The emerging technology of tissue engineering, where a living assembly based on the patient’s own cells and a delivery scaffold is used to specifically repair diseased or damaged tissue, is the key area for progress in modern health care. Regenerative medicine is likely to involve the implantation of new tissue and or promote regeneration of normal parenchyma in patients with damaged or diseased organs. Regenerative medicine will result in extended healthy life span, with reduction of morbidity and mortality. With a rapid advancement of material sciences, nanotechnology, molecular and cell biology including stem cell research, it is possible to evolve new strategies in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. However, the success of this challenging new field of medicine depends on development of a strong interdisciplinary and collaborative platform. In near future it may be possible to repair or replace the damaged tissue in any organ system by appropriate tissue engineering scaffolds containing intelligent system of release of different growth factors in sequential fashion to create an organ specific microenvironment resulting in recruitment and differentiation of stem cells. Aging damages every part of our body, including our stem cells! Until we can address the root cause of age-related degeneration, we must learn how to regenerate every part of the human organ systems including brain. We must also become capable of reliably preventing and defeating cancer in all its forms. The fundamental and applied research in this multidisciplinary field is still in its incipient stages in India. The objective of this Society will be, not only to cultivate an atmosphere nationwide for the growth of basic and technological oriented research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine but also to bring the professionals from various faculties together to improve the quality of their approach in future research. This will be done by communicating to all members, developing a Society’s Newsletter and also by arranging workshops with laboratory demonstrations, where learning and exchange of relevant concepts can be stimulated every year. The members will be encouraged to join and participate in the activities of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS).

Society publishes an international journal Trends in Biomaterials & Artificial Organs along with the Society for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs and edited by Dr. H. K. Varma and Dr. Chanrda P. Sharma, and proceedings of the national conferences. The journal is indexed by Scopus, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi and recognized by UGC, New Delhi.

Indian Scientists are often publishing their work in reputed international journals such as Tissue Engineering, Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Journal of Biomedical Material Research; Biomaterials; Artificial Organs; Nature; Journal of Biomaterials Applications; Biomaterial-Living System Interactions; Biomaterials, Artificial Cells & Immobilization Biotechnology; Journal of Microencapsulation; Journal of Applied Polymer Science; Journal of Material Science – Materials in Medicine; Journal of Material Science – Letters; Journal of Biomaterial Science – Polymer Edition; Clinical Materials (presently incorporated with Biomaterials); Journal of Colloid & Interface Science; STP Pharma Sciences; etc.