Engineering an Osteochondral Tissue for Cartilage Defect Repair

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1060340

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Osteoarthritis is the leading cause of pain and disability in Australia. Our team has developed a novel method to make new cartilage tissue from patients' own bone marrow stem cells. Through NHMRC funding we will optimize this process and test the repair technology in a large animal model.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 01-01-2017

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $438,568.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Regenerative Medicine (incl. Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

biomedical engineering | cartilage | osteoarthritis | stem cells | tissue engineering

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