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Ville
Meretoja,
Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral
Fellow
Email:
ville.meretoja
[at]
rice.edu
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Ville
Meretoja started his
postdoctoral research in Professor Mikos’ laboratory
in May
2009.
He received his M.Sc. in Biotechnology from
University of Turku,
Finland (1999) with an emphasis on recombinant
protein production. His
research career continued in the Department of
Biochemistry and Food
chemistry (1999-2000) and later in the Institute of
Dentistry
(2000-2009), University of Turku, where he completed
his Ph.D. on
bioactive macroporous scaffolds for bone engineering
in 2008. In
addition, Meretoja has acted as a part time
consultant to Vivoxid Ltd,
Finland since 2007. His previous international
contacts include two
research visits to the Radboud University Nijmegen
Medical Center, the
Netherlands and one visit to the Tokyo Women's
Medical University,
Japan.
Meretoja’s current research focuses on cartilage
engineering
with
electrospun poly(caprolactone) and extracellular
matrix composite
scaffolds using flow perfusion bioreactors. |
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