Infini Fluidics NSF AIRFoundry Grant

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced an $18 million funding allocation to Infini Fluidics, Penn’s schools of engineering and medicine, Drexel University, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez campus (RUM) to develop the NSF AIRFoundry.

NSF AIRFoundry is one of five newly created BioFoundries, each of which will have a different focus. Bringing together researchers from InfiniFluidics and other institutions, they will work closely to improve the design and manufacture of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs).

With this NSF grant, the facility will use AI to design, optimize and synthesize RNA and delivery vehicles by augmenting human expertise, enabling rapid iterative experimentation, and providing predictive models and automated workflows to accelerate discovery and innovation.

Read more about the NSF AIRFoundry.