The Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEIN) will explore the impact of libraries of engineered nanomaterials on a range of cellular lifeforms, organisms and plants in terrestrial, fresh water and sea water environments.  By being able to predict which nanomaterial physicochemical properties are potentially hazardous, the CEIN will be able to provide advice on the safe design of engineered nanomaterials from an environmental perspective. 


UC CEIN
University of California Los Angeles
California NanoSystems Institute
6522 CNSI, 570 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7277
cein@ucla.edu

Director: Andre Nel, MD - UCLA
Co-Director: Arturo Keller – UC Santa Barbara
Co-PIs: Yoram Cohen and Hilary Godwin, UCLA; Roger Nisbet, UC Santa Barbara
Chief Administrative Officer: David Avery