IIT Kanpur Syllabus

Introduction to Tissue Engineering BSBE

BSE 354 INTRODUCTION TO TISSUE ENGINEERING

What is tissue engineering? Scope and objective of tissue engineering; Principles of tissue engineering; Essential components of tissue engineering; Materials Science/Engineering aspects (degradable materials); Design and characterization of scaffolds (porosity, mechanical strength and 3-D architecture); Cell Biology aspects (choice of cell type, progenitor cells and cell differentiations); Molecular biology aspects (cell signaling molecules-growth factors, cell attachment-integrins); Drug delivery in tissue engineering; Commercial developments of tissue engineering; Future of tissue engineering