France And Chicago Collaborating in The Sciences
France and Chicago Collaborating in the Sciences (FACCTS)* is designed to enhance science at the University of Chicago by encouraging closer relations between researchers in the Physical Sciences Division (PSD), The Biological Sciences Division (BSD), and the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) and high-level research teams and institutions of higher education in France. The FACCTS program accomplishes this goal by providing seed funding for new and potentially fruitful project-based collaborations. Through a partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab, researchers at these two national laboratories are also eligible for FACCTS support, and are encouraged to apply.
Deadlines and Key Dates (2024 Funding Cycle)
- October 2, 2023: FACCTS application becomes live
- November 20, 2023 (at 11:59 pm CST): Deadline for Argonne-based researchers to submit (1-page) pre-proposal
- December 8, 2023: Responses sent to all Argonne-based researchers who submitted pre-proposals. (Up to five Argonne-based researchers will be invited to submit a full application.)
- February 5, 2024 (at 11:59 pm CST): Deadline for FACCTS proposals from UChicago, Fermilab, and Argonne National Laboratory applicants
- May 14, 2024: Notification given to all applicants
- July 1, 2024: Funds become available to award recipients
FACCTS and Figures
Since the inception of the FACCTS Program in 2008, seed funding totaling over $3,300,000 has been disbursed to support more than 200 different research collaborations undertaken by scientists from the Chicago (University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory) and France. Below are highlights and a search-able spreadsheet with information on all projects supported through the FACCTS program since 2008.
ANL-based awards, total of $572,144
Fermilab-based awards, total of $130,951
Biological Sciences Division awards, total of $1,016,110
Physical Sciences Division awards, total of $1,360,122
The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering awards, total of $232,500
Total Campus-based awards, total of $2,626,232
National Lab-based awards, total of $702,635
All FACCTS awards since 2008, total of $3,328,867
| Project Title | Chicago PI | Department | Lab or Division | Key Individual in France | Institution in France | Award Amount | Year | Additional Award | Other Lab or Division | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Integrated Analysis of Early Lymphopoiesis | Barbara Kee | Pathology | BSD | Ana Cumano | Institut Pasteur, INSERM | $8,000 | 2008 | |||
| Genetic Studies of Complex Traits in Large Genealogies | Carole Ober | Human Genetics | BSD | Françoise Clerget-Darpoux | INSERM, Université Paris-Sud | $8,000 | 2008 | |||
| Evolutionary Impacts of Human Subsistence Modes in Central Africa | Molly Przeworski | Human Genetics | BSD | Luis Quintana-Murci | Institut Pasteur | $15,000 | 2008 | |||
| Cross-Linguistic Study of Aphasia Treatment | Steven Small | Neurology | BSD | Jean-François Démonet | INSERM | $10,000 | 2008 | |||
| The Roles of Anthrax Secretome on Anthrax Pathogenesis | Wei-Jen Tang | Cancer Research | BSD | Michèle Mock | Institut Pasteur | $6,600 | 2008 | |||
| Ethical Principles in Neonatology in Europe and North America | William Meadow | Pediatrics | BSD | Véronique Fournier | Hôpital Cochin (Paris) | $7,000 | 2008 | |||
| Charge Transport and Photoconductivity in III-V Nanocrystal Solids | Dmitri Talapin | Chemistry | PSD | Peter Reiss | CEA Grenoble | $10,000 | 2008 | |||
| Coherent Diffraction "Lens-less" Imaging | Eric Isaacs | Physics | PSD | Virginie Chamard | Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille | $5,000 | 2008 | |||
| Development of Ultra-Precise Time-of-Flight Measurements for Particle Physics and Medical Imaging | Henry Frisch, Chin-Tu Chen | Radiology, Physics | PSD | Patrick Le Du, Christophe Royon | DAPNIA, CEA Saclay | $10,000 | 2008 | $54,600 | BSD | |
| Probes of Stellar Nucleosynthesis in the Laboratory | Nicolas Dauphas | Geophysical Sciences | PSD | Marty Bernard | ENSG, ENS-Lyon | $9,607 | 2008 | $34,607 | PSD | |
| Evolution of Retinoic Acid Signaling in Deuterostomes | Christopher Lowe | Organismal Biology & Anatomy | BSD | Michael Schubert | ENS Lyon, CNRS | $10,000 | 2009 | |||
| Brain Mechanisms of Learning and Memory | David Freedman | Neurobiology | BSD | Guilhem Ibos | Centre de Neuroscience Cognitive, Lyon | $5,000 | 2009 | |||
| Plant Organelle Targeting by Bacterial Effectors | Jean Greenberg | Molecular Genetics | BSD | Nemo Peeters | INRA | $10,000 | 2009 | |||
| Dinosaurs Adrift: Saharan Fossils Reveal Africa’s Lost World” | Paul Sereno | Anatomy | BSD | Ronan Allain | Museum national d'histoire naturelle | $9,000 | 2009 | |||
| The Structural Basis of Actin Bundle Selection by Myosin X | Ronald Rock | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | BSD | Anne Houdusse | Institut Curie | $7,500 | 2009 | |||
| The Mystery of Hidden QSOs and Hidden Galaxies | Don York | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Céline Péroux | CNRS, Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille | $10,000 | 2009 | |||
| Development of Asymmetric Diels-Alder Catalysts for Synthesis of Densely Functionalized Molecules | Hisashi Yamamoto | Chemistry | PSD | Stéphane Quideau | Université de Bordeaux | $10,000 | 2009 | |||
