A continuum model for the development of tissue-engineered cartilage around a chondrocyte

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC). AJT has the support of an Australian Postgraduate Award and is grateful for support and travel funding from the Particulate Fluids Processing Centre, an ARC Special Research Centre, as well as the University of Melbourne and the University of Southampton. KAL is an ARC Professorial Fellow. This work was motivated by a problem presented by Dr Jos Malda, of the University of Utrecht, at the Mathematics in Medicine Study Group held at the University of Southampton in September 2007. The authors wish to thank Dr Bram Sengers and Dr Ben Macarthur, from the Bone and Joint Research Group at Southampton General Hospital, for many helpful discussions.