← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
The University Of Iowa
$270,553,705
Total funding
435
Grants
Funding over time
peak $47.4M · FY2008–25$50M$37.5M$25M$12.5M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
DOD$143,094,929 · 214
DOE$62,621,974 · 59
NASA$60,709,862 · 145
USDA$4,126,939 · 17
By mechanism
—$270,553,705 · 435
Investigators at The University Of Iowa
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
Rising Stars
First grant in the last 5 yrs
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Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
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All-Time
Most funded here, all years
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Largest grants
BAEC AND AMES LAB FORMER WORKER MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM$11,326,858
· FY2009 · Department of Energy
TRANSLATING METABOLIC RESPONSES TO MECHANICAL INSULT INTO EARLY INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT PTOA$9,711,149
· FY2018 · Defense Health Agency
6DOF UNSTEADY VISCOUS SHIP HYDRODYNAMICS$5,562,175
· FY2010 · Department of Defense
ROOM-TEMPERATURE SPIN-MEDIATED COUPLING IN HYBRID MAGNETIC, ORGANIC, AND OXIDE STRUCTURES AND DEVICES$5,000,000
· FY2008 · Department of Defense
CMS PHYSICS RESEARCH AND UPGRADES FOR THE ENERGY FRONTIER$4,900,546
· FY2013 · Department of Energy
BURLINGTON ATOMIC ENERGY PLANT AND AMES LABORATORY FORMER WORKER SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM$4,675,932
· FY2008 · Department of Energy
R&D ON THE SCINTILLATING FIBERCALORIMETRY FOR THE SSC DETECTORS.$4,632,617
· FY2008 · Department of Energy
FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM COMPUTING FOR GAUGE THEORIES AND QUANTUM GRAVITY$4,599,054
· FY2018 · Department of Energy
NEW START GRANT$4,525,979
· FY2024 · Department of the Army
6DOF VISCOUS SHIP HYDRODYNAMICS$4,335,333
· FY2008 · Department of the Navy
FROM OPINION TO EVIDENCE: MULTISITE EVALUATION OF CUSTOM DYNAMIC ORTHOSIS BEST PRACTICES$3,969,294
· FY2022 · Defense Health Agency
THE GENERAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE GLOBAL ELECTRODYNAMICS OF AN AURORAL ARC HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR MANY YEARS HOWEVER THE MESOAND MICRO- SCALE DETAILS OF THE GEOMETRY OF THE CURRENT SYSTEMS AND ELECTRODYNAMICS WITHIN THE ARC STRUCTURE IS TYPICALLY THEORETICALLY MODELED AND LACKS BROADER EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION AND EMPIRICAL DATA TO CONSTRAIN THE MODELS. SINGLE POINT MEASUREMENT OF A LARGE-SCALE SYSTEM OR THE SPATIAL/TEMPORAL LIMITATIONS OF SATELLITE PASSES CAN ONLY PROVIDE A GLIMPSE OF A PIECE OF THE AURORAL ELECTRODYNAMICS. EVEN MODERN MULTI-SPACECRAFT MISSIONS AND NEAR SATELLITE CONJUNCTIONS CANNOT PROVIDE SUFFICIENT RESOLUTION OF THESE GEOMETRIES DUE TO THE "RANDOMNESS" OF THE CONJUNCTION IN BOTH SPACE AND TIME RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER AND THE ARC SYSTEM. FURTHERMORE NO ACTIVE PROJECT PROVIDES MEASUREMENTS AT THE IMPORTANT ALTITUDES (~120KM) OF THE AURORA CURRENT CLOSURE. TO INVESTIGATE THE GEOMETRY AND ELECTRODYNAMICS OF A COMPLETE AURORAL ARC SYSTEM REQUIRES A CONTROLLED PLACEMENT OF THE APPROPRIATE INSTRUMENTATION IN THE IMPORTANT REGIONS WITHIN AN ARC STRUCTURE. WE PROPOSE HERE TWO APPROPRIATELY INSTRUMENTED SOUNDING ROCKET PAYLOADS WITH SPECIFIC TRAJECTORIES TO PLACE THEM SIMULTANEOUSLY AT KEY ALTITUDES AND TRANSITS ACROSS THE AURORAL ARC STRUCTURE TO PROVIDE DETAILED MEASUREMENTS OF THE KEY PLASMA PARAMETERS. THESE DATA WILL PROVIDE CONSTRAINTS FOR AND CONFIRMATION OF THE MODELS AND THEORIES RELATED TO AURORAL ARC STRUCTURE AND ELECTRODYNAMICS. THE SCIENCE OBJECTIVE FOR THE PROPOSED INVESTIGATION IS TO DETERMINE THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE IONOSPHERIC CURRENTS AND THE ASSOCIATED ENERGY DISSIPATION IN A STABLE ARC. TO ADDRESS THE STRUCTURE OF AN AURORAL ARC APPROPRIATE MEASUREMENTS MUST BE MADE AT POINTS ABOVE THE ARC AND WITHIN THE CURRENT CLOSURE REGION. THE ACES II EXPERIMENT WILL UTILIZE TWO SUITABLY INSTRUMENTED ROCKETS AT TWO KEY ALTITUDES WITHIN THE ARC. ONE PAYLOAD WILL BE ABOVE THE IONOSPHERIC F PEAK TO MEASURE THE IMPOSED FIELDS AND ENERGY INPUT AND OUTPUT ACROSS THE AURORAL ARC. THE SECOND PAYLOAD WILL BE AT A LOWER ALTITUDE SLICING THROUGH THE CLASSIC CURRENT CLOSURE REGION (~120KM). BOTH PAYLOADS WILL BE IN FIGHT SIMULTANEOUSLY TO MINIMIZE TEMPORAL VARIATION BETWEEN THE MEASUREMENTS. BOTH PAYLOADS WILL BE INSTRUMENTED TO MEASURE DC ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS SUPRA-THERMAL TO ENERGETIC ELECTRONS AND ION DISTRIBUTIONS COLD PLASMA DENSITY AND TEMPERATURE. IN ADDITION GROUND BASED OBSERVATIONS WILL BE CRUCIAL TO SUPPORT THE LAUNCH DETERMINATION AS WELL AS THE DATA ANALYSIS. THE ACES II MISSION WILL PROVIDE UNPRECEDENTED SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENTS WITHIN A STABLE AURORAL ARC. WHEN UTILIZED IN CONTEXT OF AURORAL ELECTRODYNAMICS MODELS THESE MEASUREMENTS WILL CONSTRAIN THE NUMEROUS MODEL PARAMETERS AND ALLOW A COMPLETE ANALYSIS OF THE PHYSICAL PROCESSES AND ELECTRODYNAMICS WITHIN AN AURORAL ARC. THIS MISSION DIRECTLY ADDRESS SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT ARE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE NEAR EARTH PLASMA ENVIRONMENT AND IN PARTICULAR IONOSPHERIC-MAGNETOSPHERIC COUPLING AS WELL AS IONOSPHERIC-THERMOSPHERIC COUPLING. THESE QUESTIONS ARE A PRIORITY SCIENCE FOCUS FROM THE HELIOPHYSICS ROADMAP.$3,321,138
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NEW AWARD; TITLE: MITOCHONDRIAL-DERIVED OXIDANTS AND CELLULAR RESPONSES TO LOW DOSE/LOW LET IONIZING RADIATION; PI: DOUGLAS SPITZ$2,824,500
· FY2009 · Department of Energy
MECHANISMS OF AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION ASSOCIATED WITH EXTREME EXERTIONAL HEAT STRESS AND POTENTIAL EFFICACY OF NOVEL PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENTS$2,737,694
· FY2011 · Department of Defense
WE PROPOSE A RE-FLIGHT OF THE TWIN ROCKETS TO INVESTIGATE CUSP ELECTRODYNAMICS (TRICE) MISSION AS THE TRICE-2 MISSION. THE ORIGINAL MISSION WAS QUITE$2,711,622
· FY2015 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
MALUM TERMINUS: A US MARINE CORPS SIMULATION SYSTEM FOR INJURY AVOIDANCE$2,612,947
· FY2016 · Department of the Navy
THIS THREE YEAR PROPOSAL WILL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OPTIMIZATION AND TESTING OF CHIMERA - A HYBRID MAGNETOMETER THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY OPERATES AS BOTH A SEARCH COIL AND A FLUXGATE. CHIMERA IS EXPECTED TO PROVIDE REASONABLE SENSITIVITY FROM DC TO 10 KHZ FROM A SINGLE COMPACT SENSOR REQUIRING ONLY ONE DEPLOYABLE BOOM. THIS IS PARTICULARLY USEFUL FOR SMALL SPACECRAFT AND CUBESATS WHERE MULTIPLE DEPLOYABLE BOOMS ARE CHALLENGING SO EVEN MODEST SENSITIVITY OVER THIS BROAD RANGE IS SIGNIFICANT. THE HYBRID DESIGN BUILDS ON ESTABLISHED FLUXGATE AND SEARCH COIL TECHNOLOGY WITH DECADES OF HERITAGE OPERATING IN EXTREME AND HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS. CHIMERA IS ALIGNED WITH THE NASA TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP IN TECHNOLOGY AREA 8.3.3 IN SITU - INSTRUMENTS AND SENSORS AND WILL ADVANCE FROM TRL-3 (TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL) TO TRL-6. SCIENCE MISSIONS HAVE OFTEN NEEDED A SEARCH COIL MAGNETOMETER FOR HIGH FREQUENCIES AND A FLUXGATE FOR THE STATIC FIELD AND LOW FREQUENCIES. THESE TWO INSTRUMENTS INTERFERE WITH EACH