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The Center for Restorative and Regenerative Medicine is a collaboration between the Providence VA Medical Center and Brown University. The mission of the Center is to improve function for individuals with limb trauma by developing technologically advanced solutions for the restoration of limb function. To achieve this goal, the Center brings to bear state-of-the-art techniques in tissue engineering, orthopaedics, neurotechnology, prosthetic design, and rehabilitation. These are complementary techniques and they converge in the concept of the biohybrid limb – composed of both biological and non-biological materials – enabling us to envision solutions that transcend the limitations of biological tissue or prosthetic materials alone.
Long term goals of the Center are to:
• Develop and characterize the next generation of biomimetic
prostheses, neurologic control mechanisms, and optimized
human-prosthetic interfaces.
• Blend physicochemical techniques with instructive biomaterials
and cell-based therapies to lead to a new functional level of
engineered tissues.
• Develop advanced techniques, including virtual reality and motion
tracking, for the quantitative assessment of new treatments for
restoring limb function.
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