DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
U.S. Department of Defense
From the agency that brought us the Internet, Stealth and GPS Technologies
Artificial Immune System & Stem Cell Research
§  Artificial lymph node - Harvard, Whitehead Institute, Sciperio, Inc.
§  Primitive blood stem cell isolation - Massachusetts General Hospital
§  3D perfusion bioreactor - Ohio State, Aastrom Biosciences, Inc.
§  Biomaterials scaffolds - Clemson, U North Carolina