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In its basic and translational research and education endeavors, the McDevitt Research Laboratory is affiliated with several interdisciplinary efforts at Rice, the Texas Medical Center, and abroad.
The Rice 360°: Institute for Global Health Technologies works in partnership with communities throughout the world to design and implement low-cost, high-performance technologies that prevent disease, improve health, and reduce poverty. Some solutions come in the form of complex new technologies developed by Rice’s leading faculty in nanoscience and bioengineering. Other solutions may be low-cost technologies or programs designed and immediately implemented by undergraduates. Rice 360°’s activities focus on:
The Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology actively supports and promotes researchers using nanotechnology to tackle civilization’s grand challenges – energy, water, environment, disease, education – by providing experienced and knowledgeable leadership, a solid administrative framework, world-class scientific infrastructure, and productive community, industry, and government relations.
The Alliance for NanoHealth (ANH) is a collaborative research endeavor aimed at bridging the gaps between life science and nanotechnology. With the principal goal of providing new opportunities for diagnosis, treatment and prevention through advances in nanotechnology, the ANH comprises world-class research institutions and innovative scientists and clinicians from within the Texas Medical Center and greater Houston community.
The Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC) brings together the strengths of its six member institutions to build interdisciplinary collaborative research teams and training programs in the biological sciences at their intersection with the computational, chemical, mathematical, and physical sciences. The six member institutions include: Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, University of Houston, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
The Center for Biological & Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) is a National Science Foundation funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) that aims to transform nanoscience into a field with the impact of a modern-day polymer science. CBEN’s research focuses on investigating and developing nanoscience at the "wet/dry" interface. The center's research explores the interface between nanomaterials and aqueous systems at multiple length scales, including interactions with solvents, biomolecules, cells, whole-organisms, and the environment. These explorations form the basis for understanding natural interactions that nanomaterials experience outside the laboratory, serve as foundation for designing biomolecular / nanomaterial interactions, solve bioengineering problems with nanoscale materials, and help construct nanoscale materials that are useful in solving environmental engineering problems.
Shared Equipment Authority (SEA)
Rice’s Shared Equipment Authority (SEA) provides sophisticated
research equipment and facilities and supports and open instrumentation usage to outside companies, nano/bio/enviro start-ups and other universities upon availability.
BioScience Research Collaborative
Construction of the new 477,000-gross-square-foot, 10-story BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) is nearing completion with occupancy beginning in the summer of 2009. The research hub, which is ideally located across the street from the largest medical center in the world, will enable researchers and physicians from multiple disciplines to team up and take work from laboratory to bedside.
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