Abstract
Prof. James Kirkpatrick is Emeritus Professor and Former Chair of Pathology of Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. His principal research focus was on biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He was especially interested in vascularization and nanomedicine, developing human co-culture systems in 3D to study cellular crosstalk in hard and soft tissue regeneration as well as barrier systems (air–blood in the lung and blood–brain barrier) to study mechanisms of transport of nanoparticles. He has been a member of various Scientific Advisory Boards, centers of excellence and companies in biomaterials and regenerative medicine across Europe. During his academic career, he has successfully supervised >100 students to completion of their doctorate thesis and is (co-)author of >550 publications. He has been the former president of both the German Society for Biomaterials (GSB) and the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB). He was also one of the Founding Fellows of the Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS). His achievements have been recognized by the ESB, GSB and TERMIS-Europe by awarding him with the George Winter Award (2008), an honorary membership of the GSB, and the TERMIS-EU Career Achievement Award (2014).
The focus of this special issue is to highlight the impact of Prof. James Kirkpatrick in the fields of biomaterials, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine.
The Guest editors of this special issue invite not only the submission of original research papers, methods papers, and reviews relevant to this focus by past trainees, collaborators, and colleagues. Also, the submission of new approaches and review papers to 3D co-culture by other investigators is encouraged.