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CAFNR announces Matching Equipment Grants Program winners
The CAFNR Office of Research has awarded its most recent Equipment Matching Grants, which provide matching support for the purchase of major equipment that will advance the infrastructure available for research and will help improve research metrics identified in the CAFNR Strategic Plan. The equipment must be shared by several faculty members.
In total, this funding period saw matching grants of $114,000 from CAFNR, with a total acquisition cost of $551,000 for all equipment. Recipients included:
Applications are due September 30 of each year. Find more information on the CAFNR Research website.
CAFNR faculty members have received the following recent grants (listed by Principal Investigator):
Kiho Lee, Developing second generation SCID pig models: filling the gaps to improve translation of therapeutics in regenerative medicine, IA State Univ (NIH), 8/1/25-7/31/29, $179,869
Felix Fritschi, Systems Biology and Adaptation in Switchgrass: Discovering Mechanisms Underlying Plant-Microbe-Soil Interactions and Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Univ of TX Austin (DOE), 9/1/25-8/31/30, $199,516
Jay Johnson, Precision feeding models for sustainable swine production: Evaluating energy requirements and environmental impacts on gestating sows, Adisseo, 9/1/25-8/31/28, $373,337
Jaime Barros-Rios, Developing lignin-based solar panels while building NASA’s STEM workforce, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 9/1/25-4/30/26, $14,999
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