A St. Louis group comprised of Washington University and local innovation hub BioSTL are in the running to win a $160 million, decade-long federal grant focused on boosting areas “that have not fully benefited from the technology boom of the past decades,” according to federal officials.

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced last week its first NSF Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, awards to 44 teams across the U.S. and its territories.

The local group, as well as each of the other teams, gets a $1 million planning grant over two years, and it will compete for the larger grant.
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