Code
01E03108
Duration
01 October 2008 → 30 September 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Medical and health sciences
- Cardiac and vascular medicine
- Cardiac and vascular medicine
- Biomarker discovery and evaluation
- Drug discovery and development
- Medicinal products
- Pharmaceutics
- Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacotherapy
- Toxicology and toxinology
- Other pharmaceutical sciences
- Cardiac and vascular medicine
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Engineering and technology
- Process engineering
- Polymeric materials
Keywords
tissue engineering
polymers
growht factors
Project description
The goal of this project is to achieve repopulation of biolocial aortic hearth matrices in order to obrain a vial tissue-engineerded construct that could serve as prototype for a tissue engineered heart valve. Four main sub objectives can be defined: (1) matrix optimalization, (2) Incorporation of growth factors in the biological matrix (3) Repopulation of the growht factor loaded matrices, '4) In vivo evaluation of tissue engineerded heart valves.