Dr. Treenah Livingston Arinzeh: Growing Tissue Using Design at the Small Scale
Trina Arinzeh, Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Applied Biomaterials Department of Biomedical Engineering at NJIT, talks about the use of tissue engineering or regenerative medicine strategies to regrow damaged or diseased tissues, mainly in the areas of orthopaedics and neural applications. An important component of these strategies is the design of the scaffold which helps support cells to rebuild tissue. The scaffolds can be designed to have appropriate cues, at a small scale, that can drive stem cells to produce the tissue of interest.