IRES: International Research Experience for Students in Micro Medical Manufacturing (IRES-MMM) with the University of North Carolina and Laser Zentrum Hannover

该奖项是根据2009年美国恢复和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。医疗行业越来越依赖于新材料和制造工艺的知识，以开发生物组织的替代品以及先进的医疗设备。 快速成型技术已经吸引了大量的兴趣，用于制造生物医学和牙科设备的生物相容性材料。该提案支持北卡罗来纳州/北卡罗来纳州州立大学生物医学工程联合系与汉诺威激光中心纳米技术系Boris Chichkov教授领导的研究小组之间的研究和教育计划的发展，它将全面系统地评估使用称为双光子的快速原型制作过程创建的医疗设备的结构和功能特性聚合法来自北卡罗来纳州/北卡罗来纳州立大学联合项目和佛罗里达国际大学的21名学生将参加拟议的学生国际研究经验项目。 七名学生组成的小组，包括四名本科生和三名研究生，将在2010年夏季，2011年夏季和2012年夏季使用Laser Zentrum汉诺威的双光子聚合系统制造无机-有机混合材料，用于透皮给药的蚊子状微针和患者特定的乳房假体。 此外，首席研究员将开发一个新的顶点课程，这将为学生在汉诺威激光中心的研究做好准备，学生返回美国后将能够参加工业实习。

This award is funded under the American Recover and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The medical industry increasingly relies on knowledge of novel materials and fabrication processes in order to develop replacements for biological tissues as well as advanced medical devices. Rapid prototyping technologies have attracted significant interest for use in fabricating biomedical and dental devices out of biocompatible materials. This proposal supports the development of a research and education program between the University of North Carolina/North Carolina State University Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering and the research group led by Professor Boris Chichkov at the Department of Nanotechnology at Laser Zentrum Hannover, which will fully and systematically assess the structural and functional properties of medical devices created using a rapid prototyping process known as two photon polymerization. Twenty-one students from the University of North Carolina/North Carolin State joint program and Florida International University will participate in the proposed International Research Experience for Students program. Groups of seven students, including four undergraduate students and three graduate students, will fabricate inorganic-organic hybrid materials, mosquito-like microneedles for transdermal drug delivery, and patient-specific breast prostheses using the two photon polymerization system at Laser Zentrum Hannover over seven-week periods in Summer 2010, Summer 2011, and Summer 2012. In addition, the principal investigator will develop a new capstone course that will prepare the students for their research at Laser Zentrum Hannover, and students will be able to participate in industrial internships when they return to the United States.