Calling all first-year and incoming PhD students interested in Biological Feedback Control!

Boston University has been awarded almost $3 million in funding from The National Science Foundation to create and facilitate a first-of-its-kind graduate training program on feedback in biological control.  The program, “A Convergent Training Program in Biological Control,” is co-directed by College of Engineering Dean ad interim Elise Morgan (ME, MSE, BME) and Associate Professor Mary Dunlop (BME), with Professors Christopher Chen (BME, MSE) and Ahmad “Mo” Khalil (BME) serving as co-PIs, and both the Center for Multiscale & Translational Mechanobiology (CMTM) and the Biological Design Center (BDC) administering the program.

CMTM is now actively recruiting first-year and incoming PhD students with varied academic backgrounds for this program including mechanical, biomedical, and electrical engineering, biology, physics, chemistry, and data science for this program.  This NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program will form an interdisciplinary community of students and faculty that combines the study of the engineering principles of feedback control with investigations on how biological systems self-regulate, adapt, heal, and evolve.   It will feature all-new courses, boot camps, workshops, co-mentored research, and industry internships, all geared to advancing both the field of biological control and the position of BU graduates within it, with an emphasis on recruiting and supporting students from underrepresented demographic groups as part of our ongoing efforts to diversify the field of STEM.

For more information about applying, please visit our NRT Program Page.  Read the College of Engineering’s funding announcement for further details about the award.