Jake Barralet
Professor of Surgery, McGill University
Vice Chair Surgery (Research), Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
Director of Research, Division of Orthopaedics, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
Dr Barralet specialises in Bioceramics in particular low temperature syntheses of nanocrystalline and amorphous inorganics, cold setting materials (cements) and precipitation to create new or improved materials or devices for tissue repair or delivery. Work on tissue engineering has focussed on new ways to build 3D structures using microscaffolds as building blocks for macroscale constructs. In addition calcium cross linked alginate has been evaluated as a tissue engineering scaffold. He has been awarded a Canada Research Chair in Osteoinductive Biomaterials and will work on this topic as well as extending prior work to include biomineralisation.