UMass Research Grants Coming To Med School
The University of Massachusetts announced $200,000 in grant awards through its Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property Technology Development Fund.
Eight $25,000 awards were made to faculty members from the UMass system's Worcester, Amherst and Lowell campuses.
UMass Medical School researchers are involved in four of the eight awards. One medical school research program is using "nanoparticles" to regenerate tissue for the treatment of heart attacks. Another line of research is seeking to develop a biodegradable bandage for wounded skin regeneration.
The development fund was established in 2004 and has granted more than $1.3 million to university researchers.
Following are the team leaders for each of the grant awards:
• Uri Galili, Department of Surgery, UMass Worcester
• T.J. (Lakis) Mountziaris, Department of Chemical Engineering and UMass NanoMedicine Institute, UMass Amherst
• George Huber and Geoff Tompsett, Department of Chemical Engineering, UMass Amherst
• Stephen P. McCarthy; Dr. Raymond Dunn; Ronald Ignotz; Scott Wharram, Department of Plastics Engineering, UMass Lowell; Department of Plastic Surgery, UMass Worcester; Department of Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, UMass Lowell
• Xingwei Wang and Dr. Kurt Barringhaus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMass Lowell; Department of Medicine, UMass Worcester
• Gregory N. Tew, Polymer Science and Engineering, UMass Amherst
• Kevin Fu, Computer Science Department, UMass Amherst
• Jie Song, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedics and Department of Cell Biology, UMass Worcester
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