BME 5500 Tissue Engineering and Regeneration

Credit Hours: 3

Covers strategies needed to engineer tissues and organs. Considers the impact of biomaterial properties, use of stem cells and other aspects of the cellular microenvironments for engineering different types of tissues. Discusses the FDA approval process for engineered products.
Background knowledge equivalent to BIO 5210 Applied Physiology, and BME 5300 Biomaterials or CHE 5300 Biomaterials.