Johns Hopkins commits additional $15M to programs supporting faculty-led research

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Since 2015, 105 early-career scholars at Johns Hopkins University have been presented with Catalyst Awards and 73 cross-divisional teams have received Discovery Awards to support their research. Today, JHU President Ronald J. Daniels and Provost Sunil Kumar, together with 12 deans and directors, announced they will extend both programs with another $15 million commitment over three years.

Since the first $15 million investment was announced, those funds have supported projects involving drones delivering blood samples over difficult terrain, a spray-on coating to harvest solar energy, a documentary about female orchestra conductors, and simulating the atmospheres of exoplanets to predict their habitability. Winners have also investigated causes and treatments for depression, stroke, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV, opioid addiction, Alzheimer's disease, and other urgent health issues.