Laboratory for Osteo-Articular and Dental Engineering (LIOAD)
Director - Professor Pierre WEISS
Contact : pierre.weiss(at)univ-nantes.fr
Key words
Tissue engineering / Regenerative medicine / Bone tissue / Cartilage / Materials of biological interest / Release of therapeutic agent / Dental and osteo-articular physiopathology
Research thematics
Biomaterials conception for bone and active pharmaceutical agents controlled release BIOMAT
Bone susbsitution:new bioceramics and injectable cements
Vertebral strenghthening with Calcium phosphate composites
New hydrogels as synthetic extracellular matrix
Bone tissue engineering [ITO]
Bone regenerative medicine
Hypotrophic bone regenerative medicine (graft, osteoradionecrosis)
Parodontic tissue regenerative medicine
Skeletal tissue physiopathology & cartilage tissue engineering
Study of the role of phosphate transporters
Immune response to oral pathogens in dental pulp (role of stem cells)
Articular and disc cartilages regenerative medicine
