Engineering Human Tissues for Medical Impact

The newly established Biomedical Engineering Scientific Interest Group (BMESIG) is launching a seminar series, to start on Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 1 p.m. with a lecture by Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, director of the Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering at Columbia University. The inaugural speaker Vunjak-Novakovic has pioneered the use of stem cell engineering to grow tissue. Working primarily in the field of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders, Vunjak-Novakovic ’ s lab has successfully grown bone grafts that match a patient ’ s original jawbone for facial reconstruction surgery to repair injuries, disease or birth defects. This spectacular advancement in bone tissue engineering provides all the advantages of the body ’ s original jawbone and uses real bone as a scaffold to grow a new TMJ graft. In related research, the Vunjak-Novakovic lab is engineering vascularized and electromechanically functional cardiac tissue by culturing stem cells.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/sigs/biomedical-engineering-scientific-interest-groupAir date: 10/12/2021 1:00:00 PM
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