Naznin Sultana, PhD

In recent years, biomedical engineering has influenced the world by introducing new areas of research. One of the areas is tissue engineering (TE). The human body is a complex network that contains various organs and tissues that each have a specific function. TE studies are commonly conducted to determine how tissue can be maintained, restored, or replaced by newly engineered tissues. The costs of organ regeneration leave a significant economic burden on patients and the national healthcare system. A conventional skin graft requires two surgical sites on the patient’s body and is quite expensive. An improved and economically viable biocomposite scaffold from biological materials is promising for healthcare applications. Multifunctional scaffolds can be engineered to repair injured tissues while providing growth-aiding proteins or delivering drugs to treat the injured site in a manner that reduces problems associated with other types of drug delivery. Polymeric drug delivery systems improve therapeutic efficacy, reduce systemic toxicity, and enhance compliance by delivering drugs at a controlled rate over a period of time to the site of action. Several biodegradable and biocompatible polymeric materials have been fabricated into nanoscale fibers as effective carriers for drug delivery and organ regeneration.

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