Engineering Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine: Novel Technologies for Clinical Applications

Preface: The clinical imperative for regenerative medicine(Sujata K. Bhatia, Harvard University)

Cellular Recruitment and Delivery

CHAPTER 1. Biomaterial surfaces for the isolation of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (Srinivas D. Narasipura and Michael R. King, Cornell University)

CHAPTER 2. Matrix stiffness: A regulator of cellular behavior and tissue formation (Brooke N. Mason, Joseph P. Califano, and Cynthia A. Reinhart-King, Cornell University)

Oxygen Delivery

CHAPTER 3. Oxygen supply for tissue engineering (Whitney L. Stoppel and Susan C. Roberts, University of Massachusetts-Amherst)

Tuning of Mechanical Properties

CHAPTER 4. Adhesion behavior of soft materials (Santanu Kundu, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Edwin P. Chan, University of Massachusetts-Amherst)

CHAPTER 5. PLA-PEO-PLA hydrogels and their mechanical properties(Gregory N. Tew and Surita R. Bhatia, University of Massachusetts-Amherst)

Control of Inflammation and Host Response

CHAPTER 6. Host response to biomaterials (Anjelica L. Gonzalez-Simon, Yale University, and Omolola Eniola-Adefeso, University of Michigan)

CHAPTER 7. Modulation of the wound healing response through oxidation active materials (Paritosh P. Wattamwar and Thomas D. Dziubla, University of Kentucky)

Biologically Inspired Materials for Tissue Regeneration

CHAPTER 8. Gecko-inspired tape-based adhesives (Woo Kyung Cho, Maria José Maio Nunes Pereira, Nora Lang, Kyungheon Lee, Shwetha Mureli, Andreas Zumbuehl, Cathryn Sundback, Peter T. Masiakos, David J. D. Carter, Jeffrey Borenstein, Lino Ferreira, Robert Langer, and Jeffrey M. Karp, Harvard-MIT)

CHAPTER 9. Heparin-functionalized materials in tissue engineering applications (Christopher McGann and Kristi Kiick, University of Delaware)

Clinical Applications of Tissue Regeneration

CHAPTER 10. Tissue engineering strategies for vocal fold repair and regeneration (Alexandra J. E. Farran, Zhixiang Tong, Robert L. Witt, and Xinqiao Jia, University of Delaware)

CHAPTER 11. Non-viral gene delivery for applications in regenerative medicine (Kory Blocker and Millicent Sullivan, University of Delaware)

CHAPTER 12. Chitosan-based delivery system for tissue regeneration and chemotherapy (Sungwoo Kim and Yunzhi Yang, University of Texas Health Science Center)