Sensing | NSF | Chemistry Section | 2022 | $651,000 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Frederique Deiss | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Real-Time, Selective Gas Sensing in Complex Gas Compositions by Molecular Sieving via Robust Two-Dimensional Heterostructures | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $610,004 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Kevin M Daniels | nsf.gov |
| Flexible fMRI-Compatible Neural Probes with Organic Semiconductor based Multi-modal Sensors for Closed Loop Neuromodulation | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $605,320 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Jingyan Dong | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Three-dimensional large-scale biomechanical sensing within developing vertebrates | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $600,000 | June 1, 2026 | May 31, 2031 | Tian-Ming Fu | nsf.gov |
| Designing DNA Origami for Force-mediated Release of Molecular Cargo | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $560,075 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Ian C Schneider | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Extracellular Hydrogen Peroxide and Nitric Oxide Detection and Quantification Via Biocompatible Carbon Nanotubes | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $550,000 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Nicole Iverson | nsf.gov |
| Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning for the Design of Peptide Probes for Biosensing | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $550,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | John D MacKenzie | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Spiral-Spring Shaped Flexible Electronics for Long-term Monitoring of Neural Activity in Developing Brains | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $550,000 | July 1, 2026 | August 31, 2026 | Jia Liu | nsf.gov |
| Measurements of Cellular-scale Biophysical Signals within the Intervertebral Disc using Nanoscale DNA Origami sensors | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $550,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Benjamin A Walter | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Expanding the dimensional and multiplexing frontiers of ultrasensitive single-molecule protein detection | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $549,998 | February 15, 2026 | January 31, 2031 | Connie Wu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Transforming Biosensor Reliability using Sensor Time-series Data and Physics-based Machine Learning | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $542,197 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2027 | Blake Johnson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Bioelectronics-embedded hybrid brain tissues | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $534,378 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2029 | Brian P Timko | nsf.gov |
| Bioorthogonal Signal Transduction: Chemical Exponential Signal Amplification for Applications in Biosensing | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $523,361 | March 1, 2026 | February 28, 2029 | Raphael M Franzini | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Shape-Encoded Electrokinetic Particles for Multiplexed Biosensing | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $500,000 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Charles W Shields | nsf.gov |
| Biosensing of chromatin packing in live cells | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $500,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Lev T Perelman | nsf.gov |
| CRISPR Microfluidic Array for Simultaneous Multiplexed Sensing of Proteins and miRNAs | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $499,582 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | James F Rusling | nsf.gov |
| Sentinels: Living-Tissue for Doppler Detection of Emerging Microbial Threats | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $496,377 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | David D Nolte | nsf.gov |
| Plasmon-enhanced Lateral Flow Assay for Multiplexed Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA and Antigens in Point-of-Care Settings | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $480,000 | November 1, 2022 | October 31, 2027 | Srikanth Singamaneni | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Calibration-Free Potentiometric Sensors for Biofluid Analysis | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $476,445 | May 15, 2025 | April 30, 2030 | Jeffrey G Bell | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Hydrogel Phantom Tissue Based Spatiotemporal Transcriptomics | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $475,670 | December 15, 2024 | November 30, 2029 | Jina Ko | nsf.gov |
| Tubular cellular biosensors | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $473,007 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | David Gracias | nsf.gov |
| Novel tools for point-of-care therapeutic drug monitoring | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $458,000 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2027 | Hsin-Chih Yeh | nsf.gov |
| A Universal Biosensing Platform Amplifying Signals Produced by NAD+/NADH-Dependent Enzymes | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $456,984 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Evgeny Katz | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Artificial Extracellular Matrix Biosensors (e-ECM) | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $454,115 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Ahyeon Koh | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: High-precision monitoring of foodborne pathogens in food manufacturing facilities | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $450,000 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2024 | Michael K Danquah | nsf.gov |
| Artificial nose using electrophysiology coupled to nanowires: Towards single molecule sensitivity with single atom resolution on chemical species | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $450,000 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2026 | Peter J Burke | nsf.gov |
| A Self-Contained Optical Heterodyned Second Harmonic Sensor | NSF | Chemistry Section | 2023 | $450,000 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | John C Conboy | nsf.gov |
| Graphene/Polymer-based Fluorescent Nanozymes for Sensitive Detection of Metabolic Biotargets | NSF | Chemistry Section | 2023 | $450,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Julia Xiaojun Zhao | nsf.gov |
| An Injectable Glucose Biosensor Based on a Self-cleaning Membrane & NIR FRET Assay | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $450,000 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2026 | Melissa A Grunlan | nsf.gov |
