NIH Trailblazer Award

VISE affiliate Xiaoguang Dong receives NIH Trailblazer Award for innovative airway stent research to revolutionize treatment of COPD, lung conditions

Jul. 31, 2024—Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded an R21 Trailblazer Award by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pursue a project about “Wirelessly Actuated Ciliary Stent for Minimally Invasive Treatment of Cilia Dysfunction.”