Dr. Zreiqat is a National Health and Medical Research (NH&MRC) Council Fellow and Head of the Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Research Unit in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney. She specialises in engineered biomaterials for skeletal tissue applications. Dr. Zreiqat was recruited by Sydney University in January 2006 to establish the new Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials research Unit, bringing medical research and engineering together. Her team includes, multidisciplinary scientists, biomedical engineers and histologists with the aim of developing novel prosthetic devices and scaffolds for skeletal tissue regeneration; gaining greater understanding of bone/cartilage and endothelial cells biology when in contact with engineered biomaterials.