Associate Prof Geoff McKellar

         

Dr Ann Collins

Director, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Faculty of Dentistry
 
  Clinical Senior Lecturer
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Faculty of Dentistry

C24 - Westmead Hospital
The University of Sydney


Expertise by Technology/Scientific Area:
- Immune responses & immunomodulation
- Inflammation
- Nutrition & oxygenation of tissue engineering constructs
- Imaging & diagnosis of relevant disease states
- Anatomical & functional imaging of regenerating tissue
- Computational modelling of tissue regeneration
- Vasculogenesis & angiogenesis
- Implantation of tissue engineered constructs
- Molecular signalling, including growth factors
- Developmental biology related to regenerative medicine
- Stem cell biology, manipulation & differentiation
- Biomaterial synthesis, degradation, toxicology, biocompatability
- Scaffold architecture, fabrication, characterisation

Clinical areas:
Maxillofacial / craniofacial conditions, including:
- Craniofacial deformities
- Trauma
- Mandible / maxilla resorption / tooth replacement