SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE

	SwRI has the engineering expertise necessary to develop new products for tissue regeneration.

Tissue engineering holds great promise for treating a variety of degenerative, age-related and traumatic causes of tissue damage and loss. However, with much of the focus on research, the engineering steps needed to achieve a marketable device are often overlooked. The staff at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) understands the U.S. and European requirements for product development and is available to assist companies with their product development in the following areas:

• Scaffold fabrication and materials development

• Verification testing

• Validation of cell environment interactions using live cell imaging

• Sterilization plan and packaging

• Manufacturing assistance and production scale-up for commercialization

• Risk assessment

• Requirements and design documentation

In addition to the development of new scaffolds for bone and soft tissue repair, SwRI has developed two support technologies to assist researchers in the pursuit of their research goals.

• Performance-driven scaffold fabrication

• Bioreactor

Collaborations with other researchers are welcomed to develop variations of the equipment described below to bolster a collaborator's research laboratory.

For more information about the biomaterials capabilities at SwRI or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Jian Ling, Ph.D., jling@swri.org or (210) 522-3953.

biomedical.swri.org

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Southwest Research Institute^® (SwRI^®), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a multidisciplinary, independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical sciences research and development organization with 11 technical divisions.

June 16, 2011