SHIBAHARA Haruka, a first-year Ph.D. student in the Applied Chemistry Program at the Graduate School of Science and Technology, won the Best Poster Award at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Biomaterials held at the Kobe International Conference Center on November 6-7, 2023.The Laboratory of Biomaterials (Professor AIZAWA Mamoru) is working on bone regeneration by tissue engineering using hydroxyapatite (HAp), a major inorganic component in living bone. Tissue engineering is a technology that regenerates tissue by combining three elements: cells, growth factors, and scaffold materials. As bone tissue has many blood vessels, and a shortage of blood vessels will cause tissue necrosis, it is required to construct bone tissue that contains blood vessels. This research succeeded in constructing regenerated cultured bone that contains vascularized tissue by using HAp ceramics as scaffold materials and cultivating mesenchymal stem cells derived from rat bone marrow.
This research achievement was recognized, resulting in the receipt of the Best Poster Award (18 out of 140 were awarded). The purpose of the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Biomaterials is to develop and improve science and technology related to biomaterials and their applications, and this year marks its 45th year.
This research was also carried out as part of the research at the Meiji University International Institute for Materials with Life Functions.
Name of award: Best Poster Award
Name of society: 45th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Biomaterials
Presenters: ○SHIBAHARA Haruka, SUZUKI Kitaru and AIZAWA Mamoru
Presentation: Fabrication of hydroxyapatite ceramics that promote the regeneration of vascularized tissue and bone tissue and their cells
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