 Fischell Department of
Bioengineering Professor and Chair William Bentley and Gregory Payne,
director of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute's Center for Biosystems Research, have been
awarded a $2.5 million, five-year contract by the U.S. Department of Defense for the development of next
generation threat detection systems. The long-term goal is the rapid and sensitive detection of an
environmental threat, and the immediate conversion of this information into electronic signals that
can be readily processed and communicated.
 The National Institutes of
Health has awarded a $1.27 million grant to Associate Professor Jaydev P. Desai
(mechanical engineering) for his project titled: “Robotic Haptic Feedback System for Bx/RFA of Breast
Tumor under Continuous MRI.” The goal of the project is to develop a novel teleoperated robotic system
to assist physicians performing MRI-guided breast cancer treatments. The project is in collaboration
with the University Of Maryland School of Medicine, with Desai as the principal investigator. Desai is
also the director of the Robotics, Automation, Manipulation, and Sensing Laboratory.
 Professor Uzi Vishkin (electrical and computer
engineering/University of Maryland Institute of Advanced Computer Studies) is co-principal investigator
for a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that will support his research, titled "Design and Tools
for Easy-to-Program Massively Parallel On-Chip Systems: Deriving Scalability through Asynchrony."
The grant, worth nearly $1 million, was one of only two large-scale team proposals awarded by the NSF in
the "Design Automation for Micro and Nano Systems" area for its Computing Processes and Artifacts
program. The research is being conducted jointly with Steven M. Nowick, professor
of computer science and electrical engineering at Columbia University, an expert in asynchronous
computing.
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