Funding

We are grateful for generous support of our funding sources

Ongoing Research Support

  • NSF – Physics of Living Systems (link) 
  • Dept. of Energy Basic Energy Sciences (Physical Biosciences)
  • Human Frontier Science Program
  • NSF-Building Synthetic Microbial Communities for Mitigating Climate (link)
  • Center for Brain and Mind Health                                                  
  • DOE Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory DOI News  User Proposal 
  • Dept. of Energy Brookhaven National Laboratory - Laboratory for Biomolecular Structure User Proposal
  • Dept. of Energy – Brookhaven National Laboratory Center for Functional Nanomaterials User proposal

  • National Center for Cryo-EM Access and Training, New York  User Proposal

Completed Research Support

  • NSF-ANR (1/23-12/25)
  • Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate Change & Human Health (4/24-3/25)                  
  • Climate Impact Innovation Fund by Planetary Solutions Project (6/23-5/24)                                            
  • NSF CAREER Award (5/18-4/23)                                                                       
  • Blavatnik Award for Innovation (6/21-5/23)      
  • Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (6/21- 5/22)
  • Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award (7/15-6/22)                  
  • NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (9/17 – 3/22)
  • NSF Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) (8/20-7/22)       
  • DARPA Biological and Technological Offices (5/18-8/21)
  • Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award (4/17-3/20) - During this award, Yale was selected by the Hartwell Foundation as a Top Ten Center for Biomedical Research, increasing the annual number of nominations to three faculty and three postdocs.
  • Charles H. Hood Foundation Child Health Research Award (4/17-3/19)
  • Anderson Endowed Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (12/16-12/17)
  • Department of Energy – Pacific Northwest National Lab (10/16-9/17)
  • Department of Energy – Pacific Northwest National Lab (10/15-9/16)  

Major Support Obtained by Lab Personnel

  • European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Fellowship – Yangqi Gu (2023-2025)
  • Portuguese Biophysics Soc. Young Biophysicist Award – P. Portela (2025)
  • Mary Ellen Jones Prize for the most distinguished dissertation – Vishok Srikanth (2023)
  • NIH Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (NIH-PREP) – Anthony Caoelho (About) (2023)
  • NIH Ruth L. Kirschten National Research Service Award (F32) – Matthew Gubermann-Pfeffer (2022).
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in Biophysics: Patrick O’Brien (2016-2019)
  • National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship:  Catharine Shipps (2019-2022)
  • Fulbright Scholarship - Maria do Pilar Castillo Portela (Co-mentor, Portugal) (2022).
  • Goldwater Scholarship: Ronald Hood (2021).  Dept. news release Yale News & Yale Press Release
  • Paul Sigler Prize for excellence in scholarship and research: Gunashil Mandava (2021)
  • Annie Le Fellowship for academic achievements & service: Catharine Shipps (2021). News release.
  • President’s Public Service Fellowship. Hanwen Zhang (2022)
  • Becton Prize for exceptional achievement in engineering & applied science: Winston Huynh (2019)
  • Yale Undergraduate Research Fellowships: Claire Sheen, Physics (2016), Winston Huynh, Biomedical Engineering (2016, 2017), Dennis Vu, MBB (2016, 2017, 2018), Ronald Hood, MBB (2019, 2020), Lauren Delgado, MBB (2019, 2020), Jerry Ruvalcaba, MCDB (2019, 2020, 2021), Gunashil Mandava, MBB (2020), Hanwen Zhang, EEB (2021, 2022), Vasilije Pantelic, MBB (2023), A. Saha, Chemistry (2024), Talia Kolodkin, MCDB (2024), Andrew Cai, Chemistry (2025-), Theodore He, Physics (2025), Hari Viswanathan, MBB (2025).

Other Support Obtained by Lab Personnel