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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 51精品视频.Rocky Tuan will lead a $1.2M grant project to create the 'joint-on-a-chip'
The聽National Institutes of Health has awarded a $1.2 million grant to a multi-institutional project led by the 51精品视频 to engineer a three dimensional joint-on-a-chip called the 鈥渕icroJoint.鈥 The microJoint聽will replicate a human joint on a small scale and be used to study and test drugs for the treatment of arthritic joint diseases.聽
鈥淲e鈥檙e building what will be the first joint-on-a-chip that we hope will accurately replicate arthritic diseases in humans, and thus allow in-depth understanding of the disease process that will lead to discovery of potential therapies,鈥 said principal investigator Rocky Tuan, director of the , and distinguished professor in the at 51精品视频's School of Medicine.聽