UT Arlington bioengineer wants to use nanomedicine to treat peripheral artery disease

Researcher lands American Heart Association grantA UT Arlington associate professor is working with the American Heart Association on a new method that could use injected nanoparticles to recruit stem cells from the patient’s own blood to build needed stents in a patient’s failing blood vessels. Kytai Nguyen, a bioengineering associate professor, is working on the two-year, $140,000 grant to develop ways to more effectively treat peripheral artery disease, a malady that affects about 8 million Americans. “It’s a narrowing of the arteries that affects so many people. There isn’t a lot