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CAREER: Building Hierarchical Polymers with Light to Unify Softness, Resilience, and Conductivity
NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Polymers have become ubiquitous in our daily lives owing to their inherent low cost and tunable properties. Their versatility is a direct result of their...
The Beat of Our Hearts - Staging new histories of LGBTQ+ loneliness
Many LGBTQ+ people in Britain have been subject to exclusion and isolation, both historically and in at present. This can result from explicit discrimination and hostility in famil...
Quantum Sensing for the Hidden Sector (QSHS)
Identifying the nature of the dark matter that dominates the mass distribution of galaxies and that plays a key role in our understanding of cosmology is a central unsolved problem...
Disease Spread at High Order
Over the past year most members of the general public have become aware that mathematical models of disease spread can be useful. They allow us to predict future disease levels, an...
BubblEs for TArgeting and TReatment of biOfilm InfectioNs (BETATRON)
Antimicrobials, commonly known as antibiotics, are becoming less effective because of resistance. Antibiotic resistance is when bacteria or other microbes change so that antibiotic...
'Opioid overdose deaths: Understanding the lethal interactions between benzodiazepines and opioids to develop new harm reduction strategies
Drug-related deaths are now at the highest ever recorded in the UK and the highest rate in Europe. In 2020 there were nearly 1200 opioid poisoning deaths - involving heroin or meth...
Improving tolerance for FODMAPs using modified celluloses: defining the role of gelation in reducing gas production in vitro and in vivo
Although fibre is known to be an important part of our diet, we eat too little for our health. In part, this is because of the discomfort that can arise from consuming it, includin...
Mechanism of sex difference in severe brain malformations
Birth defects are a leading cause of death in newborn babies and, among survivors, disability and repeated medical treatments are the outcomes in a great many cases. This led the C...
Factors influencing endemic disease in the Northern Ireland sheep flock.
Endemic diseases are core drivers of medicine use in sheep. Resistance is driven by pathogen exposure to drugs within the animal and residues or metabolites in the environment. A r...
CAREER: Impacts of Lake Browning on the Photochemical Fate of Organic Micropollutants
Lakes are key natural water systems that provide critical services to people and ecosystems including the supply of drinking water, fishing, recreational activities, and climate re...
Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM)
From 1851 onwards the decennial British census returns contain vast amounts of comparable information on every household and individual in the country, and are the basis of much of...
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology
This action funds an NSF Plant Genome Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2022. The fellowship supports a research and training plan in a host laboratory for the Fel...
Leveraging inpatient antimicrobial stewardship infrastructure to improve antimicrobial-prescribing at hospital discharge
Background: Antimicrobial overuse is one of the strongest risk factors for the emergence of antimicrobial resistance, an urgent public health problem. Antimicrobial stewardship pr...
Investigating Latinx Caregiver Preparation for Immigration Socialization in Mixed-Status Families
This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promi...
Targeting Exotoxin U with repurposed drugs to improve the clinical outcomes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pseudomonas) is a bacteria which causes a wide variety of infections, including corneal (eye), lung and blood, resulting in significant disability and death...
Genetic architecture of substance use disorders and major depression
Major depressive disorder (MDD) occurs commonly among individuals both with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and prescription opioid use disorder (POUD) and such comorbidity is highly p...
Pragmatic trial to increase quality of care in State Veterans Homes: Improving safety using an evidence-based, frontline staff huddling practice
Background: State Veterans Home nursing homes (SVHs) care for 51% of all Veterans receiving VA-funded nursing home care. SVHs cost VA $1.2 billion yearly in per diem payments. Thi...
NSF Engineering Research Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production (CASFER)
The NSF Engineering Research Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production (CASFER) will strive to solve one of the most pressing problems facing humankind...
Colliding crises: antimicrobial resistance and ageing
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is increasing and is making infections harder to treat and prevent. This public health crisis collides with an ageing human population. More than 1 i...
Precision Modelling of Cortical Variation and its Association with Neurological/Psychiatric disease
The aim of this proposal is to develop a novel medical imaging support tool to significantly improve rates of detection, of types of subtle brain abnormality, which give rise to co...