Professor receives NSF CAREER Award for project to facilitate communication of synthetic cells
Nick Carroll, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The University of New Mexico, was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for a project that could eventually lead to smart implantable medical devices and other biomedical and technological advances. Carroll’s research — which focuses on genetically-engineered biomaterials created by the interplay of biology and polymer physics — seeks to develop synthetic cell populations that can “talk” to each other and transmit information, much like the electrical impulses that send command...
Source: unm.edu