Biomedical Fellowships Awarded To Spur Inter-Institutional Research
Each grant provides a total of $100,000 over a period of two years, with $50,000 going to UPRM and the same amount to Purdue, to support graduate students.
The first project will be developed by professors Rubén E. Díaz-Rivera of UPRM and Marshall Porterfield from Purdue. They will collaboratively explore the limitations of the electroporation technology in biological cells for measuring electrophysiological and metabolic recovery.
For the second project, professors Paul A. Sundaram of UPRM and Ozan Akkus and Eric Nauman of Purdue, will jointly develop tissues able to replace hard tissues, such as bone, in the body. Professor Nanette Diffoot-Carlo from UPRM will also collaborate in the project.