Professor Martin Yarmush and colleagues at Northeastern U (Shashi Murthy, PI), U Toronto (Milica Radisic, co-PI), and Harvard U (John Mayer, co-PI) have been awarded a 3-year, $1.9 M, to develop innovative microfabrication techniques for isolating and cultivating stem cells for use in the replacement of damaged tissue. The Yarmush lab focus is to study how stem cells, extracted from hair follicles in normal skin, can be used to potentially repair severely burned skin by growing new hair follicles and sweat glands.