Symposium KK: Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration; Boston, MA; November 28 - December 2, 2011

ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 1154940 PI: Wolf， Sandra ORG：材料研究学会标题：支持2011年秋季MRS研讨会组织再生生物材料知识优点：组织工程是一个新兴领域，通过修复和维持现有器官或再生新器官来改善人类健康具有重大潜力。这种潜力可以通过支架基质、祖细胞和/或生物活性剂的组合来实现，形成促进器官修复的组织工程结构。生物材料在组织再生中起着至关重要的作用。尽管技术已经取得了进步，但由于目前缺乏对原生组织再生过程的了解，3D环境的复杂性，以及我们识别和概括促进功能性细胞和组织生长的适当线索的能力，迄今为止的成功仍然有限。理解和利用组织工程支架、支架-生物材料相互作用以及体内支架性能是组织工程和再生医学的核心，并且与美国国家科学基金会生物材料计划（DMR）的科学兴趣密切相关。更广泛的影响：本次研讨会的目的是收集和展示再生医学生物材料发展的广泛领域，并激发来自不同学科的科学家和研究人员的创新研究思想。

ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 1154940 PI: Wolf, Sandra ORG: Materials Research SocietyTitle: Support for Fall 2011 MRS Symposium Biomaterials for Tissue RegenerationINTELLECTUAL MERIT: Tissue engineering is an emerging field, which has major potential to improve human health by repairing and maintaining existing organs or regenerating new ones. This potential can be realized through a combination of a scaffold matrix, progenitor cells, and/or bioactive agents to form a tissue engineering construct to promote organ repair. Biomaterials play a crucial role in tissue regeneration. Although technical advances have been made, success to date has been limited due to current lack of understanding of the regenerative process in native tissues, the complexity of the 3D environment, and our ability to identify and recapitulate the appropriate cues that promote functional cellular and tissue growth. Understanding and utilization of tissue engineering scaffolds, scaffold-biomaterials interactions, and in vivo scaffold performance are central to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine and are closely related to the scientific interests in the Biomaterials Program (DMR) at the National Science Foundation. BROADER IMPACTS: The aim of this symposium is to collect and present a broad range of areas in biomaterials developments for regenerative medicine and to stimulate innovative research ideas among scientists and researchers from different disciplines.