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Epithelial Development, Disease, and Regeneration
Sponsored by APS Epithelial Transport Group

It has been predicted that regenerative medicine will revolutionize the clinical practice of medicine on a level similar to that by development of antibiotics. Clearly the ability to grow new healthy tissue either within a patient or in the lab for transplantation from a patient’s own cells would save many lives and/or improve quality of life for those afflicted with a wide range of diseases.  In response to this exciting developing area of research and medicine many institutions have already initiated or have plans to initiate centers for regenerative medicine usually incorporating some component of embryonic development and stem cell research. This symposium will address the issue of epithelial regeneration from a variety of perspectives contributing to the development of this field including, disease-oriented basic studies of embryonic development, roles of transcription factors and biophysical tissue properties on embryonic development and regeneration, and applied studies directly examining mammalian organ regeneration.