Fundings

We are grateful to Arkansas Tech University, NIH-INBRE, NASA-ASGC, and ADHE for their generous financial support.

1. Arkansas Tech University: Undergraduate research grants and faculty research grants, total $ 20,000 (Role: PI)

Projects: Developing near infrared (NIR-I) emitting luminophores for biosensing applications

2. NIH-INBRE research grant, $ 90,000 (Role: PI)

Project: Developing fluorescent probes for rapid and selective detection of biomarkers in biological samples 

3. NIH-INBRE research grant, $ 50,000 (Role: PI)

Project: Developing fluorescent photo-switches  for regulating biochemical reactions 

4. NIH-INBRE instrument grant, $ 20,000 (Role: PI)

Project: Acquisition of a  fluorescence lifetime spectrometer for teaching and research

5. NASA-ASGC, $ 20,000 (Role: PI)

Project: Developing water soluble supramolecular hosts for quantitative detection of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) 

6. Arkansas Department of Higher Education, $ 4000 (Role: PI/Mentor)

Project: Colorimetric detection of  Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in aqueous samples