Build Bones With Eggshells And Origami
Origami inspired tissue engineering – using eggshells as substrates and plant leaves, sponges from the sea, paper, and marine sponges.
Ira Pastor, ideaXme ambassador for life sciences, interviews Dr. Gulden Kamci-Unal. Ph.D. Assistant professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Francis College of Engineering at UMass Lowell.
Ira Pastor’s comments
In a few episodes, ideaXme welcomed Dr. Bruce Carlson from the University of Michigan. We talked to him about an interesting topic: the importance of substrate in the regenerative process. This is true for the maintenance of normal tissues functions as well as the migration of cell or changes in tissue architecture.
The term substrate is used to describe the surface, material, or object on or from which cells or tissues grow, live, or receive nourishment. It can have biochemical and biomechanical functions.
Gulden C. Camci-Unal is a Ph.D. Assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UMass Lowell.
Dr Camci-Unal earned her Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemistry from Iowa State University, USA. Dr Camci-Unal received her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Iowa State University (USA) and her M.Sc. Both degrees in Chemical Engineering were earned at Middle East Technical University, Turkey.
Dr. Camci-Unal’s research is at an interface between biomaterials, bioengineering and tissue engineering. This includes the design, synthesis and characterization functional biomaterials, the development of in vitro models of disease for personalized medicine and work in the field of low-cost point-of-care diagnostics.
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