Project Grant 2040657

The University of California Irvine received a $422,574 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems on February 1, 2021 with a completion date of March 31, 2023. The award supports the CAREER: TISSUE ENGINEERING BETTER CELL THERAPIES FOR WOUND HEALING project under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project aims to develop advanced cell therapies for wound healing through tissue engineering approaches. Specifically, the funding enables research to engineer skin substitutes containing stem cells that promote faster and more complete wound closure. The work is being conducted at the University of California Irvine in Irvine, California.