Dimosthenis Mavrilas
University of Patras, Greece
Title: Fabrication and characterization of electrospun PCL nanofibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering: Biomechanics and cells behavior
Biography:
Dimosthenis Mavrilas is a professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Laboratory of Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aer/tics, University of Patras, Greece. He is an expert in biomechanics of biomaterials and biomedical engineering of cardiovascular system. Last decade his research targets in tissue engineering, producing scaffolds either of biological origin (decellularized animal tissues) or from synthetic polymers. His research team achieved the production of either random or parallel fibrous orientation of synthetic biodegradable polymeric nanofibers, capable for the structure of multi laminate biomimetic scaffolds, suitable especially for cardiovascular tissue engineering.