Professor X. Edward Guo Awarded NIH Grants
10/08/2009
Professor X. Edward Guo from the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science has recently won two major grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Working with Professor Paul Sajda, also from Biomedical Engineering, and Professor Rafael Yuste of Biological Sciences, Professor Guo has won a highly competitive NIH Challenge Grant, part of the stimulus package at NIH. This two-year $915,108 RC1 Challenge Grant, "Implicit Learning in Osteocyte Network under Mechanical Loading", seeks to test a novel hypothesis that osteocyte (mature bone cells inside hard bone tissue) network may function in a similar way as a neuronal network and plays an important role in mechanical memory.
Professor Guo also received a five year $1,759,307 NIH R01 research grant "Mechanobiology of 3D Trabecular Bone Explants" to examine how mechanical loading influences bone formation and mechanical integrity of bone tissue. The mechanism of mechanical loading in bone tissue is critical in understanding osteoporosis and bone loss in space.