Cardiac Tissue Engineering 2022 : Bioengineering Special Issue: Advances in Cardiac Tissue Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances have led to exciting developments in cardiac tissue engineering, ranging from stem cell-derived constructs to new clinical treatments to 3D bioprinting vasculature. In particular, biomaterial, cellular, and hybrid composites have made strides in the field and can be used for enhanced drug screening, better disease modeling, and clinically relevant regenerative medicine. The exciting multidisciplinary field of cardiac tissue engineering includes biology, electrophysiology, biomaterials and materials science, and bioengineering. Efforts have been made to recapitulate the complex cardiac microenvironment using functional biomaterials. The unique microenvironment includes complex and combinatorial physiological, mechanical and biochemical cues. The physical properties and architecture of cardiac tissue influence both function and differentiation. Functional engineered cardiac tissue has the potential to improve our understanding and approach to cardiology and cardiac disorders.

The aim of this Special Issue is to present the state-of-the-art progress on such advances in cardiac tissue engineering and their scientific and clinical applications. We welcome original research articles, comprehensive reviews, methods, mini-reviews, and perspectives including (but not limited to) the following topics: 3D bioprinting cardiac tissue, tissue biomanufacturing to create functional cardiac tissue, advanced biomaterials systems to model cardiac tissues, and stem cell-based approaches.

Please contact Sophie Wang ([email protected]) if you have any questions.

Dr. Jessica Gluck
Prof. Dr. George Truskey
Prof. Dr. Ning Sun
Guest Editors