UROP Project
3D Bioprinting: technology-driven research in the field of tissue engineering
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Key Info
Basic Information
- Project Offer-Number:
- 590
- Category:
- UROP International
- Field:
- Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering
- Faculty:
- 10
- Organisation unit:
- Dental Materials and Biomaterials Research (Prof. Fischer, www.biomaterials-research.de)
- Language Skills:
- English
- Computer Skills:
- CAD (optional), Programming (optional), CFD Simulation (optional)
- Others:
- - A medical certificate that confirms a full hepatitis B immunization is required to work in our S1 bioprinting lab. - We prefer students who can stay until the end of August.
- Professor:
- Professor Dr.-Ing. Horst Fischer
MoveOn
Bioprinting technology enables to build up constructs made of hydrogels in 3D loaded by living human cells. Among the different bioprinting techniques in particular drop-on-demand printing, microextrusion, and acoustic bioprinting as well as combinations thereof are focused in our lab. Subsequently to the printing procedure the embedded cells mature towards functional 3D tissues in a cultivation process. Such bioprinted and matured tissues can be used as 3D in vitro models to study fundamental biological mechanisms or as drug screening platforms and - to some extent - for in vivo replacement of tissues. www.biomaterials-research.de
Task
- Testing and improving the bioprinting devices in our lab - Synthesis and characterization of novel hydrogels - Biofabrication of cell loaded hydrogel constructs - Analysis of the 3D printed structures (mechanically and biologically) - Development of novel biofabrication concepts
Requirements
Knowledge and strong interest in one of the following fields: - Tissue Engineering - Biomedical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Electrical Engineering Students will work in the lab where patient derived material is regularly used. For this reason, a confirmation that the antibody titer against hepatitis B is higher than 100 IU/L is required.