Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of engineering, and biology and medicine. It requires the considerable input from biological scientists, who provide the insight to the various developmental control mechanisms of the cell and are able to manipulate the cell at a genetic level, and the contribution of material scientists who develop the structural scaffolds.

BSEL is seeking to provide integrated solutions to tissue engineering problems working close with material scientists (Dr. Bismarck) and modellers (Drs. Xu and Stepanek) to develop suitable scaffolds and culture systems for a variety of applications ranging from bone marrow, bone, cartilage, pneumocytes (Dr. Bishop), and cardiomyocytes (Prof. Polak), as well as developing ex vivo models for disease states, such as leukaemia.

Flow diagram of tissue engineering

Current projects

Contact details

Professor Sakis Mantalaris
Head of BSEL Group

Chemical Engineering Department

Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 5601

 

Email: 

a.mantalaris@imperial.ac.uk