3D Polymer Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Regeneration and Engineering in Vitro Disease Models
| Dates: | 7 November 2019 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 16:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Department of Materials |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Speaker: | Dr. Kaushik Chatterjee |
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Kaushik Chatterjee Department of Materials Engineering & Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012 India
We have been working to engineer scaffolds for bone tissue engineering using synthetic biodegradable polymers such as polycaprolactone and polylactide.
To impart bioactivity to these scaffolds we have developed nanocomposites by incorporating nanofiller such as graphene or bioceramics. These nanocomposites
exhibit multi-biofunctional properties such as enhanced osteogenic, angiogenic and bactericidal activities. Another application of these scaffolds in our group has
been in the development of disease models that can better mimic tissue microenvironment that conventional cell culture platforms. We have demonstrated that
breast cancer cells in porous polymer scaffolds exhibit enhanced metastatic potential. More recently, we are also developed models for cardiovascular diseases
and ageing.
Dr. Kaushik Chatterjee received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, USA after receiving M.S. from University of Virginia, USA and B.E. from Bengal
Engineering College, India. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow jointly at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Institutes of
Health, USA. He joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2011 where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering
and associated with the Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering. His research group focuses on materials for biomedical applications.
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Speaker
Dr. Kaushik Chatterjee
Role: Associate Professor
Organisation: Indian Institute of Science (ISSc)
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