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Asthma
Biomedical engineer receives $1.8 million grant to study lung damage
September 1st, 2003
University of California Irvine biomedical engineer Steven C. George, who is one of the first U.S. scientists to create three-dimensional living lung tissue, has received a $1.8 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to examine how asthma attacks the walls of the bronchial tubes. "People with asthma develop a fibrosis on the walls of their airways that becomes increasingly worse as the disease progresses," said George, the William J. Link Professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, who also holds an appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. "Scientists aren't sure if the disease causes the...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2003-09-01)
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