Additive BioManufacturing

Catalog description

This course delves into the emerging field of Additive Biomanufacturing, with a specific focus on its application in tissue engineering. Students will gain knowledge and skills by employing CAD and reverse engineering tools to model and recreate digital files of complex, freeform tissue, or organs. Students will be introduced to the fundamental principles and techniques essential for designing and fabricating complex biological structures after modeling using three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting technology, principles of all kinds of bioprinting processes, characterization of hydrogel-based biomaterials in terms of rheological and mechanical properties, manufacturing process parameters and how material properties affect the cell mechanics after printing. The course will also address current challenges in the field and propose potential solutions to advance the recreation of engineered tissues.