| Stochastic Geometry in Physics | Ilya Gruzberg & Paul Wiegmann | Physics, James Franck Institute | PSD | Denis Bernard & Michel Bauer | CNRS, ENS Paris, Saclay | $18,000 | 2009 | |||
| History of Cosmic Rays: 1911 to 1953 | James Cronin | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Pierre Binetruy | Université de Paris VII | $10,000 | 2009 | $41,500 | BSD | |
| Fossil Isotopes in Meteorites and Redox-Controlled Kinetic Isotope Fractionation in Melts | Nicolas Dauphas | Geophysical Sciences, Enrico Fermi Institute | PSD | Marc Chassidon, Bernard Marty, Mathieu Roskosz | CNRS, ENS, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille | $10,407 | 2009 | $58,407 | PSD | |
| Modulation of the Mechanics and Motor Control of Feeding Behavior of Small Primates | Callum Ross | Organismal Biology and Anatomy | BSD | Anthony Herrel | CNRS, MNHN | $15,500 | 2010 | |||
| Membrane Dynamics and Trafficking of Alzheimer's Disease Amyloid Precursor Protein and Beta-Secretase | Gopal Thinakaran | Neurobiology | BSD | Marie-Claude Potier | Centre de Recherche de l'ICM, Paris | $8,000 | 2010 | |||
| The Genetic Basis for Fine-Scale Recombination Rate Variation in Mice and Humans | Molly Przeworski | Human Genetics, Ecology & Evolution | BSD | Bernard De Massy | CNRS | $15,000 | 2010 | |||
| Harnessing Endogenous Neuroprotection with Erythropoietin | Steven Roth | Anesthesia and Critical Care | BSD | Myriam Bernaudin | CERVOxy, CYCERON- Caen | $12,000 | 2010 | |||
| Viral Defense Pathways in Human Autoimmunity | Timothy Niewold | Medicine, Rheumatology | BSD | Mustapha Si-Tahar | Institut Pasteur | $5,000 | 2010 | |||
| Development of Asymmetric Diels-Alder Catalysts for Synthesis of Densely Functionalized Molecules | Hisashi Yamamoto | Chemistry | PSD | Stéphane Quideau | Université de Bordeaux | $5,000 | 2010 | |||
| Probing Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae | Joshua Frieman | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Julien Guy | Universités Paris VI et VII | $10,000 | 2010 | |||
| Isotopic Anomalies in Meteorites and Calibration of Iron Isotope Oxybarometry | Nicolas Dauphas | Geophysical Sciences | PSD | Mathieu Roskosz | Université de Lille | $5,000 | 2010 | $55,500 | BSD | |
| Development of a Novel Detection Technique for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays | Paolo Privitera | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Tiina Suomijarvi | Université de Paris XI, IPN Orsay | $15,000 | 2010 | $35,000 | PSD | |
| Accurate Estimation of Protein-Ligand Binding Constants from Computer Simulations | Benoit Roux | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
BSD | Christophe Chipot | CNRS, Université Henri Poincaré Nancy | $15,500 | 2011 | |||
| Cholesterol Metabolism as Target for Cancer Therapies | Ralph Weichselbaum | Oncology | BSD | Marc Poirot | INSERM, Institut Claudius Regaud |
$12,000 | 2011 | |||
| Exotic Quantum States of Atoms at Nano-Kelvin Temperature | Cheng Chin, Kathryn Levin | Physics, James Franck Institute |
PSD | Christophe Salomon | ENS Paris | $18,000 | 2011 | |||
| Support for Undergraduate Attendance and Organizing for Workshops on Psec Timing in France and Chicago | Henry Frisch | Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute | PSD | Jean-François Genat | Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS | $20,000 | 2011 | |||
| Probing Dark Energy with Type ia Supernovae | Josh Frieman | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Julien Guy | CNRS-IN2P3, Universités de Paris VI and VII | $8,000 | 2011 | $27,500 | BSD | |
| A New Proxy to Trace Redox Conditions in the Earth | Nicolas Dauphas | Geophysical Sciences | PSD | Janne Blichert-Toft, Mathieu Roskosz | CNRS, UST Lille, ENS Lyon | $5,000 | 2011 | $51,000 | PSD | |
| Combining Ultrafast X-Ray Diffraction and Optical Spectroscopy to Study Lightactivated Functions in Materials and Biological Systems | Keith Moffat | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | BSD | Eric Collet | Université de Rennes | $18,000 | 2012 | |||
| Development of Innate Lymphoid Cells | Barbara Kee | Pathology | BSD | James Di Santo | Institut Pasteur | $4,000 | 2012 | |||
| The Epigenetic Role of the Nuclear Membrane | Elizabeth McNally | Medicine, Human Genetics |
BSD | Gisèle Bonne | INSERM, CNRS |
$5,000 | 2012 | |||
| Molecular Mechanisms Behind Vγ 9Vδ 2 T-Cell Activation. | Erin Adams | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | BSD | Marc Bonneville | CNRS, Université de Nantes | $2,000 | 2012 | |||
| Imaging Biomarkers in Cerebrovascular malformations |
Issam Awad | Surgery, Neurology, Cancer Center |
BSD | Pierre Labauge, Nicolas Menjot de Champfleur | Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier | $12,000 | 2012 | |||
| Global Analysis of Long Distance Signaling Components of Stress Responses in Arabidopsis |
Jocelyn Malamy | Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology | BSD | Sylvie Dinant | INRA Versailles | $8,000 | 2012 | |||
| Relationship of Early Mobilization and Pain in the Intensive Care Unit | John Kress | Medicine | BSD | Samir Jaber | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Montpellier | $7,500 | 2012 | |||
| Mechanical Stretch Induced Microparticles Formation by Lung Endothelial Cells |
