A $9.3 million National Institutes of Health grant has been awarded to Clemson University to fund a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, where discoveries could benefit heart and spinal cord injury patients and others.

The five-year grant is a collaboration between Clemson, the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of South Carolina. The center will be housed on the main Clemson campus in Rhodes Hall.

The new center “will significantly improve our collaborative efforts in South Carolina to recruit, train and retain researchers with cross-disciplinary skills in the area of regenerative medicine,” said Clemson President James Barker.

End-stage organ failure and tissue loss create health-care costs approaching $400 billion annually in the United States, said Naren Vyavahare, a Clemson professor of bioengineering who will be the principal investigator and the center's director.

Research will focus on tissue regeneration, Vyavahare said. Researchers hope to make discoveries that will benefit heart patients, those with spinal cord injuries and develop vascular grafts for bypass surgery, he said.

 

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