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Handbook of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds: Volume Two
- 1st Edition - June 15, 2019
- Editors: Masoud Mozafari, Farshid Sefat, Anthony Atala
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 5 6 1 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 5 6 2 - 8
Handbook of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds: Volume Two provides a comprehensive and authoritative review on recent advancements in the application and use of composite scaffolds in… Read more
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Request a sales quoteHandbook of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds: Volume Two provides a comprehensive and authoritative review on recent advancements in the application and use of composite scaffolds in tissue engineering. Chapters focus on specific tissue/organ (mostly on the structure and anatomy), the materials used for treatment, natural composite scaffolds, synthetic composite scaffolds, fabrication techniques, innovative materials and approaches for scaffolds preparation, host response to the scaffolds, challenges and future perspectives, and more. Bringing all the information together in one major reference, the authors systematically review and summarize recent research findings, thus providing an in-depth understanding of scaffold use in different body systems.
- Dedicated to the specialist topic of composite scaffolds, featuring all human body systems
- Covers basic fundamentals and advanced clinical applications
- Includes up-to-date information on preparation methodology and characterization techniques
- Highlights clinical data and case studies
Graduates, students, researchers in the fields of tissue engineering, biomaterials and regenerative medicine, biomedical science and engineering, materials science and engineering, nanoscience and engineering, biomedical nanotechnology, biotechnology
- No. of pages: 874
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 15, 2019
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081025611
- eBook ISBN: 9780081025628
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Masoud Mozafari
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Fellow, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, CanadaFS
Farshid Sefat
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Biomedical and Electronic Engineering Department, University of Bradford, UKAA
Anthony Atala
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.
Affiliations and expertise
W. Boyce Professor and Chair, Department of Urology, and G. Link Professor and Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University. Winston Salem, North Carolina.Read Handbook of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds: Volume Two on ScienceDirect