The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation will give more than $1 million over four years to the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering for bioengineering research on the nanoscale.

A cross-disciplinary group of researchersassociated with the Clark School is developing a new “biochip” techcnology that promises to give doctors a new way to discover drugs to treat bacterial infections, without stimulating resistance-building mutations. The Deutsch Foundation, based in Baltimore, is funding the work in the hope of speeding development of new life-saving drugs and advancing the new field of nano-biotechnology.

“We are very excited and pleased to support this pioneering research which represents the enormous potential in the merging of biology and nanotechnology,” says Robert W. Deutsch, foundation president. “We believe that practical applications of this research could become the source of future innovations.”

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