Tissue Engineering Scaffold Fabrication Techniques

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This course will explore various techniques for fabricating and assessing scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. This course will provide students with classroom instruction and hands-on laboratory experience with a number of scaffold fabrication techniques; such as electrospinning, various hydrogels technologies, cryogels, tissue decellularization, solvent casting, and particular leaching. Students will also learn about and perform a number of assessments for these scaffolds, and may learn about swelling and degradation testing, mechanical testing, scanning electron and atomic force microscopy imaging, and cell seeding and interaction studies.