New center at Georgia Tech aims to improve recovery of soldiers with severe injuries

		IMAGE: Barbara Boyan (pictured center), serves as director of the Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Bioengineering for Soldier Survivability, which is developing clinically valuable, safe and effective tools to improve the... Click here for more information.

When a soldier is wounded during combat, surgeons must focus on reducing infection and reconstructing damaged bone and tissues. Technologies that could improve the repair and regeneration processes are being developed in research laboratories across the country, but they are not being moved quickly enough into military trauma centers.