Texas A&M Center Secures Funding To Continue Tissue Chip Testing And Promotion
Following the completion of their first two years of comprehensive, independent testing of 11 tissue chips, researchers in the Tissue Chip Validation Center at Texas A&M University (TEX-VAL) have been successful in securing a competitive renewal award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The competitive, multi-million-dollar grant from the NIH’s National Center for Advancing […]
Texas A&M Researchers Create Tissue Chip ‘Blueprint’ In First NIH-Funded Study
Microphysiological systems (MPSs), or tissue chips, are a relatively new technology that have the potential to significantly impact the drug development process, as well as drug and chemical safety testing; however, adoption of these chips by industry and regulatory agencies has been slow due to a lack of confidence in the reliability and relevance of […]
Rusyn Selected to Lead Committee Examining EPA Program
Dr. Ivan Rusyn, a professor of toxicology in the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (CVM) Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences (VIBS), will chair a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Workshop Committee that will support changes being implemented to the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System […]
Committee Led by Rusyn Reviews Army Medical Protocols
Last fall, Ivan Rusyn, a professor in the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ (CVM) Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences (VIBS), was asked by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to chair an ad hoc committee to review a report on how the Army approaches the medical cases of veterans who were […]
Superfund Center Concentrates on Innovative Solutions
In September of 2008, when Hurricane Ike hit Galveston and Houston, waters as high as 15 to 20 feet flooded large areas and carried with it the sediment found in the Houston Ship Channel and Galveston Bay. Was this sediment safe for the people being exposed to it? Was it toxic? Officials didn’t know. Now, […]
