ENG Advisory Committee
May 11, 2005
BES
OVERVIEW
Bruce Hamilton
Acting Division Director
BES
Structure & Funding Profile
• Three (3) Clusters:
– Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology (BEB)
– Biomedical Engineering/Research to Aid Persons with
Disabilities (BME/RAPD)
– Environmental Engineering and Technology (EET)
• Each cluster is funded at about 1/3 of
BES’s overall budget (~ $50 million/year)
BES Team
• Program Officers:
Pat Brezonik
Lenore Clesceri (PT)
Semahat Demir
Mike Domach (PT)
Gil Devey (PT)
Cindy Ekstein
Leon Esterowitz
Bruce Hamilton (ADD)
Fred Heineken
Marshall Lih
Tom Waite
Bill Weigand (PT)
LaWanda Prailow
Marcia Rawlings
Joyce Simpson
Sherri Swann
LaTanya Darby
• Support Staff:
Toni Baker
Eula Patterson
Sunny Phelps
BES Draft Vision
An Aspiration for the Future...
BES is an important and significant
Catalytic Driver for the role of
Biology and the Environment
in advancing the
Frontiers of Engineering
research, innovation, and education.
Why the Role of BES Is As a Catalytic Driver:
1. Resources needed.
2. At NSF,
the involvement of Engineering
with Biology and the Environment
has become pervasive,
going way beyond
BES.
Biology: All 6 NSF ENG Divisions
Support Biology-Oriented Awards
BES: All aspects of biology and engineering
CMS: Biomechanical Eng (e.g., bone biomaterials)
CTS: Biotransport Eng (e.g., blood flow fluid dynamics)
DMII: Engineering Health Care Delivery
ECS: Many aspects of biology and engineering
(e.g., biomedical imaging)
EEC: Centers, Dept. Reform (biology and engineering)
CISE Directorate Also
Supports Engineering/Biology-Oriented
Awards
Example-ITR 0205741: “Simulation-Based Medical Planning
for Cardiovascular Disease”
PI = Charles Taylor
Department of Bioengineering
Stanford University
$3.7 million over 5 years
EHR Directorate Also
Supports Engineering/Biology-Oriented
Awards
Example (undergraduate course):
NSF 0231313
“Development of Educational Materials that
Strengthen Students’ Problem-Solving Skills for a
Bioengineering Fundamentals Course”
PI = Ann Saterbak
Rice University
$75K over 2 years
And for the case of the Environment:
Just as for the pervasiveness of
Biology in Engineering,
so also for the pervasiveness of the
Environment in Engineering.
(goes way beyond BES, therefore the role of BES as Catalytic Driver
is appropriate)
BES Draft Mission
• Research and Innovation: Enable and facilitate
the deployment of new innovations in BES’s
fields in service to society for use in the medical,
biotechnology, and environmental arenas
• Education: Advance bioengineering and
environmental engineering through the
development of creative programs by new and
diverse faculty (example: Emphasis on CAREER
awards, including under-represented group
PECASE awardees)
BES Strategies
To pursue our Vision and Mission,
BES has evolved
7 Key Strategies
(Time to cover only 4)
BES Strategy #1
Develop and support
the best and the brightest
researchers, innovators, & educators
in BES’s fields,
with one emphasis being on
new faculty
BES Strategy #1: Develop and support the best and
the brightest researchers, innovators, & educators
in BES’s fields, with one emphasis on new faculty.
Examples:
2004 Waterman Award Winner: Kristi Anseth (1998 BES CAREER
awardee).
1999 Waterman Award Winner: Chaitan Khosla (1994 NSF Young
Investigator awardee from BES).
2004 IOM Inductees: Cato Laurencin (BES PI from early in career) and
Frances Arnold (1989 BES PYI; also NAE in 2000).
2002 HHMI $1 Million Undergraduate Educator Award Winner:
Rebecca Richards-Kortum (1991 BES PYI).
2002 NAE Draper Award and 1998 Lemelson Invention Prize Winner:
Bob Langer (long-time BES PI, starting early in his career).
2002 NAE Inductee (Industrial Ecology): Tom Graedel (BES is
principal source of support, starting early in his academic career)
2005 NAE Inductees: George Georgiou (1987 BES PYI) and Harvey
Blanch (long-time BES PI).
Future Goal: Develop and support more winners!
BES Strategy #2
Aggressively pursue and implement
partnerships with other ENG
divisions, directorates, and agencies,
even if tolerance of high risk is
required
(e.g., solicitation risk)
BES Strategy #2: Aggressively pursue and
implement partnerships with other ENG divisions,
directorates, and agencies.
Examples:
Metabolic Engineering: NSF, NIH, DOE, EPA, NASA, NIST, DOD, USDA
MATES: NSF, NIH, NIST, DOD, FDA, DOE, NASA
QSB: ENG (5 divisions), BIO, MPS, CISE.
Biophotonics: NSF, NIH, DARPA.
Multiscale Bio Modeling: NSF, NIH, NASA, DOE.
CRCNS: ENG (BES, ECS), CISE, BIO, SBE, NIH.
MUSES: ENG (5 divisions), SBE, CISE, MPS
IGI: ENG (BES, ECS), CISE, NIH, NASA
Forum on the Interface of the Life Sciences and Physical Sciences:
NSF, NIH, NASA, NIST, DOE, USDA, EPA, DOD, FDA, NOAA
Future Goal:
Additional innovative partnerships with high-return leverage.
BES Strategy #3
Dynamically interact,
through extensive outreach, with
universities, industry, foundations,
non-profits, other agencies, and
professional societies and topical
meetings.
BES Strategy #3: Dynamically interact, through extensive
outreach, with universities, industry, foundations, non-profits,
other agencies, and professional societies and topical
meetings.
Examples:
Universities: Workshops (e.g., for CLEANER, at Stanford, U. of
Minn., Duke, U. of Iowa, RPI)
Industry: BES Biochemical Engineering Workshop (Amgen,
Biogen, Chiron, Genencor, Genetics Institute, engeneOS
Biosystems, Inc.) and 2005 Metabolic Engineering
Conference with industry.
Foundations: Whitaker, HHMI.
Non-profits: MdBio, Inc., the National Academies.
Professional Societies: AIChE, ACS, IEEE, BMES, AIMBE,
AEESP, WEF, ASEE, SWE, WEPAN and others.
Future Goal: Strengthen outreach, with high-return
(intellectual, financial, diversity).
BES Strategy #4
Create and implement
“Big Ideas.”
BES Strategy #4: Create and implement “Big Ideas.”
Examples:
- CLEANER
- Engineering Systems Biology
- Biophotonics (BP) / IGI
Future Goals:
- Implement CLEANER, include other agencies.
- Extend QSB and include other agencies.
- Grow BP / IGI partnership with other agencies.
BES Draft Vision
An Aspiration for the Future...
BES is an important and significant
Catalytic Driver for the role of
Biology and the Environment
in advancing the
Frontiers of Engineering
research, innovation, and education.