Nanoscience has the potential to revolutionise and benefit many aspects of human society, especially in the fields of information technology and medicine. As one of the world’s leading centres of knowledge for bionanointeractions, applied to the fields of nanosafety, nanobiology and nanomedicine, the CBNI is pioneering many of the new techniques and approaches in this area.
Working as a virtual centre since 2005, the CBNI was awarded funding from Cycle 4 of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions in October 2007, which marked the official start date of the centre. In addition to government funding, core funding for the centre comes from Irish Universities, the European Union and US sources.
Currently the centre has 4 Principal Investigators and 4 associated Principal Investigators as well as multiple collaborators across 8 Schools in UCD. The Centre is led by Professor Kenneth Dawson.
In 2008, CBNI was part of a winning bid awarded by the National Science Foundation and the US Environmental Protection Agency to establish two centres for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, led by UCLA and Duke University. It is also a member of the Integrated NanoScience Platform for Ireland
consortium (INSPIRE).
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