Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing
Vascular Tissue Challenge
Project Description
Produce viable thick-tissue assays that can be used to advance research both on earth and the ISS National Laboratory.
More »Anticipated Benefits
Vascularization is one of the great challenges that tissue engineering faces in order to achieve sizeable tissue and organ substitutes that contain living cells. ...tissue or organ substitutes in which any dimension, such as thickness, exceeds 400 μm need to be vascularized to ensure cellular survival.
More »Primary U.S. Work Locations and Key Partners
| Organizations Performing Work | Role | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
Ames Research Center
(ARC)
|
Lead Organization | NASA Center | Moffett Field, California |
| Department of Defense (DoD) | Supporting Organization | Other US Government | Washington, District of Columbia |
| Department of Health and Human Services | Supporting Organization | Other US Government | |
| Florida Institute of Technology | Supporting Organization | Academia | Melbourne, Florida |
Johnson Space Center
(JSC)
|
Supporting Organization | NASA Center | Houston, Texas |
| Methuselah Foundation | Supporting Organization | Industry | Springfield, Virginia |
| National Institute of Health (NIH) | Supporting Organization | Other US Government | |
| National Science Foundation | Supporting Organization | Other US Government | |
| Rice University | Supporting Organization | Academia | Houston, Texas |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | Supporting Organization | Academia | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Veterans Affairs | Supporting Organization | Other US Government | |
| Wake Forest University | Supporting Organization | Academia | Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| Yale University | Supporting Organization | Academia | New Haven, Connecticut |
| Co-Funding Partners | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|
| International Space Station (ISS) | NASA Program |
Primary U.S. Work Locations
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California
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Virginia
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