Bioreactor For Bone Tissue Engineering Wins Professor Venture Fair

John Fisher, associate professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, won the Best Inventor Pitch at the 2009 Bioscience Research and Technology Review Day with a tissue engineering bioreactor system that grows bone and other types of tissue for implantation. Fisher’s technology was one of six innovations presented in an eight minute pitch by faculty members and graduate students at the Professor Venture Fair at the University of Maryland. “Dr.

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