Alexandra Peister and her collaborators received an NIH program project grant which will support research at Morehouse, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Rochester, Emory University, and the University of Queensland in Australia. The grant will be funded for the next two years and will support research at Morehouse at a level of $36,000 per year. Co-Investigator, NIH Challenge Grant (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funded): Engineered Delivery of Adult Versus Fetal Stem Cells for Bone Regeneration in collaboration with Georgia Tech. The grant will be funded September 2009.