The student must have coursed Introduction to Bioengineering, Cell and Molecular biology, Biochemistry, Biomechanics of continuum media I (solids), Biomechanics of continuum media II (fluids) Fundamentals of Tissue engineering and Regenerative medicine, Transport phenomena in Biomedicine, and Introduction to Biomaterials.

Regenerative Medicine (RM) and Tissue Engineering are multidisciplinary fields that apply the principles of life science, engineering, and basic science to the development of viable substitutes which restore, maintain, or improve the function of human tissues. This course is designed to provide an advanced knowledge of tissue and organ regeneration and a practical point of view to tissue engineering, understanding the biotechnological tools to generate each component. Students will be required to learn and gain expertise from analysis of primary literature about the design of tissue functional units. The student will acquire the ability to design biological tissues by using advanced techniques in bioengineering and biotechnology from the developmental point of view. The students will acquire the ability to understand the importance of stem cells and gene therapy in order to succeed in the generation of a tissue, even in pathological situations.

PROGRAM: 1.Tissue¿s organization and development. Concepts of Embryogenesis and Morphogenesis. 2. Tissue/Organ Engineering Paradigm. Biotechnology. 3. Bioreactors for biotechnology. 4. Use of recombinant technologies in Tissue Engineering. 5. Gene therapy. 6. Gene delivery systems (viral and non-viral). 7. Next-generation Gene-therapy: Gene Editing. 8. Transgenic organisms as biofactories. Organ reconstruction 9.Transplantation and rejection. 10. Stem cells. 11. Practical examples for organ reconstruction. Regulations and Clinical use: 12 Advance therapy medicinal products. 13. Government regulations for engineered tissues. LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS: Cell Culture Laboratory for Biotechnology and Tissue Engineering. a. Experimental design and methods that will be useful for tissue characterization and development b. Understand biomaterial generation for organ bioengineering. c. Stem cell harvest and isolation. d. Tissue/organ bioengineering. d. Tissues histological and molecular characterization using biotechnological tools. e. Critical evaluation of scientific results.

The program will be divided into master classes, seminars and laboratory practical sesions. Students are required to read or resolve assigned chapters, articles, problems, etc., before the corresponding classes. To facilitate learning, students will receive the slide of each class and the bibliography. The seminars will contain the discussion of relevant scientific articles and problems that will be presented by the students. In the laboratory classes, students divided in 2-3 students small groups will perform a reduced experimental design with the help of the teaching team. The student will be familiar with ethical and regulatory issues related to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Students will be required to elaborate a report discussing the experiments performed, the obtained results, the relevance and applications in biomedicine and the experience and skills gained. These classes includes the problems and discussion sections.