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Futures interdisciplinary research grants provide seed funding to Futures Conference research participants, on a competitive basis, to enable further pursuit of important new ideas and connections stimulated by the national conference, bringing people together in a variety of new ways and sparking new interdisciplinary research. The grants provide researchers an opportunity to explore new research areas, learn new skills, and/or collaborate across disciplines, in cases where this would not otherwise be possible. These grants will help researchers move towards the interfaces between disciplines.
Late April 2010, the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative announced the recipients of this year's Futures grants: Thirteen projects were chosen, each representing a wide range of approaches to synthetic biology, the subject of the seventh annual Futures conference. A summary of the conference, “Synthetic Biology: Building on Nature’s Inspiration,” is available online.
“We received a record number of proposals, including many bold and innovative projects, and believe that these collaborations will result in the most ‘generative’ findings,” said Bonnie L. Bassler, professor of molecular biology, Princeton University, and the conference chair.
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