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The recipient of the award is CellThera, a part of the Bioengineering Institute at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The US$570,000 contract is for one year with a second-year option.
This isn't DARPA or CellThera's first venture into tissue regeneration. In 2006, CellThera managed to reprogram skin cells from mice and humans to behave like stem cells. Under the current contract, the scientists will try to reprogram cells to grow new, functional skeletal muscle.
In a statement, professor Eric. W. Overstrom of Worcester Polytechnic's Department of Biology and Biotechnology, said, "This new award not only validates the important work CellThera and WPI are doing in the area of regenerative medicine, but...this work will help push the science closer to the clinic and closer to helping people recover from devastating injuries."
DARPA , of course, has a particular class of devastating injuries in mind. Their goal is to develop new ways of treating soldiers injured in battle. The agency's Restorative Injury Repair program wants to "fully restore the function of complex tissue (muscle, nerves, skin, etc.) after traumatic injury on the battlefield….RIR aims to replace the current concepts of 'wound coverage' by fibrosis and scarring with true 'wound healing' by regeneration of fully differentiated, functional tissue."
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