Tissue engineering is a rapidly growing field that seeks to create an immune competent functional tissue for the replacement of diseased or damaged tissue from a patient's own cells. Over the course of three days students will be exposed to the breadth of knowledge that must be incorporated into designing tissue including: biochemistry, cell biology, anatomy & physiology, mechanics, and materials science. General techniques and considerations will be discussed for engineering nerve, blood vessel, skin, liver, and pancreas. A deeper exploration of musculoskeletal tissue engineering will be explored through a cooperative group project where students will design and create their own tissue scaffold.
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