SEMINAR: "Recent Strategies in Tissue Engineering: Mimicking Physical Features of the Cell Microenvironment", by Dr. Sahba Mobini (IMN, CSIC)

February 27, 2019  IMN Seminar Room, 12PM

Biomedical Engineering is a multidisciplinary STEM field that applies engineering principals and design concepts to develop treatments, devices and models that benefit medicine, biology and health care. Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, a branch of biomedical engineering, focuses on repair, replacement or regeneration of cells, tissue or organs. One of the main strategies of tissue engineering is to develop bio-scaffolds (a structure of artificial or natural materials on which tissue is grown to mimic a biological process outside the body or to replace a disease or damaged tissue inside the body) and combine it with cells, and biologically active molecules into functional tissues. The ultimate goal is to assemble functional constructs that restore, maintain, or improve damaged tissues or whole organs resulting from congenital defect, disease, trauma and ageing.

Mimicking native microenvironment of the cells for improving natural regeneration is a growing trend in tissue engineering research. Cell microenvironment consists of biological (cells and biological factors), chemical (proteins and natural polymers in extracellular matrix of the cells) and physical (mechanical, architectural and electrical properties) features. My research focus on these continuously evolving aspects of cell microenvironment that are important for human tissue regeneration and disease modeling. In this talk, I am going to summarize the overarching goal of tissue engineering and in particular, neural tissue engineering. I will discuss novel application of electrical stimulation and microarchitectural features for improving regeneration and healing. Finally, I will present the future perspective of the field and explain how my research line can contribute to address the remaining challenges.

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