A group 17 undergraduate engineering students from the University of Missouri visited the RCSI TERG labs yesterday with their professor Dr. Robert O’Connell, a previous US Fulbright Scholar to Ireland who was based at DIT.
The group spent the afternoon learning and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine and in particular about TERGs current research in the development of collagen-based materials for the repair and regeneration of a range of tissues within the body include bone, cartilage, cardiac and corneal tissues. Thanks to John O’Brien, Andrew Cameron and Caroline Curtin for helping to run the event.