Biomaterials

Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge the support and encouragement of colleagues and students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Wake Forest University, and the University of Michigan, where I have been a faculty member in the academic enterprise. There are literally too many people to acknowledge along the way, but I would like to thank Tony Atala and Ed Damiano who provided example photographs that are included and useful insights linked with their own development activities. I would also like to acknowledge Kim Forsten-Williams who helped in scoping the original content with me. I would like to thank students who have taken my biomaterials and “skin as an engineering model system” ...