Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET)

Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems

Supports discoveries in chemical and biochemical systems; environmental engineering and sustainability; bioengineering and engineering healthcare; and fundamental transport, thermal and fluid phenomena.

Engineering Research to Advance Solutions for Environmental PFAS (ERASE-PFAS)

Special funding focus on new science and technologies for the mitigation, remediation, and/or treatment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to improve and protect public and environmental health.

Sentinel Cells for Surveillance and Response to Emergent Infectious Diseases

Funding opportunity for research to develop novel cell- or organism-based platforms that are adaptable and/or evolvable, robust to a range of emergent threats, and/or can easily be reprogrammed and deployed once a new threat is identified.