Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Biological Surface Science

生物技术现在被认为是工业增长的新焦点。所有材料/生物系统的相容性都基于四个主要的相互作用阶段——基质/大分子“调节膜”/活细胞/周围介质。NSF CDR 86-15640计划拨款表明，建立生物表面科学产学研合作研究中心是可行的。该奖项旨在与蒙大拿州立大学合作，在纽约州立大学布法罗分校启动一个工业/大学生物表面科学合作研究中心。最初的研究集中在聚合物、金属和陶瓷的模型基底上，用于研究接触相关相互作用的生物系统时发生的沉积。其他研究正在解决生物系统与细菌、哺乳动物细胞、血液成分和微藻类的相容性问题。一位女大学生正在通过模型基质的研究来扩大研究。八家公司提供了该中心60%的资金。纽约大学和纽约州科学技术基金会为该中心超过60万美元的总预算提供了大量费用分摊。联合首席研究员和他们的同事都是各自领域的全国公认的专家，并具有管理产学研合作研究中心的经验和行业联系。项目经理建议纽约州立大学布法罗分校（与蒙大拿州立大学合作）每年获得75,000美元，为期五年。建议在一(1)年内为“支持妇女、少数民族和残疾人工程研究助理”项目提供额外的5,000美元。在每12个月结束时，项目经理和/或跨学科研究部主任将根据一系列更新标准审查中心的进展情况，包括以下方面：(1)大学/行业互动和合作的发展程度；(2)中心支撑基础扩大的程度；(3)一个强有力的研究项目正在发展的程度。如果审查是令人满意的，计划经理将建议支持这个持续拨款的下一个时期。

Biotechnology is now recognized as a new focus for industrial growth. There are four principal interacting phases upon which all material/biosystem compatibility is based - substrata/- macromolecular "conditioning films"/living cells/surrounding media. A planning grant, NSF CDR 86-15640, has shown that an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Biological Surface Science is both feasible and viable. This award is initiating an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Biological Surface Science at the State University of New York - Buffalo in collaboration with Montana State University. The initial research is being focussed around model substrata of polymers, metals and ceramics which are being used to study the deposits occurring during exposures to relevant interacting biosystems. Other studies are addressing biosystem compatibility with bacteria mamanalian cells blood components and micro alage. A woman undergraduate is augmenting the research through studies of model substrata. Eight companies are providing 60% of the Center's funding. Both the University and the New York State Science and Technology Foundation are providing significant cost sharing for the Center's total budget of over $600,000. The Co-Principal Investigators and their colleagues are nationally recognized experts in their fields and have the experience and industrial contacts to run an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. The Program Manager recommends the State University of New York - Buffalo (in collaboration with Montana State University) be awarded $75,000 a year for a five year continuing grant. An additional $5,000 is recommended for one (1) year for "Funding for Support of Women, Minority, and Disabled Engineering Research Assistants" program. Near the end of each 12-month period, the Program Manager and/or the Director of The Division of Cross-Disciplinary Research will review the progress of the Center on a number of renewal criteria, including the following: (1) extent to which university/industry interaction and collaboration is developing; (2) extent to which the support base for the center is expanding; (3) extent to which a robust research program is developing. If review is satisfactory, the Program Manager will recommend support of the next period of this continuing grant.