Your generous donation of $10 will help Team NANO purchase the required materials to store our polymers, hydrogels, and cells. We are starting to purchase vials to make our hydrogels in and using large portions of our polymer substance. We need funds in order to make more hydrogels and have accurate data.

With this money, Team NANO is able to get lipoproteins and Carmustine, which is the drug we are using to target the Glioblastoma Multiforme cells. In order for multiple trials, we need a large volume of both the lipoproteins and the Carmustine.

With this donation, Team NANO will be able to use the machinery at NIST and in the Chemical and Nuclear ENgineering Lab at UMD to charactize our gels. We will also be able to quantify the diffusion rates for our drug-delivery system.

Team NANO would be grateful to have this donation that would allow us to purchase Glioblastoma cells in order to identify the efficient of our drug delivery system and how the drugs will attack the tumor. This donation would be incredibly beneficial to getting our innovation into the healthcare bio-engineering sector.