Nov. 25, 2003 — Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, received a five-year, $3.6 million federal grant to train scientists in interdisciplinary research that combines biological and synthetic systems, according to a news release.

The program, Integratively Engineered Biointerfaces, will support the work of graduate fellows from eight different university departments working on building motors from protein molecules and learning how living cells respond to plastics that conduct electricity.

The National Science Foundation grant will expand on the university’s work in such areas as bioengineering, material science and molecular biosciences, the release said.