The New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research has awarded research grants to Professor Martin Yarmush and to Professor Noshir Langrana. Dr. Yarmush received a 2-year, $221,000 award for his project, “Microfabrication of a Bioreactor to Characterize Neuronal Stem Cell Differentiation”. BME faculty Rene Schloss and David Shreiber are co-investigators on the research team that includes collaborators from Harvard and Washington University. Dr. Langrana received a 1-year, $150,000 award for his project, “Bifunctional Biomaterial Design for Spinal Cord Regeneration”. Dr. Langrana’s research team includes Drs. Shreiber, Schloss, Bonnie Firestein (Cell Biology & Neuroscience), and Bernard Yurke (Lucent).