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===== Grants and research =====
Between 2014 and 2019, CUNY ASRC researchers secured 126 grants totaling $61 million.<ref name="asrc.gc.cuny.edu"/> Several recent grants have set records for CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ASRC Neuroscience Initiative Director Patrizia Casaccia Receives the Prestigious NINDS R35 Award from the National Institutes of Health – The Advanced Science Research Center|url=https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/headlines/2019/05/asrc-neuroscience-initiative-director-patrizia-casaccia-receives-the-prestigious-ninds-r35-award-from-the-national-institutes-of-health/|access-date=2021-11-05|website=asrc.gc.cuny.edu}}</ref><ref name="gc.cuny.edu">{{Cite web |title=Professor Andrea Alù Receives Simons Foundation Grant of Up to $16 Million for Photonics Research |url=https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/professor-andrea-alu-receives-simons-foundation-grant-16-million-photonics-research |access-date=2021-11-05 |website=www.gc.cuny.edu}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web|title=Multi-Million Dollar Grants Go to Two Graduate Center Professors|url=https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/News/2019/May/Multi-Million-Dollar-Grants-Go-to-Two-Graduate-Center-Professors|access-date=2021-11-05|website=www.gc.cuny.edu}}</ref> Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students at the CUNY ASRC also hold several patents.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Self-assembling peptide polymer|url=https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1824014|access-date=2021-11-09|website=www.osti.gov|date=June 2021|osti=1824014|last1=Ulijn|first1=Rein Vincent}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Water-responsive materials and uses therefore|url=https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=10961988.PN.&OS=PN/10961988&RS=PN/10961988|access-date=2021-11-09|website=atft.uspto.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Carbohydrate-binding small molecules with antiviral activity|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/11091468|access-date=2021-11-09|website=patents.justia.com}}</ref> Professor Kevin Gardner, director of the CUNY ASRC Structural Biology Initiative, was instrumental in the identification of hypoxia-inducible factor 2-alpha (HIF-2α) as a druggable target and the drug development efforts that led to the FDA-approved first-in-kind kidney cancer drug from Merck, belzutifan.<ref>{{Cite web|title=FDA approval of belzutifan culminates 25-year journey at UTSW from gene discovery to a first-in-class drug|url=https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/fda-approval-belzutifan.html|access-date=2021-11-09|website=www.utsouthwestern.edu|date=21 August 2021 }}</ref>

The CUNY ASRC is home to one of 15 Centers for Advanced Technology (CATs)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-04-28|title=Centers for Advanced Technology {{!}} Empire State Development|url=https://esd.ny.gov/centers-advanced-technology|access-date=2021-11-05|website=esd.ny.gov|language=en}}</ref> designated by Empire State Development NYSTAR. Funded by a nearly $8.8 million grant,<ref name="ReferenceB">{{Cite web|title=Empire State Development Awards Center For Advanced Technology Designation To The City University Of New York – The Advanced Science Research Center|url=https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/headlines/2019/06/empire-state-development-awards-center-for-advanced-technology-designation-to-the-city-university-of-new-york/|access-date=2021-11-05|website=asrc.gc.cuny.edu}}</ref> the CUNY ASRC Sensor CAT spurs academic-industry partnerships to develop sensor-based technology. Developing biomedical and environmental sensors is a particular focus, as is finding new approaches to sensing through photonics, materials, and nanoscience research.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>

Supported by a 2020 grant of up to $16 million from the Simons Foundation, a team of scientists led by Professor [[Andrea Alù]], director of the CUNY ASRC Photonics Initiative, is studying wave transport in metamaterials.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Simons Collaboration: Harnessing Universal Symmetry Concepts for Extreme Wave Phenomena – Photonics Initiative|url=https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/photonics/research/universal-symmetry-concepts/|access-date=2021-11-05|website=asrc.gc.cuny.edu}}</ref> The team's work could lead to greater sensing capabilities for the [[Internet of things|Internet of Things]], improvements in biomedical applications, and extreme control of sound waves for medical imaging and wireless technology.<ref name="gc.cuny.edu"/>

Professors Rein Ulijn and Andrea Al], the directors of the CUNY ASRC Nanoscience Initiative and the CUNY ASRC Photonics Initiative, each won a prestigious Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the [[United States Department of Defense|U.S. Department of Defense]], the agency's highest-ranking single-investigator award.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship|url=https://basicresearch.defense.gov/Programs/Vannevar-Bush-Faculty-Fellowship/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190309093113/https://basicresearch.defense.gov/Programs/Vannevar-Bush-Faculty-Fellowship/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 9, 2019|access-date=2021-11-05|website=basicresearch.defense.gov}}</ref> Alù's $3 million fellowship, awarded in 2019, allowed him to develop new materials that enable extreme wave manipulation in the context of [[thermal radiation]] and heat management.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Alù was also named the 2021 Blavatnik National Awards Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Andrea Alù {{!}} Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists|url=http://blavatnikawards.org/honorees/profile/andrea-alu/|access-date=2021-11-05|website=blavatnikawards.org|language=en}}</ref> Ulijn's $3 million fellowship, awarded in 2021, allowed him to research how complex mixtures of molecules acquire functionality and to repurpose this understanding to create new [[nanotechnology]] that is inspired by living systems.