Research

School of Clinical Medicine

Program of Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering

The School of Clinical Medicine concentrates on injury and regeneration of major illnesses and performs interdisciplinary research about the dynamic evolution of cellular properties, cellular lineage reprogramming, and analysis of the regenerative microenvironment. It unravels the vital cellular molecular events in regenerative disorders and their regulatory mechanisms, and develops innovative techniques for transforming tissue regeneration from "damage repair" to "functional reconstruction". It also carries out in vitro or in vivo construction of tissues or organs through the combined use of cell biology and materials science expertise. With tissue engineering technologies such as seed cell creation, cell-biomaterial integration, and implant-body microenvironment integration, the School of Clinical Medicine has developed artificial organs and tissues such as artificial pancreas, liver, kidney, blood, cartilage, tendons, blood vessels, cornea, etc. In doing so, it replaces the conventional surgical method that "repairs a wound with a new wound" with novel non-invasive repair.