Pritzker Lecture: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic - Engineering Human Tissues for Regenerative Medicine and Study of Disease

Armour College of Engineering Students are invited to attend the 2017 Robert A. Pritzker Lecture hosted by the Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine); and Director of Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering at Columbia University, New York, will deliver her lecture, Engineering Human Tissues for Regenerative Medicine and Study of Disease.

Abstract

Tissue engineering is becoming increasingly successful with authentically representing the actual environmental milieu of the development, regeneration and disease. A classical paradigm of tissue engineering is related to the integrated use of human cells, biomaterial scaffolds (structural and logistic templates for tissue formation) and bioreactors (culture systems providing environmental control, molecular and physical signaling) in regenerative medicine. Living human tissues can be bioengineered from the autologous stem cells, and tailored to the patient and the medical condition being treated. More recently, the same principles are being successfully applied to the patient-specific "organs on a chip" platforms designed to recapitulate some aspects of human physiology. This talk will discuss some recent advances in regenerative engineering and modeling of disease using functional human tissues grown in lab.

Earn Engineering Themes credit in Health for attending.