Functional Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Constellation

The Functional Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Constellation focuses on basic molecular and cellular processes that control the development of organisms with the goal of assisting the healing and even replacement of functional tissues and organs.

Research in functional tissue engineering is developing new treatments for degenerative diseases and congenital defects — critical research that has the potential to impact more than 100 million Americans each year.

For example, Ravi Kane, professor of chemical and biological engineering, led a team that transformed a polymer found in common brown seaweed into a device that can support the growth and release of stem cells at the site of a bodily injury or at the source of a disease.

Kane and his colleagues hope that the scaffold could eventually be used for medical therapies such as releasing healthy bone stem cells right at the site of a broken bone, or releasing neural stem cells in the brain where cells have been killed by diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Read more..

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