Minnesota Futures: Past Awards

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Minnesota Futures Research Grant Awards

Year Investigator Title
2022-2024 Kawakami, Yasu Investigating epigenetic mechanisms in the development of craniospinal sarcoma
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2022-2024 Snell-Rood, Emilie Lead bioavailability and ecological remediation across the Twin Cities
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2021-2023 Poerschke, David Nonthermal Plasma Processes for Sustainable Extraction and Processing of Minnesota’s Titanium Resources
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2021-2023 Cullen, Kathryn

Measuring and Enhancing Creativity and Brain Flexibility in Adolescents with Depression
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2020-2021 Thenappan, Thenappan Mechanistic Role of Gut Microbiota and Gut Barrier Function in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
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2020-2021 Seabloom, Eric The emergence of chronic wasting disease in Minnesota: Transmission across a landscape of plants, soils, water, and deer
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2019-2021 Gallaher, Dan Reduction in fatty liver in young adolescents by polylactose, a novel prebiotic dietary fiber
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2019-2021 Wang,  Xiaojia Ultra-Efficient Wide-Bandgap Power Converters: Material, Device, Circuit, and System-level Challenges and Opportunities
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2018-2020 Park, Hyun Soo Coordinated 3D Marker-less Pose Estimation and Neural Measurements from Freely Moving Rhesus Macaques
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2018-2020 Oliver, Jonathan Effect of the microbiome upon deer tick range expansion in the Upper Midwest
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2017-2019 Porta, Carolyn The University Sexual Violence Prevention (U-SIREN) Collaboratory
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2017-2019 Satyshur, Colleen Art and Science of Nesting Bees
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2017-2019 Stadler, Bethanie Customized Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) Nanowire Tags for Exosome Enrichment in Blood Biopsies
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2016-2018 Schmidt-Dannert, Claudia Discovery of new antifungal therapeutics using chemical genomics guided bioprospecting
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2016-2018 Smanski, Michael Genetic control of invasive fish species
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2015-2017 Bailey, Jake V. Bacterial polyphosphate metabolism: an unrecognized contributor to dental diseases?
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2015-2017 Hu, Wei-shou Glycoengineering of Therapeutic Biologics by Systems Design and Combinational Synthesis
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2013-2015 Hackel, Benjamin Targeting Metastatic Breast Cancer with Dual Specificity
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2013-2015 Haynes, Christy Maximizing Magnetic Relaxation and Heating in Nanoparticle Therapeutics
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2012-2014 Ebbini, Emad Dual-mode Ultrasound Array System for Noninvasive, Image-guided Targeted Drug Delivery In Vivo
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2012-2014 Wackett, Lawrence Defining and Mitigating Against Environmental Impacts of Oil and Gas Fracking
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2011-2013 Adam, Terrence J. The University Multidisciplinary Advanced Reporting Visualization Effectiveness Laboratory
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2011-2013 Fortson, Lucy The Data Deluge: Applying Data Processing Techniques Derived from Astrophysics Citizen
Science Projects to Research Problems in Egyptian Papyrology
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2010-2012 Girshick, Steven Magnetic/Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy
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2010-2012 Metzger, Joseph Molecular Design and Cardiovascular Implementation of Novel Block Copolymers
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2010-2012 Ohlfest, John A Novel Vaccine Adjuvant Platform for Immunotherapy of Cancer
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2009-2011 Kumar, Vipin Automated Assessment of Forest Cover Change
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2009-2011 Lefebvre, Paul Optimization of Algal Lipid Production for Human Nutrition and Bioenergy
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2009-2011 Macosko, Chris Beyond Taxol®: Nanoparticle Delivery of a Paclitaxel Silicate Prodrug
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2008-2009 Andow, David A. Predicting and Managing Invasive Potential of Exotic Species
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2008-2009 Momeni, Ali Mobile Media for Everyday People: Bridging the Digital-Physical Divide
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2008-2009 Symons, Frank Pain in Children with Neuro-developmental Disabilities: Analgesic Failure and the Promise of Biomarkers 
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