{"id":1715,"date":"2017-08-08T16:31:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T20:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2017-08-08T16:31:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T20:31:12","slug":"ire-receives-a-new-nihr21-research-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/2017\/08\/08\/ire-receives-a-new-nihr21-research-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"IRE Receives a New NIH\/R21 Research Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>Institute for Regenerative Engineering faculty members Dr. Thanh Nguyen (PI) and I (Co-I) have received new funding from the NIH\/NIBIB. This proposed project aims to study the science and technology which allow creating a biodegradable, highly efficient piezoelectric stimulator and integrating the stimulator with a biological chondrocyte-seeded cartilage graft to form a bionic self-stimulated cartilage tissue. We believe this bionic cartilage will be able to self-harvest mechanical impacts from joint forces, generating useful electricity to sufficiently stimulate and accelerate its own healing and regeneration process.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Dr. Nguyen on funding for this exciting project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D. Institute for Regenerative Engineering faculty members Dr. Thanh Nguyen (PI) and I (Co-I) have received new funding from the NIH\/NIBIB. This proposed project aims to study the science and technology which allow creating a biodegradable, highly efficient piezoelectric stimulator and integrating the stimulator with a biological chondrocyte-seeded cartilage graft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 21:31:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}