More than a dozen faculty from throughout the City University of New York (CUNY) system were selected as 2015 CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) Seed Grant winners.
Learn more about the ASRC Seed Grant Program.
The Winners:
Maria Contel
Brooklyn College
Project Name: Improving selectivity and delivery of potential organometallic-based cancer chemotherapeutics by using peptide- and carbohydrate- amphiphiles as mobile nanocarriers
Jean Gaffney
Baruch College
Project Name: Structural and Biophysical Characterization of Novel Fluorescent Proteins from Marine Organisms
Nancy Greenbaum
Hunter College
Project Name: Use of 19F-NMR techniques to probe conformational change associated with RNA-protein interaction
Matthew Johnson
Lehman College
Project Name: Optimization and Strategy in Regional Hydroelectric Plant Management and Siting
Lia Krusin-Elbaum
City College of New York
Project Name: Manipulating Surface Plasmons in Topological Insulator Superlattices
William Latimer
Lehman College
Project Name: Assessing the Impact of Green and Rehabilitated Housing on Health in the Bronx, NY
Syed Mujtaba
Medgar Evers College
Project Name: Structure Function Analysis of Transcriptional Coactivator CBP HAT and Ligand CM354
Eugenia Naro-Maciel
College of Staten Island
Project Name: Sequencing New York City’s “Aquanome”: Freshwater environmental DNA in a mosaic of human impact
Monica Trujillo
Queensborough Community College
Project Name: Below-ground diversity of New York City soils
Raymond Tu
City College of New York
Project Name: Microbubble stabilization using self-assembled networks of dipeptide amphiphiles
Ioana Voiculescu
City College of New York
Project Name: Nanogenerator for Energy Harvesting from the Natural Motions of the Heart based on Piezoelectric Nanoribbons
Brian Zeglis
Hunter College
Project Name: 89Zr-Labeled Self-Assembled Peptide Amphiphiles for the Non-Invasive PET Imaging of Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 Expression Levels in Aggressive Prostate Cancer
Shuiqni Zhou
College of Staten Island
Project Name: Enzyme triggered assembly of carbon dot-linked carbohydrate and peptide amphiphiles for combination of medical therapy with imaging monitoring