Category: Physical Therapy
$2.3M for tendon damage research
November 15, 2022 Written by Amy Cherry | Photos by Ashley Barnas
NIH supports cross-disciplinary collaboration involving professors from three UD colleges
From age 3 through high school, Lily Lin was an award-winning gymnast, placing in state and regional championships.
“It’s such a high-impact sport. I suffered from a herniated disc and tendinopathy, and so I know the impact and how debilitating it can be,” she said.
Inspired by her own past injuries, the gymnast-turned-biomedical engineering doctoral student at the University of Delaware is now studying tendon overload. She’s part of an interdisciplinary team, led by primary investigator Dawn Elliott, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering within the College of Engineering (COE). Elliott, along with co-investigators Karin Grävare Silbernagel, professor of physical therapy in the College of Health Sciences (CHS), and Justin Parreno, assistant professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), have been awarded a nearly $2.4 million, five-year R01 Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate multi-scale tendon damage and abnormal cellular responses in tendinopathy.
