Nowadays, biomedical research is facing a series of significant problems. These include i) scientific challenges – the available in vitro and animal models are often inadequate for the recapitulation of human biology, ii) economic issues – the cost related to drug development is skyrocketing, and iii) ethical concerns – the use of animals for research purposes is perceived by the public opinion as cruel and unjust. In this context, digital manufacturing technologies represent one of the most promising solutions to address these limitations, enabling for a rapid, highly-customized manufacturing of cellularized constructs that can efficiently mimic both the structural and functional properties of native tissues/organs. Within the seminar, we will give a brief overview of the state-of-the-art in musculoskeletal tissue engineering and talk about the upcoming innovations required to shake up this area of study
About the speaker
Marco Costantini was invited to present an ICTER seminar on Digital manufacturing in biomedical research: a step towards engineering functional tissue and organ replicas in vitro.
