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McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine to Co-Direct $75 Million Second Phase of National Effort to Aid Wounded Warriors

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    McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine to Co-Direct $75 Million Second Phase of National Effort to Aid Wounded Warriors

    By The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine | Cellular Therapy, Medical Devices, News Archive, Tissue Engineering | Comments are Closed | 27 September, 2013 | 0

    McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine to Co-Direct $75 Million Second Phase of National Effort to Aid Wounded Warriors

    The Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) will continueafirm2 its efforts to apply the latest in tissue engineering and other regenerative medicine techniques to the treatment of battlefield injuries in a $75 million, 5-year second phase.

    The AFIRM-II consortium of more than 30 academic centers and industry partners will be led by Anthony Atala, M.D., director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and co-directed by Rocky Tuan, Ph.D., associate director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and director of the Center for Military Medicine Research at the University of Pittsburgh.

    “For the next five years, AFIRM-II will aim to develop novel therapies for severely damaged limbs, reconstruct facial and skull injuries with tissue engineering approaches, regenerate skin for burns, find new ways to prevent rejection of composite tissues, such as hand transplants, and much more,” Dr. Tuan said. “We’ve accomplished a great deal in the first phase of this work, and we are delighted to have the opportunity to bring these innovative techniques to the clinical setting.”

    Since its inception in 2008, AFIRM efforts have resulted in clinical studies of face transplantation, minimally invasive surgery for craniofacial injuries, scar reduction treatments, fat grafting for reconstructive surgery, and new treatments for burns.

    “When warriors come back from the battlefield with serious life-changing injuries, it is our job to find new and innovative ways to help them. Ultimately, we’d like to create new treatments to repair these severe injuries as if they never happened,” said Maj. Gen. Joseph Caravalho Jr., commanding general of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick. “The science of regenerative medicine is one of the ways we fulfill our promise to service members who put themselves in harm’s way, that we will work our hardest and do our very best to take care of them.”

    The AFIRM program not only funds scientific research, but also requires that discoveries be tested and compared so that the most promising therapies – which could benefit civilians as well as soldiers – can be brought to clinical trials. The consortium will work with health professionals at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

    Government sponsors of AFIRM are the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Medical Service, the Office of Research and Development – Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.

    Illustration:  McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

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