Graduate Courses BIOE 2075

BIOE 2075 – Advanced Biomaterials

Instructor: Marra

Credits: 3

Term: Fall of even years

Description: This course is designed to introduce students to a more advanced understanding of biomaterials used for reconstructive surgery. This includes skin, nerve, bone, and soft tissue regeneration. Biomaterials available for burn patients, cancer patients, and trauma patients are the central theme of this course. Throughout the course ties are made between the topic of study and clinically relevant biomaterial performance.

Prerequisites: BioE 2810.

Required Text: Strongly recommended: Biomaterials: Principles and Applications, by Joon B. Park and Joseph D. Bronzino, CRC Press, 2002. Also recommended but not required: Biomaterials Science: An Introduction to Materials in Medicine, edited by Ratner BD, Hoffman AS, Schoen FJ, Lemons JE, New York, Academic Press, 1996.

Course Objectives: Upon completing this course, students should: be familiar with the general types of polymeric and natural materials used in soft and tissue replacements, such as nerve replacement and skin regeneration, understand the rationale for the design of clinically available biomaterials for patients undergoing soft tissue replacement surgeries (such as skin grafts for burn patients, and oncological tumor resection patients), be able to critically review the current biomaterials literature and be acquainted with current research in the field, and be able to evaluate the design criteria which a material must meet for a given biological application.

Topics Covered: Biomaterials for skin, nerve, fat, bone regeneration

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