TEQIP Workshop on July 18-23, 2016


  Tissue engineering, as defined by Langer and Vacanti is "an interdisciplinary field that applies the principles of    engineering and life sciences toward the development of biological substitutes that could restore, maintain, or improve    tissue function or a whole organ”.    The term was defined by Prof. Langer, a chemical and biomedical engineer;  and   Dr. Vacanti, a doctor by profession, by using three basic components for making tissue in vitro for human use:    biomaterials, cells, and growth factors.




   The Department of Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology at IIT Hyderabad are organising a TEQIP workshop on   Tissue Engineering: Engineers instruments to repair patients health exclusively for colleges registered as TEQIP   colleges.The six day workshop will provide an overview of fundamentals and applications of the three individual   components of tissue engineering: biomaterials, cells, and growth factors. Special emphasis will be on the stem cell   culture, biomaterial property study, and study of cell-biomaterial interaction by assays, microscopy, and with the help of    biotechnology experiments. The participant will be offered hands-on-session on each of these techniques.


The participation is open to all disciplines but the number of participants is limited. This workshop on tissue engineering consists of: a. history and characterization of biomaterials; b. stem cells: source, culture, and maintenance; c. cell-biomaterial interactions and how to study and analyze them. All through the workshop, talks will be well supported with several examples and case studies. In addition, hands-on-sessions are designed to demonstrate the methods directly to the participants. To show all these techniques by hands-on-sessions, all those techniques will be individually trained. The participants can start stem cell culture and see them under optical microscopes. They can fabricate a known biomaterial and characterize its properties. Subsequently, they can seed the cells on the biomaterials for tissue engineering application. They can find the cells by fluorescent microscopic techniques, collect the RNA, and do a basic PCR (polymerase chain reaction) to find their gene expression. Few of the techniques cannot be done by a group; hence the trained IITH students will show the experiment during execution.


Date and Time

Dates: July 18-23, 2016

Venue:

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Kandi campus Pin code- 502285