Feb 19, 2024
The Office of Research and Innovation is pleased to announce the awardees for the inaugural Tetrad interdisciplinary funding program.
The Tetrad Initiative, launched in Fall 2023, was designed to foster new cross-unit and cross-college collaborations among faculty who have not worked together before, resulting in projects that create opportunities for extramural support of unique research programs. Researchers, at any rank, found collaborators from outside of their own unit to form a team of three investigators and completed the application process in January 2024.
The program received strong demand and due to the number of applications, a lottery system was used to select the awards.
A Tetrad is awarded funding of $30,000 with support coming from each PI’s home department and college, with a match from the Office of Research and Innovation completing the Tetrad. Teams will have 18 months to complete their projects and will present their results at a symposium.
The Research and Innovation funding portion of the Tetrad is made possible through the generous support of the MSU Research Foundation.
Congratulations to the following 40 Tetrad teams:
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| A Search for Research: Mapping Archives in a Time of War |
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| Advancing Equity for Indigenous Head Start Children through Nurturing Culturally Grounded Learning Experiences in the Classroom |
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| Advancing global food safety in a changing climate: Integrating microbiome insights, artificial intelligence, and health communication |
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| Art as Medicine: Creativity and Health Humanities during Covid-19 |
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| Assessment of a common CFC syndrome mouse model to uncover biological underpinnings of autism |
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| Coming to School and Learning to Read: How Michigan School Districts Address the Integrated Challenges of School Attendance and Elementary Literacy |
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| Creation of a humanized liver transporter mouse model |
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| Cyclic di-nucleotides cross talk at the intersection of plant microbe interactions |
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| Developing a Comprehensive Risk Stratification Model of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections that Integrates Clinical Data with Quantitative Computer Vision Analysis and Machine Learning: A Pilot Project |
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| Electrical and optical monitoring and manipulation of neuronal activity followed by AI-assisted data analyses: application to autism mouse models |
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| Embracing Organizational “Climate” Change: Understanding Key Indicators of Receptiveness to DEI-Related Change Initiatives in Geoscience Departments |
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| Environmental Justice in the Workplace |
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| Establishing a novel zebrafish model for Alzheimer’s disease drug discovery |
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| Examining the role of affect on language processing in young typically developing children and children with a confirmed diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder |
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| Exploring the Chemical Diversity of Microbial Bile Acid Conjugation in the Mammalian Gut |
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| From Atoms to Materials: Machine Learning Based Reduced-Order Modeling |
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| Harnessing Tipping Points for Pro-environmental Behavior Change |
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| Health and the role of employment among young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities |
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| Hepatic OATPs as an imaging reporter protein for gene therapy |
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| Identify key terms in history gathering and physical examination based on a standard format for structuring medical notes: Subjective-Objective-Assessment-Plan notes using Large Language Models |
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| Impact of Air Pollution and Social Determinants of Health on Older African American Cognitive Health in Rural Louisiana |
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| Impaired microglial efferocytosis of Lewy body-containing neurons: Implications for Parkinson’s disease |
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| Joining efforts to detect an emerging myxozoan fish parasite in the Great Lakes basin |
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| Manufacturing and Characterization of Degradable Radiopaque Polymers for Medical Imaging |
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| Metabolomic and Metallomic Analysis of Human Heart Organoid Development |
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| Mitigating the debilitating effects of chemotherapy with a prune-rich diet |
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| MRI detection of tumors using novel anti-ZIP4 monoclonal antibodies |
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| MSU TIGER: Towards a Translational Institute for Gene Expression and Regulation at MSU |
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| Novel links between early changes in blood clotting factors and acetaminophen overdose-induced liver damage |
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| Pathways to Health, Mental Health, and Financial Well-being: Interdisciplinary Partnerships to Understand the Interactive Roles of Family Processes and Economic Factors in the Context of Structural Inequality |
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| Patient Derived Xenograft Models for Development of New Methods for Pancreatic Cancer Imaging and Treatment |
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| Physiological and pathological targeting of a DNA mutator in B lymphocytes |
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| Precision tissue engineering: nanofluidic hydrogel for personalized, anti-inflammatory joint replacements |
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| Risk Modeling for Older Drivers: Applying Edge AI and IoT in Cognition-aware, Continuous Driving Skill Analysis |
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| Role of Zinc in sperm motility and function |
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| Sauna Therapy for Black Americans with High Blood Pressure |
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| The influence of Homeowners’ Associations on the Environmental Sustainability of Residential Development |
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| Tracking Airborne PFAS in Indoor Environments and Respiratory Tracts Upon Exposure |
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| Understanding gene-environment interactions in neurodevelopment using a global, multicohort study |
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| Voice Analysis for Mental Health Evaluation Using AI with Investigation of the Role of Physical Activity in Mental Health |
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