Day: February 14, 2017

Zhao Group Provides Chapter on Tissue Engineered Skeletal Muscles

Tissue Engineering and Nano TheranosticsCaleb Vogt, Mitchell Tahtinen, and Feng Zhao have provided the first chapter to a book entitled “Tissue Engineering and Nano Theranostics” (ISBN: 978-981-3149-18-2). World Scientific Publisher. 2017. The book provides a comprehensive overview of current achievements in biomedical applications of nanotechnology, including stem cell based regenerative medicine, medical imaging, cell targeting, drug delivery, and photothermal/photodynamic cancer therapy.

The chapter is “Engineering Approaches for Creating Skeletal Muscle,” and it highlights the significant impact of stem cells in skeletal muscle engineering and regeneration.

About the authors:

  • Feng Zhao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
  • Caleb Vogt and Mitchell Tahtinen were undergraduate researchers in the Zhao lab.
  • Caleb is currently in the graduate program of the University of Minnesota.
  • Mitchell is currently a master’s student in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Michigan Tech. He still conducts research in the Zhao lab.