STM publisher Springer has launched Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine in partnership with the newly formed Regenerative Engineering Society. The new international journal will cover the convergence of multiple fields, including tissue generation, advanced materials science, stem cell research, the physical sciences and developmental biology, and is actively seeking submissions.
Dr. Cato T. Laurencin from the University of Connecticut and President of the new society, will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
The journal will offer opportunities to translate work done in a laboratory – so-called 'bench-top' research – into bedside methods. This approach allows for the possibility of moving beyond simply maintaining or repairing tissues, into ways of actually generating them. Dr. Laurencin is joined on the editorial board by Managing Editor Dr. Lakshmi S. Nair, also from the University of Connecticut, and News and Views Editor, Dr. Ali Khademhosseini of Harvard University.
The journal is actively seeking submissions, and encourages both top-down engineering approaches and bottom-up strategies integrating materials science with stem cell research and developmental biology. Papers covering instructive biomaterials, stimuli-responsive biomaterials, micro- and nano-patterning for regenerative engineering, elastomeric biomaterials, hydrogels for tissue engineering, and rapid prototyping and bioprinting approaches are particularly welcome.
The journal will host a Meet-the-Editors event with the editorial board of the journal from 3:30-5:00 PM on April 16 at the Society for Biomaterials 2015 Meeting and Exhibition in Charlotte, NC.
