Bioengineering and the National Science Foundation

1. Bioengineering and the National Science Foundation National Science Foundation ENG/CBET Program Director Cindy M. Lee June 14, 2007

2. NSF Organizational Structure $41 Office of the Director OISE $182 OCI $438 Polar Programs Directorate for Biological Sciences Directorate for Geosciences $608 $745 Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences $1150 $527 Directorate for Education and Human Resources Directorate for Social, Behavioral And Economic Sciences $816 $214 Directorate for Engineering $629 (incl. $109 for SBIR/STTR) Total FY 2007 budget request in millions

3. NSF-wide Investment Areas(Proposed for FY 08) • Climate Change Science Program • Cyberinfrastructure* • Cyber-enabled Discovery & Innovation* • Human and Social Dynamics • National Nanotechnology Initiative* • Networking Information Technology R&D*

4. Engineering Virtual Organizations • Engineering Directorate • Geographically separated units brought together by a research theme, idea, or concept • Two year seed grants • $100,000 to $200,000 • Solicitation 07-558 • July 3, 2007

5. Interagency Programs • Bioengineering Approaches to Energy Balance and Obesity (NIH/NSF) (RFA-HL-07-007) • Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (NSF/NIH) • NIH-NSF Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes (BBSI)

6. Interagency Programs • Joint DMS/BIO/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research in the Area of Mathematical Biology • DDAS: Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (NIH, NSF) • Interagency Opportunities in Multi-Scale Modeling in Biomedical, Biological, and Behavioral Systems (NSF, NIH, NASA, DOE) • Multi-Agency Tissue Engineering Science (DOD, USDA, CMS, DOE, NSF, NIH, NASA, FDA, NIST)

7. Directorate for EngineeringFY 2007 Office of the Assistant Director Deputy Assistant Director Program Director for Diversity &Outreach Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Senior Advisor Nanotechnology Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, And Transport Systems (CBET) Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)

8. Emerging Frontiers in Research & Innovation (EFRI) • Topics (FY 08) • Cognitive Optimization and Prediction Through Reverse Engineering • Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures • Details • Solicitation will be released mid summer • LOI (September, Fall 2007) • Preproposals (October, Fall 2007) • Invited full proposals (April, Spring 2008) • $500K/year (4 years) • One PI and 2 co-PIs (3 different disciplines)

9. Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Deputy Division Director Bob Wellek Division Director Judy Raper Senior Advisor Marshall Lih Chemical, Biochemical, and Biotechnology Systems Transport and Thermal Fluids Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Healthcare Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Process and Reaction Engineering Maria Burka Thermal Transport Processes Pat Phelan Research to Aid Persons With Disabilities Bob Jaeger Environmental Engineering Pat Brezonik Catalysis and Biocatalysis John Regalbuto Interfacial Processes And Thermodynamics Bob Wellek Environmental Technology Cindy Ekstein Biomedical Engineering Semahat Demir Biochemical Engineering Bruce Hamilton Particulate and Multiphase Processes Vacant Energy for Sustainability Rose Wesson Biophotonics Leon Esterowitz Biotechnology Fred Heineken Fluid Dynamics Bill Schultz Environmental Sustainability Cindy Lee Chemical and Biological Separations Geoff Prentice Combustion, Fire, and Plasma Systems Phil Westmoreland

10. Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation Division Director Adnan Akay Deputy Director George Hazelrigg Engineering Infrastructure Systems Innovation Sciences and Decision Engineering Materials Transformation and Mechanics Geoenvironmental and Geohazard Mitigation Richard Fragaszy Control Systems Vacant Dynamic Systems Eduardo Misawa Information Technology And Infrastructure Systems Edward Jaselskis Geomechanics and Geotechnical Systems Richard Fragaszy Engineering Design Judy Vance Infrastructure Systems Management and Hazard Response Vacant Infrastructure Material And Structural Mechanics Perumalsamy Balaguru Manufacturing Enterprise Systems Abhi Deshmukh Materials Processing and Manufacturing Mary L. Realff Manufacturing Machines and Equipment George Hazelrigg Operations Research Stephen Nash Mechanics and Structures of Materials Ken Chong Service Enterprise Engineering Matthew Realff Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Research Joy Pauschke Nano/Bio Mechanics Jimmy Hsia Sensor Innovation and Systems Shih Chi Liu Structural Systems and Hazard Mitigation of Structures Douglas Foutch NanoManufacturing Haris Doumanidis

11. Award (Grant) Types • Individual Investigator Initiated Awards • CAREER Awards • Center Awards • SBIR/STTR awards • GOALI awards • SGER awards • Supplements • Workshops, conferences

12. Biomedical Engineering Program ( ENG / CBET ) Semahat Demir, Ph.D. sdemir@nsf.gov Program Director Biomedical Engineering Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) National Science Foundation

13. The Focus of the BME Program Biomedical Engineering Program supports research that applies engineering principles to problems in biology and medicine while advancing the engineering knowledge base.  The projects can have diagnosis or treatment-related goals in the long term. The BME program does not support clinical studies.

14. The BME unsolicited projects emphasize • High impact transforming technologies • New methods, models and tools of understanding and controlling living systems • Fundamental improvements in deriving information from cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems • Innovative approaches to the design of structures and materials for eventual medical use • Novel methods of reducing health care costs through new technologies

15. Biotechnology Program ( ENG / CBET ) Fred Heineken, Ph.D. fheineke@nsf.gov Program Director Biotechnology Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) National Science Foundation

16. Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology • Upstream processing • Downstream processing • Bioprocess modeling, monitoring, control and optimization • Metabolic engineering • Quantitative systems biotechnology (QSB) • Tissue engineering • Nanobiotechnology • Food engineering

17. Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology • Biochemical Engineering focuses on single investigator applications • Biotechnology welcomes single investigator as well as multidisciplinary and group proposals

18. Research to Assist Persons with Disabilities Program ( ENG / CBET ) Robert J. Jaeger, Ph.D. rjaeger@nsf.gov Program Director RAPD Program Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) National Science Foundation

19. RAPD Research Areas • Development of technologies for new and improved devices or software for persons with disabilities • Characterization, restoration, and/or substitution of human function • Emphasis is placed on significant advancement of fundamental engineering knowledge and not on incremental improvements

20. RAPD Undergraduate Design Project • The primary goal of this thrust is to provide a meaningful design experience for the engineering student who will work with a specific disabled individual to design a prototype "custom-designed" device or software. • Each PI is expected to implement a high percentage of projects each year. It is also expected that the projects will contain appropriate levels of quantitative engineering analysis. • The proposal must include a short description of ten possible design projects. These projects should be suitable for an undergraduate student, or a small team of students, to complete in about one year.

21. Biophotonics Program ( ENG / CBET ) Leon Esterowitz, Ph.D. lesterow@nsf.gov Program Director Biophotonics Program Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) National Science Foundation

22. Biophotonics • Exploit the power of photonics for biomedical engineering • Sensing • Imaging • Monitoring

23. General Information Unsolicited Proposal Submission Dates August 15 to September 15, 2007 February 1 to March 1, 2008 CAREER Proposal Submission Date July 18, 2007 Workshop, Conference, SGER, REU, RET Proposals Call Program Director to discuss before applying