Engineering Materials for Stem Cell Regeneration (PDF)

Dr. Faheem A. Sheikh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Nanotechnology, University of Kashmir, India. He served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology at the Central University of Kashmir, India (2015-2016); Research Professor at the Nano-Bio Regenerative Medical Institute, Myongji University, South Korea (2014-2015); Assistant Professor at Hallym University, South Korea (2002-2014); Post-Doc/Research fellow at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Texas, United States of America (2010-2012) and Research Professor at Myongji University, South Korea (2010). His research mainly focuses on fabricating nanomaterials used in tissue engineering.
Currently, he is heading a lab, which works on creating different nanomaterials that can be used in various biological applications; this includes cell culturing and microbial assays. He has considerable expertise in the fabrication of polymeric, ceramic, and metal oxide nanofibers using electrospinning, as well as the production of porous scaffolds by solvent casting, salt-leaching, 3D printing, gas forming, sol-gel synthesis, phase separation, freeze-drying, and particulate leaching and self-assembly for hard and soft tissue engineering. He believes that we will always need new and intelligent materials to address the different challenges faced in tissue engineering science. He has more than 15 years of research experience in nanotechnology, focusing on tissue engineering and drug delivery. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.