Dr. Gurtej Singh’s team at Stony Brook Medicine has received two major awards \$646,431 from The Mathers Foundation and \$50,000 from the Technology Accelerator Fund — to advance their innovative wound-care research, building on prior seed grants from the Department of Surgery in 2017 and 2019 and their 2024 Venture Champions Challenge win in the Life Sciences category. Department Chair Dr. Apostolos Tassiopoulos emphasized that these awards highlight the value of early seed funding, noting that such support has enabled Singh’s team to pursue groundbreaking ideas, foster cross-department collaborations, and work toward translating their research into next-generation therapies, reflecting the department’s commitment to innovation and scientific impact.

Singh credited the Department of Surgery’s seed grants as the catalyst for his team’s research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, enabling the purchase of a 3D bioprinter and the generation of critical early data on vascularized skin constructs that ultimately laid the groundwork for securing the Mathers Foundation grant. With the new funding, the team will now focus on uncovering the biological mechanisms of inosculation and refining their vascularized scaffold design to advance wound-healing solutions. In a significant step toward commercialization, Stony Brook University’s Intellectual Property Partners has filed a utility patent on their vascularized skin construct design, underscoring the innovation’s potential impact. Singh highlighted that the collaborative culture between clinical and basic sciences at Stony Brook Surgery continues to fuel transformative research and drive meaningful medical breakthroughs.

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