Vicki Grassian, Director of NNI@UI, along with NNI@UI Core Faculty member Peter Thorne and Executive Committee member Patrick O’Shaughnessy awarded $1.2 million for nanotoxicity study.

The UI researchers received the grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate the toxicity of inhaled nanomaterials. For further information, please read the UI Press Release here.

 

 

The Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute at The University of Iowa (NNI@UI) was established by The University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research in 2006. NNI@UI focuses on issues related to applications and implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology in environmental processes and human health, as well as the fundamental properties of nanomaterials.

 

The institute includes a core group of faculty and staff from the colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Pharmacy, Medicine and Public Health involved in nanoscience and nanotechnology. NNI@UI provides a venue where researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering can gather to share ideas and discuss their views and prospects of nanoscience, nanoengineering, nanomedicine and nanotechnology.

 

NNI@UI has partnered with a number of interdisciplinary institutes and centers on campus on cutting edge research and societal issues, including those related to translational medicine and the societal implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology.