UF Biomedical Engineering Professor Receives NIH Award To Uncover Microbiome’s Role in Tissue Health

Ana Maria Porras, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, has been awarded the NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) to advance her research into how the human microbiome interacts with and influences tissue health. This prestigious R35 award, totaling $1.8 million provides sustained funding for Porras to explore how beneficial microorganisms in the body impact the extracellular matrix (ECM), a structural network essential for tissue stability and function.

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