Submitted Funding

2023-2026 National Institute of Health Discovery of analgesic diterpenoid alkaloids from medicinal Aconitum plants using a metabolomic approach, (CoPI), Holtzman allocation $61,600.00.

 Active Funding

2022-2026 National Science Foundation Improving the Retention and Success of High Performing, Low Income Undergraduates in Computer Science, (CoPI),  $1,474,954.00.

2022-2026 National Science Foundation, MRI: Acquisition of a Zeiss LSM900 Confocal Microscope with Airyscan 2 to Accelerate Multidisciplinary Research and Training, (CoPI), $573,147.00.

2021-2026 DOE Examining the Efficacy, Predictive Power, and Cost Effectiveness of the Diagnostic Assessment and Achievement of College Skills, (QC PI), $148,720.00.

2022-2023 Queens College Foundation Experiential education internship programing with a focus on community service, (PI), Funds internship for QC students with community partners, $450,000.

2020-2028 HHMI IE3 Award, Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiative on developing tools to assess DEI in classroom instruction. 15 institution collaboration of over, (QC PI), $7,500,000 collectively.

2021-2026 DOE Q-STEM Academy Transfer support for STEM majors from LaGuardia CC to Queens College, (Co-PI), Designed to support the success of minority STEM students at LaGuardia as they progress to success at Queens College and beyond,  $840,293.

2021-2025 NSF QuID Pro:An Interdisciplinary Design Program Incorporating Making and Design Thinking to Enhance STEM Education (PI), Collaboration with NY Science Museum for the creation of a MakerSpace and designing courses around the concept of design thinking,  $2,172,613.

2019-2024 NSF Preparing Highly Qualified STEM Teachers to Support Effective Learning in Remote, In-person, and Hybrid Learning Environments (Co-PI), provides support for QC education students to be successful STEM teachers, $1,198,017.

2021-2023 North Eastern University Center for Inclusive Computing Northeastern University Diagnostic Partner School (Co-PI), Intended to build a multi-campus data base reviewing the success of historically marginalized populations in computer science courses, $60,000.

2022-2023 HACU Grow with Google (Co-PI), Career preparedness program, $25,000.

2021-2022 Heckscher Foundation and the Petrie Foundation Ithaka Articulation of Credit Transfer Program (PI), with the goal of increasing transfer student success and time to graduation, $40,000.

2016-2022 DOE Title V HSI STEM Bridges Across Eastern Queens (PI), Improving success of historically underserved populations in STEM at Queensborough Community College and Queens College, $4,587,244.

Completed Funding: Scientific Research

2009-2013NIH National Heart Lung and Blood Institute  Defining endocardial requirements for myocardial morphogenesis (PI) $150,000.

2009-2012 NIH Child Health and Human Development Institute Origins and Patterning of the Epicardium (PI) $100,000.

Completed Funding: Educational

2016-2022 Verizon Foundation Women in Technology Program (Co-PI), focused on increasing the number of women majoring in computer science and pursuing careers in technology, $38,500.

2021-2022 New York City Department of Youth and Community Development Summer Youth Development Program (Co-PI) support for summer internships for QC students, $105,820.

2013 Common Ground Consulting CWC Watershed Education Grant (PI) Understanding the Watershed in our backyard, $3,000.

2012-2013 Society for Developmental Biology Non-SDB Education Activities Grant (PI) Exploring Developmental Biology in the Kindergarten and First Grade Classroom, $3,950.

2007 Queens College; CUNY Campaign for Success Improving Success Rates in Basic Science (PI) Classes by Graduate Teaching Assistant/Adjunct Lecturer Professional Development, $4,320.

Completed Funding: Institutional 

2020-2022 PSC-CUNY PCB exposure drives excess insulin production in zebrafish (PI), supports  the lab research work with undergraduate students exploring pancreas development and function after PCB exposure, $3,500.

2016-2017 PSC-CUNY Defining the Role of Hemodynamic Forces on Cardiac Morphogenesis (PI) The major goal of this project is to examine the role that blood flow plays in directing the shape of the heart, $6,000.

2014-2015 Queens College; CUNY Research Enhancement Award (PI) Biology Department Core Facility upgrade, $7,000.

2014-2015 Queens College; CUNY Undergraduate Research/ Mentoring Education (PI) Dissecting the genetic mechanisms underlying PCB toxicity during development, $2,500.

2013-2014PSC-CUNYDissecting the molecular pathways of cardiomyopathy (PI) $6,000.

2012-2013 Queens College; CUNY Research Enhancement Award (PI) Dissecting the genetic mechanisms underlying PCB toxicity during development, $7,000.

2011-2012 Queens College; CUNY Research Enhancement Award (PI)  Cellular interactions between the endocardium and myocardium direct myocardial form and function, $5,560.

2009-2010 Queens College; CUNY Research Enhancement Award (PI)  Cellular interactions between the endocardium and myocardium direct myocardial form and function, $14,500.

2013-2014 PSC-CUNY Cardiac Remodeling after Atrial Standstill: Zebrafish as a Model of Pediatric Dilated Cardiomyopathy (PI) The major goal of this project is to determine the consequence of atrial standstill on cardiac remodeling, $4,000.

2008-2009 PSC-CUNY Cardiac Maturation during Zebrafish Development (PI) The major goal of this project is to examine key features of heart development in larval zebrafish, $3,650.

2007-2008 Queens College; CUNY Research Enhancement Award (PI) Spatial Relationship between Endocardium and Myocardium during Heart Tube Assembly, $5,000.

Completed Funding: Other

American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship                                                              2002-2004

NSERC Training Grant, University of Toronto                                                                                 1994