Konstantin Birukov | Medicine | BSD | Chantal Boulanger | INSERM | $9,000 | 2012 | |||
| Testing Prediction as a Design Principle in the Retina | Stephanie Palmer | Organismal Biology & Anatomy | BSD | Olivier Marre | Université Paris VI | $14,000 | 2012 | |||
| Generation and Turbulent Amplification of Cosmological Magnetic Fields in Laser-Driven Experiments | Don Lamb | Astronomy & Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute |
PSD | Alessandra Ravasio | CNRS, CEA, Université Paris VI, Ecole Polytechnique | $13,000 | 2012 | |||
| Controlled VM Placement in Infrastructure Clouds | Katarzyna Keahey | Computation Institute | PSD | Frédéric Desprez | ENS Lyon, INRIA | $2,000 | 2012 | |||
| Establishing a Laboratory Curriculum in Astronomy and Physics for Undergraduate Students of University of Chicago and Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7 | Paolo Privitera | Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics |
PSD | Thomas Condreau | Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7 | $16,000 | 2012 | |||
| Seeding a Franco-Chicago Collaboration in Exascale Storage for Computational Science | Rob Ross | Computation Institute |
PSD | Gabriel Antoniu | INRIA | $10,000 | 2012 | $79,500 | BSD | |
| Studies of Diffuse Gas and Cosmic Rays near the Galactic Center | Takeshi Oka | Astronomy & Astrophysics, Chemistry | PSD | Maryvonne Gerin | Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, ENS | $14,000 | 2012 | $55,000 | PSD | |
| Pathogen-Host Interactions during Attachment of Coxiella to Human Cells | Howard Shuman | Infectious Disease | BSD | Matteo Bonazzi | UMR 5236, CNRS | $10,000 | 2013 | |||
| Microtubule Function in Cellular Quiescence | Mohan Gupta | Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology | BSD | Isabelle Sagot | CNRS, Université de Bordeaux | $16,000 | 2013 | |||
| Efficacy Assessment of Folinic Acid and Thyroid Hormone Systematic Treatment on the Psychomotor Development of Young Children with Down Syndrome | Peter Smith | Pediatrics | BSD | Franck Sturtz | Institut Jérôme Lejeune Paris, Université de Limoges |
$10,000 | 2013 | |||
| Cancer and Translation: Crosstalk between Signaling Pathways | Tao Pan | Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology |
BSD | Alexandre David | Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle | $5,000 | 2013 | |||
| Mapping the Direction Selective Circuit in the Retina | Wei Wei | Neurobiology | BSD | Deniz Dalkara | Institut de la Vision | $4,000 | 2013 | |||
| International Collaboration on Isotopic Studies of Ice Clouds | Elisabeth Moyer | Geophysical Sciences | PSD | Bernard Legras | Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique | $15,000 | 2013 | |||
| Calibration and Applications of Isotope Fractionation of Zoned Minerals in Terrestrial and Extra-Terrestrial Material | Frank Richter | Geophysical Sciences | PSD | Marc Chaussidon | Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Nancy, CNRS | $9,000 | 2013 | |||
| Protein-Mediated Remodeling of Biological Membranes | Gregory Voth | Chemistry | PSD | Patricia Bassereau | Institut Curie | $12,000 | 2013 | |||
| Interacting Particle Methods for Enhanced Sampling of Molecular Systems | Jonathan Weare | Mathematics | PSD | Tony Lelievre | Ecole des Ponts | $12,000 | 2013 | |||
| Mechanics of Active Polymer Networks | Margaret Gardel | Physics | PSD | Martin Lenz | UMR 8626, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS | $13,000 | 2013 | $45,000 | BSD | |
| Collaborative Tool Development for Adjoining MPI Codes | Paul Hovland | Computation Institute | PSD | Laurent Hascoët | INRIA Sophia Antipolis | $5,000 | 2013 | $66,000 | PSD | |
| Evaluation of Fuel Displacement Potential of Advanced Vehicles through Electrification | Aymeric Rousseau | Energy System Division | ANL | François Badin | IFP Energies Nouvelles | $20,000 | 2014 | |||
| Multi-scale Modeling Study of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Oxidation | Stephen Klippenstein | Chemical Sciences & Engineering | ANL | André Nicolle | IFP Energies Nouvelles | $8,600 | 2014 | |||
| Predicting the Thermodynamics of Protein Association with a Computational Microcalorimeter | Benoît Roux | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | BSD | Christophe Chipot | Université de Lorraine |
$16,000 | 2014 | |||
| Generating Virtual Textures to Understand Tactile Perception | Slimane Bensmaia | Organismal Biology & Anatomy | BSD | Vincent Hayward | Université Pierre et Marie Curie | $16,000 | 2014 | |||
| Spectral Characterization of Ecological Networks | Stefano Allesina | Ecology & Evolution | BSD | Elisa Thébault | Institute of Ecology Paris, CNRS | $8,000 | 2014 | |||
| Mechanisms of Diastolic Dysfunction in Sickle Cell Disease | Victor Mor-Avi, Amit Patel |
Medicine | BSD | Nadjia Kachenoura | INSERM | $7,000 | 2014 | |||
| Dark Matter Detection with Argon: Study of Light and Charge Production Mechanisms at Low-Energy | Luca Grandi | Physics | PSD | Davide Franco | APC Paris, CNRS | $15,000 | 2014 | |||
| Protein-Mediated Remodeling of Biological Membranes | Gergory Voth | Chemistry | PSD | Patricia Bassereau | Institut Curie | $8,000 | 2014 | |||
| Inexpensive Multi-Channel PSEC-Resolution Digitizers for Particle Physics and Medical Imaging | Henry Frisch | Physics | PSD | Maxim Titov | CEA Saclay | $8,000 | 2014 | |||
