Four research projects hosted by UC Berkeley in the humanities and sciences were awarded grants as part of the UC’s Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives, or MRPI, this year.
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UC awards $19M in grants, funds 4 UC Berkeley projects
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The UC Office of the President awarded grants to 15 research projects as part of the 2021 UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives competition. This includes four projects hosted by UC Berkeley.
The UC system awarded $19 million in grants to support research focused on improving the lives of Californians, funding four projects hosted by UC Berkeley.
As part of the 2021 UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives competition, the UC Office of the President funded 15 research projects this year. The competition supports innovative research collaborations between UC campuses, according to Jesse Rothstein, UC Berkeley professor of economics and public policy and lead principal investigator of California Policy Lab’s Data-Driven Solutions to California’s Most Complex Issues project.
New consortium aims to understand principles underlying the formation of coronaviruses
The University of California, Riverside, is the recipient of a 2021 UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives, or MRPI, award allowing the campus to put together a UC Coronavirus Assembly Research Consortium. This consortium will aim to understand the physical principles underlying the formation of coronaviruses, said Roya Zandi, a professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside and the principal investigator of the four-year project that received funding of more than $1.75 million. We will also explore the impact of some drugs on the assembly process.
Zandi is an expert on the physics and biophysics principles of virus formation. Her lab researches the statistical mechanics of virus assembly, the dynamics of the self-assembly process, and how various mechanisms can influence the stability of the viral structure.