Course Instructor:  Charles H. Turner, Ph.D.

Course description:  This course will explore the nature of tissue
differentiation during skeletal development and healing, with emphasis on
the role of biomechanics.  Specifically, the course will cover  the basic
mechanisms of tissue differentiation,  healing responses in bone and
cartilage,  tissue engineering approaches in cartilage,  distraction
osteogenesis and bone regeneration, and  mechanotransduction and regulation
of tissue function by biomechanics.


Charles H. Turner, Ph.D.
Director of Orthopaedic Research
Indiana University School of Medicine
541 Clinical Drive, Rm 600
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5111, USA
phone (317) 274-3645
fax (317) 274-3702
WWW: http://www.iupui.edu/it/iuortho/orthohome.html

For further information regarding the Biomedical Engineering Program at Purdue University contact the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Office at (317) 494-5730 bmeprogram@ecn.purdue.edu