| Dual Series Gate Configuration, Materials Design, and Mechanistic Modeling for Drift-Stabilized, Highly Sensitive Organic Electrochemical Transistor Biosensors | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $450,000 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Howard E Katz | nsf.gov |
| CBET-EPSRC CHIROPTICAL SECOND-HARMONIC SCATTERING OF NANOSTRUCTURES AND THEIR BIOCOMPLEXES | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $450,000 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2027 | Nicholas A Kotov | nsf.gov |
| BioCensors: Parsing Out the Genetic Payload of Viruses by Differential Biorecognition of Capsid Features | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $450,000 | March 1, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Michael Daniele | nsf.gov |
| Theory and Computationally Guided Molecular Recognition Design for Single-Cell Population Chemical Analysis: Renewal | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $450,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Michael S Strano | nsf.gov |
| Gel Electromicrofluidics Assisted In Situ Single Cell Analysis | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $450,000 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2029 | Jing Ding | nsf.gov |
| CBET-EPSRC: Robust Free-space Driven Microtoroidal Arrays for Next Generation Biochemical Sensors | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $450,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Tsu-Te J Su | nsf.gov |
| Understanding the role of microbial nanowires as a biosensing tool for peptide detection | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $450,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Saurabh Dhiman | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: Development of a Chimera Enzyme Switch for Branched-chain Amino Acids Biosensing | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $449,651 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Evgeny Katz | nsf.gov |
| Next Generation Plasmon Coupling Nanosensors | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $447,747 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Bjoern Reinhard | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advanced Intracellular Thermodynamic Biosensing Using Microdevices | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $444,991 | December 1, 2025 | March 31, 2030 | Angelo Gaitas | nsf.gov |
| Synthetic Bioreceptors and Enzyme Mimetic Signal Interfaces for Advanced Molecular Detection | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $443,904 | July 15, 2026 | June 30, 2029 | Li-Jing L Cheng | nsf.gov |
| Self-crowding and ligand-binding assisted single-molecule detection of small molecules by nanopipettes | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $442,106 | May 15, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Jin He | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Photothermal Recycling Nanosensor for Continuous Biomolecular Monitoring | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $440,196 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Jing Pan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Multi-phase Biosensing Approach towards Point-of-Care Evaluation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence in Infected Chronic Wounds | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $438,544 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2029 | Jordon Gilmore | nsf.gov |
| Advanced biochemical sensing in the quantum vibrational strong coupling regime | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $437,819 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Filiz Yesilkoy | nsf.gov |
| RUI: Chronometric Biosensors | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $432,740 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Andres W Martinez | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Design and validation of a novel part-brain-part-engineered gas sensor for noninvasive detection of lung cancer | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $431,220 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Debajit Saha | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: CRISPR-based biosensors for the ultra-accurate detection of disease-related single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $430,785 | July 1, 2024 | July 31, 2024 | Juhong Chen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: CRISPR-based biosensors for the ultra-accurate detection of disease-related single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $430,785 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Juhong Chen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Highly Rapid and Sensitive Nanomechanoelectrical Detection of Nucleic Acids | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $429,832 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Jinglei Ping | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Live-Cell Applications of Chiral Plasmon-Dye Interactions with Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Polarimetry | NSF | Chemistry Section | 2024 | $423,344 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Julie Biteen | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: DREAM Sentinels: Detecting emerging flaviviruses using cross reactive antibodies | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $420,625 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unified sample preparation and micro-scale centrifugal heating for the next generation of portable and inexpensive molecular diagnostic platform | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $402,222 | January 15, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Aashish Priye | nsf.gov |
| A Modular Toolset for Imaging Cellular Metabolites Using Fluorogenic RNA Riboswitches | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $401,490 | May 15, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Mingxu You | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A portable nanosensor for ultrasensitive optical detection of airborne agents | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $400,236 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Randy P Carney | nsf.gov |
| Sentinel: RNA phage Qbeta displayed SARS-CoV-2 epitopes fused with Nanotag as a biosensor toolkit | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $400,000 | August 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | Alain Bopda Waffo | nsf.gov |
| Colorimetric Lateral Flow Assay Using Unique Hollow Nanoparticles as Labels | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $400,000 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Xiaohu Xia | nsf.gov |
| Fundamental Study of Odorant Responses of Desiccatable Cells | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $400,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Elisabeth Smela | nsf.gov |