| Geometry and String Theory | Savdeep Sethi | Physics | PSD | Ruben Minasian | CEA Saclay | $16,000 | 2014 | $28,600 | ANL | |
| Probing Efficient Cosmic-ray Acceleration in Young Supernovae using the Cherenkov Telescope Array | Vikram Dwarkadas | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Matthieu Renaud | CNRS, Université de Montpellier 2 |
$8,000 | 2014 | $54,500 | BSD | |
| Integrated Multiscale Model of Biological Formation | John Reinitz | Statistics, Ecology & Evolution, Molecular Genetics | PSD, BSD | Ovidiu Radulescu | University of Montpellier 2 | $15,000 | 2014 | $54,100 | PSD | |
| Clues on Terrestrial Core Formation from Tin Nuclear Resonant Analysis using Inelastic X-Ray Scattering | Esen Alp, Michael Hu | X-Ray Science Division | ANL | Mathieu Roskosz, Caroline Fitoussi | Université de Lille, CNRS, ENS Lyon | $32,644 | 2015 | |||
| Development of a Generic Computational/ Experimental Approach to Discover New Metabolic Pathways | Christopher Henry | Computation Institute | BSD | Matthieu Jules | Micalis Institute, INRA Jouy-en-Josas | $15,000 | 2015 | |||
| Micropatterning of Actin Cytoskeleton Competition | David Kovar | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | BSD | Alphée Michelot | CNRS, Université de Grenoble | $14,800 | 2015 | |||
| Optogenetic Analysis of Cell Division and Tissue Morphogenesis | Michael Glotzer | Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology | BSD | Thomas Lecuit | IBDM, CNRS, Université d'Aix-Marseille | $20,000 | 2015 | |||
| Dynamic Spatiotemporal Brain Analyses using High-Performance Electrical Neuroimaging | Stephanie Cacioppo | Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience | BSD | Paolo Bartolomeo | INSERM | $7,500 | 2015 | |||
| R&D on Giant Double-Phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Detectors for Future Neutrino Experiments | Giulia Brunetti | Neutrino Division | Fermilab | Dario Autiero | Institut de Physique Nucleaire Lyon | $15,000 | 2015 | |||
| Applications of Birational Anabelian Geometry to Grothendieck-Teichmüller Theory, Algebraic Cycles, and Galois Theory. | Aaron Silberstein | Mathematics | PSD | Pierre Lochak | Université de Paris VI Jussieu | $12,000 | 2015 | |||
| Architectures and Dynamical Evolution of Observed Planetary Systems | Daniel Fabrycky | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Jacques Laskar | CNRS, ASD, Observatoire de Paris, IMCCE | $8,450 | 2015 | $32,644 | ANL | |
| Dark Matter Detection with Noble Liquids: Study of Light and Charge Production Mechanisms at Low-Energy | Luca Grandi | Physics | PSD | Davide Franco | APC Paris, CNRS | $12,250 | 2015 | $15,000 | Fermilab | |
| DAMIC: A Novel Dark Matter Experiment | Paolo Privitera | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Antoine Letessier-Selvon | IN2P3, CNRS, Universités de Paris VI & VII | $17,000 | 2015 | $57,300 | BSD | |
| Tracer Applications of Noble Gas Radionuclides to Hydrological Systems in the Paris Basin | Reika Yokochi | Geophysical Sciences | PSD | Bernard Marty | Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie, CNRS | $18,000 | 2015 | $67,700 | PSD | |
| Hybrid Silicon Nanolasers | Chad Husko | Center for Nanoscale Materials | ANL | Xavier Checoury |
Université Paris-Sud | $40,000 | 2016 | |||
| Notch and Tcf-1 Signaling: Do they Cooperate in the Generation of Innate Lymphocytes? | Fotini Gounari | Medicine, Rheumatology | BSD | Rachel Golub | Université de Paris 7 | $15,000 | 2016 | |||
| Investigating Neural Mechanisms for Sensing Body Movement | Melina Hale | Organismal Biology & Anatomy | BSD | Claire Wyart | Université Pierre et Marie-Curie | $24,000 | 2016 | |||
| N6-Methyladenosine RNA Modification and Cancer Stem Cells | Tao Pan | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | BSD | Alexandre David | Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle | $17,000 | 2016 | |||
| Assembly, Characterization and Data Analysis of the Most Massive CCD Array Ever Built | Yann Guardincerri | Particle Physics Division | Fermilab | Antoine Letessier-Selvon | Universités de Paris VI & VII | $14,000 | 2016 | |||
| Self-Organization of Gold Nanoparticles by Smectic Topological Defects, for the Emergence of New Opt | Juan De Pablo | Institute for Molecular Engineering | IME | Emmanuelle Lacaze | Université Pierre et Marie Curie | $20,000 | 2016 | $40,000 | ANL | |
| Towards a Unified, Robust Space-Time Model of Application Resilience | Andrew Chien | Computer Science | PSD | Yves Robert | Ecole Normale Superiere Lyon | $16,000 | 2016 | $14,000 | Fermilab | |
| GRAND CHENE: New High-Energy Neutrino Observatories | Angela Olinto | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Kumiko Kotera | Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris | $16,000 | 2016 | $20,000 | IME | |
| From Serre's Conjectures to a P-adic Local Langlands Program | Bao Le Hung | Mathematics | PSD | Laurent Fargues | Université de Paris VI Jussieu | $12,000 | 2016 | $56,000 | BSD | |
| Mapping Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of NO Production in Caveolae in Live Cells | Yamuna Krishnan | Chemistry | PSD | Christophe Lamaze | Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou | $20,000 | 2016 | $64,000 | PSD | |
