Dr. Muthu Wijesundara, Principal Research Scientist and Biomedical Technologies Division Head, is the recipient of over $450,000 for his Adaptive Spine Board Overlay. The funding is through The Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative (TRC4), an initiative of The University of Texas System. UTA received a total of $781,064 through the program. TRC4 grants will fund groundbreaking trauma research, product development, and preventative measures across UT institutions.
There are four Directed Award grants totaling $3,250,000 and 49 Competitive Award grants totaling $14,787,863. Recipients represent ten UT institutions across the UT System and include strategic collaborations, including the Department of Defense.
The areas of research for these grants include clinical research, early career mentored research, pre-clinical and translational research, and proof of concept research.
The program focus areas included pre-hospital care, innovative and novel surgical support technologies, innovative and novel devices, drugs, and therapies, clinical practice techniques, trauma system registries and information management, and advanced complex wound management.