Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society Webinar | Biomaterials and 3D Bioprinting for Tissue Regeneration by Prof Daniel Kelly
Our musculoskeletal system has a limited capacity for repair. This has led to increased interest in the development of tissue engineering and biofabrication strategies for the regeneration of musculoskeletal tissues such as bone, ligament, tendon, meniscus and articular cartilage.
This talk will demonstrate how different musculoskeletal tissues, specifically cartilage, bone and osteochondral defects, can be repaired using emerging 3D bioprinting and biofabrication strategies. This will include examples from our lab where cells and/or growth factors are bioprinted into constructs that can be implanted directly into the body, to approaches where biomimetic tissues are first engineered in vitro before in vivo implantation.
The efficacy of these different biofabrication strategies in preclinical studies will be reviewed, and lessons from the relative successes and failures of these approaches to tissue regeneration will be discussed.
About the Speaker
Prof Daniel Kelly leads a multidisciplinary musculoskeletal tissue engineering group based in the Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
The goal of his lab is to understand how environmental factors regulate the fate of adult progenitor cells. This research underpins a more translational programme aimed at developing novel tissue engineering and 3D bioprinting strategies to regenerate damaged and diseased musculoskeletal tissues. To date he has published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
He is the recipient of four European Research Council awards (Starter grant 2010; Consolidator grant 2015; Proof of Concept grant 2017; Advanced grant 2021).
