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.