December 4, 2015 The Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institutes celebrates signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) and the University of Washington (UW)
Molecular Engineering & Sciences Director Pat Stayton (right) with Dr. Mitsuhiro Ebara from the NIMS International Center for Materials Nanoarchitechtonics (MANA) located in Tsukuba, Japan. The MolES Institute welcomed MANA Researcher Dr. Mitsuhiro Ebara , a former UW postdoctoral fellow in Bioengineering, for a signing celebration on December 4, followed by a talk, Shape-memory surfaces for shaping cells' fate , presented as part of the interdisciplinary Molecular Engineering Seminar Series.
The MOU is intended to foster cooperation among researchers across institutes in the area of smart nano-biomaterials. The institutes will be developing new teaching and research collaborations in the future, with anticipated exchange of faculty and student researchers, joint research activities, and a co-hosted symposium.