GRANTS AND FUNDING (2005-2025): Total $ 1,101,176
2025-2026 National Science Foundation EPSCOR #OIA-2433276 RI Network for Excellence in Science and T. Technology (RI-NEST) Seed Grant (2025-2026)
Grant amount: $10,611
2025 National Science Foundation EPSCoR #OIA-2433276 Summer Undergraduate Research Funds to supplement the RWU Foundation grant (2024-2025).
Grant amount: $6,550
2024 National Science Foundation EPSCoR #OIA-1655221 Summer Undergraduate Research Funds to supplement the RWU Foundation grant (2024-2025).
Grant amount: $13,100
2024-2025 RWU Foundation to Promote Scholarship Electrochemical biosensors for detection of pathogenic protists in resident shellfish in Narraganset Bay
Grant amount: $5,500
2020-2021 RWU Foundation to Promote Scholarship Microbial Eukaryotes: Gut Inhabitants of Galápagos Marine Iguanas
Grant amount: $9,834
2019 Med Tech Rhode Island Synthetic Pyrazolines Inhibition of Entamoeba histolytica’s Alcohol/Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 2 (EhADH2)
Grant amount: $6,000
2018-2019 National Institute of Health General Medicine 2 P20 GM103430 Uncovering Anti-amoebic Bioactive Compounds in medicinal plants, maple syrup and marine microbes
Grant amount: $25,000
2017-2019 RWU Foundation to Promote Scholarship Improving Stability of ADHE Enzymes
Grant amount $15,500
2015-2017 National Institute of Health General Medicine 2 P20 GM103430 Anaerobic Enzymes as Drug Targets in the Treatment of Amoebiasis
Grant amount: 50,000
2015-2017 Rhode Island NSF-EPSCoR EPS-1004057: Entamoeba spp. as models to explore the effects of environmental stress due to climate change in marine protists
Grant amount: $19,000
2013-2015 National Institute of Health NIH-NCRR Grant # 8P20GM103430-13 The Search for Anti-Amoebic Drugs with Less Toxicity In Humans: Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 Enzyme As Potential Target
Grant Amount: $98,247
2014-2015 Roger Williams University Foundation Scholarship: Entamoeba spp. use biochemical signaling and behavioral aggregation to discriminate between members of distinctive varieties
Grant amount: $13,000
2012 & 2015 American Society for Microbiology Summer Undergraduate Fellowship (URF) to Espinosa’s lab for Summer 2012
Research students: Andrew Mitchell; Summer 2015 UG: Joshua Leitao
Grant amount: $8,000
2012 National Science Foundation-CAREER 0952550 ROA Supplement Crystal structure(s) of Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 enzyme and its domains
Sabbatical funds A. Espinosa to work at Rebecca Page’s Lab-Brown University
Grant amount: $6,804
2009-2013 National Institute of Health NIH-NCRR Grant # 2 P20 RR16457- (09-11) Search for Anti-Amoebic Drugs with Less Toxicity In Humans: Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 Enzyme As Potential Target
Grant amount: $280,000
2008-2011 Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Collaborative Science Research Award
Grant amount: $60,000
2005-2009 National Institute of Health NIH-NCRR Grant # 2 P20 RR16457-(04-09) Search for Anti-Amoebic Drugs with Less Toxicity In Humans: Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 Enzyme As Potential Target
Grant amount: $400,000
2005 Rhode Island Aquaculture Initiative Identification of antimicrobial peptides in fish and the benefits to the aquaculture industry
Grant amount: $5,000
2005-2025 Funding supplements (equipment e.g., freezer, microscope, chromatography refrigerator, HPLC, emulsifier), travel
Amount: $69,030
2025-2026 National Science Foundation EPSCOR #OIA-2433276 RI Network for Excellence in Science and T. Technology (RI-NEST) Seed Grant (2025-2026)
Grant amount: $10,611
2025 National Science Foundation EPSCoR #OIA-2433276 Summer Undergraduate Research Funds to supplement the RWU Foundation grant (2024-2025).
Grant amount: $6,550
2024 National Science Foundation EPSCoR #OIA-1655221 Summer Undergraduate Research Funds to supplement the RWU Foundation grant (2024-2025).
Grant amount: $13,100
2024-2025 RWU Foundation to Promote Scholarship Electrochemical biosensors for detection of pathogenic protists in resident shellfish in Narraganset Bay
Grant amount: $5,500
2020-2021 RWU Foundation to Promote Scholarship Microbial Eukaryotes: Gut Inhabitants of Galápagos Marine Iguanas
Grant amount: $9,834
2019 Med Tech Rhode Island Synthetic Pyrazolines Inhibition of Entamoeba histolytica’s Alcohol/Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 2 (EhADH2)
Grant amount: $6,000
2018-2019 National Institute of Health General Medicine 2 P20 GM103430 Uncovering Anti-amoebic Bioactive Compounds in medicinal plants, maple syrup and marine microbes
Grant amount: $25,000
2017-2019 RWU Foundation to Promote Scholarship Improving Stability of ADHE Enzymes
Grant amount $15,500
2015-2017 National Institute of Health General Medicine 2 P20 GM103430 Anaerobic Enzymes as Drug Targets in the Treatment of Amoebiasis
Grant amount: 50,000
2015-2017 Rhode Island NSF-EPSCoR EPS-1004057: Entamoeba spp. as models to explore the effects of environmental stress due to climate change in marine protists
Grant amount: $19,000
2013-2015 National Institute of Health NIH-NCRR Grant # 8P20GM103430-13 The Search for Anti-Amoebic Drugs with Less Toxicity In Humans: Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 Enzyme As Potential Target
Grant Amount: $98,247
2014-2015 Roger Williams University Foundation Scholarship: Entamoeba spp. use biochemical signaling and behavioral aggregation to discriminate between members of distinctive varieties
Grant amount: $13,000
2012 & 2015 American Society for Microbiology Summer Undergraduate Fellowship (URF) to Espinosa’s lab for Summer 2012
Research students: Andrew Mitchell; Summer 2015 UG: Joshua Leitao
Grant amount: $8,000
2012 National Science Foundation-CAREER 0952550 ROA Supplement Crystal structure(s) of Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 enzyme and its domains
Sabbatical funds A. Espinosa to work at Rebecca Page’s Lab-Brown University
Grant amount: $6,804
2009-2013 National Institute of Health NIH-NCRR Grant # 2 P20 RR16457- (09-11) Search for Anti-Amoebic Drugs with Less Toxicity In Humans: Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 Enzyme As Potential Target
Grant amount: $280,000
2008-2011 Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Collaborative Science Research Award
Grant amount: $60,000
2005-2009 National Institute of Health NIH-NCRR Grant # 2 P20 RR16457-(04-09) Search for Anti-Amoebic Drugs with Less Toxicity In Humans: Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 Enzyme As Potential Target
Grant amount: $400,000
2005 Rhode Island Aquaculture Initiative Identification of antimicrobial peptides in fish and the benefits to the aquaculture industry
Grant amount: $5,000
2005-2025 Funding supplements (equipment e.g., freezer, microscope, chromatography refrigerator, HPLC, emulsifier), travel
Amount: $69,030