At Professor Feng Xu’s invitation, Assistant professor Lijie Grace zhang from the George
Washington University, visited BEBC on 27th June, 2018 and delivered a report
entitled “Advanced 3D/4D Bioprinting and Nanomaterials for
Complex Tissue Regeneration” in the 308 meeting room in the School of Life Science and
Technology.
Her report showed the
understanding of 3D and 4D bioprinting technology and their use in tissue/organ
repairs. As an emerging tissue manufacturing technique, 3D
bioprinting offers great precision and control of the internal architecture and
outer shape of a scaffold, allowing for close recapitulation of complicated
structures found in biological tissue. Inaddition, 4D bioprinting is a highly
innovative additive manufacturing process to fabricate pre-designed,
self-assembly structures with the ability to transform from one state to
another directly off the bioprinter. The term “4D” refers to the
time-dependent dynamic process triggered by specific stimulation according to
predesigned requirements. Therefore, the main objective of our research is to
develop novel biologically inspired nano or smart inks and advanced 3D/4D
bioprinting techniques to fabricate the next generation of complex tissue
constructs(such as vascularized tissue, neural tissue and osteochondral tissue).
In the end of the report, she had a heated discussion with teachers and
students in BEBC. After that, she was invited to look around the labs of BEBC.
