Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering

Krishna Pramanik obtained her Ph.D in Chemical Technology in the year 1995 from the University of Calcutta , India. She has 30 years of experience in Industry, research and teaching in the field of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering. She is presently a Professor in the Department of Biotechnology & Medical Engineering and Heading the Center of Excellence in Tissue Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. Her current major research activity in the field of tissue engineering with the main focus on the developing bio polymeric and polymer-composite based tissue scaffold with nano- features, integration of scaffold with stem cell to generate tissue constructs and tissue grafts for bone, cartilage, skin, and corneal tissue defects. She has published nearly 150 papers, 16 book chapters of international publications, and edited three books. She has supervised 20 doctoral and 5 Post Doctoral Fellows, most of which in the area of Biomaterial and Tissue Engineering. She has been serving as the Editor and Editorial Board Member of international Journals including the Associate-Editor of Biocell and currently Associate Editor of in Biomaterials (specialty section of Frontiers in Materials, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology and Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences).

1. Basic biology of bone, cartilage and surrounding tissues. 2. Tissue engineering as an alternative approach for bone & cartilage regeneration. 3. Basic biomaterial for repairing bone, cartilage and associated joint tissue defects. 4. Advances in fabrication of scaffold. 5. Scaffold properties & characterization. 6. Stem cells for cartilage, bone and related tissue regeneration. 7. Bioreactor and tissue graft generation. 8. In vitro assessment of bone & cartilage tissue grafts. 9. In vivo assessment of regenerated bone, cartilage and joint tissue. 10. Translational approaches & regulatory aspects.