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"Frontiers in
Tissue Engineering: West Australian
Symposium"
An informal workshop to
bring together international and local researchers in the
exciting new area of Tissue Engineering. Tissue
Engineering is an emerging interdisciplinary field that
applies the principles of biology and engineering to the
development of substitutes to restore, maintain or
improve the function of body tissues. Such bioengineering
research is attracting considerable world-wide clinical
and commercial interest. This workshop was designed to
facilitate discussions and stimulate new collaborations
and developments.
Program for TERC
Workshop October 5th, 2000
Invited Speaker, Prof. Joseph P
Vacanti
Tissue Engineering, A New Tool for 21st Century
Medicine - A general overview of the clinical
need and several examples of how tissue engineered
living replacements can meet the need using
examples from our work in several systems including
cardiovascular structures, cartilage and bone,
neural repair, and finally the possibility of vital
organs. |
Talk 1: Prof.
David Wood, Orthopaedic Surgery, UWA -
Cartilage transplantation |
Talk 2: Dr Giles
Plant, Anatomy & Human Biology, UWA -
Biomaterials and spinal cord injury |
| Talk 3: Dr Fiona
Wood, Burns unit, Royal Perth & Princess
Margaret Hospital - The West Australian
experience with tissue engineered skin - Science at
the bedside |
| Talk 4: A/Prof.
Traian Chirila, Centre for Opthalmology and Visual
Science, UWA - Artificial cornea with porous
skirt: An example of tissue engineering |
Talk 5: Prof.
Miranda Grounds, Anatomy & Human Biology, UWA -
Stem cells and the construction of artificial
skeletal muscles |
Talk 6: Prof. Alan
Harvey, Anatomy & Human Biology, UWA -
Cell/polymer hybrid - structures for repair of
tissue defects in the central nervous
system |
| Talk 7: A/Prof.
Piroska Rackoczy, Centre for Opthalmology and
Visual Science, UWA - Retinal progenitors - Can
they restore vision ? |
| Coffee Break |
Talk 8: Dr Stuart
Bunt, Anatomy & Human Biology, UWA -
Neuronal growth on different
substrates |
| Talk 9: One
unannounced speaker |
| Closing remarks |
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