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FY2027 Significant Sponsored Program Awards Approaching $1 Million or Greater
Updated 11/04/2026
October, 2026
| Principal Investigator | Departments | Sponsor | Grant Title | Total Project Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbott, Angela R | College of Agriculture – Ag Economics | IN State Department Of Health / Center Medicare & Medicaid Serv | Rural Health Transformation Program: Smart SNAP Education | $1,000,000.00 |
| Alexeenko, Alina | College of Engineering – Chem Engr | Food And Drug Administration | Microwave-Assisted Lyophilization for Advanced Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals and Biologics in Glass Containers and Bulk Lyobeads | $1,365,711.00 |
| Bermel, Peter A | Centers & Institutes – Scalable Asymmetric Lifecycle Engagement | SK Hynix Inc / Commerce, U.S. Department Of | West Lafayette Indiana Talent Hub for SK hynix | $2,746,148.00 |
| Chen, Jun | College of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | Energy, U.S. Department Of | A Wave-Powered Pumpless Seawater Desalination System | $999,523.00 |
| Chynoweth, Brandon C | PHL – Hypersonics Lab – PHL – Lab Operating | Defense, U.S. Department Of | PARI PHL MACH 8 QUIET WIND TUNNEL (M8QT) AND HYPERSONIC WORKFORCE TALENT PIPELINES | $7,000,000.00 |
| Field, William E | College of Agriculture – Ag & Biological Eng Program | National Inst of Food & Agriculture | National AgrAbility | $2,120,000.00 |
| Gallegos, Julian Leandro | College of Health & Human Sci – Nursing | Health Resources & Services Admin | Rural Indiana Advanced Practice Nursing Pathway: Preparing Nurse Practitioners from Disadvantaged Backgrounds to Serve Rural Communities | $2,213,732.00 |
| Hall, Beth Lynelle | College of Agriculture – Agronomy | National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Adm | Midwestern Regional Weather Records Center | $4,556,366.00 |
| Herndon, Patricia Ann | PEEL – Energy & Energetics Lab – PEEL – PARI Energy and Energetics Lab | Critical Materials Group Inc | PARI PEEL CMG TO2 | $1,954,153.00 |
| Keon, Thomas L | Ofc of Academic Affairs – Office of Commercialization and Research | Minority Business Development Agency | Project ECIA- Entrepreneurship, Commercialization, and Innovation Academy | $1,685,273.00 |
| Kulkarni, Milind | College of Engineering – Electrical & Computer Eng | Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific | Hybrid MEMS-photonic integrated circuit based Convolution Accelerator | $3,731,188.00 |
| Liu, Julie C | College of Engineering – Chem Engr | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Arthrit,Muscul,Skin Dis | Designing Cartilage Scaffolds that Resist Pro-Inflammatory Environments | $3,276,726.00 |
| MacDermid Wadsworth, Shelley | College of Health & Human Sci – Human Development and Family Science | Army Medical Research Acquisition Activ | Supporting Military Family Resilience and Well-Being During PCS Moves | $3,000,000.00 |
| Qiao, Li | College of Engineering – Aero & Astro | Federal Aviation Administration | PEASAS 20.0: EAGLE fuels testing | $7,035,635.00 |
| Richards, Elizabeth A | College of Health & Human Sci – Nursing | Health Resources & Services Admin | From Pathway to Practice: Building Indiana’s Rural Nursing Workforce | $2,943,522.00 |
| Robinson-Rucker, Chanele D | College of Health & Human Sci – Human Development and Family Science | National Inst of Food & Agriculture | Early Learning Matters (ELM) | $2,083,807.00 |
| Schoenlein, William E | College of Engineering – Biomedical Eng | Cook Research Incorporated | Pre-Clinical Evaluation Testing Agreement Studies: CI-PEAT (POC), CI-THIN, CI-PEAT and POC | $8,488,506.00 |
| Straw, Mark L | College of Agriculture – State Egg Board | Food And Drug Administration | Human Food Contract: Human Food Safety Inspection Program | $1,212,117.00 |
| Varma, Amit H | PIIL – Infrast. & Innov. Lab – PIIL- Nuclear Infrastructure | Battelle Energy Alliance Llc / Idaho National Laboratory | PARI PIIL Advanced Construction Technology Initiative (ACTI): Design, Construction, and Quality Management of Steel-Plate Composite (SC) Structures and Containment Vessel Mockup | $18,200,013.00 |
| Wiens, Roger Craig | College of Science – EAPS | Los Alamos National Laboratory / Energy, U.S. Department Of | SuperCam Mars Rover Laser Instrument Projects | $1,880,000.00 |
September, 2026
| Principal Investigator | Departments | Sponsor | Grant Title | Total Project Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey, George A | Centers & Institutes – TAP/MEP | Energy, U.S. Department Of | Continuous Security Assessment and Monitoring for Rural and Municipal Utilities | $1,119,965.00 |
| Brinton, Christopher Greg | College of Engineering – Electrical & Computer Eng | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 2: Heterogeneous Edge Intelligence for Natural Disaster Response Analytics (HEIDRA) | $3,494,000.00 |
