Handbook of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds: Volume Two

Dr. Masoud Mozafari is a Fellow at Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Health Hospital, University of Toronto. He was previously Assistant Professor and Director of the Bioengineering Lab, at the Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Department, Materials and Energy Research Center, Cellular and Molecular Research Center, and Department of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine of the Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran. Dr. Mozafari’s research interests range across biomaterials, nanotechnology, and tissue engineering, and he is known for the development of strategies for the treatment of damaged tissues and organs, and controlling biological substances for targeted delivery into the human body. Dr. Mozafari has received several awards, including the Khwarizmi Award and the Julia Polak European Doctorate Award for outstanding translational research contributions to the field of biomaterials. He has also received the WIPO Medal for Inventors from The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in recognition of his contributions to economic and technological development. Dr. Mozafari is currently working on the editorial board of several journals. Dr. Farshid Sefat is Associate Professor and Programme Leader in the Biomedical and Electronic Engineering Department at the University of Bradford (UK). He was head of Biomedical Engineering Department at King Faisal University (Saudi Arabia) and Visiting Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology (New Jersey, USA). He completed his post doctorate research assistant at University of Sheffield (UK) in cornea tissue engineering. Dr. Sefat received his Ph.D. and BEng. degrees from University of Bradford in Biomedical Engineering. His research is based on developing biomaterials to control cellular behavior with particular emphasis in developing engineered materials for various tissue engineering applications. He’s an author of >150 peer-reviewed journal articles, editorials, and review papers and >80 book chapters/edited books. He’s on the editorial boards and reviewer of >30 numerous journals including Materials Today, Acta Biomaterialia, IEEE, Bone, MDPI, Journal of Orthopaedics & Rheumatology, Materials Science and Engineering C and Journal of Biomechanics. Anthony Atala, MD, is the G. Link Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the W. Boyce Professor and Chair of Urology. Dr. Atala is a practicing surgeon and a researcher in the area of regenerative medicine. Fifteen applications of technologies developed in Dr. Atala's laboratory have been used clinically. He is Editor of 25 books and 3 journals. Dr. Atala has published over 800 journal articles and has received over 250 national and international patents. Dr. Atala was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences, to the National Academy of Inventors as a Charter Fellow, and to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Atala has led or served several national professional and government committees, including the National Institutes of Health working group on Cells and Developmental Biology, the National Institutes of Health Bioengineering Consortium, and the National Cancer Institute’s Advisory Board. He is a founding member of the Tissue Engineering Society, Regenerative Medicine Foundation, Regenerative Medicine Manufacturing Innovation Consortium, Regenerative Medicine Development Organization, and Regenerative Medicine Manufacturing Society.

Part 6: Neural tissue engineering scaffolds 34. Scaffolds for brain tissue reconstruction 35. Scaffolds for spinal cord regeneration 36. Scaffolds for bridging sciatic nerve gaps 37. Scaffold for facial nerve reconstruction 38. Scaffolds for auditory nerve regeneration Part 7: Skin tissue engineering scaffolds 39. Scaffolds for dermal tissue engineering 40. Scaffolds for epidermal tissue engineering 41. Scaffolds for regeneration of dermo-epidermal skin tissue 42. Scaffolds for epithelial and hair follicle regeneration 43. Scaffolds for abdominal wall reconstruction Part 8: Scaffolds for reproductive system 44. Scaffolds for bioengineered uterus 45. Scaffolds for vaginal tissue reconstruction 46. Scaffolds for cervical tissue engineering 47. Scaffolds for reconstruction of penile corporal tissue Part 9: Scaffold for respiratory tissue engineering 48. Scaffolds for tracheal tissue engineering 49. Scaffolds for tissue engineering of the bronchi 50. Scaffold for laryngeal reconstruction 51. Scaffolds for lung tissue engineering 52. Scaffolds for reconstruction of the diaphragm Part 10: Scaffolds for urinary system 53. Scaffolds for kidney tissue engineering 54. Scaffolds for bladder tissue engineering 55. Scaffolds for tissue engineering of the urethra Part 11: Scaffolds for digestive system 56. Scaffolds for esophageal tissue engineering 57. Scaffolds for intestinal tissue engineering 58. Scaffolds for tissue engineering of stomach Part 12: Ocular tissue engineering scaffolds 59. Scaffolds for corneal tissue engineering 60. Scaffolds for retinal repairs 61. Scaffolds for intraocular lens 62. Scaffolds for tissue engineering in optic nerve regeneration 63. Scaffolds for tarsal repair in eyelids Part 13: Tissue engineering scaffolds in endocrinology and metabolism 64. Scaffolds for liver regeneration 65. Scaffolds for pancreatic tissue engineering 66. Scaffolds for parathyroid tissue engineering