Principles of Tissues Engineering - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570593426 ISBN 13: 9781570593420

Publisher: Academic Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Tissue engineering is a rapidly growing area of biomedical research with obvious commercial applications. This text aims to strike a balance between the diversity of subjects that are related to tissue engineering, including biology, chemistry, material science, engineering, immunlogy, and transplantation, while emphasizing those research areas that are likely to be of the most value to the field of medicine.

About this title

Review

"Overall...extremely useful...as a reference as well as a teaching text for graduate courses." -- Robert Sah, University of California, San Diego

"There is no comparison...Co-editor Bob Langer is the top person in the entire field...This book looks like an excellent one." -- Malcolm S. Steinberg, Princeton University

About the Author

Robert Lanza, M.D. is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and Adjunct Professor of Surgical Sciences at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He has several hundred scientific publications and patents, and over 30 books, including Principles of Tissue Engineering (1st through 4th Editions), Methods of Tissue Engineering, Principles of Cloning (1st and 2nd Editions), Essentials of Stem Cell Biology (1st and 2nd Editions), XENO, Yearbook of Cell & Tissue Transplantation, One World: The Health & Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century (as editor, with forewords by C. Everett Koop and former President Jimmy Carter), and Medical Science & the Advancement of World Health. Dr. Lanza received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was both a University Scholar and Benjamin Franklin Scholar. He is a former Fulbright Scholar, and studied as a student in the laboratory of Richard Hynes (MIT), Jonas Salk (The Salk Institute), and Nobel laureates Gerald Edelman (Rockefeller University) and Rodney Porter (Oxford University). He also worked closely (and coauthored a series of papers) with the late Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner and heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard. Dr. Lanza's current area of research focuses on the use of stem cells in regenerative medicine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1570593426
• ISBN 13: 9781570593420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Editor: Lanza R. P., Langer Robert S., Chick William L.