Highlights
- The National Institute of General Medical Sciences awarded Arizona State University-Tempe Campus $300,000 on Aug. 10.
- PI Xiao Wang will study E. coli ecosystem dynamics using synthetic microbial communities with varied interaction structures.
- The four-year project runs through May 31, 2030, under grant number 1R01GM169398-01.
- The award is part of a broader wave of NIH investment at ASU, which separately received a $2 million-plus NIGMS grant the same week.
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences awarded Arizona State University-Tempe Campus $300,000 on Aug. 10 to study how E. coli populations behave within complex microbial ecosystems, according to the NIH ExPORTER database.
Principal investigator Xiao Wang will build synthetic microbial communities with diverse interaction structures and pair them with predictive mathematical models to decode the rules governing bacterial behavior at the ecosystem level. The project runs through May 31, 2030, under grant number 1R01GM169398-01.
At $300,000, the award sits at the lower end of a standard NIH R01 range. By comparison, a separate NIGMS grant awarded to ASU the same week, project 1R35GM164231-01, led by PI Shaopeng Wang, came in at $2,081,661 for microscopy research on single-molecule and cellular activity.
The Xiao Wang grant is part of what ASU described as a broader federal investment in its research enterprise. ASU News reported July 30 that roughly $4 million had been directed toward quantum and microbial research at the university.
The project detail page on NIH Reporter is expected to carry the full abstract once the award record is complete.
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