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Raimund Jaeger studied physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg (Germany) specializing in polymer physics. After graduating in 1991 as »Diplom-Physiker«, he was graduate student at the University of Toronto in Canada, obtaining his PhD in physical chemistry in 1995. A period as Post-Doc (1996 – 1998) at the Universiteit Twente (The Netherlands) in the Department of Chemical Technology was followed by an employment at the Agro-technological Research Center ATO in Wageningen (The Netherlands) as programme coordinator for packaging technology (1998 – 2002). Since 2002, he is head of the research group »Biomedical Materials and Implants« at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg (Germany). The research group employs typically a combination of experiments and simulations in order to study the reliability and performance of biomedical materials and implants. In addition to investigating conventional biomedical materials and implants, the research activities also include the mechanics of fibrous structures (e.g. electro-spun non-wovens), the use of generative manufacturing techniques in biomedical science and the tribology of biomedical materials.
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Abstract |
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Engineering of artificial blood vessels
Raimund Jaeger; Bothaina Abd El Hady, Tawheed Abdel Razek
The development of artificial blood vessels is due to the increasing number of cardiovascular diseases a field of active research. A promising approach to generate artificial blood vessels is vascular tissue engineering. The basic idea of vascular tissue engineering is to provide a »scaffold« generated from a synthetic or biological material. The scaffold is seeded with the body’s own cells (autologous cells) which re-model the blood vessel. Research in the biomedical field generally requires the cooperation of different scientific disciplines. The development of an artificial blood vessel or an artificial blood vessel system involves experts in chemistry, materials science, production technology, materials- and fluid mechanics, cell biology and the medical sciences. A joint project between the NRC Cairo and the Fraunhofer-IWM Freiburg supported by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and the STDF (Science and Technology Development Fund) focuses on the preparation of tubular scaffolds using the electrostatic spinning process and the characterization of the developed porous structures. The partners aim at developing the bilateral cooperation into a cooperation between Egyptian and German research networks in order to continue an exchange of ideas and scientists and to ensure the steady development of scientific progress in a multi-disciplinary field.
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