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| 15D21 Culture Strategies to Enhance Engineered Tissue Phenotype | ||||||||||
| Overview | The field of tissue engineering seeks to create clinically effective materials for the repair of damaged tissues and organs and the treatment of medical conditions brought on by trauma, disease or congenital defects. Tissue engineering strategies involve the incorporation of novel biomaterials with biologics and/or pharmaceutics, that upon implantation in the patient will stimulate angiogenesis, tissue integration, and/or tissue remodeling. Critical to the development of effective tissues are strategies that enhance phenotypic markers of the target tissue, and may include approaches that regulate cell adhesion, intercellular communication, activation of receptor-mediated signaling pathways, or mechanotransduction. This session seeks abstracts that describe novel in vitro strategies to enhance phenotypic markers of engineered tissues, including (but not limited to) liver, pancreas, retina, muscle, skin, tendon, cartilage, bone, vascular, and nerve. | |||||||||
| Primary Sponsor | Engineering Fundamentals in Life Science (15d) | |||||||||
ChairAaron S. GoldsteinAssistant Professor Department of Chemical Engineering, 0211 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0211 Phone Number: 540-231-3674 Fax Number: 540-231-5022 Email: goldst@vt.edu
CoChairVassilios I. SikavitsasAssistant Professor School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering University of Oklahoma 100 E. Boyd, Room T335 Norman, OK 73019 Phone Number: 405-325-1511 Fax Number: 405-325-5813 Email: vis@ou.edu | ||||||||||
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