Following on from their sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference, Alexander Lyon (senior lecturer in cardiology, Imperial College, London) talks to Christopher Breuer (director of tissue engineering, Yale University) and Alexander Seifalian (professor in the Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London) about how far we are from taking tissue engineering from the lab to the clinic.

Professor Seifalian discusses his work using nanotechnology to build heart valves, and Professor Breuer his on developing artificial blood vessels.

See also:

Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 http://bit.ly/ZMGmUE

Rahmani B, Tzamtzis S, Ghanbari H, Burriesci G, Seifalian AM. Manufacturing

and hydrodynamic assessment of a novel aortic valve made of a new nanocomposite

polymer. J Biomech. 2012 Apr 30;45(7):1205-11.

Ghanbari H, Viatge H, Kidane AG, Burriesci G, Tavakoli M, Seifalian AM.

Polymeric heart valves: new materials, emerging hopes. Trends Biotechnol. 2009

Jun;27(6):359-67.

Tissue engineering for mending a broken heart