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Molecular Materials

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Photo of Luisa Russell
Program Director
Division of Discovery Science and Technology (Bioengineering) Program Area: Molecular Materials
This program supports the development and demonstration of broadly applicable molecular materials to enable new paradigms of human health.

Emphasis:

The emphasis is on the development of molecular materials and associated computational models for biomedical intervention. 

Projects might focus on:

  • elucidating important engineering design rules or key foundational principles underlying future engineering, including the use of computational methods
  • prototyping or redesigning platform technologies
  • characterizing (in vitro, ex vivo, or in vivo) broadly applicable technologies and prototypes

NIBIB interests include but are not limited to: 

  • lipid nanoparticle coatings for evading the immune system
  • supramolecular polymers for targeted protein degradation
  • drug conjugates for targeted drug delivery