Berkeley engineers join $24 million push for craniofacial repair therapies

Kevin Healy, professor of bioengineering and materials science and engineering, leads Berkeley’s role in a new craniofacial research center, C-DOCTOR. UC Berkeley is part of a California-based, six-university consortium that has been awarded $12 million by the National Institutes of Health to develop strategies for treating craniofacial defects, which affect millions of Americans.

NASA Funds 2 New Research Institutes to Help Humanity Explore Deep Space

NASA will spend up to $30 million over the next five years to set up and support two new institutes dedicated to helping humanity extend its footprint out into the solar system. The two Space Technology Research Institutes – each of which will receive up to $15 million of NASA funding over a five-year “period of performance” – will aim to develop new technologies in the fields of biomanufacturing and materials, agency officials said.