FY21 Seed Grant Winners Announced

In September, the Center for Multiscale & Translational Mechanobiology launched its first ever Seed Grant Program, inviting faculty to submit multi-PI proposals for projects intended to stimulate innovative research in the field of mechanobiology.

The Center received applications for many high quality and potentially transformative projects.  The winning projects propose groundbreaking research that spans and integrates multiple length scales and/or multiple time scales, uses mathematical modeling to help understand and predict mechanobiological phenomena, and/or explores translational research driven by mechanobiology principles.  Altogether, the projects highlight exciting work that spans multiple departments and campuses at Boston University.

Please join us in congratulating the following FY21 Seed Grant Award winners:

• Michael Albro, Mark Grinstaff, and Brian Snyder.  A Novel Mechanochemical Bioreactor Platform for Synovial Joint Therapeutic Screening.
• Matthew Layne, Joyce Wong, Michael Smith, and Katherine Zhang.  Impaired Mechanotransduction in Connective Tissue Disease.
• John Ngo and Joseph Larkin.  Multiscale approaches for engineering and understanding mechanical communication between cells.
• Hadi Nia and Bela Suki.  Mechanical signatures of cell-specific transcriptomics of the lung.

Proposals were judged on a series of criteria including meeting program guidelines, showing innovation and significance in the field, having a solid project team well-suited to collaboration on the specific research involved, and well-reasoned overall strategy, methodology, and analyses appropriate to accomplishing the goal of the project.

For additional information and the winning project abstracts, please visit our CMTM Seed Grant Program webpage.