Economic opportunities underscore tissue engineering's potential impact on the Pittsburgh region.
Through tissue engineering, marketable products can be created to contribute to the growth of a new biomedical economy for Southwestern Pennsylvania. This, in turn, will be fed by and reinforce the global prominence of the existing biomedical and health sectors. The complementary talents of Pittsburgh's powerful health and research institutions make the region an ideal site for the development of a tissue engineering industry. Together with PTEI, Allegheny General Hospital , Carnegie Mellon University , Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh , Duquesne University , the University of Pittsburgh , and the UPMC Health System share a vision of Pittsburgh as an international tissue engineering center of excellence. They have pooled their expertise in basic biomedical research, applied clinical investigations, organ transplantation, biomaterials research, computer and supercomputer science, advanced microscope imaging, magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, and manufacturing to make this vision a reality.