TIEHH Receives US Army Funding For Fibertect® Wipe - Textile World Magazine


The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) at Lubbock, Texas-based Texas Tech University (TTU) has received a $1.1 million research award from the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command to continue funding the Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. National Program for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats. The funding enables researchers at TIEHH, TTU and the TTU Health Sciences Center to further enhance and leverage technologies that Zumwalt researchers have developed, including the Fibertect® nonwoven decontamination wipe, which has received $90,000 for one year.

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