Salwa Suliman

Position

Associate Professor

Affiliation

Research

I hold a Bachelor’s in Dentistry from University of Khartoum, Sudan and a Ph.D. in Tissue Engineering from the University of Bergen, where I was awarded Faculty of Medicine’s best PhD prize. I investigated the efficacy and immune responses of functionalised bioactive scaffolds in delivering growth factors for bone tissue engineering. I continued as a post doctor in the Tissue Engineering group at UiB with a research fellowship at Department of Applied Oral Sciences at The Forsyth Institute and Harvard School of Dental Medicine, USA. My research efforts were recognised by the Meltzer Prize for Outstanding Young Researchers in 2020.

Currently, my research is centred on immune-driven tissue regeneration. My overarching goal is to create conducive environments for the regeneration of injured tissues, with a specific focus on understanding and harnessing the impact of the immune system on regeneration, particularly in the realm of stem-cell based bone regeneration. Employing a combination of in vitro and in vivo translational methodologies, we strive to unravel insights into the intricate crosstalk between immune cells and stem cells within the context of regenerative engineering. Additionally, we aim to use this knowledge to promote regeneration in compromised healing and to design regenerative biomaterials with osteoimmunomodulatory properties.

 

 

Outreach

What Happens in a Bone Tissue Engineering Lab? - YouTube - A tour briefly showing how we use stem cells to engineer bone in a research lab at the University of Bergen - Department of Clinical Dentistry - (Tissue Engineering Research Group). The content of the video is created with the aim of targeting high school students and the general public audience.

Publications
Academic article
Feature article
Errata
Academic lecture
Doctoral dissertation
Poster
Academic literature review

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Projects

2021 - 2025 (Principal Investigator) Immune-driven tissue regeneration (STEMreg) funded by Trond Mohn Foundation Starting Grant: 19.2 million NOK


2021 - 2026 (Principal Investigator) Harnessing regulatory T cells to enhance the efficacy of mesenchymal stem cell-based bone regeneration funded by Research Council of Norway, Young Researcher Talent grant: 8 million NOK