Symposium BM3-Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine

Regenerative medicine is an emerging field that has major potential to improve human health by repairing and maintaining existing organs or regenerating new ones. This potential is realized through a combination of a scaffold matrix, progenitor cells, and/or bioactive agents to form a tissue engineering construct to promote organ repair. Biomaterials have been found to play a crucial role in regenerative medicine. Recent work in this field ranges from fundamental studies aimed at manipulating biomaterial properties for the control of biological interactions to the design of novel biomaterials for use in drug delivery and high throughput applications, as well as the design of smart biomaterials for in vivo applications. This symposium invites abstracts at the interface of biomaterials development and regenerative medicine strategies.

• Delivery of bioagents to promote tissue regeneration
• Biomaterials as cell-delivery vehicles
• Biomaterials as tissue engineering scaffolds
• Biomaterials to modulate immune responses
• Evaluation of biomaterials for in vivo applications
• Biomaterial design to influence cell interactions
• Commercialization of biomaterials for regenerative medicine
• High throughput biomaterial screening and testing for regenerative medicine
• Novel imaging techniques for studies of biomaterial-cell interactions

• BM3_Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine_0 (National Science Foundation, USA)
• BM3_Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine_1 (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• BM3_Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine_2 (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• BM3_Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine_3 (Tufts University, USA)
• BM3_Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine_4 (Yale University, USA)
• BM3_Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine_5 (Medtronic, Inc., USA)
• BM3_Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine_6 (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
• BM3_Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine_7 (University of Connecticut Health Center, USA)
• BM3_Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine_8 (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
• BM3_Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine_9 (University of Central Florida, USA)
• BM3_Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine_10 (University of California, San Francisco - University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• BM3_Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine_11 (Drexel University, USA)
• BM3_Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine_12 (Binghamton University, USA)