{"id":64695,"date":"2024-07-23T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/?p=64695"},"modified":"2024-08-12T09:56:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T13:56:28","slug":"wilson-college-research-projects-awarded-external-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/2024\/07\/wilson-college-research-projects-awarded-external-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson College Research Projects Awarded External Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

It may be surprising to learn there are similarities between human cell tissue and textiles. Wilson College of Textiles<\/a> Assistant Professor Jessica Gluck<\/a> focuses her work in this interdisciplinary research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy lab is essentially trying to look at what it is about your tissue that helps all of the cells of your body function the way that they’re supposed to. If you were to take tissue from your body and take all the cells out of it and then look at it under a microscope, you would see that it looks very porous,\u201d Gluck says. \u201cIt works out really well with being at the Wilson College of Textiles, because we can recreate what it is that we’re seeing in the tissue. By doing that, we can control how big the fibers are and how big the pores are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gluck also serves as the Director of Education and Training at the Comparative Medicine Institute (CMI)<\/a>, an interdisciplinary health research center at NC State, that has enabled a lot of her research to take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CMI awards competitive funding for different projects each year through seed grants and their Ideation Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of the seed grants that they give have a condition where you have to be working with somebody else who isn’t necessarily in your field,\u201d Gluck says. \u201cThis really helps facilitate a lot of collaboration with people that you wouldn’t necessarily work with before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wilson College won funding for four different projects this year as part of the CMI\u2019s Think, Collaborate and Do Ideation Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click to see which projects received funding.<\/h2><\/a>
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