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Opportunities & Awards

Funding Opportunities

Future funding opportunities to be announced.

Seed Funding 2026 Awardees

Project: Generative–AI Symbiosis for Dexterous Prosthetic Manipulation Through Tactile Diffusion Models

Team:

  • PI: Pratik Mukherjee — Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science
  • Co-PI: Erik D. Engeberg — Professor, Dept. of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science

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Project: Injectable Hydrogel-Mediated Co-delivery of Immunotherapeutics Enhances Tumor Phagocytosis

Team:

  • PI: Yunqing (Kevin) Kang — Associate Professor, Dept. of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering / Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science
  • Co-PI: James Hartmann — Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
  • Collaborator: Deguo Du — Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

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Project: Identifying the Dominant Clearance Route: Are Glymphatic-CSF or Lymphatic Mechanisms Responsible for Aβ Brain Efflux

Team:

  • PI: Rui Tao — Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Science, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
  • Co-PI: Howard Prentice — Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Science, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
  • Co-PI: Yunqing (Kevin) Kang — Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering / Ocean and Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science

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Project: Discovery of Novel GPR37L1 Agonists with Broad Therapeutic Potential

Team:

  • PI: Andrew V. Oleinikov — Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Science, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
  • Co-PI (MPI): Andrea Cippitelli — Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Science, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine

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Project: Catastrophic Structural Genomic Events Driving Pathogenesis of Pediatric and Adolescent Germ Cell Tumor

Team:

  • PI: Krinio Giannikou — Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
  • Co-PI: Raquel Assis — Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Associate Professor, and I-Health Fellow, Depts. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science
  • Co-PI: Michael DeGiorgio — Professor, Associate Chair, CODE Director, Depts. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science

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Project: Using Transparent AI to Spot Early Signs of Alzheimer’s and Predict Risk from Health Records

Team:

  • PI: Debarshi Datta — Assistant Professor in Data Science, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
  • PI: Elan Barenholtz — Associate Professor, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
  • Co-PI: David Newman — Associate Professor and Statistician, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
  • Co-PI: Alice Brumley — DNP, Assistant Director of the Memory and Wellness Center, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
  • Co-PI: Subhosit Ray — Postdoctoral Fellow, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing

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Project: Morphological Insights into Post-translational Modifications in Neurodegenerative Proteinopathies

Team:

  • PI: Maré Cudic — Professor; Director of Graduate Programs and Honors in Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
  • Co-PI: Vivian Merk — Assistant Professor, joint appointment in Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry (Charles E. Schmidt College of Science) and Dept. of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering (College of Engineering and Computer Science)

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Project: Wearable Sensing and Data-Driven Markers of Self-Regulation in Early Childhood

Team:

  • PI: Irem Korucu — Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
  • Co-PI: Behnaz Ghoraani — Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science

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Project: Nira: Development and Scaling a Secure AI-Enabled Home-Based Burn Recovery Platform for Burn Care and Behavioral Health Monitoring

Team:

  • PI: Aritra Moulick — Assistant Professor, College of Social Work and Criminal Justice
  • Co-PI: Tony Andenoro — Director of Community Engagement and Programming, College of Social Work and Criminal Justice
  • Co-PI: Sree Ranjani Rajendran — Assistant Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science

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Seed Funding 2024 Awardees

Project: CALLM: Clinical Assistance Large language Model for Proactive Identification and Linkage of Patients to Care with Undiagnosed HIV Infection

Team:

  • Xingquan Zhu, PhD, FIEEE, College of Engineering and Computer Science, FAU
  • Eric Boccio, MD, MPH, Memorial Healthcare System
  • Paula A. Eckardt, MD, FACP, FIDSA, MHS Ryan White Clinic, Memorial Healthcare System

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Project: A Machine Learning-Driven Smart Technology to Provide Clinicians Individualized pharmacogenetic Based Precision Prescribing recommendations

Team:

  • Richar Shih, MD, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, FAU
  • Mike Wells, MD, PhD, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, FAU
  • Ali Asghar Danesh, PhD, FAAA, CCC-A, College of Engineering and Computer Science, FAU
  • Abhijit Pandya, PhD, College of Engineering and Computer Science, FAU

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Project: Machine Learning Analysis & Assessment of a Non-invasive Intervention in Long COVID

Team:

  • Adar Pelah, PhD, Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences, FAU
  • Saiya George Dalmida, PhD, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, FAU
  • Debarshi Datta, PhD, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, FAU
  • Hari Kalva, PhD, College of Engineering and Computer Science, FAU
  • Ali A. Danesh, PhD, College of Education, FAU
  • David Newman, PhD, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, FAU

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Inaugural Seed Funding 2023 Awardees

Project: Development of a Multi-Scale Predictive Model for COVID-19 Patient Outcomes and Long-Term Health Effects

Team:

  • Debarshi Datta, PhD. Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
  • Laurie Martinez, PhD, MBA, MSN, RN. ÌýChristine E. Lynn College of Nursing
  • Safiya George, PhD, APRN-BC, FNAP, FAANP. Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
  • Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, PhD. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of
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  • David Newman, PhD. Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing

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Project: Regenerative Peripheral Neural Interface (RPNI) on a Chip for Dexterous Prosthetic Hands

Team:

  • Dr. Erik D. Engeberg, Department of Ocean & Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science
  • Dr. Jianning Wei, Department of Biomedical Science, Charles E. Schmidt College of MedicineÌý

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Project: TUNAA—Telehealth Use of a Nystagmus Analyzer AlgorithmÌý

Team:

  • Ali A. Danesh, Department of Communications Sciences & Disorders, College of Education
  • B. Sue Graves, Department of Exercise Science and Health Promotion (ESHP), Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
  • Sajeel Chowdhary, Charles E Schmidt College of Medicine
  • Abhijit Pandya, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, College of Engineering and Computer Science
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