BU Wins $20M for NSF Engineering Research Center
The National Science Foundation awards BU a $20 million, five-year grant to create a multi-institution Engineering Research Center, with the goal of synthesizing personalized heart tissue for clinical use. The grant, which is renewable for a total of 10 years and $40 million, is designed to accelerate an area of engineering research—in this case, bioengineering functional heart tissue—that is likely to spur societal change and economic growth within a decade.
