Engineering Biological and Biomedical Systems (EBBS)
Funds engineering of biology — biosensing, tissue and organ function, biomanufacturing — and lists plainly what it will not fund.
This programme funds the engineering side of biology, at every scale from sensing a biomarker to making a protein to restoring a function of the body. NSF's framing is that US leadership in biotechnology needs engineering at all of those scales.
The method is combination: fundamental mechanistic insight together with experimental and computational technique, producing platforms, devices, organism…
Engineering of biological and biomedical systems — mechanisms of microbial, cell and tissue behaviour, bioreactor response, biosensing platforms, optical imaging and modulation, designed biological systems, tissue injury and organ-imitating or restoring systems, rehabilitation engineering, and biomanufacturing. Drug design and delivery, animal model development, therapy validation and clinical trials are out of scope.
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