Akerlof, K. L.
Schenk, Todd
Mitchell, Kelsey
Bankston, Adriana
Syl, Aniyah
Eddy, Lisa
Hall, Sarah L.
Lad, Nikita
Lake, Samuel J.
Ostrom, Robert B. J.
Rosenberg, Jessica L.
Sisti, Abigail R.
Smith, Christopher T.
Solomon, Lee
Velez, Anne-Lise K.
Funding for this research was provided by:
4-VA Collaborative Research Grant
OSCAR - George Mason University
National Science Foundation CAREER Award Biomaterials (2041751)
Article History
Received: 9 February 2025
Accepted: 23 June 2025
First Online: 21 July 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: GMU’s Institutional Review Board approved the study protocols [#2135839-2] as exempt on February 5, 2024.
: We obtained informed consent from the science policy program leads between March 7th and April 26th of 2024 when we recruited them to take the pre-survey and participate in the Zoom interview. The consent information was also provided on the second page of the pre-survey. Participants indicated their consent by clicking agree after reading the consent information and proceeding to take the survey. Participants were informed that their responses were confidential, why the research was being conducted, how their data was to be utilized, and if there were any risks to them in participating. The participants also were invited to serve as co-authors in the publication of the research and were welcomed to provide more details about their programs to the article at that time as well.