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Physics Department Recent Research Funding

 
Assistant Professor Latika Menon has received an NSF grant titled, "NER-Nanobiodevices for Reliable Long-Term Recording and Stimulation of Neural Activity." The total amount of the grant is $130K and her co-PI's in the grant are Professors Armen Stepanyants, M. Dokmeci, Don O'Malley, and Vice Provost of Research and CAS Distinguished Professor Srinivas Sridhar.
Vice Provost of Research and CAS Distinguished Professor Srinivas Sridhar is the Principal Investigator to a newly awarded $3.3 million grant that will establish a new interdisciplinary doctoral education program in Nanomedical Science and Technology at Northeastern.
Emanuela BarberisAssistant Professor Emanuela Barberis has received a single investigator career development award from the National Science Foundation for $800,000 over the next five years. The program is entitled "Physics With High pT Muons: Top Quark Properties at Hadron Colliders." She was the only recipient in 2004 to receive this prestigious award in her research field of high energy experimental physics.

Armen StepanyantsAssistant Professor Armen Stepanyants received
the NIH/NINDS K25 Mentored Quantitative Career Development Award. The title of his award is called "Searching for Connectivity Principles in the Brain."

Mark WilliamsAssistant Professor Mark C. Williams has been awarded a National Institutes of Health R01 grant for his proposal entitled “Single Molecule HIV-1 NC/Gag-DNA Interactions”. The award consists of five years of research funding for a total of $1.25 million.