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IBBR Researchers get $1M for work on portable medical sensors
Listen to this articleResearchers at the Rockville-based Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) received $1 million from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), part of the U.S. Department of Defense) to advance its work developing wearable sensors that measure biochemical information to diagnose disease.
IBBR Fellow Dr. Gregory Payne, a research professor with IBBR, is principal investigator on the award.
The project is an ongoing collaboration between Payne and IBBR Fellow Dr. William Bentley, a professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, College Park and director of the Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices, and researchers at the Naval and Army Research Laboratories.
The IBBR is a joint research enterprise of the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Maryland, Baltimore and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. IBBR is also financially supported in part by the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State, an initiative designed to achieve innovation and impact through collaboration.
