The Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) in collaboration with CINJ (Cancer Institute of New Jersey) has been awarded a $885,834 training grant from the U.S. Department of Education program of Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN). The award entitled, “Precision & Personalized Medicine" will provide 6 full graduate fellowships per year for the next 3 years. The main objective of the program is to increase the number of BME professionals trained in several cutting edge areas including: cancer-specific biomarker screening, patient-tailored nanodelivery systems and immunotherapies, and high throughput devices to test candidate therapies in patient-specific tumor models. The program will also provide students with special enrichment activities in entrepreneurship and commercialization through the Center for Innovative Ventures of Emerging Technologies (CIVET). Professor Martin Yarmush serves as principal investigator of the GAANN Program.