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/生物系统的兼容性都基于四个主要的相互作用阶段--基质/大分子“条件膜”/活细胞/周围介质。美国国家科学基金会CDR86-15640的规划拨款表明，生物表面科学产业/大学合作研究中心是可行和可行的。该奖项是在纽约州立大学布法罗分校与蒙大拿州立大学合作发起的生物表面科学产业/大学合作研究中心。最初的研究集中在聚合物、金属和陶瓷的模型底物上，这些底物被用来研究暴露在相关相互作用的生物系统中的沉积。其他研究正在解决生物系统与细菌、哺乳动物细胞、血液成分和微乳剂的兼容性问题。一位女本科生正在通过对模型底物的研究来加强这项研究。八家公司提供了该中心60%的资金。该大学和纽约州科学技术基金会都为该中心超过600,000美元的总预算提供了大量的费用分摊。联合首席调查员和他们的同事是各自领域的国家公认的专家，具有运营产业/大学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美元的持续资助，为期五年。建议额外拨款5,000美元，用于一(1)年的“支持妇女、少数群体和残疾人工程研究助理资助”计划。每12个月接近结束时，项目经理和/或跨学科研究司司长将审查中心的一些更新标准的进展情况，包括：(1)大学/行业互动和合作的发展程度；(2)中心的支助基础扩大的程度；(3)一个健全的研究计划正在发展的程度。如果审查令人满意，项目经理将建议支持下一阶段的持续拨款。

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.