The tissue engineering research group CTS-115 is a research group constituted within the Department of Histology, located in the Faculty of Medicine of Granada, which develops its activity in an emerging area of medicine and biotechnology such as the construction of artificial tissues for the treatment of different diseases and the progressive replacement, in some cases, of experimental animals.

The research group in Granada has been a pioneer in this field and has generated in the last ten years a solid body of knowledge in the field of artificial tissue construction by means of tissue engineering, which has been channelled through a significant number of publications in journals of scientific impact in this field.

It has also generated patents linked to publicly-owned advanced therapies (University of Granada and Andalusian Health Service), with some of them transferred to industry. Finally, it has managed to transfer various artificial human tissues to the clinic in the Andalusian Public Health System, providing innovative therapies that are in the clinical trial phase or are implanted as compassionate use.

For all these reasons, the tissue engineering research group CTS-115 has consolidated its position as a leading research group in health sciences at our university and is a European benchmark in tissue construction, as well as in the determination of cell and tissue viability and the development of quality controls for artificial tissues.

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