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National Science Foundation Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental,

National Science Foundation Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ( CBET ) Division Biotechnology, Biochemical and Biomass Engineering ( BBBE ) Program Fred Heineken Program Director fheineke@nsf.gov. Topic Areas of Interest  Fermentation Technology

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National Science Foundation Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental,

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  1. National Science Foundation Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Division Biotechnology, Biochemical and Biomass Engineering (BBBE) Program Fred Heineken Program Director fheineke@nsf.gov

  2. Topic Areas of Interest Fermentation Technology Enzyme Technology Recombinant DNA Technology Cell Culture Technology Ex Vivo and Therapeutic Stem Cell Culture Technology Metabolic Engineering Biosensor Development Food Processing with a Special Focus of the Safety of the Nation’s Food Supply Tissue Engineering Nanobiotechnology Quantitative Systems Biotechnology

  3. BBBE Program FY 2007 Budget Type of GrantNumber$% Regular 26 6,046,909 57.8 CAREER 36 3,950,766 37.8 SGER 3 207,478 2.0 Supplement 6 98,212 0.9 Conference 6 158,999 1.5 Total 10,462,364 100.0

  4. BBBE Program Unsolicited Proposal Submission Dates February 1 to March 1, 2008 August 15 to September 15, 2008 CAREER Proposal Submission Date July 2008 Workshop, Conference, SGER, REU, RET Proposals Call Program Director to discuss before applying

  5. The BBBE Program supports an Inter-Agency Activity in Tissue Engineering http://tissueengineering.gov Participating Agencies/Departments Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF)

  6. Tissue Engineering Goals of Participating Agencies / Departments Facilitate Communication across Departments / Agencies Enhance Cooperation through Co-Sponsorship of Scientific Meetings and Workshops Monitor Technology by Undertaking Cooperative Assessments of the Field Provide for Support of Tissue Engineering Research through Interagency Funding Opportunity Announcements Issue a Strategic Plan for Tissue Science and Engineering

  7. BBBE Program Tissue Engineering Accomplishments(5 Years)  WTEC Panel Report on Tissue Engineering Research (January 2002) Generated an Interagency Web Site < http:www.tissueengineering.gov > The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Issued an RFP for Tissue Engineering Proposals based on Information from the WTEC Panel Report (March 2003) Abt Report on: “The Emergence of Tissue Engineering as a Research Field” (NSF 04-50) (October 2003) Issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on “Enabling Technologies for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (R01)” ( NIH PAR-06-504) Held Workshop on: “Stem Cell Research for Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering” (February 2007) Terms of Reference (TOR) Approved (March 2007) Strategic Plan issued through the Office of Science and Technology Policy (June 2007)

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