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Living Materials

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Tuba Fehr , Ph.D.
Tuba Fehr
Program Director
Division of Discovery Science and Technology (Bioengineering) Program Area: Cellular and Multicellular Technologies
This program supports the development and demonstration of broadly applicable living materials to enable new paradigms of human health.

Emphasis:

The emphasis is on the development of living materials and associated computational models for biomedical intervention. 

Projects might focus on:

  • elucidating important engineering design rules or key foundational principles underlying future engineering, including the use of computational methods
  • prototyping or redesigning platform technologies
  • characterizing (in vitro, ex vivo, or in vivo) broadly applicable technologies and prototypes

NIBIB interests include but are not limited to: 

  • bacteria-laden hydrogels to deliver therapeutics
  • co-designed stem cells and scaffolds to grow implantable tissues