A grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be used to to develop standards for regenerative medicine and biomaterial manufacturing. NIST awarded a five-year Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) grant of $30 million to Binghamton University, Johns Hopkins University (the lead institute for the grant), and Morgan State University.
The award will allow the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Binghamton University to send a faculty member, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students to NIST every year for the next five years to conduct collaborative research in standards development.
“This exciting program will enable Binghamton students, postdocs and faculty researchers to gain vital laboratory experience and play a role in advancing the field of biomedical engineering,” says Bahgat Sammakia, vice president for research at Binghamton. “Collaboration is a vital part of any researcher’s career, and it’s fantastic to see a program that puts our students and scholars in a position to work on projects of national significance.”
The principal investigator (PI) from Binghamton University is Professor Kaiming Ye from the Biomedical Engineering Department. Ye, also the director of Binghamton University’s Center of Biomanufacturing for Regenerative Medicine (CBRM), will be working with $5 million of the grant.
The three universities will also help the researchers trained through the grant to connect with each other to further advance the field.
