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January 06, 2006 Dr. Greg Payne Named Associate Director of the Center for Biosystems Research 
Baltimore, MD-UMBI President Jennie Hunter-Cevera announces Professor Greg Payne has assumed the role of Associate Director for the Center for Biosystems Research. Dr. Payne is a biochemical engineer who joined UMBI in 1987 as a joint appointee with the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. His current research interests include biologically derived materials and their use in nanobiotechnology. Dr. Payne has been an invited speaker at several national and international conferences and was awarded the state’s Outstanding Engineering Achievement award in 2001 for his team’s government-industry-university partnership to convert crab wastes into the biopolymer chitosan. He has served on NIH study sections in tissue engineering and was appointed as a panel manager for the USDA program on bio-based products from renewable resources. Dr. Payne’s responsibilities will augment the Center Director’s efforts to establish research programs at the newest UMBI facility at Shady Grove. In addition, Dr. Payne will focus on exploiting the complementary strengths of UMBI and UMCP’s College of Engineering to develop collaborative programs in nanobiotechnology and molecular bioprocessing. ### Celebrating our 20th anniversary year, UMBI is Maryland's premier biotechnology research institute within the University System of Maryland and was established in 1985. The University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) consists of five major research and education centers and is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of biotechnology. UMBI’s centers of research include: CARB, the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology located in Rockville; CBR, the Center for Biosystems Research located in College Park; and COMB, the Center of Marine Biotechnology, MBC, the Medical Biotechnology Center, and IHV, the Institute of Human Virology, all located in Baltimore. For more information, visit www.umbi.umd.edu
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