NSF Org:	DMR Division Of Materials Research
Recipient:	MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY
Initial Amendment Date:	November 14, 2007
Latest Amendment Date:	November 14, 2007
Award Number:	0737634
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	David A. Brant DMR  Division Of Materials Research MPS  Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Start Date:	December 1, 2007
End Date:	August 31, 2008 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$3,500.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$3,500.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2008 = $3,500.00
History of Investigator:	Robert Pachavis (Principal Investigator) pachavis@mrs.org Seung-Wuk Lee (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	Materials Research Society 506 KEYSTONE DR WARRENDALE PA  US  15086-7537 (724)779-2732
Sponsor Congressional District:	17
Primary Place of Performance:	Materials Research Society 506 KEYSTONE DR WARRENDALE PA  US  15086-7537
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	17
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	MFPJGRD1NWE3
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	BIOMATERIALS PROGRAM
Primary Program Source:	01000809DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):	1711, 7353, 9161, AMPP
Program Element Code(s):	762300
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.049

ABSTRACT

ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 0737634 PI: Pachavis, Robert ORG: Materials Research Society

Title: Symposium NN: Protein & Peptide Engineering for Therapeutic and Functional Materials

INTELLECTUAL MERIT: The symposium will provide a forum for scientists and engineers who use proteins and peptides as a critical component in current and emerging technologies ranging from drug delivery to tissue engineering, molecular electronics, and nanotechnology to share ideas and results. Funding is requested specifically to enable junior faculty, postdoctorals, graduate students, and researchers from underrepresented groups to present research results in a dynamic multidisciplinary international symposium. Each of four oral sessions will feature 8-10 presentations including a keynote address plus invited and contributed papers. An evening poster session is also scheduled. A substantial group of distinguished keynote and invited speakers has already agreed to participate. During the past decade remarkable advances in protein and peptide science have led to new synthetic and discovery methodologies, new folding motifs and building block architectures, and control of peptide and protein self-assembly to create structures from the nanometer to the micrometer length scales. These advances are now poised to enable discovery and development of materials that form self-assembled hierarchical structures useful for emerging technologies in biomedicine, molecular electronics, and nanotechnology. The symposium provides a forum for international experts and beginning researchers to share recent advances.

BROADER IMPACTS: The requested funding will be used exclusively to enable younger scientists, in particular, those from underrepresented groups, to participate in this interdisciplinary symposium.

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