Bioscience Social Science Computing & Technology Environment Humanities Coast & Waterways Life Course & Aging Disaster Science   LSU RESEARCH Home About Us Archive Office of Research & Economic Development LSU RESEARCH is a member of the University Research Magazine Association. Visit www.urma.org. BIOSCIENCE SQUARED New $9 million NSF grant funds creation of center at LSU The new Center for BioModular Microsystems, or CBM2, has been established at LSU thanks to a $9 million research grant from the National Science Foundation. The center represents a collaboration between researchers at LSU, LSU’s Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, the LSU Health Science Center in New Orleans, Tulane Health Science Center, and Xavier University in New Orleans. Provided through the NSF’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, or EPSCoR, the grant was officially awarded to the Louisiana Board of Regents and the Louisiana EPSCoR program. With $3 million from the Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund and $1.5 million from the participating institutions, the grant will total $13.5 million over the next three years. The center will bring together an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research team that will focus on building new equipment and tools for medicine, forensics and homeland security applications. ON THE WEB: Center for BioModular Microsystems

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