Tissue Regeneration

Developing biomaterials for regenerative medicine, including: organ specific scaffolds for three dimensional cell culture in vitro; organ specific microcarrier for high throughput cell culture and secretome production; implantable biomaterials and drug and cell delivery systems; and materials for immunobiomodulation in situ.

Competitive advantage

  • The first group in the world to develop a low-cost methodology to produce organ-specific, low immunogenic and highly biocompatible tissue scaffolds.

Impact

  • Improved healing in recalcitrant wounds
  • Biologically accurate tumour models for drug development and nanomedicne
  • Animal-free early drug testing in organ-specific and disease-specific microenvironments

Successful outcomes

  • The approach is in the early stages of clinical translation in the area of regenerative and veterinary medicine.

Capabilities and facilities

  • Customisable, scalable and affordable production of organ-specific biomaterials.

Our partners

  • Royal North Shore Hospital
  • Garvan Institute
  • Sechenov University Hospitals
Tags
lensBioengineered Materials and Technologies
lensBio-engineering for a Healthy Future