Australian Research Capabilities - Strengths

The key strength of ARNTE is that it will create an interdisciplinary network bringing together Australian researchers from a broad range of disciplines. They will perform mechanistic studies on the physical and chemical characteristics of natural and synthetic scaffolds and the interactions of such scaffolds with cells and proteins, for potential applications in tissue engineering. They are also concerned with broader issues, such as the social, ethical, economic and legal context in which TE research, and the benefits that accrue from it, occurs.

ARNTE has research strengths in the following areas
• Biomaterial design, formulation and manufacture
• Physico-chemical characterisation of biomaterials
• Biological testing of biomaterials
• Cell Biology - cell isolation, culture and identification techniques
• Cellular Biochemistry and Physiology - function and behaviour of living tissues and cells (Functionomics and Proteomics)
• Ex vivo assessment of biomaterials including histological evaluation
• Characterisation of biomaterial-cell interactions (Cell Physiology)
• Protein chemistry of the extracellular matrix, cell surface and extracellular interactions
(Cell Biochemistry and Physiology)
• Molecular Biology (Genomics, Proteomics)
• Transplantation Immunology
• Commercialisation of research and intellectual property
• Animal Models
• Applied Mathematical Modelling
• Clinical Trails
• Orthopaedic Surgery

Participants in the ARNTE are involved in cross disciplinary areas outlined below;
• Creation of biomaterial scaffolds
• Surface modification of biomaterial scaffolds
• Physical chemical studies of biomaterial scaffolds
• Biomaterial - cell interactions
• Biomaterial - protein interactions
• Drug delivery
• Vascularisation of tissue engineered constructs
• Enervation of tissue engineered constructs
• Biomaterial - stem cell interactions
• Tissue engineered bone
• Tissue engineered blood
• Tissue engineered skin
• Tissue engineered muscle
• Extracellular matrix growth factor complexes
• Cellular Art