Characterization of Cell Behavior in Biological Matrices

小行星9413241 该奖项授予15名神经生物学家，细胞生物学家和生物医学工程师，将支持一项培训计划，该计划专注于生物学的一个重要但尚未了解的领域，即细胞与胶原蛋白和其他基质的相互作用。 该研究和培训计划将强调这一重点的四个方面：一个解决这些相互作用在自然和人工基质的基础，和otheps地址发生在结缔组织，神经和血管组织的相互作用。 该奖项将通过新的和现有的课程，轮换和可选实习的组合来支持本科生，研究生和博士后学生的培训，这些课程具有足够的灵活性，以适应具有工程或生物学背景的学生的需求。 从该计划中脱颖而出的学员有望为基础生物学和更多应用领域做出贡献，如组织工程和仿生复合材料的开发。 该奖项还得到了生物工程和环境系统司内的生物工程计划以及工程教育和中心司内的人力资源开发计划的支持。 ***

9413241 Tirrell This award to a group of 15 neurobiologist, cell biologists and biomedical engineers will support a training program focused on an important and as yet poorly understood area of biology, the interaction of cells with collagen and other matrices on which they grow. The research and training program will emphasize four aspects of this focus: one addresses the fundamentals of these interactions in both natural and artificial matrices, and the otheps address interactions occurring in connective, neural and vascular tissue. The award will support training of undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students through a mix of new and existing courses, rotations and optional internships that is sufficiently flexible to accommodate the needs of students that enter with backgrounds in either engineering or biology. The trainees who emerge from the program are expected to contribute to fundamental biology and to more applied areas such as tissue engineering and the development of biomimetic composite materials. This award is also being supported by the Bioengineering Program within the Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems and by the Human Resource Development Program within the Division of Engineering Education and Centers. ***