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Research for a New Decade The Institute for NanoBioTechnology is moving into a new decade, and with that comes new directions for our research initiatives. While changes are on the horizon, at our core, INBT still believes that efficient solutions to healthcare and the environment are more easily achieved by working together. For this reason, we foster an environment and culture where collaboration is key. By building teams comprising people from science, engineering, medicine, public health, and so forth, we create amazing results. For example, experts in stem cell engineering, biomaterials, surgery, vascular mechanics, and vascular disease, can create a vascular graft in less than a week (see pages 8–9). And when experts in chemical and biomolecular engineering, and theoretical modeling and mathematics work together, solutions for measuring cell metabolic activity can be developed. (see pages 12–13). INBT is known as an interdisciplinary research hub, but we are really an
interdisciplinary solution hub. Whether we are creating or adapting tools, materials, processes, procedures, or investigating unanswered questions, it is all grounded in collaboration.
