Yang’s $1.25 million NIH grant advances work on polymers

A UT Arlington bioengineering professor has been awarded a $1.25 million National Institutes of Health grant to continue his work in creating safe, biodegradable, photoluminescent polymers that can improve cancer therapy. Jian Yang , an associate professor of bioengineering  at The University of Texas at Arlington , will use his latest grant to continue work established through a 2009 NIH program. The polymers Yang has developed have a multitude of uses, including implants,