Research Grant Award Announcement

In a first for West Point faculty, LTC Luis Alvarez, Ph.D., an Academy Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Life Science, has been awarded a 3.7 million dollar research grant from the US Army Medical Materiel and Research Command to investigate a novel technology designed to improve the regrowth of bone in combat-related injuries. LTC Alvarez will manage the execution of this grant and will oversee the research teams as they conduct the experiments to assess these novel bone regrowth technologies using the delivery of BMP-2, or Bone Morphological Protein, to regrow bone following traumatic injury. He has established a wealth of new opportunities for West Point cadets and faculty to participate in this Army-relevant research program through both academic year research projects at West Point and the summer IAD(A) opportunities at the partner labs (Institute for Surgical Research, National Cancer Institute, The Mayo Clinic, and The Cleveland Clinic). LTC Alvarez, a 1997 graduate of West Point and a Hertz Scholar, originally branched Military Intelligence before completing his doctoral studies and research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As the Director of the Center for Molecular Science, LTC Alvarez manages all research and outreach efforts within the Department of Chemistry and Life Science.