Tissue Banking meets Tissue Engineering

Paul Anderson
Managing Director, Verigen Australia, Nedlands WA

Organ transplantation, stem cell therapy, tissue and scaffold implants have all provided promise for the treatment of many chronic, degenerative and congenital diseases. Musculoskeletal tissue banking and cell therapy is considered to be at the forefront of tissue engineering.

Here, we will describe the history of development of tissue engineering since the 19^th century and provide scientific and commercial information on the recent development of tissue engineering in the field of orthopaedic surgery. In particular, we will report a series of developments in, tissue, scaffold and cell therapy for the application in bone, cartilage and tendon replacement.