Primary Recipient

TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION

Amount

$90,830.00

Award Date

7/15/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Tissue engineered vascular grafts (TEVGs) may provide vessel replacements when conventional prostheses are unavailable or fail. Researchers are taking multiple approaches toward fabricating viable TEVGs, including the development of designer scaffolds. A