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Author(s) -
NEREM ROBERT,
SAGE HELENE,
KELLEY CHRISTINE A.,
McNICOLD LORÉ ANNE
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb03128.x
Subject(s) - library science , atlanta , gerontology , medicine , computer science , pathology , metropolitan area
Reparative medicine, sometimes referred to as regenerative medicine or tissue engineering, is the regeneration and remodeling of tissue in vivo for the purpose of repairing, replacing, maintaining, or enhancing organ function, and the engineering and growing of functional tissue substitutes in vitro for implantation in vivo as a biological substitute for damaged or diseased tissues and organs. Reparative medicine is a critical frontier in biomedical and clinical research. At the same time that researchers are discovering new knowledge, they are developing new opportunities to advance medicine. In an effort to continue to move this field rapidly forward and to seek new ways in which these advances can provide better health and quality of life to patients, the fourth annual NIH Bioengineering Consortium (BECON) Symposium entitled Reparative Medicine: Growing Tissues and Organs was held at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland on June 25–26, 2001. The goals and objectives of the symposium were to: