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Tissue Engineering Resource Center
Our Center is designed to advance fundamental and translational aspects of
functional tissue engineering through:
- Scientific discovery
- Collaborations
- Training for investigators
- Dissemination of scientific findings and new techniques to the tissue
engineering community
Our expertise and facilities are focused on research, problem solving and training
for the biomedical community through an integrated systems approach to the
challenges of functional tissue engineering.
Areas of research and technological focus at TERC include, but will not be limited
to:
- Scaffold designs to control stem cell differentiation
- Designing new scaffolds with consideration for
mechanical function, rates of matrix remodeling, cell responses, and tissue
outcomes
- Advanced bioreactor systems to impart controlled
environmental stimuli to cells cultured on scaffolds
- Characterization of tissues through nondestructive imaging
The Tissue Engineering Resource Center is funded as a Biomedical Technology Research
Center by the National Institutes of Health [grant: P41 EB002520]. The Center is operated
by Tufts University and Columbia University.
For additional information, please contact Dr. Bruce Panilaitis.
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