Biomaterials
Oral Qualifying Exam - Biomaterials
STUDY REFERENCES
- Biomaterials. The intersection of Biology and Materials Science, J.S. Temenoff and A.G. Mikos, 2008, Pearson Prentice Hall.
- Biomaterials Science: An Introduction to Materials in Medicine 2nd Edition, Ratner (ed), Academic Press, 2000.
- Molecular Biology of the Cell, by B. Alberts, et al., 4th edition, 2002. An authoritative textbook for introductory cell biology and molecular biology. Familiarity with the content in chapters 1-3 is highly recommended.
Other suggested reference books:
- Essential Cell Biology: An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of the Cell, Alberts et. al. (eds.), Garland Publishing, 1998.
- Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology, Marieb, Addison Wesley Longman, 2000
- Intermolecular and Surface Forces, by J. Israelachvili, 1986, Academic Press. A classic textbook on aspects of complex fluids and colloid science relevant to biology
TOPICS
- Basic cell biology, cell adhesion and the extracellular matrix (suggested reading: Chapter 3 of Reference Book-2; Chapter 1-3 and Chapters 18-19 of Reference Book-3)
- Chemical, Physical and Mechanical properties of biomaterials. (suggested reading: Chapter 1-4 of Reference Book-1; Part-I of Reference Book-2)
- Biomaterials degradation (suggested reading: Chapter 5 of Reference Book-1; Chapter 6 of Reference Book-2)
- Biomaterials Synthesis: bioceramics, biometals and biopolymers (Suggested reading: Part-I of Reference Book-2; Chapter-5 of Reference Book-1)
- Surface properties of materials and characterization methods (suggested reading: Chapter 7 of Reference Book-1)
- Protein and cell interactions with biomaterials (suggested reading: Chapter 8 and 9 of Reference Book-1) Biological testing of biomaterials (suggested reading: Chapter 5 of Reference Book-2)
- Applications of biomaterials (suggested reading: Section 2.5, 2.6, Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 of Reference Book-2); in particular biomaterials for orthopedic, dental, drug and gene delivery, sensing and diagnosis and tissue engineering applications.