The National Institutes of Health has named investigators at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston as recipients of its first Quantum Grant. The goal is neuro-vascular regeneration:
The three-year, $2.9 million grant, funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, part of the NIH, will support research on neuro-vascular regeneration, which will make new brain tissues in the laboratory. The new brain tissue is planned to have its own blood supply to allow it to be placed into the damaged brains of stroke patients where it will provide a source of neural and vascular cells that will continue to develop and differentiate, repairing the injured tissue in the process.
And how cool is that? We better keep this site going to report on their discoveries!
Press release from Baylor…
NIH announcement…