Three Engineering Science and Mechanics faculty have been awarded Johnson and Johnson Innovative Technology Research Seed Grants. The Johnson and Johnson funds were matched by the Huck Institutes, The College of Medicine and the Materials Research Institute. The merit-based awards are presented to PSU faculty for innovative research in the life sciences on a competive basis.

Barbara A. Shaw, Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Elizabeth Sikora, Senior Research Associate in Engineering Science and Mechanics, and Ian Gilchrist, Staff Physician, College of Medicine, for their proposal titled An Engineered Materials Approach to Developing a Bioabsorbing, Drug-Eluting, Bare-Metal Stent from Nanostructured Magnesium Alloys.

Jeff Catchmark, Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and the team of Christopher Siedlecki, Associate Professor of Surgery, College of Medicine; Alan Snyder, Professor of Bioengineering, College of Medicine; and Conrad Zapanta, Assistant Professor of Surgery, College of Medicine for their proposal titled Integral Nanotexturing of Non-Planar Biomaterials.

Source: The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Newsletter, Vol. 16; Spring 2006.