Biological Responses to Medical Devices

3 Hours

Examine key challenges in the development and assessment of biomaterials used in medical devices, including common biological responses elicited by biomaterials and the impact of these responses on material performance. Includes material surface properties, modification, and characterization; protein/cell interactions with materials; biocompatibility, inflammation and wound healing, cell-mediated biodegradation of materials; thrombosis, infection and calcification of medical devices. Biomedical Engineering 382J (Topic: Biol Responses to Medical Dev) and 382J (Topic 12) may not both be counted.