Ashok Mulchandani's
Bionanotechnology and Biosensors Group
CURRENT RESEARCH FUNDING
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Title: Wearable sensors array for
Agency: NIH
Amount: $2,219,589
Duration:
8/1/07 – 5/31/11
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Title: Development of
high-throughput and real-time methods for the detection of infective enteric
viruses
Agency:
Amount: $600,000
Duration:
9/1/06 – 8/31/09
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Title: A highly sensitive microcantilever-based immunosensors array
Agency: NSF
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration:
9/15/06 – 9/14/09
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Title: A Genetically Programmable Module for Screening of Protease
Inhibitors based on Quantum Dot-Donor Fluorescense
Resonance Energy Transfer
Agency: NSF
Amount: $522, 188
Duration:
4/15/08 – 3/31/11
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Title: REU Site: Bioanalytical Sciences
Agency: NSF
Amount: $240,000
Duration:
3/1/06 – 2/28/09
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Title: Single-walled carbon nanotubes based high
density chemical and biological sensors arrays
Agency: DMEA (Via Center
for Nanoscale Innovation for Defense)
Amount: $248,133
Duration:
9/1/07-8/31/08
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Title: Brine
Reduction in Reverse Osmosis Desalination via Tunable Biopolymers
Agency: Metropolitan Water District of Southern
Amount: $200,000
Duration:
5/1/04-9/30/08
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Title: Conducting polymer nanowires immunosensor
array for microbial pathogens
Agency:
Amount: $320,000
Duration:
5/1/05 – 4/30/09
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Title: Nanowires immunosensors array for biowarfare agents
Agency: NSF
Amount: $280,000
Duration:
9/1/05 – 8/31/08
PRIOR RESEARCH FUNDING
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Title: Innovative
Technologies for Heavy Metals Removal by Tunable Biopolymers with Customized
Properties
Agency: NSF
Amount: $350,000
Duration:
1/15/04-12/31/07
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Title: Fabrication of reversible microarray sensors using thermally responsive biopolymers.
Agency: National Science
Foundation
Amount: $737,806
Duration:
7/1/03-7/31/07
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Title: High Power
Density Nanostructured Bio Fuel Cell
Agency: UC Energy Institute
Amount:
$37,480
Duration:
7/1/04 – 6/30/06
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Title: Bioaffinity
label-free sensing using biorceptors embedded
conducting polymer nanowires
Agency: UC Biotechnology Research and Training Program
Amount:
$100,000
Duration:
7/1/05 – 6/30/07
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Title: DNA Aptamer-Based Detection of Atrazine in Water
Agency: UC
Amount: $58,000
Duration:
7/1/02 - 6/30/05
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Title: Field-portable chip-based anti-terrorism microanalyzer
Agency: Oklahoma City Memorial Institute for Prevention of
Terrorism
Amount: $2,700,000
Duration:
12/1/02 - 11/30/05
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Title: Nanoscale
Biopolymers with Tunable Properties for Improved Decontamination and Recycling
of Heavy Metals
Agency:
Amount: $390,000
Duration:
2/1/02-1/31/06
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Title: DNA aptamer-based
fluorescence polarization bioassay for point-of-care lipoprotein profile
Agency: UC Biostar and Intelligent
Optical System Inc.
Amount: $89,000
Duration:
1/28/03 - 1/30/06
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Title: Assessment of the fate of Emerging
Pathogens in Biosolids
Agency:
Water Environment Research
Foundation
Amount:
$840,285
Duration:
7/1/01-6/30/04
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Title:
Field-deployable Biosensors for
Organophosphate Pesticides
Agency:
US Department of Agriculture
Amount:
$250,000
Duration:
12/01/99 - 11/30/03
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Title:
Biosensors for Field Monitoring of
Organophosphate Pesticides
Agency:
Amount:
$227,169
Duration: 06/01/00 - 05/31/03
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Title:
Development of a Rapid, Quantitative
Method for the Detection of Infective
Coxsakie
and Echo Viruses in Drinking Water
Agency:
Amount:
$322,784
Duration:
6/1/00-5/31/03
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Title:
Tunable Immunosorbents
for the Remediation of Atrazine- and Simazine-
Contaminated
Water
Agency:
UC
Amount:
$56000
Duration:
7/1/00-6/30/03
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Title:
Rhizoremediation of mercury by a recombinant
root-colonizing Pseudomonas
fluorescens strain with surface-expressed mercury-binding
protein
Agency: UC Toxic Substances Research &
Training Program
Amount: $60,000
Duration: 7/1/2001-6/30/2003
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Title: Application of surface
expressed phosphotriesterase for detoxification and
monitoring of organophosphorus compounds
Agency:
Amount: $293,775
Duration: 10/1/1995-9/30/1999
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Title: Biodetoxification of Organophosphorus Nerve Agents by Immobilized E. coli with Surface Expressed
Organophosphorus Hydrolase and Cellulose Binding Domain Protein in a Fixed-Film
Bioreactor
Agency: NSF
Amount: $370,202
Duration: 9/1/1998-8/31/2002
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Title: Flow affinity
biosensor for Taxol and its active analogs and
metabolites
Agency: NSF
Amount: $292,272
Duration: 9/1/1997-8/31/2001
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Title: SGER: Determination of
Taxol using tubulin binding
assay
Agency: NSF
Amount: $49,980
Duration: 6/1/1994-8/31/1996
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Title: Development of novel biosorbents for heavy metal removal
Agency:
Amount: $360,818
Duration: 10/1/1998-9/30/2002
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Title: Development of Novel
OPH-Based Materials for Detoxification of Organophosphate Pesticides
Agency: USDA
Amount: $100,000
Duration: 7/1/1999-6/30/2002
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Title: Development of novel biosorbents for heavy metal removal
Agency:
Amount: $110,000
Duration: 7/1/1998-6/30/2001
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Title: Nanosensor for Biowarfare
Agency: Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Amount: $100,000
Duration: 9/1/06-9/30/07
