Ongoing Funded Projects

 

Title: Revolutionizing Lung Health by Unraveling Disease-Specific Airway Cilia Motion

Granting Agency: Oklahoma State University President’s Fellows Faculty Research Award

Grant Period: 03/2025-06/2026

Role: Principal Investigator

Total Cost: $20,000

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Title: EPSCoR Research Fellows: NSF: Understanding Lung Exposures and Toxicity of E-cig and Cannabis Aerosols with Unregulated Synthetic Cooling Agents Using a Novel In Vitro Lung System
Granting Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grand Period: 09/2024-10/2026
Role: Principal Investigator

Total Cost: $282,862

Title: ML-CFD-DEM Based Reduced Order Models (ROM) to Quantify Variability in Inhalers, Drugs, and Users for Evaluating Comparability of Generic OIDP Complex Products
Granting Agency: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Grand Period: 09/2024-10/2026
Role: Principal Investigator
Total Cost: $599,999

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Title: SCH: AI-Enhanced Risk Assessment for Mitigating Indoor Viral Transmission in Public Schools
Granting Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant Period: 08/2024-07/2027
Role: Principal Investigator
Total Cost: $642,608

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Title: Improving Distillation Column Efficiency by Optimization of Vapor Distribution using an AI and CFD enabled Digital Twin System
Granting Agency: Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Sciences & Technology (OCAST)
Grant Period: 02/01/2024-01/31/2027
Role: Principal Investigator
Total Cost: $159,243

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Title: PFI-RP: Improving Inhaler Design and Efficacy with a Novel AI-assisted Digital Human Testing Platform
Granting Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant Period: 08/01/2023-07/31/2026
Role: Principal Investigator
Total Cost: $549,999
 

Completed Funded Projects

 

Title: Artificial Intelligence Empowered User-Centered Smart Inhaler for Targeted Drug Delivery to Small Airways for Effective Lung Disease Treatment

Granting Agency: Canopy Healthtech

Grant Period: 08/01/2023-07/31/2024

Role: Principal Investigator

Total Cost: $69,778

 

Title: Physics-Aware AI-Enhanced Inhalation Therapy Design for Precise Pulmonary Drug Delivery: Targeting Tumors in Juvenile Onset Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis

Granting Agency: Oklahoma State University CEAT Engineering Research and Seed Funding Program

Grant Period: 08/01/2023-07/31/2024

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Total Cost: $25,000

 

Title: I-Corps: All-in-One Virtual Human Testing Platform for Inhalation

Granting Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant Period: 05/01/2023-04/30/2024

Role: Principal Investigator

Total Cost: $50,000

 

Title: SUPP: REU: Determining the Effect of Airway Deformation on Pulmonary Air-Particle Dynamics

Granting Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant Period: 05/01/2023-04/30/2024

Role: Principal Investigator

Total Cost: $15,400

 

Title: Determining the Effect of Airway Deformation on Pulmonary Air-Particle Dynamics

Granting Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant Period: 07/01/2021-06/31/2024

Role: Principal Investigator

Total Cost: $249,959

 

Title: Flow control strategies for protection of aircraft passengers and workers against SARS-CoV-2

Granting Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Grant Period: 04/01/2021-03/31/2023

Role: Co-Investigator

Total Cost: $393,687.00

 

Title: Predicting Health Endpoints of Inhaled Nicotine/THC-Containing Aerosols in Human and Rat

Respiratory Tracts to Optimize the Therapeutic Effects using CFPD-PBTK Models

Granting Industry Company: Spectrum Dynamics Research Inc., Pheonix, AZ, USA

Grant Period: 04/01/2021-03/31/2023

Role: Principal Investigator

Total Amount: $159,994.00

Title: Understanding the effects of sphero-cylinder drug particle shape to enhance small-airway drug delivery for better emphysema treatment outcomes

Granting Agency: Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science & Technology (OCAST)

Grant Period: 09/01/2019 to 08/31/2022

Role: Principal Investigator

Direct Cost: $135,000

 

Title: Modeling Transmission Aerobiology of SARS-CoV-2 Aerosols in Human and Mouse Lungs

Granting Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH) (P20GM103648)

Grant Period: 09/01/2022-06/31/2023

Role: Principal Investigator

Total Cost: $50,000

 

Title: DPI In-Silico Modeling - Predict Dry Powder Performance and Subsequent Depositions in a Whole-Lung Model

Granting Industry Company: Cipla R&D Center, Mumbai, India

Grant Period: 09/01/2019 to 03/31/2021

Role: Principal Investigator

Direct Cost: $109,094

 

Title: Evaluation of COVAS Effectiveness on the Clearance of the COVID-19 Aerosols in a Patient Room

Granting Industry Company: QuantBet Inc., England

Grant Period: 05/01/2020 to 08/21/2020

Role: Principal Investigator

Total Amount: $13,758

 

Title: Mitigating infection risks to airborne SARS-CoV-2 laden aerosols in a patient room via portable air sanitizers and smart ventilation control

Granting Agency: CDC/NIOSH/ SWCOEH (T42OH008421)

Grant Period: 11/01/2020 to 06/30/2021

Role: Mentor (The Principal Investigator is Jianan Zhao, previous Ph.D. student in Dr. Feng’s lab)

Total Award Amount: $10,000

 

Title: CFD Simulations of Heat and Mass Transfer Performance of a Regeneration Process

Granting Industry Company: Exterran Corporation Product and Technology Center, Tulsa, OK, USA

Grant Period: 11/07/2018 to 02/15/2019

Role: Principal Investigator

Total Award Amount: $55,685

 

Title: A Precise Scale-up Method from Mice to Men on the Infection of Influenza A Virus

Granting Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH) (P20GM103648)

Grant Period: 11/01/2018 to 06/30/2019

Role: Principal Investigator

Total Award Amount: $50,000

 

Title: A Virtual Human System for Health Risk Assessments in a Representative Whole-lung Configuration Associated with Welding Fume Exposure

Granting Agency: CDC/NIOSH/ SWCOEH (T42OH008421)

Grant Period: 01/30/2018 to 06/30/2018

Role: Principal Investigator

Total Award Amount: $10,800

 

Title: Multi-scale Dosimetry Modeling of Influenza Virus-Laden Droplets through the Pulmonary Route

Granting Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH) (P20GM103648)

Grant Period: 07/01/2016 to 06/30/2018

Role: Principal Investigator

Total Award Amount: $100,000