Net funding secured as faculty, as of 07/2024 = $1,309,606 (Basu's spending authority)
Extramural awards
12. NSF CAREER Award
CAREER: The Contagion Science: Integration of inhaled transport mechanics principles inside the human upper respiratory tract at multi scales
Period: 01/2024 – 12/2028 | CBET 2339001 | Fluid Dynamics Program | Amount: $540,428
Grant Role: Principal Investigator
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11. NSF Supplemental Award for Travel (an NSF - European Research Council Mechanism)
CAREER supplement: The Contagion Science: Integration of inhaled transport mechanics principles inside the human upper respiratory tract at multi scales
Period: 01/2024 – 12/2028 | Global Venture Fund | European Collaborator Site: Leiden University Medical Center | Amount: $17,058
Grant Role: Principal Investigator
9. NIH COBRE RPL Grant
Computational and theoretical fluid mechanics modeling for transport in dense tumors
Period: 03/2023 – 02/2026 | Amount: $450,000
Grant Role: Principal Investigator
8. Industry-Sponsored Project
Sponsored collaboration with Aptar Pharma: In silico design of muco-adhesive depot solutions and delivery devices for targeted intranasal vaccines
Period: 08/2022 – 05/2024 | Amount: $66,066
Grant Role: Principal Investigator
7. NSF CBET RAPID Grant
Collaborative Research: New Generation of a Bio-inspired Protective Mask Based on Thermal & Vortex Traps
Period: 05/2020 – 04/2022 | CBET 2028069 | Amount: $62,824
Grant Role: Co-Principal Investigator
6. NIH COBRE Pilot Grant
Computational tracking of perfusion in solid tumors
Period: 04/2021 – 07/2022 | Amount: $49,999
Grant Role: Principal Investigator
5. NIH R01 Subcontract from UNC Chapel Hill
Improving topical drug delivery for treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis using CFD
Period: 04/2019 – 03/2020 | Amount: $20,021
Grant Role: Principal Investigator
Intramural awards
4. Haarberg Drug, Disease and Delivery (3D Center) Center Exploratory Grant
Development of a digital platform to assess targeted regional drug delivery for airway sites
Period: 04/2023 – 05/2024 | Amount: $99,710
Grant Role: Principal Investigator
3. Haarberg 3D Center Award for Undergraduate Research Support
'Peak band' vs. 'Monotonic decay': exploring particle deposition and penetration in anatomic cavities
Period: 02/2023 – 06/2023 | Amount: $3,000
Grant Role: Principal Investigator
2. Scholarly Dissemination Award from SDSU Office of Academic Affairs
Use of CFD to track respiratory transport in the throat
Period: 11/2019 – 05/2020 | Amount: $500
Grant Role: Principal Investigator
Before SDSU
1. NIH NCATS Pilot Grant 2KR971701 awarded through UNC-CH
CFD-based identification of optimal particle sizes for targeted drug delivery at laryngeal granulomas
Period: 02/2018 – 05/2019 | Amount: $2,000
Grant Role: Principal Investigator
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