Grants & Funding

We are excited to announce that D2D has been awarded sponsorship from BioMADE to launch SPRINT: Scalable Protein Research for INnovative Training! SPRINT will grow our network from 40 to 100 institutions and train nearly 10,000 undergraduates in hands-on protein engineering, while creating freely accessible learning content and new industry internship pathways.

We are thrilled to announce that D2D was recently funded to use cutting edge machine learning tools to investigate how student outcomes from engaging in research vary across the many different contexts that D2D is taught in. For example, members in our network teach D2D in first-quarter freshman classes and senior-level capstone classes; D2D is integrated into organic chemistry labs and in molecular genetics courses, and everything in between!

We are thrilled to announce that this fall we were awarded an NSF-RCN grant! We can't wait to get started and grow the D2D network team. We aim to double in size in 2022 and grow to over 40 institutions by 2030. We are actively seeking new partners and will put out a formal call for new D2D network members soon. Stay tuned and don't hesitate to reach out with questions. A huge thanks to our team for all of their help on applying for this award. We can't wait to see our network grow!