New Princeton-CUNY program to bring together physicists and biologists

(Princeton University) The NSF has awarded $13 million to create the Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a joint endeavor between Princeton University and the City University of New York that will tackle a deceptively simple question: What does modern physics reveal about life itself? The funding is targeted to people, not equipment, from undergraduates to postdoctoral fellows who will be free to work with any or all of the six theorists and eight experimentalists involved.