IE's Ana Maria Estrada Gomez and co-PI Leopold Green (BME) awarded NSF grant

Estrada Gomez, along with co-PI Leopold Green, have been awarded an NSF grant of over $700,000 to fund their project involving the development of a tool that can detect and treat inflammatory bowel diseases.
Photo of Ana Maria Estrada Gomez
Ana María Estrada Gómez, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering

 

This theragnostic (therapeutic + diagnostic) tool involves the research and design of a 3-D printed smart pill that can carry specially-engineered bacteria to targeted regions of the GI tract.

The project, titled “Collaborative Research: SCH: Therapeutic and Diagnostic System for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Integrating Data Science, Synthetic Biology, and Additive Manufacturing,” emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary research and collaboration.

Along with ground-breaking interdisciplinary research, the project contains an educational plan that will introduce rising 7th-9th-grade students from communities underrepresented in STEM to applications of combined data science and biology. Graduate and undergraduate students involved in the project will receive fundamental training to help develop “a diverse and globally competitive STEM workforce.”

Congratulations again to the team!

You can read the full project abstract on the NSF Awards Search site: bit.ly/3EN5UhX

Leopold (Leo) Green's faculty page at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering