Congratulations to Principal Investigator Christian Capitini, MD, associate professor, Hematology, Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplant, along with Co-PI Peiman Hematti, MD, professor, Department of Medicine, who were recently awarded a new NIH R01 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in the amount of $2.01 million. In this four-year project titled “Exosome educated monocytes for acute radiation syndrome,” they will use mesenchymal stromal cell-exosomes to generate and improve the efficacy of radioprotective cells and define their mechanism of radioprotection in preclinical models of acute radiation syndrome.