The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, with a period of performance from August 21, 2023 to August 19, 2025, aims to develop a "Synthetic Biology Programming Language and Foundational Control Theory with Application to Guided Multicellular Mammalian 3D Shape Shifters." As part of this effort, MIT has issued sub-awards to Harvard Medical School, UC Berkeley, the University of Delaware, and Boston University to contribute specialized expertise. Key activities include developing frameworks for stochastic processes and testing single-cell circuits, completing compositional bottom-up verification of sponsored research, creating and testing new modeling theory for composing characterized synthetic biology parts, and turning synthetic biology into a scalable engineering discipline capable of controlling complex multicellular behavior.
Mod # | Description | Reason For Modification | Federal Obligation (Click to sort descending) | Date (Click to sort ascending) |
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| Not listed | $2.0m | 8/18/23 |
Grant Number | Description | Subgrantee | Prime Award | Dollars Obligated (Click to sort descending) | Updated At (Click to sort ascending) |
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S6150S | President And Fellows Of Harvard College | Project Grant FA95502310529 | $458.2k | 12/12/23 | |
S6149S | The Regents Of The University Of California | Project Grant FA95502310529 | $283.2k | 11/14/23 | |
S6151S | University Of Delaware | Project Grant FA95502310529 | $458.2k | 10/11/23 | |
S6152S | Trustees Of Boston University | Project Grant FA95502310529 | $283.2k | 9/25/23 |