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Head of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, University Hospital Gent
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Professor at the Department of Human Structure and Repair, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University
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Founding member of Ghent Alliance for Tissue Engineering
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Founding member of Ghent Academy for Plastic Surgery
Research focus
At the moment, plastic surgery research focuses on the potency of stem cell regeneration to develop of tissues like skin, fat, vessels, nerves and muscle. The first application, stem cell enhanced lipofilling is being applied today for structural fat grafting of the body. It is our further goal to regenerate or create a part of the human body by the modern techniques of tissue engineering, that we then can use for reconstruction of different parts of the human body. To get to that point we are focusing our research on basic stem cell research, angiogenesis, development of gel-like suspensions to support the cells, cell messaging, scaffold support, 3D-bioprinting and other construction techniques.
Research team
Research is done mainly in collaboration with the partners of the GATE
Biography
Phillip Blondeel is an internationally leading expert on aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery and one of the pioneers in the so-called “perforator flap” surgery. He is Professor of Plastic Surgery and chairman of the department of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University Hospital Gent, Belgium, as well as an attending plastic surgeon at LaClinic in Montreux, Switzerland.Phillip Blondeel received his medical degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Medical School in Leuven, Belgium. He underwent postgraduate training in plastic surgery in the department of plastic and reconstructive surgery, Catholic University Leuven as well as at Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and earned his Doctor in Medical Sciences (PhD) degree at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Gent in 1998. Prof. Blondeel is a fellow of the Collegium Chirurgicum Plasticum (Belgian Boards) and a diplomate of the European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. He holds membership in numerous scientific societies, among them the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, the European Association of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society for Plastic Surgery. He is honorary member of the South-African and Canadian Society of Plastic Surgery. A world-renowned expert in the field of aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery, Prof. Blondeel is a much sought after speaker and teacher who has also authored and co-authored numerous books, book chapters, peer-reviewed articles and abstracts. He currently sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery and the Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. He is international co-editor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery GO. Prof. Blondeel is the chairman of the ‘Beautiful After Breast Cancer Foundation’, an international philanthropic organization that helps women to regain their well-being after breast cancer. At the end of 2011, Prof. Blondeel led the team that performed the first face transplant in Belgium (#19 worldwide) and is the Chairman of the Vascularized Composite Tissue Allograft Program at the University Hospital Gent.
Key publications:
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Stillaert F, Depypere B, Doornaert M, Creytens D, De Clercq H, Cornelissen R, Monstrey S, Blondeel P. Autologous Plasma and Its Supporting Role in Fat Graft Survival: A Relevant Vector to Counteract Resorption in Lipoflling. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2016 Jul;69(7):952-8.
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Doornaert MA, Declercq H, Stillaert F, Depypere B, Van de Walle I, Cornelissen M, Blondeel P. Intrinsic Dynamics of the Fat Graft: In vitro interactions between the main cell actors. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2012 Nov;130(5):1001-9.
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Richter D, Stoff A, Ramakrishnan V, Exner K, Jernbeck J, Blondeel P. A Comparison of a New Skin Closure Device and Intradermal Sutures in the Closure of Full-Thickness Surgical Incisions. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2012 Oct;130(4):843-50.
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Bart De Spiegeleer, Jente Boonen, Svetlana V. Malysheva, José Diana Di Mavungu, Sarah De Saeger, Nathalie Roche, Phillip Blondeel, Lien Taevernier, Lieselotte Veryser. Skin penetration enhancing properties of the plant N-alkylamide spilanthol. J Ethnopharmacol. 2013 Jun 21;148(1):117-25.
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Van Nieuwenhove I1, Tytgat L2, Ryx M3, Blondeel P3, Stillaert F3, Thienpont H4, Ottevaere H4, Dubruel P5, Van Vlierberghe S6. Soft tissue fillers for adipose tissue regeneration: From hydrogel development toward clinical applications. Acta Biomater. 2017 Nov;63:37-49.
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Contact & links:
Prof Dr Phillip Blondeel
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