External funding
NSF IIS: III: Collaborative Medium Grant for “Guiding Exploration of Protein Structure Spaces with Deep Learning”, 07/01/2018 – 06/30/2021 (PIs: Amarda Shehu and Jianling Chen/UMissouri).
Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research Award for “High-dimensional Statistics and Biomolecular Modeling as a Powerful Microscope over Pathogenic Mutations in Proteinopathies,” 06/30/2017 – 05/31/2019. (PI: Qiao W/Statistics-GMU, co-PI: Shehu, A).
NSF IIS & CCF: Travel Awards for 2015 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM-2015)”, 08/01/2015 – 07/30/2016.
NSF SI2: SSE Collaborative Grant for “A Novel Plug-and-play Software Platform of Robotics-inspired Algorithms for Modeling Biomolecular Structures and Motions”, 02/01/2015 – 01/31/2019 (PIs: Amarda Shehu, Erion Plaku/CUA, Adrian Roitberg/UF) [Grant No. 1440581].
NSF CCF: AF Small Grant for “Novel Stochastic Optimization Algorithms for Advancing the Treatment of Dynamic Molecular Systems”, 07/01/2014 – 06/30/2018. (PI: Amarda Shehu, co-PI: Kenneth A De Jong) [Grant No. 1421001]
NSF CISE Award for “NSF CISE CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop”, 12/05/2013 – 05/31/2014 (PI: Amarda Shehu, co-PI: Huzefa Rangwala) [Grant No. 1415210].
Jeffress Trust Program in Interdisciplinary Research Award for “Probabilistic Search Algorithms: Powerful Novel Tools for Peptide Modeling”, 09/15/2013 – 06/15/2015. (PI: Amarda Shehu, co-PI: Estela Blaisten-Barojas)
Virginia Youth Tobacco Program (VYTP) Award for “Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Menthol Cigarette Addiction”, 07/01/2013 – 10/31/2015. (co-PI, PI: Nadine Kabbani)
NSF IIS CAREER Award for “Probabilistic Methods for Addressing Complexity and Constraints in Protein Systems”, 03/1/2012 – 02/28/2017. [Grant No. 1144106]
NSF CCF: AF Small Grant for “A Unified Computational Framework to Enhance the Ab-initio Sampling of Native-like Protein Conformations”, 9/1/2010 – 8/31/2013. [Grant No. 1016995]
Internal Funding
Mason’s Multidisciplinary Research Initiative Award , October 2017 – September 2018
PI: Kylene Kehn-Hall. co-PIs: Amarda Shehu and Estela Blaisten-Barojas.
Mason Seed Grant, December 2013 – May 2014
co-PI: Anand Vidyashankar.
Mason Seed Grant, May 2013 – April 2014
co-PI: Nadine Kabbani
Mason Seed Grant, December 2012 – June 2013
co-PI: Juan Cortes
Undergraduate Apprentice Support, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2013
Mason Seed Grant, July 2010 – June 2011
co-PI: N. Kabbani
RA Support, AY 2010-2011
Bioengineering Seed Grant, January 2009 – December 2010
co-PIs: B. Bishop and M. van Hoek
Mason Seed Grant, January 2009 – December 2009