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Editors
Dr. Nihal Engin Vrana is director of fundamental research of Protip Medical.
Heearned his PhD in 2009 at Dublin City University as a Marie Curie ESR fellow.
His major research interests are titanium implants, tissue engineering, cell encapsu-
lation, immunomodulation, real-time monitoring of implants, and cell–biomaterials
interactions. His unit includes two postdocs, a research engineer, and a PhD student.
He is the scientic coordinator of two European projects (EuroTransBio Bimot and
FP7 IMMODGEL). He has published 32 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals
(with more than 500 citations, h index: 12) and 4 book chapters and holds ...