Hariri Jr Fellow Doug Densmore (ENG) with PI Calin Belta (ENG) and team, secure $4.5M NSF CPS Frontier Award

PI Calin Belta (ENG) works with Co-PI Douglas Densmore (ENG), Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow; Vijay Kuma (UPenn); Ron Weiss (MIT), Director of the MIT Synthetic Biology Center; and members of SRI International earn five-year $4.5M NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Program Frontier award for research on engineering living cells. 

“Our ultimate goal is to automate the entire process from engineering individual cells to controlling their global behavior, so that any user could submit requests from the desktop,” states Belta.

Densmore adds, “The complex behaviors we wish to engineer are too difficult to manually specify and analyze. Design software makes this project manageable as well as formally captures the process so that it can be used in the future to enable new discoveries.”

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