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Trine Team Receive Grant To Research Blood Clotting Treatment
By: Colin Meadowcroft/Mike Stiles - Saturday, August 29, 2020


(ANGOLA) – A team of Trine University biomedical engineering faculty and students have received a grant.

The group is getting $15,000 from the Indiana Space Grant Consortium for a research project involving a potential treatment for blood clotting disorders.

The team is working to design a device that will mimic the structure and function of human blood vessels to test the nanoparticles in hopes of developing a similar device that will duplicate the structure and function of human kidneys. The group has engineered nanoparticles to carry thrombin, an enzyme that assists in blood clotting, in the hopes that these particles can be a viable treatment for those who suffer from disorders where blood does not clot properly.

The grant will be used to purchase supplies, reagents and lab equipment, along with providing registration to biomedical engineering-related conferences.

For a related senior design project, the students will use a 3D bioprinter in Trine's Jim and Joan Bock Department of Biomedical Engineering to create structures that simulate human tissues with capillaries, in order to test the nanoparticles.

The students will present their work at the International MicroTAS Conference held October 4th through the 9th and to the Biomedical Engineering Society October 14th through the 17th.

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