Awards and Grants

External awards and grants for research at NYU Abu Dhabi has surpassed $12 million.

Spanning the disciplines, NYUAD produces high-quality research and scholarship and inspires creative activity that responds in powerful ways to pressing local and global challenges. In a few short years, faculty, students, and researchers at NYUAD have transformed the Abu Dhabi region into a hub of innovation and progress.

Research by the Numbers

Award Summaries

Organized annually, according to date awarded. Internal awards for faculty granted by NYUAD and the NYUAD Institute are not included here.

PI	Sponsor	Title	Amount (USD)	Division
Joseph Gelfand	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Probing the Physics of Core-Collapse Supernovae and Ultra-Relativistic Outflows using Pulsar Wind Nebulae	$322,217	Science
Hamidou Tembine	Air Force Office of Scientific Research	Mean-field-type game theory: foundations, learning and implementation	$325,427	Engineering

PI	Sponsor	Title	Award (USD)	Division
Joseph Gelfand	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	The Initial Spin Period of PSR J1930+1852 in PWN G54.1+0.3	$41,123	Science
Rafael Song	Al Jalila Foundation Research Center	High-Throughput Biophysical Phenotyping of C. elegans Worms in a Microfluidic Chip for the Study of Muscle Atrophy in Type 2 Diabetes	$81,744	Engineering
Abdishakur Abdulle	Al Jalila Foundation Research Center	The Role of Infant Gut Microbiome in the Prediction of Obesity	$81,395	NYUAD Institute
Ali Trabolsi	Al Jalila Foundation Research Center	Organometallic Non-Trivial Structures as Anti-Cancer Agents	$81,405	Science
Dipesh Chaudhury	Al Jalila Foundation Research Center	Sleep Less Smile More: Understanding the Cellular Mechanism of Sleep Deprivation Induced Rapid Reversal of Depression	$74,847	Science
Maria Baias	Al Jalila Foundation Research Center	Structure determination of a new polymorph of aspirin using nuclear magnetic resonance crystallography	$72,173	Science
Mazin Magzoub	Al Jalila Foundation Research Center	Controlled Assembly of Defined Amyloid-Beta Structures	$81,768	Science
Youssef Idaghdour	Al Jalila Foundation Research Center	Transcriptome profiling of endothelial cells in diabetes and associated cardiovascular complications	$81,455	Science / NYUAD Institute
Kartik Sreenivasan	UC Berekely (National Institutes of Health)	Functional Dynamics of Human Frontal Cortex in Working Memory	$184,388	Science
Ian Dobbs-Dixon	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Modeling Exoplanetary Atmospheres using BART, TEA, and Cloudy-RHD; Theoretical Studies and Observational Implications	$465,465	Science
Masha Kirasirova	Social Science Research Council	The Eastern International: Orientalism, Anti-Colonialism, and Realpolitik in Soviet-Arab Relations 1917-1973	$30,000	Arts and Humanities
Jocelyn Belanger	Georgia State University (United States Department of Homeland Security)	Text-Enabled CVE Gatekeeper Intervention Help-Line & Referral System	$159,541	Science
Larry Aber	Spencer Foundation	The Children Cannot Wait: Advancing Research Methodologies to Improve the Practice of Education in Conflict-Affected Contexts	$1,000,000	Social Science
Kirsten Edepli	National Institutes of Health	Epigenetic Regulation of Development and Liver Regeneration by UHRF1	$956,512	Science
Samer Madanat	UC Berkeley (National Science Foundation)	Multi-scale Infrastructure Interactions with Intermittent Disruptions: Coastal Flood Protection, Transportation and Governance Networks	$311,567	Engineering
Jonardon Ganeri	University of Cambridge	Attention, Not Self: The Nature of the Conscious Mind	$30,275	Arts and Humanities
Kirsten Edepli	National Institutes of Health	The impact of the unfolded protein responses on steatosis	$495,000	Science

PI	Sponsor	Title	Amount (USD)	Division
Mohammad Qasaimeh	Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC)	Microfluidics Legionella Detection	$97,960	Engineering
Rafael Song	Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC)	Label-Free Liquid Biopsy Method	$97,960	Engineering
Yi Fang	Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC)	Deep Cross-Domain Model	$97,078	Engineering
Antje von Suchodoletz	Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC)	Teacher-Student Interactions	$44,112	Science
Pance Naumov	Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC)	In situ method for analysis of asphaltenes	$97,755	Science
Pance Naumov	The Petroleum Institute and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)	Sustainable and Controlled Inhibition of Asphaltene Precipitation with Non-Covalent Interactions	$1,808,360	Science

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