Hongwei Ouyang PhD

Professor Ouyang focuses on the research of tissue engineering and regenerative therapy of tendon and cartilage. With the development of functional silk scaffolds as well as the stepwise differentiation of embryonic or adult stem cells with the combination of biochemical and mechanical strategies, Prof Ouyang’s research improved structural and functional tendon and cartilage regeneration significantly in vitro and in vivo. He has filed ten national patents applications and published more than 60 papers in the leading journals of particular fields, such as Adv Func Biomat, Biomaterials, Stem Cells, Ann Rheum Dis, Tissue Eng. In 2008, authorized by State Food and Drug Administration, he was involved in drafting the Guide for in vivo assessment of implants for cartilage repair and regeneration YY/T 0606.10-2008, Chapter 10 of Tissue Engineering Medical Products, Pharmaceutical Industry Standard of People’s Republic of China. In 2010, Prof Ouyang established a standard approach for tissue-engineered cartilage (TEC) transplantation and set up the clinical application network of cartilage tissue engineering technology in five third-grade class-A hospitals in Zhejiang.