The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made four 5-year awards to initiate a unique, diverse, and nationwide Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology.

This program brings together bioengineers, materials scientists, biologists, and physicians who work in interdisciplinary teams. By taking advantage of the unique properties of materials at the nanoscale, these teams will devise creative solutions to medical problems.

This program is a vitally important research effort that will spur the development of novel technologies to diagnose and treat heart, lung, and blood diseases.

Emory University
Georgia Institute of Technology

The Burnham Institute
University of California Santa Barbara
The Scripps Research Institute

Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard University

Washington University in Saint Louis
University of California Santa Barbara
University of California Berkeley