Natural Polymers in Wound Healing and Repair

Dr. Mahesh K. Sah is Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Dr. Mahesh received his PhD from Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India in 2013. After gaining post-doctoral training from Department of Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, he joined at Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh, and since January 2018 he is serving Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab. He has been awarded Bharat Vikas Award-2016 and Green Thinkerz Award-2019 for his contribution in the area of biotechnology. He is working on development of natural based biomaterials for tissue regeneration equipped with advanced tools and techniques in the field aiming for green materials and techniques for tissue engineering. Dr. Naresh Kasoju is a Scientist at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology and postdoctoral experience from Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Prague, Czech Republic and University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. His research interests include mesenchymal stem cells-based therapeutics for regenerative medicine, natural polymers-based biomaterials for biomedical applications, and 3D bioprinting based approaches for tissue engineering. He filed 06 Indian patents and 03 Indian design registrations and has published 70+ articles, with 4500+ citations. He's editor of 3 books, guest editor for 3 special issues, editorial board member for 2 journals and reviewer for 50+ journals. He's a member of National Academy of Science, India and Royal Society of Biology, UK. Recently, he received Young Scientist Award by Indian Academy of Biomedical Sciences, Lucknow for his outstanding contributions in biomaterials, stem cells and tissue engineering. Joao F. Mano (CEng, PhD, DSc) is a Full Professor at the Chemistry Department of University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he is directing both the MSc and PhD programs of Biotechnology. He is the founder and director of the COMPASS Research Group, from the Associated Laboratory CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials. His research interests include the use of advanced biomaterials and cells towards the progress of transdisciplinary concepts to be employed in regenerative and personalised medicine. In particular, he has been applying biomimetic and nano/micro-technology approaches to polymer-based biomaterials and surfaces in order to develop biomedical devices with improved structural and (multi-)functional properties, or in the engineering of microenvironments to control cell behaviour and organization, to be exploited clinically in advanced therapies or in drug screening. Joao Mano is the Editor-in-Chief of Materials Today Bio (Elsevier). He has been coordinating or involved in many national and European research projects, including Advanced and Proof-of-Concept Grants from the European Research Council. Joao Mano is an elected fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.