NIH grant to develop 3D printed blood vessels to treat pediatric vascular defects

A scientist from the University of Texas has received a US$211,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to assist in developing materials for 3D printable blood vessels. A US$211,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (MD, USA) has been awarded to Yi Hong, engineer and Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas (TX, USA). The grant is to be utilized towards developing materials that will allow doctors to use 3D printing to create custom blood vessels for children with vascular defects. “The development of new blood vessels has been a daunting challenge in tissue engineering,” Michael Cho,...