UC Santa Barbara bioengineering assistant professor Marley Dewey has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research award to support her work on recently discovered extracellular vesicles that play an important role in tissue repair. The Maximizing Investigators Research Award (MIRA) for Early-Stage Investigators, given by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, will provide $2.1 million in funding across five years for Dewey and her lab to learn more about how certain ex...