Tissue Engineering
Module: ADVANCED TRAINING
Matter: MEDICINE III
Main language of instruction: English
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, Spanish
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Tissue Engineering (TE) is an interdisciplinary field that applies the principles of engineering and the life sciences toward the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function.
The student should have passed the following subjects: Biomaterials and Anatomy (1st Course), and Cellular Biology I and II.
1. Tissue Engineering: An introduction
2. Stem Cells
3. Tissue Formation during Embryogenesis
4. Cellular Signaling
5. Extracellular Matrix as a Bioscaffold for Tissue Engineering
6. Degradation of Biomaterials
7. Cell–Material Interactions
8. Microfabrication Technology in Tissue Engineering
9. Scaffold Design and Fabrication
10. Controlled Release Strategies in Tissue Engineering
11. Bioreactors: Enabling Technologies for Research and Manufacturing
12. Vascularization, Survival, and Functionality of Tissue-Engineered Constructs
13. Skin Engineering and Keratinocyte Stem Cell Therapy
14. Cartilage and Bone Regeneration
15. Tissue Engineering of the Nervous System
16. Principles of Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering
17. Tissue Engineering of Organ Systems
18. Organs-on-a-Chip
19. Product and Process Design: Toward Industrial TE Manufacturing
The subject is divided in lessons, pressenting the subject from the basic concepts (L1- 12), and the application of these concepts in the development of TE therapies for different tissues (L13-18). Finally, there is a subject about the translationf of TE to the industry (L19).
The subject will be divided in theoric lessons and students’ presentation about TE bibliograph (2-3 presentations), and written assignments over the different theoric lessons.
The lessons will be in English, even though the students’ doubts can be answered in the language they preferred (Spanish, English, Catalan). However, the assignments, presentations and exams must be in English. All the class material (presentations, literatura, …) will be mainly in English (some graphs, pictures might be in Spanish or Catalan).
1 st Call Exam:
1) Class presentations: 10%
2) Assignments: 10%
3) Mid-term exam: 20%
4) Final Exam: 60%
2 nd Call Exam: same criteria as first call but without honor distiction.
Important considerations
1. Plagiarism, copying or any other action that may be considered cheating will be
zero in that evaluation section. Besides, in exams it will mean the immediate failing
of the whole subject.
2. The minimum grade of exams to pass must be greater than 4.5.
3. Changes of the calendar, exam dates or the evaluation system will not be accepted. Exchange students (Erasmus and others) or repeaters will be subjected to the same conditions as the rest of the students.
E: exam date | R: revision date | 1: first session | 2: second session: