Funding

Net funding secured as faculty, as of 09/2025 = $1,325,686 (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 

10.  The Royal Society (United Kingdom) – International Exchange Grant

How pathogenic droplets generated from biofilm-laden mucosal interfaces and their downwind transport cause deep lung infections?

Period: 03/2025 – 03/2027 | Amount: $16,080 (Basu's spending authority, as Co-PI)

Grant Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with S Jana at Ulster University as PI)

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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