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, disea...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 4, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Bone regenerative engineering: a convergence approach
NIH Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
The treatment of injuries to bone that necessitate bone regeneration continues to be a major challenge for the orthopaedic surgeon. This burden is compounded by the constraints of supply and morbidity associated with autograft tissue, the gold standard of repair. The use of allografts, xenografts, or metal and ceramic implants overcomes many of the limitations associated with autografts but fails to provide a viable solution. Dr. Cato T. Laurencin has worked in the area of bone engineering with a focus on biomaterial selection, scaffold development, cell selection, cell/...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 14, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
