2025 MRPI Awards
Fourteen outstanding proposals, totaling more than $15 million over four years, were awarded as a result of the 2025 competition. These awards, selected from a pool of 153 eligible applications, represent an investment in innovative, interdisciplinary research across a broad range of fields.
Project Title
Heat, Equity, and Integrated Resilience in Schools (HEIRS)
Reimagining Refuge: California for Just Migrant Futures
Unraveling disease pathways for autism spectrum disorder with phenotyping of human brain organoids.
Leveraging Coherent Quantum Electrodynamics for Attosecond X-ray Sciences
California Organic, Agroecological, and Regenerative (COAR) Transitions
Tools for Community-Engagement Initiatives to Educate Youth for an Environmentally Just Future
The Art of Resilience UC Climate Action Arts Network: engaging California’s public for change
Water Reuse for Sustainable Agriculture: Erase PFAS and Organic Contaminants from Water-Food Nexus
CALI-GREAT: California’s Groundbreaking and Responsible Evaluation of AI Tech for Sepsis Prevention
Materials Science for Climate-Proof Agriculture
Developing the UC Obstetric Consortium On Real-world Evidence (UC OB CORE)
Leveraging California's linguistic diversity to improve large language models