The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania received a $375,708 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to support the CAREER: SYSTEMS IMMUNOLOGY APPROACH TO MEMORY T CELL IMMUNE ENGINEERING project. The grant was awarded on June 1, 2021 under the NSF Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) to fund research from June 2021 through June 2022.
The project aims to apply systems immunology approaches to engineer memory T cell immune responses. As part of its mission to improve engineering research and education, the NSF Engineering Program supports fundamental research projects that apply innovative approaches with the potential to advance scientific knowledge and engineering capabilities. This award will allow researchers at the University of Pennsylvania to advance understanding of memory T cell immunology through systems-level experimentation and modeling, with implications for developing new immune engineering strategies in areas such as vaccine design and immunotherapy.