News
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New Project on 3D printing
Damaged and diseased bones in the region of head, face and jaws are common, and are conventionally treated using metallic or polymeric implants, which poorly bond to the surrounding bone. As a result, failure of such implants is common.
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Podcast on Biofabrication
Prof. Moroni was interviewed by Future Tech Podcast on Biofabrication and its promise for regenerative medicine and pharmaceutical applications as 3D in vitro models.
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Biofabrication for Nerves
In our recent review published in the January issue of Advanced Healthcare Materials, we have reported on recent advances in the biofabrication field to regenerate peripheral nerves.
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FET FLAGSHIP Proposal on Personalized Health Care Initiative
The Personalised Health Care Initiative is a large-scale scientific and technological proposal that will address the grand challenge of developing regenerative, precision and personalised medicine to improve the quality of life of billions of patients worldwide.
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Writing with Electrospinning
Direct Writing Electrospinning allows the deposition of bundles of fibers in a predetermined pattern, thus mimicking more closely the structural architecture of our native extracellular matrix.
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Comprehensive Review on Dynamic Hydrogels
Mimicking the complexity of our own extracellular matrix with synthetic materials remains an open quest. In this comprehensive review, we have attempted to highlight the most exciting developments in the material science field aiming at getting closer to the dynamic behaviour of biological materials.
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Congratulations to Paul for his VENI!
Veni is part of the Dutch science organization Talent Scheme. Veni is aimed at excellent researchers who have recently obtained their doctorate. Researchers in the Talent Scheme are free to submit their own subject for funding, which are encouraged to be curiosity-driven and innovative research.
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Interreg Project BONE starts in Paris
Eight European companies and research institutes have teamed up in the innovative research project ‘’BONE: Bio-fabrication of Orthopaedics in a New Era’’. BONE is financed by the Interreg NWE programme, a cross-border partnership that is financially supported by the European Fund for Regional Development. This European transnational consortium led by Maastricht University (UM) will spend the next four years developing innovative bone implants.
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Dynamic Materials for Biofabrication
As our tissues and organs change dynamically in time in response to stimuli from the surounding environment in our body, biomaterials used to create scaffolds for the regeneration of such tissues and organs should mimic this dynamicity.
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Inaugural Lecture Lorenzo
On October 6th, Lorenzo delivered his inaugural lecture as he became at the beginning of 2016 professor in Biofabrication for Regenertive Medicine at Maastricht University.
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Biofabrication Program at Brightlands
This year a new research program on biofabrication has started as a consequence of a strong partnership between the biofabrication group at the MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine of Maastricht University and the Brightlands Materials Center.
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Our Biofabrication Efforts in 3ders
Our lab has been featured on 3ders.org, which is a very active online reader digest platform covering several 3D printing news around the world. The article nicely describes our aims and goals in the field of biofabrication for regenerative medicine.