Tissue Engineering Using Ceramics and Polymers

Aldo R. Boccaccini is Professor of Biomaterials and Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Prior to this appointment, he was Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, UK (2000-2009). He has remained Visiting Professor of Materials at Imperial College London. He is also visiting professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan), RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina). The research activities of Prof. Boccaccini are in the broad area of glasses, ceramics and polymer/glass composites for biomedical, functional and/or structural applications. Prof. Boccaccini has also developed the electrophoretic deposition technique for production of nanostructured materials and composites with defined surface topography with potential use in the biomedical field. He is the author or co-author of more than 450 scientific papers and 15 book chapters. Boccaccini is Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK) and of the American Ceramic Society. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Materials Letters” (Elsevier) and serves in the editorial board of several recognized international journals. He has also edited two books with Elsevier. Ma is the Richard H Kingery Endowed Collegiate Professor of Biologic and Materials Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Macromolecular Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research is in the areas of biomaterials, biomedical polymers, controlled release, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine. Among various recognitions, Dr. Ma was named one of the Top 100 materials scientists in the world by Thomson Reuters. He is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering, Fellow of the Materials Research Society and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. Liliana Liverani is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. She has expertise on the synthesis and functionalization of polymers and composites for tissue engineering applications, mainly by using the electrospinning technique.

Part I - General issues: Materials 1. Ceramic biomaterials for tissue engineering 2. Synthetic Polymeric biomaterials for tissue engineering 3. Natural polymeric biomaterials for tissue engineering 4. Bioactive glasses and ceramics for tissue engineering 5. Biodegradable and bioactive polymer/inorganic phase composites

Part II - General issues: Processing and characterisation 6. Overview of scaffolds processing technologies 7. Transplantation of engineered cells and tissues 8. Advanced imaging/MRI for tissue engineering 9. Nanoscale design in biomineralization for developing new biomaterials 10. Additive Manufacturing of Polymers and Ceramics for Tissue Engineering Applications

Part III - Tissue and organ regeneration 11. Myocardial tissue engineering 12. Bladder tissue regeneration 13. Peripheral nerve tissue engineering 14. Skeletal muscle tissue engineering 15. Cartilage tissue engineering 16. Bone tissue engineering 17. Nanofibrous scaffolds for skin tissue engineering and wound healing applications 18. Interface tissue engineering 19. Bioceramic nanoparticles for tissue engineering and drug delivery 20. Natural hydrogels for bone tissue engineering 21. Dense collagen-based scaffolds for soft tissue engineering applications 22. Female reproductive organs tissue engineering 23. Scaffolds with drug delivery capability