Institutional ART Project Clusters
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Institutional ART Programs fund Seed Translational Research Projects (STRPs) to advance translational research and innovation to market for use-inspired applications of society’s most pressing challenges. The ART funded STRPs across all institutional programs are clustered in specific areas of high societal and economic impact with regional and national ecosystems of stakeholder groups including innovators, industry and government partners and community leaders. The STRP clusters presented here are designed to be dynamic and expected to be updated as more STRPs are added by ongoing and future ART funded programs.
Detection and Management of PFAS Contaminations
PFAS (polyfluoroalkyl substances) decontamination and management in environment, soil, water, wastewater, waste, and consumable products is rapidly emerging as a critical challenge to address through technology innovations. These substances are linked to health risks ranging from cancer to birth defects. View the translational research and technology development projects addressing PFS related challenges from ART funded programs with stakeholder ecosystems.
- Rapid Detection of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Using Paper Spray-Based Mass Spectrometry
- Waste Plastic-Based Asphalt Additive: A Solution for Sustainable, Economical, and High-Performance Roads
- Tova Earth; Creating a Global Water Sustainability Tool using Deep Learning Applied to Existing Geophysical Data
- nFast-A nanotechnology approach to developing highly soluble API
- Algorithm-guided Geotechnical Surveying using Wearable Miniaturized Sensors
- nFast- nano technology approach
- Development of a Novel Peptide Tracer for Tracing Potential Septic Pollution Sources
- Climate-Smart Electrocatalytic Membrane Technology Transforms Nitrate Pollution into Enhanced Ammonium Salt Fertilizer
- Rapid, Robust, Cost-effective, Field-based, AI-integrated point-of-use Electrochemical Platform Technology for in-situ detection and quantification of PFAS in source water.
- High-frequency and High Power Ultrasound and Argon Nanobubbles for Destruction of Emerging Contaminants
- A Novel Mid-Wave Infrared Light Emitter Development
Digital Infrastructure
Advanced national information digital infrastructure with security addressing applications based growing needs requires multidisciplinary translational research and innovation partnerships with all stakeholder groups. View the translational research projects in advanced digital infrastructure development from ART funded programs with stakeholder ecosystems.
- Making the Case for Higher Taxes
- Establishing Measures for an Institutional Designation for Teaching Excellence Colleges and Universities
- Revitalizing Public Anthropology for Societal Impact
- Modeling clinical trial outcomes with trial design using machine learning
- Vicarious Trauma in Counterterrorism Practitioners
- Integration, calibration, and operational testing of a modular UGV/UAV magnetic survey system designed for ground and low-altitude UXO detection and classification.
- Hardware-in-the-loop Demonstration of Automation with Sensors, IoT, Embedded System, and ChatGPT
- FireReady VR
- Digital Game for College Success: Prototype to Commercialization
- Beyond monitoring: Enhancing public safety with real-time video analytics
- Integrated Silicon Photonic Receiver for Space-to-Ground Laser Communication
- Revolutionizing Water Level Monitoring with Intelligent River® Technology
- Digital Twin-Driven UAV Ignition: Revolutionizing Prescribed Fire Planning for Safer, Smarter Wildfire Prevention
- Building Resilient Rural Communities
- Accelerating MIMO Receivers for Real-Time Underwater Wireless Communications
- Securing the Nation from Satellite-Based Cyberattacks
- CRISPR-based engineering of RNAB
- Virtual Simulator for College Success: Prototype to Commercialization
- XCopilot: Private Code Generation with Large Language Models
Energy
Translational research on energy efficiency and sustainability is a critical growing need in our society. View the translational research and technology development projects in energy generation, efficiency and sustainability from ART funded programs with stakeholder ecosystems.
Geoscience Supplements
Geoscience research is integral to building a resilient plant. The magnitude of the challenges that underpin this initiative demands an integrated approach to engage scientists and engineers across disciplines to advance knowledge, empower communities, and generate innovative technological solutions that addresses societal needs in creating resilient communities. NSF is supporting supplemental funding from investigators that are serving as ART PIs to support translation activities that are geoscience-related and connected to advancing the major goals of the current ART awards. View the translational research projects in geoscience from ART funded programs with stakeholder ecosystems.
