An interdisciplinary team of researchers has won a $3.3 million grant to establish a new doctoral program in nanomedical science and technology, which will link students, professors, medical researchers, and cutting-edge companies in the quest to beat such illnesses as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and sickle-cell anemia.

The grant, from the National Cancer Institute and the National Science Foundation, will fund a graduate education research and training center, according to principal investigator and vice provost for research Srinivas Sridhar. Northeastern won one of just four such interdisciplinary grants out of four hundred proposals.

Other university researchers involved in the project include Mansoor Amiji (pharmaceutical sciences), Gilda Barabino (chemical engineering), and Sanjeev Mukerjee and Mary Jo Ondrechen (chemistry and chemical biology).

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