The Erickson lab is partially funded by the following Major grants and granting agencies. For more details please see on-line CV
Active Funding
National Science Foundation
IDR: Self-Reliant, Autonomous Microsystems for Biophysical Monitoring of Small Animals (Lab-ons-a-Bird)
Role: PI
Dates: 9/1/2010 – Continuing
Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (Academic Venture Fund)
Thousand fold improvement in solar photobioreactors using advanced photonics
Role: PI
Dates: 6/1/2010 – Continuing
Department of Energy
Directed assembly of hybrid nanostructures using optically resonant nanotweezers
Role: PI
Dates: 4/15/2010 - Continuing
National Institutes of Health
Optically Resonant Nanotweezers
Role: PI
Dates: 5/1/2010 - Continuing
Office of Naval Research
Autonomous Microfluidic Devices for Battlefield Health Assessment and Treatment
Role: PI
Dates: 1/1/2010 - Continuing
National Institutes of Health
Cornell Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis
Role: Co-PI
Dates: 7/1/2009 - Continuing
National Science Foundation
CAREER: Optofluidics - Fusing Microfluidics and Photonics
Role: PI
Dates: 5/1/2009 - Continuing
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Optofluidic Waveguides for Reconfigurable Photonic Systems
Role: Cornell PI (PI and PII, STTR with Illuminaria LLC)
Dates: 11/01/2008 - Continuing
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
ENZYME: Dynamically Programmable Fluidic Self-Assembly of Arbitrary Functional Objects
Role: Co-PI (PI, Hod Lipson)
Dates: 05/01/2008 - Continuing
National Science Foundation
"NIRT: Active Nanophotofluidic Systems for Single Molecule/Particle Analysis"
Role: PI
Dates: 09/01/2007-Continuing
Division and Program: NSF-CBET, Active Nanostructures and Nanosystems Program.
National Institutes of Health
"Nanoscale Optofluidic Pathogen Detection"
Role: PI
Dates: 08/01/2007-Continuing
Division and Program: NIH-NIBIB, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine (R21).
Nanobiotechnology Center
"Active Nanophotonic Devices from Biomolecular Building Blocks"
Role: PI
Dates: 01/01/2010-Continuing
Division and Program: Biomolecular Devices and Analysis.
"Nanoscale Optofluidic Probing of Cell Migration Mechanics"
Role: Co-PI (Cynthia Reinhart-King, PI)
Dates: 01/01/2009-Continuing
Division and Program: Nanoscale Cell Biology.
"SERS Enhanced Ligase Detection Reaction Chip for the Molecular Diagnosis of Cancer"
Role: PI
Dates: 07/01/2009-Continuing
Division and Program: Biomolecular Devices and Analysis.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Insect Cyborg Sentinels
Role: Co-PI
Dates: 01/01/2007 - Continuing
Division and Program: DARPA-MTO-HIMEMS
Past Funding
Nanobiotechnology Center
"Nanoscale Optofluidic Devices for Biomolecular Analysis"
Role: PI
Dates: 01/01/2007-12/31/2009
Division and Program: Biomolecular Devices and Analysis.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
"Integrated Nanosystems for Autonomous Health Monitoring of Warfighters"
Role: PI
Dates: 07/01/2007-07/01/2008
Division and Program: DARPA-MTO
Major goal (Erickson Lab): To develop microfluidic devices for autonomous health monitoring.
National Science Foundation
"Hierarchical Microfabrication: Actively Programmable Multi-level Fluidic Self-Assembly"
Role: Co-PI (PI, Hod Lipson, Cornell University)
Dates: 08/01/2006-08/01/2007
Division and Program: NSF-CMMI
Major goal: The goal in this grant is to exploit dynamic microfluidic effects both to accelerate and to control self-assembly of micro-scale tiles (microtiles). The results of this research will open the door to future low-cost, scalable fabrication of three-dimensional micro-scale devices, required in numerous applications.
National Science Foundation
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Integration of spectroscopic sensors and electroactive nanowell arrays with microfluidic chips based on thermocapillary actuation."
Role: Cornell PI (in Collaboration with S. Troian, California Institute of Technology)
Dates: 09/01/2005-09/01/2008
Division and Program: NSF-CBET: Sensors and Sensor Networks.
Major goal (Erickson Lab): To develop electroactive nanofluidic sensors for attracting, confining, concentrating and sensing biological pathogens.