Researchers to lead effort to develop nanomedicine

University of Illinois researchers will be working to create tiny devices that perform many of the functions of biological membranes, like the organ in electric eels that produces electricity or the membranes that keep our nasal passages, airways and lungs moist.

The UI is the lead institution in a new nanomedicine development center to be funded by a $6.2 million, five-year grant, under a $43 million National Institutes of Health program that's supposed to advance medical discoveries to the point of routine use. The UI is hosting one of four centers being funded nationally this year, with a total of eight to be formed over two years.

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