Brown researchers are creating lab-grown microtissues as an alternative to animal testing. “It's kind of in our DNA,” Morgan says. “And it's in the context of translating these results into real-world solutions.” 

Alois, J., Bellamkonda, S., Campolettano, E. T., Gellner, R. A., Genemaras, A., Beckwith, J. G., Greenwald, R. M., Smith, E., Rowson, S., Duma, S. M., & Crisco, J. J. (2019). Do american youth football players intentionally use their heads for high-magnitude impacts? Am J Sports Med, 363546519882034. doi:10.1177/0363546519882034

Joseph Crisco, Orthopaedics, RIH, received $134,651 for “Additive Manufactured PEKK Implants for Small Bone Arthroplasty,” a sub-award from Oxford Performance Materials, Inc. through the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS).

Gregory Jay, Emergency Medicine, RIH, received $49,995 for “PRG4 as a Novel Treatment in Sepsis by Inhibition of NLRP3 in a CD44 Dependent Manner and via Antagonism of TLR” from Brown Physicians, Inc.

 Congratulations (left to right) to Anqi Zhou, 1^st place, Biotechnology ScM, Joshua Daniel, 4^th place Biomedical Engineering ScM and Hadley Witt, 3^rd place Pathobiology  PhD who are three of the five winners in the 14^th Annual 2019 Rhode Island Elevator Pitch Competition! All were enrolled in BIOL 2089: Importance of Intellectual Property in Biotechnology.