Community Invited to Attend Biomedical Engineering Seminar Featuring Robert Nerem Friday, April 11, 2003
Colorado State University's biomedical engineering program invites the campus and community to attend a lunchtime seminar Friday, April 11, featuring Robert Nerem, professor and director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, as he presents "The Vascular Endothelial Cell: A 'Show Stopper' for Tissue Engineering." The seminar is free and open to the public and will be held in Clark A202 from 12:10 to 1 p.m. Guests are invited to attend a brief reception at noon prior to the presentation.
Nerem will discuss the efforts being made to engineer blood vessel substitutes and the cellular structures currently being tested. Nerem's current research focuses on the inner lining of blood vessels, composed of vascular endothelial cells, and the advantages and disadvantages of engineering replacement vessels using autologous, allogeneic or stem cell-derived endothelial cells.
Nerem currently serves as the director of the Georgia Tech/Emory Center for
the Engineering of Living Tissues and is a part-time senior advisor for bioengineering
in the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the National
Institutes of Health. Nerem is a Fellow and founding president of the American
Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and president of the Tissue
Engineering Society International. He has been elected to the National Academy
of Engineering (NAE), the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
and has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His
research interests include atherosclerosis, biomechanics, cardiovascular devices,
cellular engineering, vascular biology and tissue engineering.
This is the final seminar in a series of five spring semester seminars sponsored
by Colorado State's biomedical engineering program.
The Colorado State biomedical engineering program provides an interdisciplinary
focus on the cardiovascular, neurological and orthopedic systems through education,
research and service. The unique program combines the university's strengths
in veterinary medicine, engineering and the sciences to improve health, fight
disease and aid persons with disabilities. The biomedical engineering program
offers an interdisciplinary studies certificate and a new one-year graduate
program leading to a master's degree in biomedical engineering.
For more information on the seminar or Colorado
State's biomedical engineering program, contact Mae
Lee Heble at (970) 491-1055.