Tissue Engineering Research Group

Tissue engineering is an emerging field with the aim of producing ‘artificial’ tissue or organ substitutes that can grow with patients, ultimately providing a permanent solution to damaged tissues or organs. The Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) came together in 2007, including researchers in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, biomaterial science, cell biology, surgery, and synchrotron-based micro-CT imaging. Headed by Dr. Chen, the goal of the TERG is to develop advanced technologies for the production of various scaffold-guided tissue or organ substitutes for, currently, peripheral nerve repair, spinal cords repair, articular cartilage repair, and stroke treatment.
  

The TERG receives funding from the the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)  the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (SHRF), the College of Medicine, the College of Engineering, and the Office of the Vice-President Research.

On-going projects include (1) Bio-Manufacturing of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds, (2) Bio-Engineering of Scaffolds for the Surgical Repair of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), and (3) Bio-Manufacturing of Living Cell Scaffolds for Peripheral nerve and Articular Cartilage repair.  A brief description of these projects is provided in this website.