Master's program

Below you can find more information on master's courses, internships and projects within our group; the projects are cathegorized by research line.
Please contact us if you want to do a master's program in our group.

Courses

Please find the course information and details on Canvas and Osiris via mytue.tue.nl

8TM00 - Bone Cells and Tissue Mechanics (Bot Cel en Weefsel Mechanica), Bert van Rietbergen and Keita Ito
8TM10 - Orthopedic Soft Tissues, Jasper Foolen, René van Donkelaar and Keita Ito
8TC20 - Basic Tissue Engineering, Miguel Castilho and Keita Ito
8F170 - Clinical Module Orthopaedics (Klinische Module Orthopedie), Chris Arts and Bert van Rietbergen
8R000 - Introduction to Regenerative Medicine and Technology, Miguel Castilho
8SM20 - Biomaterials (Biomaterialen), Patricia Dankers, Sandra Hofmann and Chris Arts

Final Projects - Recent Examples

Bone Structure & Function

Bert van Rietbergen

Master Final Project - Bone Structure & Function

The assessment of longitudinal bone metabolism around the cup after Total Hip Arthroplasty using 18F-fluoride PET/CT

Joeri Kok

Master Final Project - Bone Structure & Function

In vivo assessment of the subchondral bone plate in patients with knee osteoarthritis using second generation HR-pQCT

Marloes van Mourik

Tendons & Ligaments

Jasper Foolen

Master Final Project - Tendons & Ligaments

Mechanical behaviour of human hamstring tendons used as autografts in ACL reconstructions

Despina Stefanoska

Master Final Project - Tendons & Ligaments

A microtissue platform as screening method for ACL reconstructive surgery

Joyce Kimenai

Master Final Project - Tendons & Ligaments

Gap junctions knock-down and their role in 3D micro-tendons compaction

Lissa Verhoeven

Master Final Project - Articular Cartilage

• A decellularized and sterilized human meniscus allograft

Wietske Velthuijs

Self-agglomerated collagen patterns: an in vitro model to study the effect of composition and topography on scleraxis expression in tenocytes

Lesley van de Pavert

Articular Cartilage

René van Donkelaar, Keita Ito

Master Final Project - Articular Cartilage

Effects of cartilage resurfacing implant curvature on femoral and tibial cartilage

Bertus van de Wetering

Master Final Project - Articular Cartilage

Assessing strain and damage in cartilage explants with ultrasound

Isabel Stavenuiter

Master Final Project - Articular Cartilage

Towards an engineered chondron: The production of the pericellular and extracellular matrix of bovine articular chondroprogenitor cells, enhanced by TGF-β1 and BMP-9, inside alginate beads

Melle Houben

Master Final Project - Articular Cartilage

Development and Evaluation of Chondrocyte Loaded Silk Reinforced Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Dimethacrylate Constructs.

Jet R. Peters

Master Final Project - Articular Cartilage

The effect of a microfluidics-generated ‘artificial PCM’ on chondrocyte phenotype and matrix production

Maarten van Zon

Intervertebral Disc

Keita Ito

MASTER FINAL PROJECT - INTERVERTREBRAL DISC

Processing of notochordal cell-rich nucleus pulposus matrix

Lieke van Dommelen