Engineering Tissue Injury, Repair and Foreign Body Responses

Enrollment Requirements: Undergraduate Prerequisite: ENGBE 209; Graduate Prerequisite: Graduate Standing Tissue injuries and diseases involving foreign bodies such as infection continue to be massive global challenges. Developing appropriate engineering solutions to these challenges requires understanding the pathological mechanisms of tissue injury and foreign bodies as well as knowledge of current state-of-the-art methods used to diagnose and treat the related disorders across the various organ systems of the body. This course will provide the foundational content on the cell and molecular mechanisms of injury and foreign body responses, introduce pathology methods, and explore advanced concepts in the engineering of tissue and organ repair and engineering approaches to regulating foreign body responses. In addition to lectured content, students will dissect and present new multidisciplinary peer-reviewed studies from the literature on emerging topics related to injury, repair and foreign body responses.