- Hydrogel Plant Growth Substrates with Intact Microbiomes for Controlled Environment Agriculture
- Translating hydrology and water quality research to advance education and environmental policymaking in American Samoa
- RoutePEARL: Cloud-based Route Management Platform for Optimizing Last-Mile Logistics of Electric Truck and Drone Operations
- Waste Plastic-Based Asphalt Additive: A Solution for Sustainable, Economical, and High-Performance Roads
- Climate Change-Induced Human Mobility Perturbation
- Flood Hazards Engineering and Adaptation
- Enhancing Climate Resilience in Geosciences at Clemson University
- Collaborative University Research for Real-world Engagement in New Water Technologies
- Tova Earth; Creating a Global Water Sustainability Tool using Deep Learning Applied to Existing Geophysical Data
- nFast-A nanotechnology approach to developing highly soluble API
- Real-time Operational Resilience Assessment Platform for Electricity Infrastructure
- Sequestering CO2 and producing low-carbon concrete using a biomolecule regulated pre-carbonation method
- Micrometeorological Modeling
- Translation of Geoscience Technology to Empower Communities: Indigenous Geocoding in the Arctic
- EcoTrast-GI: a food-based oral contrast agent for radiographic imaging of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract
- From Seed to Seeds Promoting Novel Bioeconomy to Support Restoration of Threatened Plants
- Low Energy, No Chemical, Sustainable Wastewater Recovery and Reuse
- From Hyper to Multi: A Low-Cost, Self-Calibrating Water Quality Imager
- Whitefly Resistant Cotton
- Innovations for Civil Engineering Materials
- Artificial intelligence approaches for development of novel fungicides
- Biofilm Sensor System in Maple Syrup Production
- Enhancing Crop Yield by Decreasing Apical Dominance
- Increasing Translational Marine Science Research Capacity in the First State
Healthcare Innovations
Recent technological and pharmaceutical advances in healthcare have enabled tremendous improvements in the diagnosis, treatment, and therapeutic intervention of critical diseases and many other challenges. Healthcare innovations today can bring global societal impact , View the translational research and technology development projects in healthcare innovations from ART funded programs with stakeholder ecosystems.
- Sensitive Lateral Flow Assay using Dissolvable Nasal Swabs
- Full 3D-Tomography (F3DT) Software
- Modeling clinical trial outcomes with trial design using machine learning
- Legumain-cleavable topoisomerase inhibitor ADCs for the treatment of cancer
- Perovskite solar module
- Sensor-based suit for workplace injury risk identification and prevention
- Novel Assay Platform for Detection of Ubiquitinated Tau as an Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker
- Music for Listeners with Autism: An Online Platform for Collecting Music Interaction Data from Children with Autism
- Engineering Functional Macrophage Immune Cells for Persistent Phenotype and Survival
- Developing Scalable Technology and Evaluating Customer Segments for a Novel Mental Health App with a Customizable AI-Driven Virtual Therapeutic Coach
- StressDetect: Real-Time Monitoring CHO Cell Stress to Enhance Biopharmaceutical Production
- Bone Allograft Composite Inks for 3D Printing of Bone Grafts
- Simple, Fast and Accurate Standalone Point-of-Care (POC) Micro Biochip for Disease Detection, Monitoring and Diagnosis
- Developing an Intelligent Multi-Modal, IoT-enabled, AI-integrated, Sensor Fusion-based Wearable Device for Improving Human-Robot Interaction
- Nalam Therapeutics; Developing a Proprietary Antibody Nanogel Conjugate (ANC) Platform for the Treatment of Cancer
- HasenTech; Developing a Safe Therapeutic to Dampen Pathological Inflammation in Graft Versus Host Disease
- Using Artificial Intelligence Driven Biostructures to Engineer Pain Therapeutics from Scorpion Venom
- Liposomes for radiation-controlled release of anticancer drugs and immunotherapy agents
- A Vaccine to Prevent Udder Infections in Dairy Cows
- Safe and intelligent chatbots for effective and accessible health communication
- PEAK (Promoting Engagement with ADHD pre-Kindergartners)
- STRP-2: qPCR-based testing for colorectal cancer detection
- STRP-1: Organic Metal Halide Hybrid Scintillators and Dosimeters
- TrialWear: clinical trial care, everywhere.
- Deep Learning and Large Language Models for Personalized Cancer Vaccine Design
- High-efficient inactivation of airborne viruses using a microwave-enabled air filtration system
- Visualize, Measure and Track Skin Abnormalities (ViMeT)
- A novel cyclic peptide therapeutic platform for the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis, and broader autoimmunity
- ESSENCE – A multiplexed POC device for the detection of Zoonotic Diseases
- CidaGel: Injectable Gel for Dental Pulp Regeneration
- A Pre-Transplantation Donor Liver Viability Evaluation System (LVES)
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