University of California - Davis Health Jun 12 2026 Can growing blood vessels within a lab-engineered graft improve bladder reconstruction for children? For more than two decades, UC Davis pediatric urologic surgeon Eric Kurzrock has been developing and testing grafts to avoid the complications after standard enterocystoplasty, a surgery for bladder augmentation. Now, a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will help his UC Davis research team test a bioengineered graft