Funding & Collaborations

Current Funding

• Antibacterial Hydrogel Microbead Adsorbents for Short-Chain PFAS Removal. $12,000 – PI: Yuemei Ye, PSC-CUNY Cycle 56 Enhanced Award - 06.2025-06.2026

• Novel Nanomaterial-Based Methods for PFAS Degradation. $20,000 – PI: Yuemei Ye, CUNY ASRC Seed Award - 05. 2024-08.2026

 Projects Completed

• PFAS Exposure and Breast Cancer: Effects of PFOA on Human Breast Cell Lines. $1,000  – PI: Columba De La Parra, co-PI: Yuemei Ye  - 2025.06- 2025.08

• Extracting PFAS Partition Coefficients Using AI. $2,000– PIs: Yuemei Ye & Liang Zhao - 2025.06- 2025.08

• PFAS Exposure in New York City. $3,000– PI: Yuemei Ye,  Co-PI: Liang Zhao, CUNY Transfer to STEM Student Success (TS3) 2024.06-2024.08

• Transition Metal Nanozyme Systems for Degradation of Persistent Organic Pollutants. $3,500  – PI: Yuemei Ye, PSC-CUNY 55 Cycle - 06. 2024-12.2025

Collaborations

The PI has established collaborations with research groups across multiple institutions, each comprised of experts contributing their expertise to our antibacterial studies and material functionalization for persistent organic contaminants remedation research projects. Furthermore, Advanced Science Research Center from the City University of New York provides advanced instruments for the analysis of our nanomaterials.