Sarah Greising, PhD, will be contributing to a scientific research workshop organized by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The workshop is titled Opportunities for Rapid Advancement of Limb Regeneration: From Animal Models to Humans, and will be held February 17-18, 2021. 

NICHD seeks to bring together experts from the fields of limb development, vertebrate limb regeneration, human limb loss, and rehabilitation to inform future research strategies in the field of mammalian limb regeneration. Overall the workshop seeks to establish the future directions and collaborative opportunities between basic scientists and clinicians toward a common goal of advancing limb regeneration.

The NICHD Strategic Plan 2020 provides an overarching framework for the future of NIHCD research and establishes ambitious goals to fulfill NICHD’s mandate. One such goal is to “Advance the ability to regenerate human limbs by using emerging technologies to activate the body’s own growth pathways and processes.”  This workshop hopes to inform NICHD’s strategy for approaching this aspirational goal.

Dr. Greising was invited to contribute to the ‘Supporting function in the proximal limb for amputees’ session of the workshop.

Partners in the workshop include the NICHD’s Developmental Biology and Structural Variation Branch (DBSVB) and National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR).

Greising is an assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology, and the director of the Skeletal Muscle Plasticity and Regeneration Laboratory.