Tissue Engineering: Engineering Principles for the Design of Replacement Organs and Tissues

by W. Mark Saltzman

Tissue or organ transplantation are among the few options available for patients with excessive skin loss, heart or liver failure, and many common ailments, and the demand for replacement tissue greatly exceeds the supply, even before one considers the serious constraints of immunological tissue type matching to avoid immune rejection. Tissue engineering promises to help sidestep constraints on availability and overcome the scientific challenges, with huge medical benefits. This book lays out the principles of tissue engineering. It will be a useful reference work for those associated with this field and as a textbook for specialized courses in the subject. It is a companion volume to Saltzman's OUP book on drug delivery.

544 pages, Hardcover

First published June 18, 2004

About the author

William Mark Saltzman is an author and research scientist at Yale University and was the founding chair of Yale’s Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2003. Saltzman worked on pioneering technologies in the fields of biomaterials, nanobiotechnology, and tissue engineering.