Biomaterials for Women's Health Engineering
暫譯: 女性健康工程的生物材料

本書是一部綜合性文本，旨在總結女性健康工程領域的生物材料，並提供該領域研究的多學科報告。這是第一本系統性定義女性健康工程領域的書籍，詳細介紹了研究女性健康的關鍵工程工具，包括先進的細胞培養技術、組織工程、生物工程系統、機械特性分析、奈米技術等。本書涵蓋了廣泛的組織和器官系統，包括卵巢、子宮、陰道、骨盆底、胎盤以及骨科組織。本書的目標是為這一新興領域創建一本關鍵文本，供對這些主題感興趣的研究人員和受訓者使用。這是研究女性健康工程、生物學、工程學和醫學的研究人員和學生的理想資源。

Dr. Samantha Zambuto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Kentucky and a Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Scholar. Prior to joining the University of Kentucky, Dr. Zambuto was a T32 postdoctoral fellow in the Clinical Outcomes Research Training Program in Female Lower Urinary Tract Disorders at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her PhD from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Dissertation: 'Biomaterial-based Models of the Endometrium and Trophoblast Invasion to Investigate Early Pregnancy'). She received her bachelor's degree in biological engineering from Cornell University, her master's degree in biomedical engineering from Brown University, and her Master of Population Health Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine. She is deeply committed to improving health equity in science and seeks to use engineering techniques to understand pregnancy, childbirth, the female reproductive system, and other aspects of women's health by creating sophisticated tissue engineered models of the uterus, vagina, female lower urinary tract, and placenta.

Michelle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Wayne State University. She began her faculty career in the UK at the University of Cambridge (2006-18). She returned to the US in 2018 and was briefly at East Carolina University and Washington University in St. Louis before finding her home in Detroit. Michelle has degrees in Materials Science and Engineering (BS), Engineering Mechanics (MS), and a PhD in Biophysical Sciences. She has worked on many problems in tissue biomechanics and biomimetic materials; she has researched engineering approaches to pregnancy and women's health for over twenty-five years, particularly in methods to prevent, diagnose, and intervene in preterm birth. Current research projects include multi-scale modeling of placenta transport function, machine learning of clinical ultrasound scans, biomimetic composite hydrogels for reproductive tissue engineering, microstructural fracture models of uterine-placental interface delamination, and developing digital twins of C-section scar pregnancy. Michelle is a leader in organizing the women's health and engineering community both in the U.S. and globally.

薩曼莎·贊布托博士（Dr. Samantha Zambuto）是肯塔基大學機械與航空工程系的助理教授，也是燈塔基石基金會的學者。在加入肯塔基大學之前，贊布托博士曾在聖路易華盛頓大學的女性下尿道疾病臨床結果研究訓練計畫中擔任T32博士後研究員。她在伊利諾伊大學香檳分校獲得博士學位（論文題目：'基於生物材料的子宮內膜和滋養層侵入模型以研究早期妊娠'）。她在康奈爾大學獲得生物工程學士學位，在布朗大學獲得生物醫學工程碩士學位，並在華盛頓大學醫學院獲得公共健康科學碩士學位。她致力於改善科學中的健康公平，並希望利用工程技術來理解妊娠、分娩、女性生殖系統及其他女性健康的各個方面，通過創建複雜的子宮、陰道、女性下尿道和胎盤的組織工程模型來實現。

米歇爾（Michelle）是韋恩州立大學生物醫學工程系的副教授。她的教職生涯始於英國劍橋大學（2006-2018）。她於2018年回到美國，曾短暫任職於東卡羅來納大學和聖路易華盛頓大學，最終在底特律定居。米歇爾擁有材料科學與工程（學士）、工程力學（碩士）以及生物物理科學（博士）學位。她在組織生物力學和仿生材料方面研究了許多問題；她在妊娠和女性健康的工程方法研究方面已有超過二十五年的經驗，特別是在預防、診斷和介入早產的方法上。當前的研究項目包括胎盤運輸功能的多尺度建模、臨床超聲掃描的機器學習、用於生殖組織工程的仿生複合水凝膠、子宮-胎盤界面剝離的微結構斷裂模型，以及開發剖腹產疤痕妊娠的數位雙胞胎。米歇爾在組織美國及全球的女性健康與工程社群方面是領導者。