Professor Martin Yarmush received a two-year $327K grant from the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research for a project entitled, "A Novel Organotypic Model of Traumatic Brain Injury". The funding will support Dr. Yarmush's goal to develop an in vitro traumatic brain injury model combining organotypic slices with microfabricated devices that integrate mechanical deformation and multiple electrode arrays. This new model will provide researchers working in the field of traumatic brain injury with the capability to perform real-time and long-term evaluation of molecular and functional events in the axons following mechanical deformation.