NIH R01 · 2025
Pre-clinical validation of 3D-printed nerve conduits for pediatric peripheral nerve repair
Project Summary Peripheral nerve injuries, as a result of trauma, tumors, or other medical conditions, require 50,000-200,000 surgeries annually, and may cause complete or partial paralysis. The autograft is the current "gold standard" but requires additional procedures to harvest the graft, can be challenging to perform in a pediatric population, and often leads to neuroma formation and loss of function at the donor site. The goal of this project is to validate the materials and methods to fabricate pre-clinical polymeric three-dimensional (3D) nerve conduits with an embedded wireless sensor for continuous monitoring of functional recovery to be used in infants/children. The 3D printed…
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