Advancing Cardiac Tissue Engineering: Developing Polymer-Hydrogel Scaffolds through Melt Electrowriting

CIC nanoGUNE Seminars

Speaker

Mohammad Amini
CIC nanoGUNE

When

2024/10/07
11:00

Place

CIC nanoGUNE Seminar room, Tolosa Hiribidea 76, Donostia-San Sebastian

Host

Alexander Bittner

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Cardiovascular diseases pose significant global health challenges that current clinical interventions cannot fully address. For instance, post-myocardial infarction restoration of cardiac tissue is highly desirable but currently unachievable, partly due to the inability to restore cell-to-cell electrical connectivity. Despite various strategies, including regenerative medicine, cell therapy, and cardiac tissue engineering, significant obstacles remain, particularly in scaffold fabrication precision and effective electrical coupling.
Melt electrowriting is proposed as a promising solution. Alongside electrospinning, melt electrowriting offers versatile scaffold production with precise cell placement and arrangement, making it highly suitable for biotechnological applications. The research is focused on developing novel materials for electrowriting and electrospinning, including easily fabricable polymers, polymer blends, and biocompatible hydrogels.