July 30, 2020
Award Recipient: Professor Javier Read de Alaniz
Award Date: July 28, 2020
The NSF announced a $23.7M award of a Materials Innovation Platform to establish the BioPolymers, Automated Cellular Infrastructure, Flow, and Integrated Chemistry: Materials Innovation Platform (BioPACIFIC MIP) at UCSB and UCLA. DCB Prof. Javier Read de Alaniz will be the Director of the BioPACIFIC MIP, and the project will include many other researchers at UCSB including co-PI and DCB faculty member Prof. Craig Hawker. BioPACIFIC is one of only two MIPs funded by NSF. Congratulations to Javier, Craig and the entire team!
The Current: Push for Bio-based Polymers
UCLA Newsroom: UCLA, UCSB share $23.7 million grant to study biologically based polymers