| Coherent X-ray Studies of Phase Transitions in the Complex Oxides | Dillon Fong | Materials Science Division | ANL | Hubert Renevier | SUBATECH, Nantes, IN2P3, CNRS | $20,000 | 2017 | |||
| Scalable Data Movement for Data-Centric Supercomputing | Venkatram Vishnwanath | Leadership Computing Facility | ANL | Emmanuel Jeannot | INRIA Bordeaux | $20,000 | 2017 | |||
| Novel Hybrid Simulation Methods for the Modeling of the Protein Assemblies in the Respiratory Chain | Benoit Roux | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | BSD | Chris Chipot | CNRS, Université de Lorraine | $20,000 | 2017 | |||
| Exploring Adaptive Responses to PH Variability in the Face of Ocean Acidification | Catherine Pfister | Ecology & Evolution | BSD | Jean-Pierre Gattuso | CNRS | $24,900 | 2017 | |||
| Testing How Eye Movements Affect the Neural Code for Natural Motion | Jason MacLean | Neurobiology | BSD | Olivier Marre | Université Pierre et Marie Curie | $15,000 | 2017 | |||
| Evolution of Resistance Genes in Plants | Joy Bergelson | Ecology & Evolution | BSD | Fabrice Roux | CNRS, INRA | $10,160 | 2017 | |||
| Harnessing Space and Time in the Transmission Dynamics of Vector-Transmitted Infections | Mercedes Pascual | Ecology & Evolution | BSD | Richard Paul | Institut Pasteur | $16,000 | 2017 | |||
| Dark Matter and Aatellite Galaxies in the Era of LSST | Alex Drlica-Wagner | Particle Astrophysics | Fermilab | Johann Cohen-Tanugi | Université de Montpellier, CNRS | $15,000 | 2017 | |||
| Heterogeneous Models with Propagation on Networks | Andrei Tarfulea | Mathematics | PSD | Jean-Michel Roquejoffre | Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse | $9,740 | 2017 | |||
| Black Holes in String Theory | Emil Martinec | Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute | PSD | Iosif Bena | CEA Saclay | $20,000 | 2017 | |||
| Investigating Filopodia Formation through an Interdisciplinary Approach | Gregory Voth | Chemistry | PSD | Patricia Bassereau | Institut Curie | $16,400 | 2017 | |||
| Magnetic Sponges | John Anderson | Chemistry | PSD | Jeon Ie-Rang | Université de Rennes | $15,000 | 2017 | $40,000 | ANL | |
| Development of a Kg-Size Dark Matter Detector Based on the CCD Technology | Paolo Privitera | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Mariangela Settimo | IN2P3 / CNRS | $7,200 | 2017 | $15,000 | Fermilab | |
| Multiscale Matrix Decompositions for Machine Learning | Risi Kondor | Computer Science | PSD | Rémi Gribonval | INRIA Rennes | $12,000 | 2017 | $86,060 | BSD | |
| Active Chiral Fluids | William Irvine | Physics | PSD | Denis Bartolo | ENS Lyon | $20,000 | 2017 | $100,340 | PSD | |
| Conormal and Arc Spaces in the Deformation Theory of Singularities | Antoni Rangachev | Mathematics | PSD | Bernard Teissier | Institut Mathematique de Jussieu | $23,200 | 2018 | |||
| Broadband Higher-Order Mode-Based Beam Diagnostics at IOTA/FAST | Daniel Broemmelsiek | IOTA/FAST | Fermilab | Olivier Napoly | CEA Saclay | $15,000 | 2018 | |||
| Negative Capacitance in Ferroelectric Nanostructures | Saidur Bakaul | Material Science | ANL | Wilfrid Prellier | CNRS, Caen | $40,000 | 2018 | |||
| Binomial Checkpointing for Machine Learning | Paul Hovland | Computer Science | ANL | Guillaume Aupy | INRIA Bordeaux | $15,000 | 2018 | |||
| Statistical Data Fusion for Large Heterogeneous Datasets | Julie Bessec | Computational Statistis | ANL | Philippe Naveau | LSCE, CNRS | $20,000 | 2018 | |||
| Hybrid Quantum Many-Body Light-Matter Systems: From Theory to Quantum Simulation | Aashish Clerk | IME | IME | Marco Schiro | CEA Saclay | $20,000 | 2018 | |||
| Laser-Driven Experiments of Compressible Magnetized Turbulence | Petros Tzeferacos | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Alexis Casner | University of Bordeaux | $20,000 | 2018 | |||
| Joint Research on the Novel Quantum Materials in the Gaseous Phase | Cheng Chin | Pysics, James Franck Institute | PSD | Jean Dalibard | Collège de France | $24,000 | 2018 | |||
| Discovering Common Principles for Biological Prediction | Stephanie Palmer | Organismal Biology & Anatomy |
BSD | Thierry Mora | Ecole Normale Supérieure | $20,000 | 2018 | |||
| Random Monoallelic Inactivation and Human Autosomal Dominant Diseases* | Marcelo Nobrega | Human Genetics | BSD | Edith Heard | Collège de France | $15,000 | 2018 | $75,000 | ANL | |
| A Novel Collaborative Approach to Studying Parasite Invasion | Aaron Turkewitz | Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology |
BSD | Maryse Lebrun | Université de Montpellier | $14,200 | 2018 | $15,000 | Fermilab | |
| Hard X-ray Window on Ultrafast Charge Transfer in the Liquid Phase | Linda Young | Physics | PSD | Marc Simon | Université Pierre et Marie Curie & Sorbonne Universités | $20,850 | 2018 | $20,000 | IME | |
| Climate Calculations to Identify the Best Target Planets to Search for Life in the Next Two Years* | Dorian Abbot | Geophysical Sciences | PSD | François Forget | Institut Pierre Simon Laplace | $16,000 | 2018 | $66,950 | BSD | |
| Structural and Biochemical Characterization of RomR, a Regulator of Bacterial Cell Motility | Sean Crosson | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | BSD | Tâm Mignot | Institut de Microbiologie de Méditerranée Aix-Marseille University | $17,750 | 2018 | $104,050 | PSD | |