| Bacterial-based Biosensor Digital Twin for Microbial Community Sensing (US-Ireland-R&D Partnership) | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $399,974 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Sasitharan Balasubramaniam | nsf.gov |
| Plasmonic Biosensing via Quantum-Tunneling Current Readout | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $399,930 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Hayk Harutyunyan | nsf.gov |
| Developing Electroanalytical Methods for Enzymology Applications | NSF | Chemistry Section | 2024 | $397,237 | December 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Shelley D Minteer | nsf.gov |
| Development of Next Generation Plasmonic Nanosensors for Ultrasensitive, High-Throughput Nucleic Acid and Protein Assays | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $396,638 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Rajesh Sardar | nsf.gov |
| A continuous monitoring system for therapeutic antibody using in situ regenerable aptamer sensor | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $379,730 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2027 | Koji Sode | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Multimodal Nanopore Biosensing and Nanosieving for Upstream Quality Control of AAV Gene Therapy Vectors | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $374,860 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | MinJun Kim | nsf.gov |
| The Aptamer BioResistor: A Broadly Applicable Protein Biosensor with Dip-and-Read Simplicity for Point-of-Care Diagnostics | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $360,000 | January 15, 2022 | June 30, 2025 | Reginald M Penner | nsf.gov |
| NSF-GACR: An Optical Biosensing Platform for Simultaneous Detection and Quantification of Exosomes and Exosomal Cargo Biomarkers | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $360,000 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2026 | Qiuming Yu | nsf.gov |
| NSF-SNSF: Programmable and dynamically-responsive bacterial therapeutics for cancer immunotherapy | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $353,843 | March 1, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Jesse Zalatan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Chemo-Physics and Molecular Design of In-situ Hydrogel-MXene Biosensors | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $335,789 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Shaoting Lin | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Addressing the Cyclospora Cayetanensis Detection Gap: A DNA Aptamer and Microfluidic Device Approach | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $308,000 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Lia A Stanciu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A High-Throughput Single-Molecule Nanosensor to Characterize Loading Efficiency of Gene Delivery Preparations | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $308,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | MinJun Kim | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Multimodal Mapping of Gene Isoforms by Electromicrofluidic Manipulation | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $300,000 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Pak Kin Wong | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Multimodal Mapping of Gene Isoforms by Electromicrofluidic Manipulation | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2023 | $300,000 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Shih-Kang Fan | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: IMPRESS-U: High-throughput agile interfaces for cell sorting | NSF | Office of International Science and Engineering | 2024 | $300,000 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Sergiy Minko | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A High-Throughput Single-Molecule Nanosensor to Characterize Loading Efficiency of Gene Delivery Preparations | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $300,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Georgios Alexandrakis | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Multimodal Nanopore Biosensing and Nanosieving for Upstream Quality Control of AAV Gene Therapy Vectors | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $300,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Georgios Alexandrakis | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Highly sensitive optical biosensing using bound states in the continuum of high-Q all-dielectric metasurfaces | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $299,848 | September 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Hayk Harutyunyan | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Developing Optical Forces to Advance Separations in Biosensing | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $295,992 | February 1, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Giuseppe Strangi | nsf.gov |
| Development of an Airborne Pathogen Capture and Detection System | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $280,674 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2024 | Lia A Stanciu | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Enhancing Biosensor Response Rates through Nanostructures with Analyte Delivery Functions | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $272,112 | February 15, 2026 | January 31, 2028 | Dmitry Kolpashchikov | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Chemo-Physics and Molecular Design of In-situ Hydrogel-MXene Biosensors | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2023 | $258,083 | September 1, 2023 | April 30, 2024 | Chenglin Wu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Chemo-Physics and Molecular Design of In-situ Hydrogel-MXene Biosensors | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $258,083 | December 15, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Chenglin Wu | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Multiplexed Wound Biomarker Detection with a Nanosensor Embedded Microfibrous Biomaterial | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $249,641 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | Daniel Roxbury | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: APTAMER-INFUSED GRAPHENE TRANSISTOR TATTOOS AS TEMPORARY SWEAT BIOSENSING PLATFORM | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2024 | $210,141 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2027 | Dmitry Kireev | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Enzymatic Perturbation Specificity Test for Self-Validating, In-Situ Regenerable Nanoengineered Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Sensors in Interstitial Fluid | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $210,000 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2028 | Rahim