Hard tissue engineering

Our approach to Bone Tissue Engineering employs bio-inspired synthetic and natural polymers, such as type I collagen extracted in our laboratory, for the design of scaffolds able to induce bone regeneration. A biomimetic approach is also proposed for surface functionalization in order to control the release of specific molecules at the injured site.

^{“Photoactive Chitosan Switching on Bone-Like Apatite Deposition”V. Chiono, P. Gentile, F. Boccafoschi, I. Carmagnola, M. Ninov, V. Georgieva, G. Georgiev, G. Ciardelli, Biomacromolecules  2010, 11(2), 309-315.}

^{“Bioactive glass/polymer composite scaffolds mimicking bone tissue”P.Gentile; M. Mattioli-Belmonte; V.Chiono; C. Ferretti; F. Baino; C. Tonda Turo; C. Vitale-Brovarone; I. Pashkuleva; R. L. Reis; G. Ciardelli Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 2012, 100A, 2654-2667.}