Adam Oskowitz, MD, PhD Awarded $400,000 R21 Trailblazer Award
UCSF Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery - - April 09, 2020
Adam Oskowitz, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, has been awarded an R21 Trailblazer Award by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, a 3-year grant that supports high-risk, high-impact research. The goals for the research grant are to generate a Chimeric Antigen Receptor to direct T-regulatory cells to injured aortic tissue, and reduce the vascular inflammation that results in abdominal aortic aneurysm growth and rupture.
Dr. Oskowtiz noted the potential of the research for improving treatments:
Aortic aneurysms [...]