Kamal Mustafa

Professor Kamal Mustafa University of Bergen, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Center for Clinical Dental Research Årstadveien 17 Bergen Norway 5009 Email: Kamal.Mustafa@iko.uib.no Biographical Sketch: Background: PhD 2001, Department of Clinical Dentistry, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Experimental approaches: 3D cell culture models, tissue engineering-based animal models, in vivo and in vitro optical imaging, fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry Scientific contact person at University of Bergen in two projects financially supported by The European Union support, the 7th Frame Program, VascuBone project (242175) and the REBORNE project (241879). Leader of the Tissue Engineering Group at University of Bergen. The group involves a vital collaboration between Cell Biologists, Material Scientists, Engineers and Clinicians in order to rehabilitate patients for congenital and acquired bone defects caused by aging processes, trauma and pathological lesions in the dental and maxilla-facial regions. The current focus areas are implant dentistry, stem cells and tissue engineering and the subject is addressed to develop translational approaches for regenerative therapies.