Kristen L. Moffat Wins Wake Forest Award
10/23/2008
Kristen L. Moffat, a doctoral student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is an inaugural winner of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Young Investigator Award. This award was designed to recognize the outstanding research achievements of young investigators, one at each the graduate and post-doctoral levels, with the long term goal of fostering career development and encouraging the pursuit of novel solutions to the problems of regenerative medicine.
Under the guidance of Dr. Helen H. Lu, Director of the Biomaterials and Interface Tissue Engineering Laboratory (BITEL), Kristen's research focuses on elucidating the structure-function relationship of soft tissue-to-bone interfaces and developing novel scaffold systems for tendon-to-bone interface tissue engineering. The Young Investigator Award will be presented at the 2008 Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-North America (TERMIS-NA) meeting in La Jolla, California in December. This prestigious award recognizes Kristen's many research accomplishments and her promise as an innovative investigator in tissue engineering.