| A genetic scan to dissect climate adaptation in phytopathogenic bacteria | Joy Bergelson | Ecology & Evolution | BSD | Fabrice Roux | CNRS (Toulouse) | $20,000 | 2019 | |||
| Systems analysis of plant defenses promoted by endogenous bioactive metabolites | Jean Greenberg | Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology | BSD | Claire Parent | CNRS, Université de Franche-Comté | $20,000 | 2019 | |||
| Biodiversity, Conservation and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes in French Polynesia | Mark Westneat | Organismal Biology & Anatomy | BSD | Serge Planes | CNRS,, Université de Perpignan | $21,900 | 2019 | |||
| Rapid phylogenomic placement of microbial genomes from metagenomes | A. Murat Eren | Medicine, Committee on Microbiology | BSD | Damien Eveillard | Université de Nantes | $9,500 | 2019 | |||
| Exploring new Dark Matter scenarios with Xenon-based Detectors | Luca Grandi | Physics | PSD | Luca Scotto Lavina | Laboratoire LPNHE, CNRS/IN2P3 (Paris) | $14,818 | 2019 | |||
| Active Chiral Fluids | William Irvine | Physics | PSD | Denis Bartolo | ENS (Lyon) | $20,000 | 2019 | |||
| Boosting discoveries at the LHC with Lund jet plane measurements and machine learning | David Miller | Physics | PSD | Reina Camacho Toro | CNRS, CERN | $21,000 | 2019 | |||
| Collaborative studies of mineral and melt properties in Earth's core and core-mantle boundary | Andrew Campbell | Geophysical Sciences | PSD | Razvan Caracas | CNRS, ENS (Lyon) | $12,100 | 2019 | |||
| Tropical mathematics of deep learning | Lek-Heng Lim | Statistics | PSD | Stéphane Gaubert | CNRS, École Polytechnique | $20,000 | 2019 | |||
| Improving Prospects for CMB Science by Strengthening the SPT-Planck Connection | Thomas Crawford | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Silvia Galli | Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Planck DPC | $15,000 | 2019 | |||
| Analyzing Immune Cell Migration Dynamics at the Scale of the Whole Organism in Mice | Nicolas Chevrier | IME | IME | Walczak Aleksandra | ENS (Paris), CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique | $22,000 | 2019 | $43,980 | ANL | |
| Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Charge Density Waves in an External Magnetic Field | Peter Littlewood | IME, James Franck Institute | IME | George Batrouni | CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur | $18,000 | 2019 | $15,160 | Fermilab | |
| An Additive Manufacturing Approach to On-demand Single Photon Sources and Quantum Networks | Gary Wiederrecht | Nanoscience & Technology Division | ANL | Renaud Bachelot | University of Technology (Troyes) | $24,000 | 2019 | $40,000 | IME | |
| In situ recrystallization study of polycrystalline materials by total scattering | Peter Kenesei | Argonne National Laboratory | ANL | Andras Borbely | Ecole des Mines (Saint-Etienne) | $19,980 | 2019 | $71,400 | BSD | |
| Connecting the beam dynamics code TRACEWIN to the PIP-II Injector Test at Fermilab. | Jean-Paul Carneiro | Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory | Fermilab | Didier Uriot | CEA-Saclay | $15,160 | 2019 | $102,918 | PSD | $273,458 |
| Reconfigurable Optical Matter Materials and Driven Optofluidics | Norbert Scherer | Chemistry | PSD | Delphine Coursault | University of Bordeaux | $20,000 | 2020 | |||
| Long Time Asymptotics and the Soliton Resolution Conjecture for Nonlinear Wave and Dispersive Models | Carlos Kenig | Mathematics | PSD | Frank Merle | University of Cergy-Pontoise, IHES | $20,000 | 2020 | |||
| Causality in Fundamental Physics | Clay Cordova | Physics | PSD | Eric Perlmutter | IPhT Saclay | $20,000 | 2020 | |||
| Causality in Fundamental Physics | Clay Cordova | Physics | PSD | Eric Perlmutter | IPhT Saclay | $5,000 | 2020 | |||
| A Novel Method to Detect Dark Matter and Neutrinos | Paolo Privitera | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Antoine Letessier-Selvon | LPNHE | $17,600 | 2020 | |||
| Water Vapor and Ice Clouds over the Asian Monsoon | Elisabeth Moyer | Geophysical Sciences | PSD | Sergey Khaykin | UVSQ, LATMOS | $4,000 | 2020 | |||
| ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Upgrade | Mark Oreglia | Physics | PSD | David Calvet | Université de Blaise Pascal | $20,000 | 2020 | |||
| Evolution-based Engineering of Protein Function | Rama Ranganathan | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | BSD | Olivier Rivoire | Collège de France | $15,000 | 2020 | |||
| Metabolism-mediated Regulation of Gene Expression in Male Germ Cell Development and Cancer | Yingming Zhao | Cancer Research | BSD | Saadi Khochbin | CNRS, INSERM, Grenoble-Alps University | $20,000 | 2020 | |||
| Dynamic Control of Force Generation in Early Ascidian Embryos | Edwin Munro | Cell & Molecular Biology | BSD | Patrick Lemaire | CRBM, Montpellier | $19,000 | 2020 | |||
| Actin Cytoskeleton Self-Organization In Confined Reaction Volumes | David Kovar | Cell & Molecular Biology | BSD | Laurent Blanchoin | CEA Grenoble | $24,300 | 2020 | |||
| Protein-Protein Recognition and Synatogenesis | Benoit Roux | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | BSD | Christophe Chipot | Université de Lorraine, INC | $20,000 | 2020 | |||
| Distribution and Genomic Variation of Wolbachia Mobile Genetic Elements in Natural Mosquito Populations Worldwide | A. Murat Eren | Medicine, Committee on Microbiology | BSD | Julie Reveillaud | Montpellier University, INRA | $16,000 | 2020 | $80,000 | ANL | |
