Researchers in the Department of Biological
Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology will receive up to $32
million over the next five years from the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a
technology platform that will mimic human physiological systems in the
laboratory, using an array of integrated, interchangeable engineered human
tissue constructs.
A cooperative agreement between MIT and
DARPA worth up to $26.3 million will be used to establish a new program
titled "Barrier-Immune-Organ: MIcrophysiology, Microenvironment
Engineered TIssue
Construct Systems" (BIO-MIMETICS) at MIT, in collaboration with
researchers at
the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, MatTek Corp., and Zyoxel Ltd. The
BIO-MIMETICS proposal was one of two award winners selected as part of
the
Microphysiological Systems (MPS) program at DARPA, and will be led by
MIT
professor Linda Griffith in collaboration with MIT professors Steven
Tannenbaum, Darrell Irvine, Paula Hammond, Eric Alm, and Douglas
Lauffenburger.
Jeffrey Borenstein and Shankar Sundaram will lead the work at Draper
Laboratory, Patrick Hayden will lead the work at MatTek,, and David
Hughes will
lead the work at Zyoxel.
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