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Neighborhood Alcohol & HIV Prevention in South African Townships
$713,414Mary J Rotheram-Borus · University Of California Los Angeles · R01 · FY2008 · AA
RECENT ADVANCES IN THE UV RESPONSIVITY OF SILICON-BASED IMAGING ARRAYS MOTIVATE US TO DEVELOP AND TEST A FULLY UV-OPTIMIZED CMOSDETECTOR FOCAL-PLANE ARRAY (FPA) PROTOTYPE. NOTABLE INNOVATIONS IN SILICON-BASED FPAS HAVE LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF DETECTORS WITH QUANTUM EFFICIENCIES AT MID-UV WAVELENGTHS (200-300 NM) THAT ARE COMPETITIVE WITH STATE OF THE ART MICROCHANNEL PLATE (MCP) TECHNOLOGY (E.G. BAI ET AL. SPIE 2008; NIKZAD ET AL. 2011) WITH THE ADDED ADVANTAGE THAT UNLIKE MCPS THEY DO NOT REQUIRE HIGHVOLTAGE POWER SUPPLIES. HENCE THE UTILIZATION OF THESE INNOVATIVE DETECTORS IN FUTURE UV SPECTROGRAPHS OR IMAGERS WILL REDUCE THE POWER MASS AND COMPLEXITY OF SUCH INSTRUMENTS OVER THEIR CURRENT EQUIVALENTS MAKING THEM WELL-SUITED FOR FUTURE LOW-COST PLANETARY MISSIONS INCLUDING THOSE BASED ON CUBESATS AND OTHER SMALLSAT PLATFORMS. IN PREVIOUS STUDIES WE CHARACTERIZED THE FAR-UV (100-200 NM) PERFORMANCE OF UV-OPTIMIZED N-TYPE SILICON DEVICES AT SWRI (DAVIS ET AL SPIE 2012) AND BEGAN TO DEVELOP METHODS OF ENHANCING THE FAR-UV RESPONSE BY DOPING THINNED-SILICON WAFERS WITH ANTIMONY USING MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY (MBE) (RETHERFORD ET AL. JATIS 2015). THIS WORK DEMONSTRATED THAT THE MBE PROCESS IS FEASIBLE FOR SILICON WAFERS WITH THICKNESSES AS LITTLE AS 100 MICRONS; AN IMPORTANT RESULT GIVEN THE SHORT ABSORPTION DEPTH OF FAR-UV PHOTONS IN SILICON. METHODS OF CLEANING THE WAFERS PRIOR TO MBE WERE INVESTIGATED AT MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY AND THE MBE PROCESS WAS OPTIMIZED THROUGH A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS IN WHICH THE TARGET DOPING CONCENTRATIONS GROWTH TEMPERATURES AND EPITAXIAL-SILICON THICKNESSES WERE VARIED. EXPLOITING THIS INITIAL SUCCESS WE INTEND TO (1) COMPLETE THE OPTIMIZATION OF THE MBE PROCESS FOR N-TYPE BACKSIDE-ILLUMINATED CMOS HYBRID ARRAYS FROM TELEDYNE (2) EXPAND THE ASSESSMENT TO INCLUDE MBE PROCESS ON STATE-OF-THE-ART P-TYPE CMOS MONOLITHIC ARRAYS MADE USING ~10-MICRON EPITAXIAL-WAFERS FROM TELEDYNE E2V AND INVESTIGATE OPTIONS FOR ANTI-REFLECTANCE COATINGS TO REJECT LONGER WAVELENGTH LIGHT AND (3) FABRICATE AND TEST UV-OPTIMIZED PHOTODIODES ANALYZING THEIR RESPONSE TO WAVELENGTHS FROM FAR UV TO THE VISIBLE. WE WILL ALSO DEVELOP A FULL PROTOTYPE FUV-OPTIMIZED CMOS FPA TAKING ADVANTAGE OF FLIGHT-HERITAGE ARRAY FORMATS SUCH AS HAWAII-1RG. FOR THE COMPONENT TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPED IN THIS PROGRAM THE ENTRANCE TRL OF 3 WILL BE RAISED TO TRL 4 OR HIGHER UPON EXITING THE PROGRAM. ONCE DEVELOPED THESE UV-OPTIMIZED DEVICES WILL ENABLE HIGHLY CAPABLE SMALLSAT INVESTIGATIONS OF LUNAR POLAR VOLATILES VENUSIAN UPPER ATMOSPHERE COMPOSITION AND DYNAMICS WATER VAPOR PLUMES AT ENCELADUS AND/OR EUROPA AND OTHER TARGETED SCIENCE MEASUREMENTS DETAILED WITHIN THE VISION AND VOYAGES PLANETARY DECADAL SURVEY.
