Tissue Engineering
& Support
Biomedical Engineering
SwRI has the engineering expertise necessary to develop new products for tissue regeneration.
Tissue engineering holds great promise for treating a variety of degenerative, age-related and traumatic causes of tissue damage and loss. However, with much of the focus on research, the engineering steps needed to achieve a marketable device are often overlooked. The staff at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) understands the U.S. and European requirements for product development and is available to assist companies with their product development in the following areas:
- Scaffold fabrication and materials development
- Verification testing
- Validation of cell environment interactions using live cell imaging
- Sterilization plan and packaging
- Manufacturing assistance and production scale-up for commercialization
- Risk assessment
- Requirements and design documentation
In addition to the development of new scaffolds for bone and soft tissue repair, SwRI has developed two support technologies to assist researchers in the pursuit of their research goals.
Collaborations with other researchers are welcomed to develop variations of the equipment described below to bolster a collaborator's research laboratory.
Related Terminology
tissue engineering • wound care • biomedical engineering • biomedical technology • medical device • biotechnology • orthopedic center • wound status monitoring • wound healing therapies • limb health • biomechanics • cardiac biodynamics • hemodynamics • joint articulation • joint lubrication • mechanical modeling • micromechanical behavior
