Research Opportunities in Tissue Engineering

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Research Opportunities in Tissue Engineering: The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) issue this Request for Applications (RFA) to address key research challenges in the field of tissue engineering. The full promise of tissue engineering as a means to develop functional tissue or organ substitutes in vitro for implantation in vivo, or to remodel and regenerate tissue in vivo for the purpose of repairing, replacing, maintaining, or enhancing organ function, is only beginning to be realized. Tissue engineering also offers a potential source of human tissues for use as biosensors or for the development of drugs including screening for novel drug candidates, identifying novel genes as drug targets or therapeutic agents, and testing for drug toxicity. As an emerging multidisciplinary field in which ideas, concepts, and techniques are developing at an exceedingly rapid pace, there is significant interest and demand for government agencies to provide additional resources in this and related areas for fostering the basic and applied science needed for this field to mature and important breakthroughs to transition from basic and pre-clinical research to clinical studies. The overall goal of this solicitation is to provide resources to address the issues that must be overcome in order to continue to move this field forward rapidly. It is structured to provide an opportunity where clinicians, engineers, and scientists from a variety of disciplines can establish research collaborations that will hasten the development of tissue engineering.