EURO-ECO 2007 Hanover 4 - 5 December 2007	Environmental and Engineering Aspects for sustainable living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow

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Shtilman M.I.

The development of materials designed for biomedical application, which are often referred to as “Biomaterials”, has transferred recently into magnificent direction on the boundary between various fields of science and technology. Presently, these materials play the important role for supplying, regulation, and optimization of vital functions of people, animals, plants, microorganisms that determines their more intense application in medicine, biotechnology, agriculture, food and cosmetic industry. Application of biomaterials for providing optimal environment is also perspective.

The research activity of biomedical materials is carried out at the largest scientific centers and universities in all leasing countries. A volume of monographs, original papers, and patents is published annually in this area. International conferences are organized on these topics. There is a number of special journals such as “Biomaterials“, “J. Biomedical Materials Research”, “J. Controlled Release” and the like. Biomaterials and articles there from are under development and production at many companies in many countries.

Among individual examples of biomaterials one could mention those based on carbon, metals, and ceramics. Nevertheless, polymeric biomaterials, of course, have the very important significance among the above mentioned materials.

The most important and large fields for biomaterial application are the next: medical implants; bioactive materials and preparations; systems for separation and purification of natural and synthetic bioactive compounds and liquid biological media; materials for biochemical analysis and synthesis; growth media for cultivation and growing of living organisms and cell engineering; modified (immobilized) biocatalysts and their synthetic analogues; polymeric cosmetic conditioners; materials used for articles applied out of living body including environmentally friendly.

The development, study and production of bio-medical polymers are tied together by the necessity for the designers to know the specificity of functioning of those materials and preparations that are in direct contact with living organism, by the specificity of entry standards for materials and preparations, and by organization of production including the requirements of GMT standards.

All this requires a specified approach for educating specialists in the field of biomaterials. Some features of organizing the teaching process in the Master School “Biomaterials” at Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology are presented in the lecture. The initiative of the latter has provided introduction in Russia of the appropriate specialization and master program “Chemical technology of polymers for biomedical application”, in the framework of which the training of bachelors, masters, and engineers is carried out.

Examples of scientific work developed by the professors, research staff and masters of the Master School “Biomaterials” are given. This work in particular concerns synthesis and investigation of polymeric materials for biodegradable implants, bioactive and medical systems and including nano sized preparations for addressed delivery of the active substance as well as substrates for cell and tissue engineering, highly effective and environmentally friendly preparations for agriculture etc.