Great Tissue Engineering PhD Programs?

Graduate School
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<p>Hello,</p>

<p>I am a rising junior in Biomedical Engineering. Once junior year starts, I am going to seriously start looking at graduate schools. I would really like to get a PhD in Tissue Engineering.</p>

<p>Can anyone tell me which BME graduate school/program have a well-known tissue engineering program? I heard from many graduate students to choose a graduate program based on the faculty and the amount of resource the school puts into the specific concentration (i.e. more money in Biomedical imaging than biomechanics due to more faculty being interested in imaging). </p>

<p>Some schools that graduate students have suggested for tissue engineering are:</p>

<p>Georgia Tech
UCSD
University of Washington</p>

<p>Are there anymore?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance,</p>

<p>Lou</p>

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<p>I believe Rice has several well known tissue engineers.</p>

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<p>I’ve heard that too, Kleenex makes sizeable donations to the university.</p>

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<p>Johns Hopkins has a very strong Biophysics Program with a specialty program in tissue Engineering.</p>

<p>Wake Forest probably has the strongest set of researchers in the field, and they have a specialty program in tissue engineering as well.</p>

<p>University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has a solid Biophysics program with a 2 year Tissue Engineering program</p>

<p>Hope that helps!</p>

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<p>There’s also a joint program between UC Berkeley and UCSF (well, the entire bioengineering department is a joint program): [tissue</a> engineering](<a href=“http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/tissue.php]tissue”>http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/tissue.php)</p>

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<p>IMHO, Duke would be definitely worth checking out. There is a Center for tissue engineering ([Welcome</a> to the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering at Duke | Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering](<a href=“http://cbte.pratt.duke.edu/]Welcome”>http://cbte.pratt.duke.edu/)) and 35 affiliated faculty whose research interests align with tissue engineering. They have a large training grant that accommodates a dozen grad students in the program.</p>

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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I’m in the same situation as you. I’m gonna be starting junior year, and I’m looking for good tissues engineering programs. I think I’m ultimately interested in vascular engineering, but not quite sure yet…we’ll see I guess.</p>