Announcements
David Corr Awarded Grant from NIH
Dr. Corr received an NSF Career Award for his project, entitled "CAREER: Engineering Functional Muscle - Tendon Structures using Scaffold - Free Cell - Based Directed Assembly and Theoretical Modeling". He was also awarded an NIH two year R56 grant to investigate the "Control of Stem Cell Microenvironments for White and Brown Adipogenesis" from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Deanna Thompson Awarded Grant from NYSTEM
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Deanna Thompson is utilizing more than $300,000 in New York state funding as part of the state stem cell research program, NYSTEM, to study adult neural stem cells. The NYSTEM program is New York’s $600 million publicly funded grant program to advance scientific discovery in the area of stem cells. For more information, please read the article in RPI News.
Dr. Thompson received a two year, $303K IDEA grant from New York State Stem Cell Science (NYSTEM) to investigate adult neural progenitor fate in response to endothelial produced factors in collaboration with Dr. Natacha DePaola at Illinois Institute of Technology. For more information, please see the April NYSTAR newsletter.
Xavier Intes Awarded Grant from the National Cancer Institute at the NIH
Dr. Intes has been awarded a two-year, $378K R21 grant from the National Cancer Institute at the NIH. The grant will be used to develop a Multispectral Fluorescence Molecular Tomography (MFMT) tool capable of simultaneous tracking of multiple fluorophores in vivo in small animals. The new technique represents a significant development in the field of biomedical engineering. In particular MFMT will allow to track biological processes in vivo and provide plethora of information on diseases states, and help development of new targeted drugs.
Guohao Dai Awarded Grant from American Heart Association
Dr. Dai has been awarded a four-year American Heart Association's National Scientist Development Grant ($308,000). The grant, awarded to junior faculty at their early career stage, is one of the most prestigious awards in Cardiovascular Medicine. The title of the project is "Arterial venous differentiation for tissue engineering application." In this project, Dr.
Dr. Deanna Thompson, with Dr. Pankaj Karande (Chemical and Biological Engineering Department), has been awarded a $330,000 3-year NSF grant titled, "Rational and Combinatorial Design of Biomaterials for Neural Engineering." This project represents a new approach for the design of biomaterials for engineering specific human tissues.
Xavier Intes and Guohao Dai in Biomaterials Journal
One of the major challenges in tissue engineering field is the lack of a functional vasculature with adequate perfusion. Biomedical Engineering Department faculty Dr. Xavier Intes and Dr. Guohao Dai have led the team of investigators to develop an integrated platform that combines 3-D tissue printing and 3-D tissue imaging to study vasculature formation in thick tissues.
Dr. Deanna Thompson, with collaborators Drs. Lee Ligon (Biology Department) and Shep Salon (Department of Electrical, Computer, & Systems Engineering), has been awarded a 4-year $1.41 million R01 grant from NIH/NIBIB titled, "Directed Formation of Enhanced 3 - dimensional oriented Schwann Cellular Arrays For the Repair of Large - Gap Peripheral Nerve Injuries." Schwann cell (SC) participation is key participant supporting re-growth following peripheral nerve injury.