Grant
The UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has awarded £4 million to scientists at Keele, Imperial College London, Nottingham and Southampton to collaborate to combine stem cell science and tissue engineering in bone repair.
Over the next five years, the scientists will combine their expertise in skeletal stem cells, scaffolds and materials chemistry, to identify the key growth factors, matrix proteins and physical conditions that enhance tissue regeneration, leading to more effective bone repair strategies.
Douglas Kell, BBSRC Chief Executive, said, “This truly multidisciplinary approach to the basic research necessary to improve scientific understanding opens up exciting possibilities in the area of skeletal development and repair, an area where advancement is becoming increasingly urgent on both a quality of life and an economic level as our population gets older.”
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