| ILLINOIS: Thermotropic Ionic Liquid Crystal: Encoding Dimensionality-Controlled & Nanoconfined Ionic Transport | Paul Nealey | Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering | PME | Patrice Rannou | CNRS, Alps-Grenoble University | $20,000 | 2020 | $17,000 | Fermilab | |
| Quantum Device Simulator | Martin Suchara | Computational Science | ANL | Cyril Allouche | ATOS | $40,000 | 2020 | $20,000 | IME | |
| Straight out of the Asteroid Belt to the Inelastic Lines at the Advanced Photon Source | Ercan Alp | X-Ray Science Division | ANL | Mathieu Roskosz | Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle | $40,000 | 2020 | $114,300 | BSD | |
| SiPM Technology in Liquid Argon High Voltage System | Flavio Cavanna | Neutrino Science | Fermilab | Dominique Duchesneau | IN2P3, LAPP | $17,000 | 2020 | $106,600 | PSD | |
| Systems Analysis of Plant Defenses Promoted by Endogenous Bioactive Metabolites | Jean Greenberg | Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology | BSD | Claire Parent | University of Franche-Comté | $15,000 | 2021 | |||
| Discovering Common Principles for Biological Prediction | Stephanie Palmer | Organismal Biology & Anatomy | BSD | Thierry Mora | Ecole Normale Supérieure | $15,000 | 2021 | |||
| Exploring Adaptive Responses to pH Variability in the Face of Ocean Acidification | Cathy Pfister | Ecology & Evolution | BSD | Jean-Pierre Gattuso | Laboratoire d’Oceanographie de Villefranche | $15,000 | 2021 | |||
| A Novel Collaborative Approach to Studying Parasite Invasion | Aaron Turkewitz | Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology | BSD | Maryse Lebrun | University of Montpellier | $10,000 | 2021 | |||
| Biodiversity, Conservation and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes in French Polynesia | Mark Westneat | Organismal Biology & Anatomy | BSD | Serge Planes | University of Perpignan, CBETM | $13,000 | 2021 | |||
| Functional Polyelectrolyte Complex Micelles with Elastin-Like Peptide Segments | Matthew Tirrell | PME | PME | Sébastien Lecommandoux | University of Bordeaux, CNRS | $25,000 | 2021 | |||
| Collaboration for Thin-Sheet Mechanisms | Thomas Witten | Physics | PSD | Benoît Roman | Laboratoire PMMH, CNRS | $14,600 | 2021 | |||
| Probing the Pertinent Interactions of Endophilin and Actin in Vesicle Scission using In Vitro and Coarse Grained Methods | Gregory Voth | Chemistry | PSD | Patricia Bassereau | Institut Curie (Paris) | $20,000 | 2021 | |||
| Geometric Theory of Quantum Hall States | Paul Wiegmann | Physics | PSD | Semyon Klevtsov | University of Strasbourg, CNRS | $20,000 | 2021 | |||
| Modeling Modern Network Traffic: From Data Representation to Automated Machine Learning | Nicholas Feamster | Computer Science | PSD | Francesco Bronzino | University of Savoie Mont Blanc | $15,000 | 2021 | |||
| International Collaboration in High-Altitude Measurements of Water Vapor and Cirrus Clouds over the Asian Monsoon | Elisabeth Moyer | Geophysical Sciences | PSD | Sergey Khaykin | LATMOS/IPSL | $25,000 | 2021 | |||
| Activity Induced Phase Separation | Vincenzo Vitelli | Physics, James Franke Institute | PSD | David Martin | University of Paris | $25,000 | 2021 | |||
| Liquid Inks for Near-Infrared Lasers | Benjamin Diroll | Nanomaterials, Spectroscopy | ANL | Sandrine Ithurria | ESPCI (Paris) | $40,000 | 2021 | |||
| Challenging the Orthodoxy of ‘Materials Design’: Hard X-ray Probes of the Origin of Thermoelectric Properties | Raymond Osborn | X-ray scattering group, Materials Science Divison | ANL | Simon Kimber | Université de Bourgogne | $32,000 | 2021 | |||
| Characterization of Radiation Damage Effects in High-Energy Neutrino Target Graphite using Low-Energy Heavy Ions | Frederique Pellemoine | Accellerator Division | Fermilab | Clara Grygiel | GCIMAP-CIRIL-GANIL (Caen) | $19,791 | 2021 | |||
| HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Access Retention and Education Research (HIV PrEP-ARER) | Aniruddha Hazra | Medicine | BSD | Jean-Michel Molina | University of Paris Diderot, Hôpitaux de Paris | $25,000 | 2022 | |||
| Water Decontamination Using a Plasma-in-Liquid Technique: Application to PFAS Treatment (WIPE-PFAS) | Junhong Chen | PME | PME | Arlette Vega Gonzalez | Laboratoire des Sciences des Procédes et des Matériaux | $30,000 | 2022 | |||
| Novel Rare-Earth-ion Doped Thin Film Crystals via Hybrid Epitaxial Growth | Tian Zhong | PME | PME | Alexandre Tallaire | ENSCP, Chimie Paristech | $12,500 | 2022 | |||
| The Total Synthesis of Sclerocitrin as Fueled by Novel Radical Cyclization Cascades | Scott Snyder | Chemistry | PSD | Stephane Quideau | University of Bordeaux | $17,000 | 2022 | |||
| Single-Chain Magnets Encapsulated in Molecular Frameworks | John Anderson | Chemistry | PSD | Ie-Rang Jeon | Université de Rennes | $25,000 | 2022 | |||
| Large-Scale Simulations for Next Generation Cosmological Modeling | Chihway Chang | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Francois Lanusse | CEA Saclay | $24,750 | 2022 | |||
| Foundational Models and Efficient Algorithms for Scheduling with Variable Capacity Resources | Andrew Chien | Computer Science | PSD | Yves Robert | ENS-Lyon | $22,500 | 2022 | |||
