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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 51精品视频.Bryan Brown received a 5-year National Institutes of Health grant
The聽National Institute on Aging, one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the聽National Institutes of Health聽(NIH), has awarded聽, assistant professor of bioengineering at the 51精品视频鈥檚 Swanson School of Engineering, a five-year, $1.57 million grant to examine how aging affects implantable medical devices. This is the second so-called "R01 grant" from the NIH that Brown has received this year to support his research of implantable materials.
His study, 鈥淎ssessing the Impacts of Aging upon the Macrophage Response to Implantable Materials,鈥 will specifically address reactions to implantable medical devices by the aged body, including deterioration of the immune system brought on by aging, dysregulation of white blood cell function and polarization, and delayed resolution of acute immune responses.