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Funding Support

Currently, Professor Zaghloul has funding from the National Science Foundation, Hoth Therapeutics, and GWU Technology Commercialization Office (TCO).

Recent funding for Professor Zaghloul

  1. Ambulatory Sensor Arrays for Real-Life Monitoring of Pediatric Patients with Asthma, Awarded by the NIH, total budget: $2,229,250. Collaboration with Children Hospital, Dr. Dinesh Pillai (SMHS/CNMC). Submitted to NIH, Professor Zaghloul was Co-PI, Professor Zhenyu Li was the PI. Awarded, October 2015- June 2020. Several publications resulted jointly between Professor Zaghloul and Professor Li and Dr. Pillai.
  2. IPA with the National Science Foundation (NSF), Program Director of Communications, Circuits, Sensors Systems Program, Engineering Director. Total NSF Support as IPA Award Funding Amount: $922,273.00. Professor Zaghloul was hired as IPA at the NSF from the year 2014-to-end of 2016.
  3. SBIR from DoE (PI) in collaboration with Muon, Inc., STTR Phase I, Design and Implementation of Electronics Cathode using Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW). Awarded $45,160.00 from Sept. 2017 to June 2018.
  4. Funding from GWU Technology Commercialization Office (TCO) for a study of diagnosing and identifying COVID-19, $50K, July 1st, 2020 to December 31st, 2020. Professor Zaghloul was the PI and the work was in collaboration with GWU School of Public Health’s Dr. Jeanne Jordan.
  5. National Science Foundation, Professor Zaghloul is the PI on awarded proposal on “Enhancement of Piezoelectric Properties in two-dimensional materials and its application”. Awarded $150k, August 1st, 2020 to July 31st, 2022.
  6. Funds from Hoth Therapeutics, New York to work on developing a COVID-19 testing device using a patented nano-whole device. The work is in collaboration with GWU School of Public Health’s Dr. Jeanne Jordan. Dr. Zaghloul is the PI on the project. Total funds $500K, September 2020 to July 31st 2021.

TOTAL funding to The George Washington University is about $8,376,716 (counting previous funds received by Professor Zaghloul). The total funds are obtained from varieties of agencies such as NSF, NIST, DOE,DARPA, NIH, NASA, commercial companies, and University resources.