Biomaterials & Regenerative Medicine

Implants, scaffolds and engineered tissues. Biocompatibility and implant materials, stress shielding, degradation and wear, and tissue engineering with cells, scaffolds, bioreactors and organoids.

• Biomaterials & Implants — Materials that live inside the body. Learn biocompatibility and the host response (protein adsorption, inflammation, foreign-body reaction, thrombosis), classes of biomaterials (metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, natural materials), degradation and corrosion, sterilisation, stress shielding, implant examples (hips, stents, dental implants, lenses), and testing to ISO 10993 — with Python for implant load sharing and scaffold degradation.
• Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine — Growing replacement tissues. Learn the tissue-engineering triad (cells, scaffolds, signals), stem cells and cell expansion, scaffold design (porosity, degradation, mechanics) and fabrication (electrospinning, 3-D bioprinting), mass transport and the oxygen diffusion limit, bioreactors, vascularisation, organoids and organ-on-chip, and translation challenges — with Python for the diffusion limit and cell expansion time.