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 Professor William Bentley (pictured left, Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor and chair of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering), Maryland NanoCenter Director and Professor Gary Rubloff (pictured middle, materials science and engineering/ECE/ISR) and Associate Professor Reza Ghodssi (pictured right, electrical and computer engineering [ECE] and Institute for Systems Research [ISR]) are collaborating on a new, four-year grant worth $1,968,984 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation-Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering (EFRI-CBE) program. EFRI is NSF's newest and most competitive grant. The goal of the research is to revolutionize the way researchers develop and test pharmaceutical drugs. The investigative team also includes Gregory Payne, director of the Center for Biosystems Research at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. |
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 Professor K. J. Ray Liu (ECE/ISR) and Professor Tom McAvoy (chemical and biomolecular engineering) are part of a University of Maryland research group that has received a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for an innovative technique to treat cancerous tumors in the lungs and upper abdominal region. The principal investigator for the research is Assistant Professor Warren D'Souza (radiation oncology) of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
 The University of Maryland's biosensors research group, led by Professor Mel Gomez, principal investigator, and Professor Neil Goldsman, both of ECE, and Professor Michael Fuhrer of the Department of Physics, obtained a three-year contract for cancer research worth $1.2 million from the National Cancer Institute–SAIC, part of NIH. The goal of the research is to develop and optimize methods for screening large numbers of genes.
 Associate Professor David Lovell (civil and environmental engineering/ISR) is the principal investigator for the University of Maryland portion of a two-year, $1.04 million grant from NASA to evaluate methods of relieving the nation’s overburdened aviation system through improvements to its air traffic control system. The grant was awarded to NEXTOR, the National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research, for “Advanced Stochastic Network Queuing Models of the Impact of 4D Trajectory Precision on Aviation System Performance.” The project will build a large-scale stochastic queuing model of the national airspace system that will allow the Federal Aviation Administration to estimate improvements in performance metrics and reliability afforded by individual technological enhancements to the air traffic control system. The principal investigator for the grant is Mark Hansen, professor of civil and environmental engineering with the Institute for Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The University of Maryland, MIT and Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) of Rockville, Md. are the subcontractors.
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