Funding

OUR RESEARCH HAS BEEN GENEROUSLY SPONSORED THROUGH THE FOLLOWING GRANTS:

NSF CAREER Award: CBET- 1053857 (PI: T. Baumgart): “Domain boundary phenomena and composition fluctuations in heterogeneous lipid membrane mixtures”

NSF grant MCB-0718569 (PI: T. Baumgart): “Curvature and Composition Regulation in Tubular Lipid Membranes”

NIH grant 1R21AI073409 (PI: T. Baumgart) “Biophysics of fluid lipid/protein membrane domains and immune cell signaling”

UPenn IME seed grant (with Paul Janmey)

UPenn MRSEC seed grant (with Dennis Discher)

UPenn URF grant

UPenn Nano/Bio Interface Center Innovation Award