More than a dozen faculty from throughout the City University of New York (CUNY) system were selected as 2016 CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) Seed Grant winners.
Learn more about the ASRC Seed Grant Program.
The Winners:
Mahdieh Allahviranloo
City College of New York
Project Name: Generating Multidimensional Disruption Index for Mobility during Extreme Climate Events
Cesar Arenas-Mena
College of Staten Island
Project Name: Identification of protein-DNA interactions at developmental cis-regulatory modules in vivo
Jean-Philippe Berteau
College of Staten Island
Project Name: Contribution of nanostructure mineralization in macrostructure stiffness of cortical bone tissue during growth
Aneta Czajkowska
Brooklyn College
Project Name: Development of a nanoparticle system based on tripeptide oil in water emulsions to deliver Au nanocrystal-Pt hybrids for anticancer therapy.
Azriel Genack
Queens College
Project Name: Fabrication of Micro-layer Assembly
Dixie Goss
Hunter College
Project Name: Structural Studies of the Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus RNA Translational Element and 40S Ribosomal Subunits
Peter Lipke
Brooklyn College
Project Name: Proteomic Analysis of Amyloids in Fungal Biofilms
Donna McGregor
Lehman College
Project Name: Self-assembly of short aromatic peptides to design a proton wire
Carmen Melendez-Vasquez
Hunter College
Project Name: Evaluation of tunable stiffness biogels as a platform for enhanced myelin formation
Carlos Meriles
City College of New York
Project Name: Scanning thermometry with nanoscale resolution
Sang-Woo Seo
City College of New York
Project Name: Scanning thermometry with nanoscale resolution
Mariana Torrente
Brooklyn College
Project Name: Epigenetics In Neurodegenerative Disease: Comprehensively Characterizing Histone Modifications In Parkinson’s Disease
Maribel Vazquez
City College of New York
Project Name: A nano-Osteo Fluidic System to Examine Signaling between Apoptotic and Bystander Osteocyte Cells
Michele Vittadello
Medgar Evers College
Project Name: Mitochodrial/photosynthetic/oxidative field effect transistors via nanoscale patterning
John Waldman
Queens College
Project Name: A New Paradigm for Restoring Large Atlantic Rivers: Assessing the Shared River Concept
Zhengrong Wang
City College of New York
Project Name: Experimental study of H and O isotope fractionation during the formation of evaporites: implication to the regional climate change during the uplift of Qinghai-Tibetan plateau