Who’s working on biomaterials and tissue engineering?

Biomaterials research has moved from inert implants to scaffolds, hydrogels and bioprinted tissue that work with the body, and the hard problems are vascularization, the immune response and manufacturing at clinical scale. This page shows how much of that work the Helikon Research Graph holds and gives you a problem statement to run in Partner Search.

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What the Helikon Research Graph holds on biomaterials and tissue engineering

51,000+

researchers

185,000+

publications

3,300+

U.S. patents

Counts from the Helikon Research Graph on 13 October 2026, rounded down. Each figure is counted on its own, so they aren’t added together.

How these were counted

Publications: papers whose title, author names or research topics match the keyword set below, the same text the Literature search reads.
U.S. patents: granted U.S. patents whose text matches the keyword set and that carry at least one of these CPC subclasses: A61L, A61F, C12N, B33Y. That is the Patents search with the CPC subclass field set.
Researchers: people in the graph who authored a matching publication or are named inventors on a matching patent.
Keyword set: "tissue engineering" OR "tissue-engineered" OR "tissue engineered" OR "regenerative medicine" OR "biomaterial" OR "biomaterials" OR "tissue scaffold" OR "scaffold for tissue" OR "bone tissue engineering" OR "bone regeneration" OR "bone graft substitute" OR "cartilage regeneration" OR "cartilage repair" OR "nerve conduit" OR "vascular graft" OR "decellularized" OR "extracellular matrix scaffold" OR "hydrogel scaffold" OR "electrospun scaffold" OR "bioprinting" OR "3D bioprinting" OR "bioink" OR "biodegradable implant" OR "bioresorbable" OR "osseointegration" OR "skin substitute" OR "organ-on-a-chip"

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We make a resorbable polymer scaffold for bone defects, and it doesn't vascularize fast enough in a critical-size defect model. Looking for a group with bone tissue engineering, controlled delivery of angiogenic factors and large-animal studies.

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Who’s working on this

Biomedical engineering, materials science and surgery groups at universities and academic medical centers, and company teams in orthopedics, medical devices and regenerative medicine. Many inventors here also publish, so a patent often leads you to the lab behind it.

Universities and research labs

Ranked by researchers with work in this area, researchers whose main topic it is, and the U.S. patents they own.

University of Pittsburgh
689 researchers · 1,791 publications · 41 U.S. patents
University of Michigan
745 researchers · 1,960 publications · 33 U.S. patents
Georgia Institute of Technology
467 researchers · 1,263 publications · 24 U.S. patents
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
159 researchers · 1,772 publications · 53 U.S. patents
Harvard University
256 researchers · 3,398 publications · 18 U.S. patents
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
706 researchers · 896 publications · 12 U.S. patents
University of Minnesota
554 researchers · 1,010 publications · 18 U.S. patents
North Carolina State University
345 researchers · 662 publications · 6 U.S. patents

Companies

Ranked by the U.S. patents they own in this area and the researchers who work on it.

Medtronic
51 researchers · 114 publications · 59 U.S. patents
Johnson & Johnson
44 researchers · 71 publications · 85 U.S. patents
Abbott
24 researchers · 126 publications · 23 U.S. patents
Zimmer Biomet
14 researchers · 88 publications · 19 U.S. patents
Boston Scientific
17 researchers · 17 publications · 34 U.S. patents
AbbVie
32 researchers · 9 publications · 13 U.S. patents
Emulate
8 researchers · 5 publications · 9 U.S. patents
Cook Biotech
6 researchers · 50 publications · 26 U.S. patents

Specialists

Organizations where at least a quarter of their researchers work in this area.

Poly Med
6 researchers · 17 publications · 8 U.S. patents
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation
5 researchers · 22 publications · 12 U.S. patents
Humacyte
8 researchers · 41 publications · 7 U.S. patents
Advanced Cell Technology
7 researchers · 14 publications · 29 U.S. patents
Dentsply Sirona
9 researchers · 22 publications
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
17 researchers · 109 publications
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
94 researchers · 277 publications · 6 U.S. patents
AO Foundation · Switzerland
13 researchers · 422 publications

From the Helikon Research Graph on 13 October 2026. Researchers are people now at the organization who authored a matching publication or are named inventors on a matching patent. Publications are matching publications that list the organization among their authors’ affiliations at the time of publication, counted once each. Patents are matching U.S. patents the organization owns. Each name opens the organization’s page on Helikon Labs.

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