Tag: Aaron Morris
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Unlocking the Mysteries of Autoimmunity: U-M BME Researchers Awarded $2.5M NIH Grant to Track Immune Cell Behavior
These foundational tools will initially be used to monitor and evaluate treatments in multiple sclerosis (MS) models, with long-term potential to transform how clinicians track therapies for other autoimmune conditions, cancers, and vaccines.
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Aaron Morris Receives NIH MIRA Award to Advance Immune-engineering Approaches for Chronic Wounds
The award will support Dr. Morris’s research program aimed at understanding, and ultimately improving, why certain wounds fail to heal.
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Aaron Morris Receives NSF CAREER Award to Engineer Lymphoid Microenvironments to Understand T cell Reprogramming
This research focuses on T cells, including regulatory T cells (Tregs)—a specialized population that can dampen harmful inflammation. Photo credit: Claire Agosti, SayoStudio.
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Rethinking the Foreign Body Response: How Inflammation Can Become a Biomedical Ally
The article summarizes recent research and discusses how the immune reaction triggered by implanted materials—which has historically been considered a barrier to medical device success—can instead be leveraged for positive biomedical outcomes.
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Innovative Biomaterial Scaffolds Enable Precise Recruitment and Study of Rare Antigen-Specific T Cells
A collaborative team led by U-M BME develops a controlled-release platform to advance immune cell research and unlock new possibilities in autoimmune disease monitoring.
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NPR TED Radio Hour Features Aaron Morris This Weekend
Dr. Morris discusses how his lab’s studies focusing on autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, may enable researchers to predict the development of symptoms, allowing doctors one day to prescribe treatments to avoid disease development.
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U-M Researchers Collaborate to Identify New Therapeutics in Models of Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
Dr. Morris and his team are working to devise a more effective treatment by delving deeper into the disease’s cellular mechanisms.
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U-M Researchers Receive Lupus Innovation Award to Investigate Novel Diagnostic and Treatment Approaches
This grant, of up to $450,000 for three years, provides early-stage support for highly innovative approaches to addressing major challenges in lupus research.
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Aaron Morris Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
Award honors rising stars in research
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U-M BME-led study reveals the key role of anti-tumor neutrophils in suppressing lung metastasis of breast cancer
The research team employed a subcutaneous biomaterial scaffold implant