Our lab was a member of a team awarded seed funding on 3D printing fibrous tissues through the Game-Changing Research Incentive Program (GRIP). The title of the project is “3D Printing of Fibrous Tissue Engineered Medical Products: A New Paradigm for Tissue Biofabrication and Therapeutics” and involves collaborators in the College of Textiles, College of Engineering, and College of Veterinary Medicine at NC State as well as collaborators at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Funding of the project ($575,000 over three years) is provided by the NC State Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development, RTI International and the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology and Sciences.
The full announcement of the award can be found here: https://news.ncsu.edu/2016/12/oried-announces-inaugural-grip-winners/