Engenharia de Células e Tecidos

The main purpose of this curricular unit is to provide the students with a general introduction to this area of Biomedical Engineering.

After completing this unit, the students will have a general understanding of the repair mechanisms of wounds in adults and how Tissue Engineering is being used in the developement of new therapies involving the creation of tissues and organs that can replace the originals, damaged or malfunctioning, due to desease or accident. Students will learn about techniques to produce porous biodegradable scaffolds, basic techniques of cell culture and analysis of biological tissue, among several subjects of the course syllabus. Current products and applications of TE to some tissues and organs are analysed.