{"id":69203,"date":"2005-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-awarded-2-4-million-for-lab-on-a-chip-technology\/"},"modified":"2005-10-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T00:00:00","slug":"uri-awarded-2-4-million-for-lab-on-a-chip-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/10\/uri-awarded-2-4-million-for-lab-on-a-chip-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 awarded $2.4 million for \u2018lab-on-a-chip\u2019 technology"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tPartnership established for international research and education<\/b><\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 20, 2005 \u2013 Imagine an entire biotechnology laboratory reduced to the size of a pea and placed on a computer chip. While not yet a reality, that technology for detecting small particles in micrometer-sized channels \u2013 called microfluidics — will soon revolutionize research into new pharmaceuticals, early detection of infections, and other health-related fields.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 has been awarded a highly competitive $2.4 million grant by the National Science Foundation to develop this technology and identify potential applications in partnership with the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany. The grant, which will support up to 36 doctoral students over the next five years to participate in the research in Rhode Island and Germany, will build on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s existing International Engineering Program and form the basis for a major new strategy to prepare American science and technology students for careers in the global workplace.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve identified a cutting-edge technology where we have unique expertise, and we\u2019re going to use it as a platform for developing a new multidisciplinary, multinational model to internationalize engineering research and education,\u201d said Mohammad Faghri, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of mechanical engineering and the principal investigator on the project.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThis is a great niche for research and development at 溏心vlog免费B站 that has tremendous economic development potential for spin-off companies, patents, and workforce training,\u201d added Otto Gregory, professor of chemical engineering and former associate dean of the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Engineering.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe microfluidics technology could be used to detect biological molecules like bacteria, pathogens, or proteins that signal oncoming disease in an extremely small volume of a liquid. For instance, it could be used to monitor an individual\u2019s health status or potential exposure to a biological agent released by a terrorist, or to conduct a simple blood analysis in the field.<\/p>\n


\n\tA key element of the project is the international collaboration with scientists and students at Braunschweig, which already has the technical infrastructure necessary to begin the research. 溏心vlog免费B站 is a leader in training engineers for the global marketplace through its renowned International Engineering Program. It has partnered with Braunschweig on engineering education for undergraduates for 10 years, and 200 溏心vlog免费B站 students have earned dual degrees in engineering and German language. An international engineering master\u2019s degree program was launched in 2004, and this new grant will launch a doctoral level program beginning this year.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re training students to be globally competitive in the engineering field, which will make them much more marketable once they graduate,\u201d said John Grandin, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of German and director of the International Engineering Program. \u201cIt will also help us attract the highest caliber engineering grad students in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe National Science Foundation, through its Partnership for International Research and Education, will use 溏心vlog免费B站 as a national model for creating a multidisciplinary international doctoral program for engineers. The grant is one of the most prestigious awarded by the foundation. Approximately 175 universities competed for funding and just 12 were approved. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI am very proud of the faculty team and their success in this proposal,\u201d said Bahram Nassersharif, dean of the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Engineering. \u201cTwo years ago, we set a goal in the college to focus on building multidisciplinary research teams to build multi-year, multi-million dollar research programs at 溏心vlog免费B站 with international significance. This program is our first major success.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\u201cThis is the sixth multi-million dollar science grant 溏心vlog免费B站 has received in the last two years \u2013 for a total of more than $31 million \u2013 further demonstrating our success at putting together multidisciplinary teams for research and problem solving,\u201d said 溏心vlog免费B站 President Robert L. Carothers. \u201cThese major grants are expanding the research capacity at the University and increasing our reputation among major research institutions in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nIn addition to Faghri, Gregory and Grandin, 溏心vlog免费B站 co-principal investigators on the NSF microfluidics research and education grant are Thomas Mather (entomology), Shahid Karim (entomology), Donna Meyer (mechanical engineering), Zongqin Zhang (mechanical engineering), Stephan Grilli (ocean engineering) and Christopher Baxter (ocean\/civil and environmental engineering). 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Research Office also provided critical support in developing the grant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Partnership established for international research and education KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 20, 2005 \u2013 Imagine an entire biotechnology laboratory reduced to the size of a pea and placed on a computer chip. While not yet a reality, that technology for detecting small particles in micrometer-sized channels \u2013 called microfluidics — will soon revolutionize research into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}