Professor David Shreiber received a 3-year award from the Whitaker Foundation for $230K for his project entitled “Development of Tissue-Specific, Three Dimensional, In Vitro Models of Nervous System Trauma”. The research project utilizes tissue engineering to study the mecahnotransduction of mechanical injury to axons and glia, and will contribute to the design of rational strategies to prevent and treat traumatic brain and spinal cord injury. Professor Wise Young (Cell Biology and Neuroscience) is a collaborator