Funded
Grants
These grants and gifts cover everything from angioplasty to soil erosion
Bioengineering Associate Professor Kytai Nguyen received a four-year, $1.4 million National Institutes of Health grant to create a nanoparticle system to shore up arterial walls following angioplasty and stenting procedures to treat coronary artery disease.
Physicist Yue Deng received more than $500,000 from NASA to investigate how space weather events such as solar flares drive vertical winds to affect electrodynamics in the Earth’s upper-atmosphere.
Chemistry Professor Fred MacDonnell and Norma Tacconi, a recently retired research associate professor, were awarded a three-year, $430,346 grant from the National Science Foundation’s new Sustainable Chemistry, Engineering, and Materials Program to study a new method for converting carbon dioxide to methanol.
The National Science Foundation awarded three collaborative grants amounting to $892,587 to UT Arlington, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas to develop data-mining tools for electronic health records.
Physics Assistant Professor Samarendra Mohanty received a $384,000 National Institutes of Health grant to explore a better method for initiating certain gene therapies that could help fight retinitis pigmentosa, a vision-deteriorating disease.
Civil engineering Associate Professor Sahadat Hossain won a $1 million Texas Department of Transportation contract to install pins made from reclaimed and recycled plastic along some of the region’s busiest highways to shore up clay soils that support the roads.