[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 23, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1546]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                           HON. PHIL GINGREY

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 23, 2009

  Mr. GINGREY of Georgia. Madam Speaker, in accordance with House 
Republican Conference standards, and Clause 9 of Rule XXI, I submit the 
following member request. Funding for this request was authorized in 
H.R. 2647, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Phil Gingrey
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647
  Account: Army, RDTE
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Georgia Institute of Technology
  Address of Requesting Entity: Institute of Bioengineering and 
Bioscience, 315 Ferst Drive, NW Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0363
  Description of Request: The $3,000,000 authorized for the Center for 
Advanced Bioengineering and Solider Survivability (CABSS) will focus on 
research in advanced tissue and bone regeneration and wound care and 
treatment issues relevant to military trauma care. Fundamental research 
advances in these areas can lead to technologies and techniques for 
better immediate clinical combat care as well as address long term care 
issues involving limb loss, tissue and organ damage, facial and dental 
injuries, and reconstruction. The funding will be paid out at pre-
negotiated rates in accordance with Department of Defense policy. 
Specifically, funds will be used to: establish a seed grant program to 
identify novel technologies for treatment of musculoskeletal defects 
following trauma, develop oriented nano-fiber meshes for treatment of 
neurologic defects following injury to the extremities, develop 
biodegradable shape memory polymers for treatment of large bone 
defects, develop biodegradable shape memory polymers for craniofacial 
reconstruction, and test the effects of sustained delivery of 
osteoinductive proteins in tubular nanofiber mesh scaffolds on 
functional repair of large segmental bone defects. Georgia Tech will 
continue to leverage this request to obtain funding from other sources. 
The Georgia Research Alliance has pledged additional money to the 
project for infrastructure and equipment, and past Congressional 
funding has been leveraged to successfully obtain funding from DoD's 
Orthopaedic Trauma Research Program and its Armed Forces Institute of 
Regenerative Medicine, as well as funding from the Musculoskeletal 
Transplant Foundation.

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