Northwestern University

$7.5 million grant will fund study on regenerative medicine

Published in Telemedicine Week, November 9th, 2004

A group of seven Northwestern University scientists, engineers and physicians who are tackling two critical health problems - the treatment of paralysis and diabetes - has received $7.5 million over 5 years from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The grant is part of NIBIB's Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP) program. A BRP is a multidisciplinary research team applying an integrative systems approach to develop knowledge and methods to prevent, detect, diagnose or treat disease.

The Northwestern researchers, who ultimately would like to help paralyzed people...

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Source: Telemedicine Week (2004-11-09)

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