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November 2000

Keynote
8:30- 9:10 am
Main Auditorium, Donaldson Brown Hotel & Conference Center

An introduction to organ and tissue replacement procedures in use today, an examination of the medical need for new approaches, an overview of the research underway to provide other options, and the challenges these new methods pose.

David J. Mooney
Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biologic and Materials Science, University of Michigan; author of research articles on biomaterials and tissue engineering, and co-author of "Growing New Organs," a recent review article on the tissue engineering field for Scientific American.

 



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