BIOL 5427 - Tissue Engineering

Two hours lecture. Two hours laboratory per week. Four credit hours.

Tissue engineering (TE) is defined as the development and manipulation of laboratory-grown molecules, cells, tissues, or organs to replace and/or support the function of injured body parts. TE applies the principles and methods of biology, stem cell biology, immunology, life sciences, physical sciences, engineering, cell and drug delivery, nanobiotechnology, bioinformatics to understand physiological systems and to modify and create cells and tissues for therapeutic applications. TE is highly interdisciplinary. TE has resulted in both clinically used and experimental therapies for structure tissue repair (e.g. skin, bone, cartilage, tendon, muscle, and blood vessel), for enhancing metabolic function (e.g. liver) for improved drug delivery (localized delivery of a drug), and as a vehicle for cell-based gene therapy.

Prerequisites: BIOL 2401 - Microbiology and one of the following: BIOL 4401 - Cell Biology, or BIOL 4413 - Immunology, or BIOL 4417 - Molecular Biology, or BIOL 4419 - Plant Physiology.