# Presentation: 864211

## Biotechnology Program

**National Science Foundation**
**Biotechnology Program**

## Biotechnology Program 

**Biotechnology Program**** **
- Program Director:
-                          Frederick Heineken
-                          (fheineke@nsf.gov)

## Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology Programs                                                  

**Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology Programs**
_**Topic Areas of Common Interest to Both Programs**_
-                              Upstream Processing
-                              Downstream Processing
-                              Bioprocess Modeling, Monitoring, Control and Optimization
-                              Metabolic Engineering
-                              Quantitative Systems Biotechnology (QSB)
-                              Tissue Engineering
-                              Nanobiotechnology
-                              Food Engineering

## Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology Programs                                                  

**Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology Programs**
-   **Biochemical Engineering** focuses on Single Investigator Applications (IIAs)
-   **Biotechnology **welcomes IIAs and provides an Opportunity for Multidisciplinary
-   and Group Proposals

## Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology Programs                                                  

**Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology Programs**
_**Unsolicited Proposal Submission Dates**_
-  February 1 to March 1, 2007
- August 15 to September 15, 2007
_**CAREER Proposal Submission Dates**_
- July 18, 2007
_**Workshop, Conference, SGER, REU, RET Proposals**_
- Call Program Director to discuss before applying

## Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology Programs

**Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology Programs**
**Both Programs support 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)

## Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology Programs                                              

**Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology Programs**
**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

## Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology Programs                                              

**Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology Programs**
**Tissue Engineering**_**Accomplishments (5 Years)**_
- WTEC Panel Report on Tissue Engineering Research (January 2002)
- Updated Five Year Plan Approved by the Subcommittee on Biotechnology (June 2002)
- Generated an Interagency Web Site (_[http://www.tissueengineering.gov](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)
- Go-Ahead from the Committee on Science to Formulate a Strategic Plan for Tissue Science and
-        Engineering – To be Issued by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
- Issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on “Enabling Technologies
-        for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (R01)” ( NIH PAR-06-504)