OTHER - THE SEARCH COIL DETECTING THE DRIVE SIGNAL FROM THE FLUXGATE AND THE FERROMAGNETIC CORE PROVIDING MAGNETIC GAIN IN A SEARCH COIL DISTORTING THE FIELD MEASURED BY THE FLUXGATE. THE TWO RESULTING DEPLOYABLE BOOMS AFFECT SPACECRAFT CONTROL AND CAN IMPINGE THE FIELD OF VIEW OF OTHER INSTRUMENTS. A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT LABORATORY PROTOTYPE OF CHIMERA HAS DEMONSTRATED HOW TO OPERATE A RACETRACK FLUXGATE SENSOR AS BOTH A FLUXGATE AND A SEARCH COIL MAGNETOMETER USING ESSENTIALLY THE SAME HARDWARE ALREADY PRESENT IN A TYPICAL FLUXGATE INSTRUMENT. THE TWO SENSING TECHNIQUES CAN OPERATE SIMULTANEOUSLY WITHOUT INTERFERING IN A HYBRID SENSOR ENGINEERED TO ACCOMMODATE BOTH EFFECTS. THE PROPOSED PROJECT SUPPORTS EARLY CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOR THE PI DAVID M. MILES AND HIGHER EDUCATION TRAINING FOR ONE GRADUATE STUDENT AND THREE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS. A FLIGHT-READY HYBRID MAGNETOMETER ENABLES THE INVESTIGATION OF MULTIPLE SCIENCE QUESTIONS UNDER THE NASA HELIOPHYSICS OVERARCHING SCIENCE GOAL TO: ADVANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE SUN EARTH THE PLANETARY SPACE ENVIRONMENTS AND THE OUTER REACHES OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM . A HYBRID MAGNETOMETER IS IDEALLY SUITED FOR FUTURE MISSIONS INCLUDING: A CONSTELLATION FOLLOW-ON TO THE RECENT FUNDED GTOSAT RADIATION BELT CUBESAT DAUGHTER PAYLOADS DEPLOYED FROM THE GEOSPACE DYNAMICS CONSTELLATION (GDC) OR SMALL RIDE ALONG SPACECRAFT THAT HAVE BEEN SUGGESTED FOR FUTURE PLANETARY MISSIONS. MAGNETIC FIELD DATA FROM DC 10 KHZ FROM THESE MISSIONS WOULD BE IMPORTANT IN ADDRESSING RESPECTIVELY THREE SCIENCE GOALS IDENTIFIED IN SOLAR AND SPACE PHYSICS: A SCIENCE FOR A TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY: SWMI SCIENCE GOAL 4. ESTABLISH HOW ENERGETIC PARTICLES ARE ACCELERATED TRANSPORTED AND LOST; SWMI SCIENCE GOAL 7. DETERMINE HOW MAGNETOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE-THERMOSPHERE COUPLING CONTROLS SYSTEM-LEVEL DYNAMICS; AND SWMI SCIENCE GOAL 8. IDENTIFY THE STRUCTURES DYNAMICS AND LINKAGES IN OTHER PLANETARY MAGNETOSPHERIC SYSTEMS. WE HAVE DEFINED THREE INVESTIGATION OBJECTIVES TO ENSURE THAT THE HYBRID MAGNETOMETER DEVELOPED UNDER THIS PROPOSAL IS SUITABLE FOR THE BROAD SPECTRUM OF FUTURE HELIOPHYSICS MISSIONS WHICH REQUIRE MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENTS. 1) EXPAND THE DC 2 KHZ BANDWIDTH OF THE CURRENT HYBRID MAGNETOMETER PROTOTYPE TO PROVIDE MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENTS FROM DC 10 KHZ FROM A SINGLE MAGNETOMETER SENSOR. 2) OPTIMIZE THE SEARCH COIL ACTION OF THE HYBRID MAGNETOMETER TO ACHIEVE NOISE AND SENSITIVITY WITHIN A FACTOR OF FOUR OF THAT ACHIEVED BY COMPARABLY SIZED TRADITIONAL SEARCH COIL SENSORS (E.G. RBSP THEMIS) 3) SCALE DOWN THE HYBRID MAGNETOMETER SENSOR TO NANOSATELLITE GEOMETRY (<10 X 10 X 10 CM^3) WHILE PRESERVING SCIENTIFICALLY USEFUL SENSITIVITY FROM DC-10 KHZ. CHIMERA WILL ENABLE HIGH FIDELITY MAGNETIC FIELD STUDIES ON FUTURE SMALLSAT/CUBESAT HELIOPHYSICS MISSIONS AROUND THE EARTH THE MOON AND OTHER PLANETARY BODIES.$2,610,209
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
MITOCHONDRIAL-BASED TREATMENTS THAT PREVENT POST-TRAUMATIC OSTEOARTHRITIS IN A TRANSLATIONAL LARGE ANIMAL INTRAARTICULAR FRACTURE SURVIVAL MODEL$2,559,912
· FY2011 · Department of Defense
IOWA WILL CARRY OUT THE FOLLOWING WORK WITH REGARD TO MISSION OPERATIONS:PROVIDE INPUT TO THE JOINT$2,525,579
· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
EXPANDING AND ACCELERATING ACCESS TO CARE FOR ACHILLES TENDINOPATHY THROUGH SELF-MANAGEMENT REHABILITATION STRATEGIES$2,499,599
· FY2025 · Defense Health Agency