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Biofabrication and 3D printing

Additive-manufacturing and bioprinting approaches that organise biomaterials, cells and conductive components with spatial precision.

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About this research

Additive-manufacturing and bioprinting approaches that organise biomaterials, cells and conductive components with spatial precision.

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Research team

Director of TERG · Professor of Bioengineering and Regenerative Medicine · Principal Investigator

Fergal O’Brien

Biomaterials · Tissue engineering · Regenerative medicine

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Senior Lecturer · Principal Investigator

Ciara Murphy

Biomaterials · Bioengineering · Bioinorganic ions

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Principal Investigator

Tom Hodgkinson

Bone and joint repair · Biomaterials · Gene delivery

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Research Fellow · Principal Investigator, Biomimetic Design Lab

Ian Woods

Electroconductive biomaterials · Gene therapeutics · Neurological disease models

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Senior Lecturer · Principal Investigator

Olga Piskareva

Biomaterials · Drug development · Drug resistance

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