Joseph Rosen
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Thayer School of Engineering
at Dartmouth has been awarded a place in the Armed Forces Institute of
Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM)—a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary network
striving to develop advanced treatment options for severely wounded U.S.
servicemen and women. The principal investigator at Thayer School is Joseph Rosen,
adjunct professor of engineering and professor of surgery in the Division of
Plastic Surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical
Center.
“This new program will provide state-of-the-art technologies to help the
wounded in the present wars,” says Rosen. “It will also have long-term dual use
for civilian-related problems.”
Managed and funded through the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel
Command—with additional funding from the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force, the
National Institutes of Health, and the Veterans Administration—the AFIRM is
made up of two “cores”: the Rutgers University and Cleveland Clinic-led core,
and the Wake Forest University-led core. Each of the two civilian cores is
itself a multi-institutional network with Thayer School acting as part of the
Rutgers-Cleveland Clinic core. Each core was awarded $42.5 million over a
period of five years.
The AFIRM was designed to speed the delivery of regenerative medicine
therapies for critically injured service members from around the world, with a
focus on those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Researchers will be
investigating new therapies, such as tissue engineering, to develop innovative
healing methods.
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