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| Description: | Colloquium October 16, 2017 Speaker: Dr. Dimitrios Tzeranis Affiliation: IMBB-FORTH Title: "Design of novel implants and organ-on-a-chip platforms based on porous collagen scaffolds" Location: Computer Science Department, room A115 (ground floor), Voutes Time: 16:00 Language: English Abstract Porous collagen scaffolds (PCS) are among the few biomaterial-based treatments that have been approved by FDA, and are utilized clinically to induce regeneration in skin and peripheral nerves. Nevertheless, there is urgent clinical need to develop novel treatments that could induce regeneration in a wider variety organs or in more severe wounds. Accordingly, the first part of this talk will provide insights on the underlying mechanisms of PCS-induced regeneration, and recent results on combining PCS with neural stem cells for spinal cord regeneration. Furthermore, the proven biological activity of PCS and the ability to tune their physico-chemical properties suggests that they can provide key components of 3D cell culture systems The second part of this talk describes novel organ-on-a-chip device designs that enable high-throughput studies of cells inside tunable physiologically-relevant microenvironments and their application in drug screening and basic biological research. Host: Anna Mitraki 4095 |
| Location: | Computer Science Department, room A115 (ground floor), Voutes |
| Status: | Waiting for approval |
| Date: | Monday, October 16, 2017 |
| Time: | 16:00-17:00 EEST |
| Duration: | 1 hour |
| Priority: | 5-Medium |
| Access: | Public |
| Created by: | Lila Kalogeraki |
| Updated: | Wednesday, October 11, 2017 13:10 GMT |