| Cai, Jianfeng | College of Pharmacy – MedChem/Molecul Phar | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Allergy Infectious Dis | Antimicrobial agents derived from AApeptide biomaterials | $2,155,500.00 |
| Campbell, Joseph Andrew | College of Science – Computer Science | Interior, U.S. Department Of | TUTOR: Textbook-to-Task Ontological Grounding for Robotics | $1,171,221.00 |
| Cannon, Jason R | College of Health & Human Sci – Health Sciences | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of Environment Hlth Sci | Mechanisms of PhIP-induced dopaminergic neurotoxicity | $1,191,364.00 |
| Davisson, Vincent Jo | College of Pharmacy – MedChem/Molecul Phar | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Neuro Disorders,Strokes | Platinum Based Countermeasures and Combinations with Protective Agents | $2,140,571.00 |
| Delaurentis, Daniel A | Vice President Research – Purdue Research – Central Support | Lilly (Eli) And Company | Eli Lilly Development | $4,420,038.00 |
| Deng, Qing | College of Science – Biological Sciences | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci | Neutrophil Migration and Inflammation | $2,146,440.00 |
| Donnellan, Andrea Conway | College of Science – EAPS | National Aeronautics And Space Admin | Creating a NASA Surface Topography and Vegetation (STV) Novel Observing System (NOS) | $2,556,231.00 |
| Flaherty, Daniel P | College of Pharmacy – MedChem/Molecul Phar | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Allergy Infectious Dis | Optimization of bacterial carbonic anhydrase inhibitors to treat vancomycin-resistant enterococcus | $3,874,550.00 |
| Gkritza, Konstantina | College of Engineering – Civil and Construction Engineering | Utah State University / National Science Foundation | Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification (ASPIRE) | $7,941,215.00 |
| Heinz, Michael G | College of Health & Human Sci – SLHS | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Deafness,Comm Disorders | A cross-species knowledgebase to facilitate precision auditory neuroscience and audiology | $1,858,714.00 |
| Herndon, Patricia Ann | PEEL – Energy & Energetics Lab – PEEL – PARI Energy and Energetics Lab | Critical Materials Group Inc | PARI PEEL CMG TO1 | $1,071,289.00 |
| Karpicke, Jeffrey D | College of Health & Human Sci – Psychological Sciences | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Deafness,Comm Disorders | Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Developmental Language Disorder | $3,095,670.00 |
| Kim, Tae Yoon | College of Engineering – Biomedical Eng | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci | Biological Processes Driven by Interactions between Cells and Extracellular Matrices | $2,145,119.00 |
| Li, Jianing | College of Pharmacy – MedChem/Molecul Phar | Virginia Tech / Phs-Nih Nat Inst Allergy Infectious Dis / Virginia Tech | Targeting ESKAPE Pathogens with AI-Designed Antimicrobial Peptide | $999,380.00 |
| Low-Nam, Shalini T | College of Science – Chemistry | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Allergy Infectious Dis | Signaling mechanisms in activation of chimeric antigen receptor T cells | $2,093,945.00 |
| Matosevic, Sandro | College of Pharmacy – Industrial and Molecular Pharmaceutics | Phs-Nih National Cancer Institute | Tumor-responsive, multispecific natural killer cells to reprogram glioblastoma for improved immunotherapy | $3,203,827.00 |
| Morgan, John A | College of Engineering – Chem Engr | Advanced Res Projects Agency – Energy | PHOTOSYNTHETIC PRODUCTION OF AROMATIC POLYMER INTERMEDIATES | $1,260,000.00 |
| Mukherjee, Partha P | College of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | Energy, U.S. Department Of | Fundamental Understanding of Electrochemical ? Mechanical Driven Instability of Sodium Metal | $2,431,295.00 |
| Ostafe, Raluca | College of Science – Biological Sciences | Wellcome Leap, Inc | Nanobubble-Mediated Antibiotic Delivery for Site-Directed Treatment of Infection While Protecting the Gut Microbiome | $1,641,405.00 |
| Scofield, Gregory David | PHL – Hypersonics Lab – PHL – Lab Operating | Defense Advanced Res Projects Agency | PARI PHL Caracara | $1,500,000.00 |
| Strachan, Alejandro H | Centers & Institutes – NCN | National Science Foundation | PCL-Test Bed: Purdue Intelligent Codesign Cloud Lab for Non-Equilibrium and Low-Dimensional Materials (ICoN-PCL) | $19,032,636.00 |
August, 2026
| Principal Investigator | Departments | Sponsor | Grant Title | Total Project Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brosseau-Lapre, Francoise | College of Health & Human Sci – SLHS | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Deafness,Comm Disorders | Developmental Trajectories Characterizing Speech Sound Disorder Persistence and Recovery | $2,504,193.00 |
| Chen, Ming | College of Science – Chemistry | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci | Modeling and Designing Protein-protein Interaction Modulators with Deep Generative Artificial Intelligence | $2,079,737.00 |
| Chopra, Gaurav | College of Science – Chemistry | Stanford University / National Science Foundation | PCL-Test Bed: Development and Application of Standards for Automation of Science | $3,347,945.00 |
| Delaurentis, Daniel A / Rhoads, Jeffrey Frederick | Vice President Research – Purdue Research – Central Support | Air Force Research Laboratory | Research, Technology Transition, and Workforce Development at Scale with Speed: A Proposal to Establish the Midwest AFRL Regional Research Convergence Hub (M-ARRCH) | $23,884,099.00 |
| Guo, Jingchuan | College of Pharmacy – Pharm Prtc | Phs-Nih National Institute On Aging | intelligent Social risk Management in AD/ADRD paTients | $2,736,012.00 |
| Meyer, Scott E | College of Engineering – Zucrow Lab Gen Op | Rolls-Royce North America Inc / Defense, U.S. Department Of | External Heat Source Testing | $4,291,950.00 |
| Oliver-Jischke, Haley | Vice Provost for Teaching & Le – VP for Teaching & Learning Admin | National Science Foundation | 2026-2027 NSF GRFP -Award Only | $2,765,416.00 |
| Richards, Elizabeth A | North Central Nursing Clinic – NCNC Admin | Health Resources & Services Admin | Richards-HRSA-2026 Health Center Cluster | $2,604,959.00 |
| Robinson-Rucker, Chanele D | College of Health & Human Sci – Human Development and Family Science | Air Force U.S. Dept of the | Early Learning Matters – NAF Blanket Purchase Agreement | $9,928,349.00 |
| Schultz, Kelly Melissa | College of Engineering – Chem Engr | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci | Purdue Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Training Program | $1,462,513.00 |
| Sivasankar, Preeti Mahalakshmi | College of Health & Human Sci – SLHS | Univ Of Illinois At Champaign-Urbana / Phs-Nih National Institute On Aging | Impact of wearable biofeedback for the rehabilitation and tele-rehabilitation of neurogenic dysphagia | $1,127,600.00 |
| Zhou, Yun | College of Agriculture – Botany & Plant Path | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci | Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Plant Stem Cell Division and Differentiation | $1,987,135.00 |
July, 2026
| Principal Investigator | Departments | Sponsor | Grant Title | Total Project Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chan, Deva D | College of Engineering – Biomedical Eng | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci | Role of Hyaluronan in Modulating Multiscale Biological Responses to Mechanical Stimuli | $2,110,955.00 |
| Gejji, Rohan M | College of Engineering – Aero & Astro | FTAI Aviation Ltd | FTAI Power Combustion DLE Rig Test | $2,296,036.00 |
| Harbor, Jonathan Martin | Purdue Global – Purdue Global | Education, U.S. Department Of | Veteran Student Support Service Project | $1,361,820.00 |
| Huang, Fang | College of Engineering – Biomedical Eng | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci | Ultra-high resolution structural and molecular imaging of cells and tissues | $2,375,660.00 |
| MacDermid Wadsworth, Shelley | College of Health & Human Sci – Human Development and Family Science | Lilly Endowment Inc. | Building Supportive Communities for Military and Veteran Families | $3,500,000.00 |
| Manfra, Michael James | Centers & Institutes – Birck Nanotechnology | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Quantum Computing | $10,686,930.00 |
| Olson, Matthew | College of Science – Biological Sciences | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Allergy Infectious Dis | Differentiation, fate, and function of pathogenic T helper cells in graft-versus-host disease | $3,775,685.00 |
| Paniagua-Perez, Guillermo | College of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | MBDA France | Compact expansion machine for supersonic flows | $1,284,905.00 |
| Paniagua-Perez, Guillermo | College of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd | Development of an Infrared Measurement and Diagnostic System for Rotating Turbine Blades | $1,293,370.00 |
| Paniagua-Perez, Guillermo | College of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | Green Constellation Inc | Rotating Detonation Steam Generator Digital Twin | $1,037,882.00 |
| Stewart, Ranae K | Centers & Institutes – TAP/MEP | National Institute Of Standards & Tech | Purdue University – MEP Center for State of Indiana | $6,606,362.00 |
| Tao, Chengcheng | Polytechnic Institute – Bowen School of Construction | IN Department Of Transportation / Transportation, U.S. Department Of | Integration of SCRIM and Emerging Data Sources into Network Friction Testing Program for Immediate and Long-Term Needs | $1,610,865.00 |
| Zhang, Zhong-Yin | College of Pharmacy – MedChem/Molecul Phar | Phs-Nih National Cancer Institute | Targeting PTPN22 for Novel Cancer Immunotherapeutic Agents | $2,888,737.00 |
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