Esfandyarpour | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Nanoplasmonic Mesh SERS Sensors for in situ Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Biofilm Activities | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $200,000 | December 1, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | Wei Zhou | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Ultrasensitive Multiplex Nanopore Biosensing for Point-of-Care Testing of Infectious Diseases | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $199,999 | October 1, 2024 | May 31, 2027 | Chang Liu | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Odor Representation Learning for Robust Detection of Co-present Foods and Pathogen Contamination Using an Electronic Nose | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2025 | $199,995 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2027 | Taeyeong Choi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: High bandwidth nano-transistors to understand the kinetic basis for CRISPR/CAS enzymes to enhance their applications for diagnostics and therapeutics | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $167,776 | November 1, 2023 | January 31, 2026 | Kiana Aran | nsf.gov |
| Rational Design and Fundamental Understanding of Multimodal Amyloid Probes | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $153,759 | December 1, 2025 | October 31, 2026 | Jie Zheng | nsf.gov |
| ERI: A New Spatial Image Analysis of the Tumor Microenvironment for Cancer Immunotherapy | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $125,731 | October 1, 2023 | August 31, 2025 | Sanghoon Lee | nsf.gov |
| Developing Electroanalytical Methods for Enzymology Applications | NSF | Division Of Chemistry | 2022 | $102,763 | July 1, 2022 | December 31, 2023 | Shelley D Minteer | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: High-precision monitoring of foodborne pathogens in food manufacturing facilities | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $80,000 | January 1, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | Jian Liu | nsf.gov |
| Conference: A workshop to understand the current needs for advancing living sentinel research | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2023 | $76,121 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2024 | Jonathan Silberg | nsf.gov |
| ERI: A New Spatial Image Analysis of the Tumor Microenvironment for Cancer Immunotherapy | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $73,467 | September 1, 2022 | December 31, 2023 | Sanghoon Lee | nsf.gov |
| COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: High-precision monitoring of foodborne pathogens in food manufacturing facilities | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $70,000 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2024 | Soma Dhakal | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advanced Intracellular Thermodynamic Biosensing Using Microdevices | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2025 | $32,097 | January 15, 2025 | January 31, 2026 | Angelo Gaitas | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2026 Bioanalytical Sensors Gordon Research Conference and Seminar | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $29,960 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2031 | Rebecca J Whelan | nsf.gov |
| EAGER SENTINELS: The PCR-free Biosensor for a Fast, Simple, and Sensitive Detection of RNA. | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $29,151 | January 1, 2024 | January 31, 2025 | Artavazd Badalyan | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2024 Nanoscale Science and Engineering for Agriculture and Food Systems Gordon Research Conference and Seminar | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $25,000 | March 15, 2024 | August 31, 2024 | Carmen L Gomes | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2024 Bioanalytical Sensors Gordon Research Conference and Seminar | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2024 | $24,999 | May 1, 2024 | October 31, 2024 | Charles R Mace | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2025 Protein Engineering GRC/GRS | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2025 | $10,200 | June 15, 2025 | November 30, 2025 | Yingxiao Wang | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2027 Label-Free Single Molecule Sensing Gordon Research Conference and Seminar | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2026 | $10,000 | March 15, 2027 | August 31, 2027 | Georgios Alexandrakis | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ionic Amplifiers for Biosensing | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $1,040 | January 1, 2022 | June 30, 2023 | Lane A Baker | nsf.gov |
Organizations
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 21 | $6,302,963 |
| 2025 | 0 | $0 | 28 | $7,254,346 |
| 2024 | 0 | $0 | 27 | $7,999,167 |
| 2023 | 0 | $0 | 28 | $11,657,220 |
| 2022 | 0 | $0 | 27 | $8,946,438 |
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 | 47.041 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| PFE: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) | 20-558 | NSF | 47.041 | November 10, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.041 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 23-520 | NSF | 47.041 | January 21, 2027 | $1 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.041 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.041 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.041 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC) | 26-524 | NSF | 47.041 | February 11, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | 26-506 | NSF | 47.041 | March 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) | 24-586 | NSF | 47.041 | April 6, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.041 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| IUSE / Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED) | 24-564 | NSF | 47.041 | April 13, 2027 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | 25-533 | NSF | 47.041 | April 14, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) | 24-588 | NSF | 47.041 | June 1, 2027 | $3.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) | 22-586 | NSF | 47.041 | July 28, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) | 23-601 | NSF | 47.041 | August 18, 2027 | $500,000 | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) | 24-590 | NSF | 47.041 | September 16, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science | 24-503 | NSF | 47.041 | October 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU - EiR) | 23-598 | NSF | 47.041 | October 19, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
| Transport Phenomena (TP) | PD-26-366Y | NSF | 47.041 | August 20, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 108 awards here |
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.