Bioactive Materials for Soft Tissue Regeneration

Bioactive Materials for Soft Tissue Regeneration covers human tissue and its classification as hard tissue such as bone and soft tissue like skin, muscle, tendon, blood vessel, nerve etc., and including organs such as heart, liver, lung. Regenerative medicine deals with both hard tissue and soft tissue regeneration and is one of the most important part of the modern medicine with significant clinical needs including general surgery, plastic surgery, burn and wound healing, cardiovascular disease treatments. Based on the authors’ previous research and review of the international advances in hard tissue regeneration, this book focuses on the hard tissue regeneration using bioactive materials.

Sections cover biomaterials for entire human tissue regeneration, which is key important for research and development in the field of biomedical engineering and the medical device industry. Readers will find this to be a comprehensive review of the most updated advances of the research in bioactive materials for soft tissue repair and regeneration, along with perspectives for future directions of research and development in this field.

• Covers recent development of bioactive materials for soft tissue regeneration
• Provides basic principles for design of bioactive materials for tissue regeneration
• Includes future perspectives surrounding the development of bioactive materials that will be valuable to the readers

Jiang Chang is a professor at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, and an Associate of the University of Manitoba Transport Institute. He is one of the leading young scholars worldwide in the field of transport economics and policy in the sectors of aviation, rail and maritime. He has received numerous prestigious accolades such as the Associates’ Achievement Award for Outstanding Business Research. His research focuses on bioactive materials for tissue regeneration and tissue engineering and the mechanisms of the interaction between biomaterials and cells. Professor Chang has over 300 scientific papers published in international peer-reviewed scientific journals and 70 patents in the field of biomedical materials.

Bin Li is a professor and serves as the chair of the Membership Committee of the International Chinese Musculoskeletal Research Society. His research interests include orthopedic biomaterials, stem cells and tissue engineering, smart molecular recognition and controlled release, surface modification and functionalization, cellular biomechanics, and mechanobiology.

Today, Dr. Li’s research is focused on statistics and machine learning. He has published >75 peer reviewed research papers with >1,300 citations of his work.

Prof. Chengtie Wu is now working at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIC, CAS). He completed his Ph.D in 2006, and then he worked in the University of Sydney, Queensland University of Technology and Dresden University of Technology where he was awarded Vice-Chancellor Research Fellow and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. In 2012, Dr Wu has been recruited to work in SIC, CAS. Prof Wu’s research focuses on 3D Printing of Bioactive Inorganic Materials for Tissue Engineering. Up to now, Prof Wu has published more than 200 SCI peer-review journal papers. He is now the Associate editors for “Applied Materials Today” and “Journal of Inorganic Materials”, as well as the editorial board member of “Acta Biomaterialia”.