摘要：THE CREATION OF A NEW RESEARCH FIELD:FUNG’S IDEA ON ENGINEERING TISSUES Tissue engineering emerged three decades ago as a distinct research field with the goal to radically change the clinical practice by fabricating in vitro cell-biomaterial assemblies,bioartificial tissues,that could be used as biological tissue substitutes to restore,maintain or improve the functions of diseased or damaged tissues and to eventually solve the problem of organ shortage for *** was proposed as a new discipline in 1985 by Yuan-Cheng Fung。