Functional Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessels Derived-from Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Jin Yu Liu, Chemical and Biological Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo, 916 Furnas Hall, Amherst, NY 14260, Amherst, NY 14260, Daniel D. Swartz, Buffalo Children's Hospital, 916 Furnas Hall, Amherst, NY 14260, Lan Yao, SUNY at Buffalo, 916 Furnas Hall, Amherst, NY 14260 and Stelios T. Andreadis, SUNY at Buffalo, 908 Furnas Hall, Amherst, NY 14260 |
Strength Enhancement for Arterial-Implantable Fibrin Based Tev Lan Yao, SUNY at Buffalo, 916 Furnas Hall, Amherst, NY 14260 and Stelios T. Andreadis, SUNY at Buffalo, 908 Furnas Hall, Amherst, NY 14260 |
How Differences in Vessel Wall Void Space between the Aorta and the Pulmonary Artery Induce Differences in Filtration and Macromolecular Transport Zhongqing Zeng, Dept. of Chem. Eng., the City College of City University of New York, 140th St. at Convent Ave., New York, NY 10031, Kung-Ming Jan, College of Physician and Surgeons, Columbia University, 3675 Riverdale Ave. Suite 5, Bronx, NY 10463 and David Rumschitzki, Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of City University of New York, 140 St & Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031 |
Engineering Functional Myocardium Christopher Cannizzaro1, Hyoungshin Park1, Sharon Gerecht-Nir1, Nicola Elvassore2, Robert Langer1 and Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic1, (1)Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E25-342, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, (2)Department of Chemical Engeneering, University of Padova, via Marzolo, 9, Padova, 35131, Italy |
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Oxygen Gradients Correlate with Decrease in Cell Density and Viability in Engineered Cardiac Tissue Milica Radisic, IBBME/Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, 200 College St. Rm. 368, Toronto, ON M5S 3E5, Canada, Jos Malda, Queensland University of Technology,, Tissue BioRegeneration and Integration. Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation,, Brisbane, Australia, Eric Epping, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Hoorn, Netherlands, Wenliang Geng, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Robert S. Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E25-342, Cambridge, MA 02139 and Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, M.I.T., E25-342, Cambridge, MA 02142 |
Development of a Bioactive Polysaccharide-Based Tissue Engineered Aortic Valve Dinesh Aggarwal, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, Jeff Clark, Internal Medicine, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI 48201, Henry L. Walters III, Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI 48201 and Howard W.T. Matthew, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Wayne State University, 5050 Anthony Wayne Drive, Detroit, MI 48202 |
Quantifying the Effect of Aortic Valve Degradation Using Signal Processing Techniques Reetu Singh1, Michael VanAuker1, Babu Joseph1, Leo Ondrovic2 and Joel Strom2, (1)Chemical Engineering Department, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, ENB 118, Tampa, FL 33620, (2)College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620 |