The National Science Foundation is creating four new Engineering Research Centers [Image: GETTY]
The National Science Foundation has announced awards totaling $104 million to create four new Engineering Research Centers (ERCs). The new centers, each with several leading American research universities collaborating as partners, will receive $26 million apiece for an initial five-year period.
ATP-Bio
The goal of the ERC for Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems is to stop biological time by designing methods to cryogenically cool, hold and re-warm living materials without harm, extending the ability for them to be banked and transported.
The University of Minnesota’s Institute for Engineering in Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery will be funded to create the ATP-Bio center, which will involve four core partners: University of Minnesota (lead); Massachusetts General Hospital (co-lead); University of California, Berkeley; and University of California, Riverside.