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16-18 April 2018 - Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Prof. Horst Fischer
Dental Materials and Biomaterials Research, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Germany
Latest achievements in 3D bioprinting
Recent years have revealed a remarkably increase in research activities in the field of
3D bioprinting worldwide. The motivation for research and development on this topic is to
treat in the future tissue defects by personalized three-dimensional tissue substitutes made
of the patients' own cells and manufactured by hydrogel-based 3D printing techniques. Apart
from possible in vivo applications, bioprinting techniques can be used to realize novel in vitro
tissue models. Such so called 'organ-on-a-chip' models can be used to investigate
fundamental scientific questions or are applied as screening platforms for novel drugs. In the
talk latest achievements in the field of 3D bioprinting are presented which include innovative
printing techniques as well as novel insights regarding the biochemical and
mechanobiological interaction between the printed hydrogels and the embedded living cells.
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