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ECU studying bioengineered blood vessels for surgery

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GREENVILLE, N.C. (5/24/12) — Physicians at East Carolina University and Yale University are working together to engineer blood vessels that could be used in coronary artery bypass surgery.

Dr. Alan P. Kypson, a surgeon and associate professor of cardiovascular sciences at ECU, and Dr. Laura Niklason, a professor of anesthesiology and biomedical engineering, vascular biology and therapeutics at Yale, are working to expand previous research they have done on tissue-engineered blood vessels.

Their research is funded by a four-year, $2.34 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Previous research by Kypson, Niklason and colleagues was published last year in Science Translational Medicine.

 

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