Cornell engineer and physicist Harold Craighead has been awarded $750,000 by a New York state research agency to develop a chip-based analytical system for rapid analysis of chemical and biological compounds.
Craighead, the C.W. Lake Jr. Professor of Engineering and codirector for advancing research at the Nanobiotechnology Center, received the award through the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research's (NYSTAR) Faculty Development Program. The funds are designed to assist universities in the recruitment and retention of leading research faculty in science and technology fields with strong commercial potential.
Craighead, who also is professor of applied and engineering physics, received the award as part of more than $6.36 million in funding to researchers at nine universities in New York state, made on the basis of peer-reviewed competitive science and the likelihood of commercial exploitation of the research. Scientists supported by the funds are expected to develop, define and conduct nationally and internationally recognized research, act as a focal point for multidisciplinary research, attract additional external funding from federal, foundation and other sources and participate in entrepreneurial enterprises that will benefit New York state.
Craighead's research under the NYSTAR grant will concentrate on nanotechnology for chip-based chemical and biochemical analysis systems.
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