| Novel Quantum Phenomena in Ultracold Atoms with Tunable Two- and Three-Body Interactions | Cheng Chin | Physics | PSD | Thomas Bourdel | Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique | $24,000 | 2022 | |||
| Detecting, Explaining, Mitigating Model Drift in Operational Networks | Nick Feamster | Computer Science | PSD | Francesco Bronzino | University of Savoie Mont Blanc | $15,000 | 2022 | |||
| Holography in Quantum Gravity | David Kutasov | Physics | PSD | Monica Guica | Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA/Paris-Saclay | $24,000 | 2022 | |||
| DAMIC-M: Searching for Dark Matter under the French Alps | Paolo Privitera | Astronomy & Astrophysics | PSD | Olivier Deligny | Institut Juliot-Curie (IJCLab) | $20,000 | 2022 | |||
| QBRICKS for Quantum Compilation | Robert Rand | Computer Science | PSD | Benoit Valiron | Université Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec | $20,000 | 2022 | |||
| The Higgs Boson Mass from Cosmology, and its Experimental Tests | Liantao Wang | Physics | PSD | Raffaele D'Agnolo | Université Paris-Saclay, (CEA) | $24,300 | 2022 | |||
| Developing Next Generation Tools for Large-Scale Computational Science | Jonathan Ozik | Computational Science | ANL | Mickael Binois | Université Côte d'Azur, Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée | $39,960 | 2022 | |||
| Nano X-ILIGHT: Nano X-ray to Image Bacterial Cells at the Intracellular Level and Grasp Hg Transformations in the Environment | Si Chen | Physics | ANL | Marie-Pierre Isaure | University of Pau | $39,500 | 2022 | |||
| Building and Validating the Computer Model for DUNEVertical Drift Detector | Kenneth Herner | Applications Physics | Fermilab | Elisabetta Pennacchio | CERN | $20,000 | 2022 | |||
| Models with Higher-Order Interactions in Ecology, Evolution and Epidemiology | Stefano Allesina | Ecology & Evolution | Francois Massoi | Université de Lille | $15,500 | 2023 | ||||
| Dynamic Coupling of Adhesion and Contractility during Morphogeneis | Edwin Munro | Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology | Thomas Lecuit | Collège de France | $22,500 | 2023 | ||||
| Discovering Common Principles for Prediction Across Scales and Systems in Biology* | Stephanie Palmer | Organismal Biology & Anatomy | Physics | Aleksandra Walczak | Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, PSL-École Normale Supérieure | $30,000 | 2023 | |||
| The Evolutionary Design of Proteins* | Rama Ranganathan | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | PME | Olivier Rivoire | PSL-ESPCI | $20,000 | 2023 | |||
| International Multidisciplinary Network on Personalized Cancer Chronotherapy: Fostering Collaborative Projects Through Chicago-Paris Partnership* ° | Esra Tasali | Medicine | Francis Lévi | Paul Brousse Hospital, Paris | $30,000 | 2023 | ||||
| Evolution of the Human Skull: Exploring Gracilization and Robusticity of the Lower Jaw in Humans and Chimpanzees* | Zewdi Tsegai | Organismal Biology & Anatomy | Sélim Natahi | Collège de France | $25,000 | 2023 | ||||
| Neural Basis of Robust Motion Detection by the Mammalian Retina | Wei Wei | Neurobiology | Olivier Marre | Institut de la Vision, INSERM DR2 | $18,000 | 2023 | ||||
| Open Quantum Systems Dynamics in Noisy-Intermediate-Scale Quantum Systems | Aashish Clerk | PME | Marco Schiro | Ecole Polytechnique; College de France | $30,000 | 2023 | ||||
| Optimization of the Pressure during Cycling for Positive Electrode with Solid Electrolyte | Ying Shirley Meng | PME | Alejandro A. Franco | Paul Brousse Hospital, Paris | $15,000 | 2023 | ||||
| Collaborative Studies of Iron-Hydrogen Alloy as a Model of Earth’s Core | Andrew Campbell | Geophysical Sciences | Razvan Caracas | Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris | $17,650 | 2023 | ||||
| Statistical Properties of Graph Neural Network Embeddings | Claire Donnat | Statistics | Olga Klopp | ESSEC Business School | $19,500 | 2023 | ||||
| Cost-Aware Feature Engineering and Model Selection for Network Traffic | Nick Feamster | Computer Science | Francesco Bronzino | ENS Lyon | $22,500 | 2023 | ||||
| Dualities for the Design and Control of Metamaterials ° | Vincenzo Vitelli | Physics | Michel Fruchart | PSL-ESPCI Paris | $30,000 | 2023 | ||||
| Microwave Single Photon Detection for Spin and Microwave-Optical Entanglement | Xu Han | Argonne National Laboratory | Patrice Bertet | CEA at U Paris-Saclay, CNRS (UMR 3680) | $40,000 | 2023 | ||||
| Cooperative Nitrogen Reduction by Heterobimetallic Active Sites on Electron Reservoir Supports | David Kaphan | Argonne National Laboratory | Clément Camp | Laboratory of Catalysis, Polymerization, Processes and Material (CP2M) | $40,000 | 2023 | ||||
*The FACCTS program is administered and managed by the France Chicago Center (FCC), and is made possible with the generous financial support of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research; the Office of the Provost;The Division of the Biological Sciences; the Division of the Physical Sciences; The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering; the Office of Science, Innovation, National Laboratories, and Global Initiatives (SING) at the University of Chicago; PSL University; the Office of Science and Technology at the Embassy of France in the United States; Argonne National Laboratory; Fermilab Accelerator National Laboratory; and FCC’s Support Council in the Sciences (Confrères).