Yos Morsi
  1. Current research activities

    2. Recent work is concentrated on the use of rapid prototyping by fused deposition modelling of scaffold templates for tissue engineering. This work has led to the construction of the first Australian Tri-leaflet (aortic) heart valve scaffold (based on a CT scan of a sheep aortic valve) from a novel polyurethane. In 2002 Professor Morsi was granted strategic initiative funds from Swinburne University of Technology to establish the Tissue Engineering laboratories at the Industrial Research Institute Swinburne (IRIS). The haemodynamics laboratory uses laser diagnostic techniques for mapping various flow fields within structures such as heart valves, coronary arteries and blood vessels. The tissue laboratory is equipped for cell characterization and culture and for the histomorphometric analysis of cells and engineered cell/polymer constructs.

  2. Keywords

    3. Haemodynamics- Fluid structure interactions
    Rapid prototyping – Fused deposition modelling
    Bioreactors for In Vitro Testing
    Laser Dopler Anemometry
    Particle Imaging Velocimetry
    Scaffold Design and Optimization

  3. End-user applications

    • Cardiovascular surgery
    • Plastic and reconstructive surgery

  4. Key publications

    5. I. I. Morsi Y. Tissue engineering of biological cardiovascular system surrogates: Heart, Lung and Circulation. 11, 2002, p 151.
    II. II. Morsi Y, Ahmad A, Hassan A. Numerical simulation of the turbulent flow fields distal to an aortic heart valve. Frontiers Med Biol Eng 11, (1), 2001, p 1 – 11.
    III. III. Morsi Y, Sakhaeimanesh A, Clayton BR. Hydrodynamic evaluation of three artificial aortic valve chambers. Journal of Artificial Organs, 24 (1), 2000. p 57 – 63.
    IV. IV. Morsi Y. Comparative investigation of in vitro steady and pulsatile flows past aortic Jellyfish valves. Journal of Artificial Organs, 3 (2), 2000, p 143 – 148.
    V. V. Sakhaeimanesh AA, and Morsi Y. Analysis of regurgitation, mean systolic pressure drop and energy losses for two artificial aortic valves. Journal of Medical Eng and Technology, 1999, Vol 22 (2), p 63 - 68

  5. Outreach activities

    Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery lunchtime seminar series.
    Adelaide University. Invited speaker—Tissue Engineering
    Queensland University of Technology – Invited speaker—Tissue Engineering seminar.

  6. Key organisation membership

    7. Not as yet

  7. Early career researcher?

    No.

  8. Young investigator?

    9. No.

  9. Skills and expertise

    • Fused deposition modelling
    • Computational fluid dynamics
    • Bioreactor design
    • Scaffold design and in vitro testing
    • Engineering simulation
  10. Specialist equipment and infrastructure

    • Laser Doppler anemometry
    • Particle imaging velocimetry
    • Fused deposition modelling
    • Cell culture laboratory
    • Histology and digital image analysis
    • Scanning electron microscopy
    • Confocal microscopy
    • Atomic force microscopy

  11. Contact Details 

    Website: www.swin.edu.au/iris/te

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