SuTEN expertise by Technology/Scientific Area
Below is a list of technologies or skills that Network members may apply to their Tissue Engineering or Biomaterial research. If you are looking for someone in the network with a particular skill, click on the headings below for a list of researchers who have experience in that area (further information can then be found on individual profile pages via the Alphabetical list).
- Scaffolds: architecture, fabrication, characterisation
- Biomaterials: synthesis, degradation, toxicology, biocompatability
- Developmental biology related to regenerative medicine
- Stem cell: biology, manipulation and differentiation
- Adult cell sourcing
- Cell culture, cell manipulation
- Cell-biomaterial surface interactions
- Mechanotransduction, topographical cues
- Maintenance of phenotype in 3D scaffolds
- Molecular signalling, including growth factors
- Gene transfection
- Vasculogenesis and angiogenesis
- Implantation of tissue engineered constructs
- Immune responses and immunomodulation
- Inflammation
- Nutrition & oxygenation of tissue engineering constructs
- Imaging and diagnosis of relevant disease states
- Anatomical and functional imaging of regenerating tissue
- Computational modelling of tissue regeneration
- Engineering of tissues for drug evaluation and cancer biology
- Animal models for tissue engineering
- Clinical/Surgery (ie end user of Tissue Engineering Technologies)