Event

BioE Special Seminar: Jennifer Elisseeff

Tuesday, June 2, 2015
2:00 p.m.
1105 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building (Pepco Room)
Alyssa Wolice
awolice@umd.edu

Jennifer Elisseeff
Jules Stein Professor
Wilmer Eye Institute and Biomedical Engineering, Translational Tissue Engineering Center
Johns Hopkins University

Regenerative Biomaterials from Bench to Bedside

Biomaterials have evolved over recent decades; transitioning from stealth implants that hide from the body to tools with biological functions that interact with and manipulate their surrounding environment.  Biomaterials are the building blocks for scaffolds that direct cell and tissue function for applications in regenerative medicine.  Regenerative medicine aims to rebuild and repair tissues in the body lost due to trauma, disease or congenital abnormalities.  Our scaffold design centers on synthetic and biologically-derived polymers that are combined to produce biomaterials with controlled physical and physiological properties.  The lecture will discuss the continuum of the biomaterials development and translation process from biomaterial structure-cell function correlations to clinical translation in cartilage and soft tissue repair.