DNA sequencing technology developed at the University of Illinois has helped forge a new licensing and funding agreement to support further research. The arrangement with Oxford Nanopore Technology includes three British and four American universities, including Illinois. The researchers from Illinois who will serve as co-Principal Investigators for the project are: Micro and Nanotechnology Director Rashid Bashir; Jean-Pierre Leburton, professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Beckman Institute; and Oleksii Aksimentiev, associate professor of Physics and the Beckman Institute.