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EPSRC Reference:	EP/C516567/1
Title:	Overseas Travel Grant: Hollow Fibre Membrane Bioreactors - Materials & Design Principles
Principal Investigator:	Cui, Professor ZF
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Department:	Engineering Science
Organisation:	University of Oxford
Scheme:	Overseas Travel Grants Pre-FEC
Starts:	01 October 2004	Ends:	31 December 2004	Value (£):	9,800
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Tissue Engineering
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Healthcare
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Tissue engineering is to grow human tissue in the lab to replace the damaged or diseased tissue. These required tissues must have a certain size to match the body needs, but it is difficult to grow bulky tissues. The main reason is that nobody can grow the blood capillary network within the tissue in a controlled manner. We proposed to introduce artificial capillaries (so called hollow fibre membranes) to mimic blood circulation network. In this way the cells inside will be able to get nutrients and waste be removed. The idea is good, and we have applied for a patent. But nobody has the suitable capillaries and nobody knows what is the best way to design such devices. This planned study is to go to North America to visit several world familous centres to learn how to select the capillary materials,how to make these tubes and how to design such devices.
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