Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Murugan Ramalingam is an associate professor and scientistG' at the Centre for Stem Cell Research (CSCR), Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, Christian Medical College Bagayam Campus, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He is also an adjunct associate professor at the Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. Dr. Ramalingam's current research interests focus on the development of multiphase biomaterials, through conventional to nanotechnology to biomimetic approaches, cell patterning, stem cell differentiation, and tissue engineering. He is the author of more than 125 publications, including peer-reviewed journal papers, conference proceedings, book chapters, authored books, edited books, and patents relevant to biomaterials and tissue engineering. He serves on the editorial boards of multiple biomaterials- and tissue engineering-related journals.

Pekka Vallittu is a full professor of biomaterials science in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Finland, and works as the dean of the Institute of Dentistry and the director of the Turku Clinical Biomaterials Centre. He is also an honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam. Professor Vallittu's research activity on fiber-reinforced composites started from his hobby of model aircraft and has lasted for more than 25 years. His first applications for fiber-reinforced composites were in dentistry, followed by active research to utilize fiber-reinforced composites as biomimetic materials, also in medicine. Professor Vallittu has more than 300 original research papers, 500 other papers and abstracts, and 140 granted international patents based on 17 innovations. He has been awarded a Distinguished Scientist Award in Prosthodontics and Implant Research by the International Association of Dental Research.

Ugo Ripamonti is a professor and the director of the Bone Research Laboratory, a research unit of the South African