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Headquartered at MIT, the EBICS Center's research activities will take place at MIT, University of Illinois, and Georgia Tech, as well as at a number of other minority-serving institutions. Collectively, they will help create the knowledge, tools, and technologies to create highly sophisticated, 'programmed,' multi-cell engineered biological systems or machines.

To reach this goal, the Center's research program has three components of increasing complexity, plus an enabling technologies thrust. EBICS' educational programs aim at producing the next generation of research and education leaders who are truly knowledgeable in both biology and engineering, and who will potentially shape how research and education are done in this new field. The Center will also engage faculty from minority-serving institutions on research projects, and work closely with existing outreach and recruitment programs at all partner institutions to ensure the broadest range of participation in all of its programs.