Credits
4
Course Description
Tissue engineering involves application of the principles of biology and biomedical engineering to create artificial organs for transplantation, basic research, or drug development. This requires integration of knowledge from organic chemistry, cell biology, genetics, mechanics, biomaterials, nanotechnology and transport processes to create functional organs. This course will review basic cell culture techniques, structure function relationships, cellular communication, natural and artificial biomaterials, and the basic equations governing cell survival and tissue organization. The bulk of this course will be dedicated to the design, implementation, and analysis of experiments to grow engineered tissues. This will be an intensive lab-based course in which groups of students will choose the particular aspect of tissue engineering (e.g., scaffold choice, biochemical culture conditions, mechanical stimulation, functional readouts) they would like to pursue and perform their own experiments and analysis (e.g., biochemical, mechanical, histological) Prerequisite: BE 420 and current enrollment in BE 440; or BI 312A and CH 305
Academic Level
Undergraduate
School
School of Arts and Sciences, School of Health Sciences