Tissue Engineering for Artificial Organs

A comprehensive overview of the latest achievements, trends, and the current state of this important and rapidly expanding field.
Clearly and logically structured, the first part of the book explores the fundamentals of tissue engineering, including a list of biomaterials and stem cells that can be applied, as well as microfluidic and biosensor topics. The second part then follows a more practical approach, discussing various applications of tissue engineering, such as organ replacement or repairing blood vessels, the liver or lungs, extending to musculoskeletal tissue engineering used for bones and ligaments as well as neural tissue engineering for the brain. The book concludes with a look at future technological advances.
Invaluable reading for entrants to the field in biomedical engineering as well as senior researchers and developers in industry.

Contents
PART I. TISSUE ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS
Tissue Engineering: Past, Present and Future
Biomaterials in Tissue Engineering: Prospects and challenges
Stem Cells and other Cell Sources: Prospects and Challenges
Microfluidics in Tissue Engineering
Bioreactors in Tissue Engineering
Biosensors in Tissue Engineering
PART II. TISSUE ENGINEERED ARTIFICIAL ORGANS
Wound Healing and Tissue Engineered
Cartilage Tissue Engineering
Tissue Engineering of Liver
Tissue Engineered Blood Vessel
Tissue Engineering of Lungs
Tissue Engineering for Cardiac Tissues
Heart Valve Tissue Engineering
Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering- Bone, Ligament, tendon
Tissue Engineered Trachea
Tissue Engineering of Pancreas
Tissue Engineering of Renal Tissue (Kidney)
Bone Tissue Engineering
Neural Tissue Engineering
Brain Tissue Engineering
Concluding Remarks

MD Anwarul Hasan is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He is also a visiting Professor at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA. Prior to joining his current positions, Dr. Hasan was an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Harvard Medical School and MIT. He obtained his PhD from University of Alberta, Canada in 2010 and worked in oil sands, bitumen and heavy oil research at Alberta Innovates Technology Futures in Edmonton, Canada and Champion Technologies LTD in Calgary, Alberta, Canada during 2010-2011. Dr. Anwarul Hasan authored more than 40 journal and conference papers. He is a winner of more than sixteen national and international awards.