$713,185Southwest Research Institute · · FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Clinical Diagnostic Sequencing of Structural Variation
$713,170Michael E Talkowski · Massachusetts General Hospital · R01 · FY2019 · HD
NICHD Fetal Growth Studies
$712,873Katherine Grantz · Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development · ZIA · FY2025 · HD
Effects of Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy on Long-Term Maternal and Child Outcomes
$712,800Senthilkumar Sadhasivam · Indiana University Indianapolis · R01 · FY2018 · HD
Genetics Study of Nicotine Dependence in African Americans
$712,789Laura Jean Bierut · Washington University · R01 · FY2013 · DA
Synergistic immune response after EphrinB2 inhibition & PD-1 antibody therapy in urothelial carcinoma.
$712,735Sarmad Sadeghi · University Of Southern California · R01 · FY2025 · CA
Identifying New Glioma-Associated Tumor Suppressors and Oncogenes
$712,415Howard Fine · Division Of Basic Sciences - Nci · ZIA · FY2010 · CA
Neuroimaging of Alcohol Use Disorder
$712,338Reza Momenan · National Institute On Alcohol Abuse And Alcoholism · ZIA · FY2022 · AA
Familias Unidas Stage III Study: Preventing Substance Abuse in Hispanic Youth
$712,283Guillermo Prado · University Of Miami School Of Medicine · R01 · FY2013 · DA
IGF::OT::IGF R&D- MEDICAL: BIOMEDICAL (BASIC RESEARCH)AWARD OF TASK ORDER "OPTIMIZATION AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF MESOTHELIN VACCINE FOR THE PREVENTION OF OVARIAN CANCER"
$712,240Nathalie Scholler · Sri International · N01 · FY2016 · CA
Overcoming adaptive feedback resistance to KRAS inhibition in colorectal cancer
$711,990Ryan Bruce Corcoran · Massachusetts General Hospital · R01 · FY2025 · CA
Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and Alcoholism
$711,989Gary S Wand · Johns Hopkins University · R01 · FY2009 · AA
The study of neuro-vascular interactions in the central nervous system
$711,878Yosuke Mukoyama · National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute · ZIA · FY2016 · HL
The study of neuro-vascular interactions in the developing heart
$711,878Yosuke Mukoyama · National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute · ZIA · FY2016 · HL
Decoding and reprogramming T cells through synthetic biology for cancer immunotherapy
$711,787Alexander Marson · J. David Gladstone Institutes · R01 · FY2024 · CA
Identification of HIV latency biomarkers with a dual fluorescence reporter HIV
$711,754Eric M Verdin · Buck Institute For Research On Aging · R01 · FY2018 · AI
Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research
$711,404James S Jackson · University Of Michigan At Ann Arbor · P30 · FY2019 · AG
NMSO3: A NOVEL THERAPY FOR RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS
$711,375Microbiotix, Inc · R44 · FY2005 · AI
Lymphoma Disease Discovery and Defintion
$711,370Elaine Jaffe · Division Of Clinical Sciences - Nci · ZIA · FY2009 · CA
Post-transcriptional regulation of energy usage: glucose and lipid metabolism
$711,355Myriam Gorospe · National Institute On Aging · ZIA · FY2015 · AG
Interrogation of the oxidative-stress-induced leukemia program in vivo using metabolic imaging
$711,338Kayvan R Keshari · Sloan-Kettering Inst Can Research · R01 · FY2025 · CA
RCT of an Integrated Treatment of Persons with Co-Occurring HCV and Alcohol Abuse
$711,317Rae Jean Elizabeth Proeschold-Bell · Duke University · R01 · FY2013 · AA
Virtual Sex: Real Risk Reduction for MSM
$711,181Lynn C Miller · University Of Southern California · R01 · FY2007 · AI
Glutamate reducing interventions in schizophrenia
$710,930Scott A Small · Columbia University Health Sciences · R61 · FY2018 · MH