3D Bioprinting of Functional Tissues

Dear Colleagues,

Bioprinting is a new field combining principles of engineering, biology, and material science that holds the promise to change the gear box of many biotechnological disciplines. Initial reports related to bioprinting principles date back to the beginning of the new millennium. Since then, the field of bioprinting has grown exponentially. This not only includes 3D printing, but also a number of other approaches where cells and biomaterials have been used in combination or alone to fabricate new constructs for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. This field has also grown to include new in vitro models for pharmaceutical screening, and more generally new building blocks that serve as inspiration for a number of other life science sectors, including food, cosmetic, detection, and diagnostic industries.

Bioprinting may now also comprise efforts in more futuristic developments where devices are made by cellularized constructs to furnish them with features that are normally difficult to replicate with electronic, mechanical, and chemical components (e.g., senses). Bioinspired actuators are a clear example of such a strategy. The application of bioprinting represents one of the most rapidly advancing areas of biomedical sciences in which bioengineers, clinicians, and scientists are contributing in large to human health care. An increasing number of professionals from the most disparate disciplines are gaining interest in this new field. This has resulted in an increase of developed strategies for the regeneration of tissues as well as the generation of in vitro 3D models that hold the potential to recapitulate more closely the complexity and heterogeneity of tissues and organs in the human body.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Development and characterization of novel biomaterials for bioprinting application;
• Design, realization, and characterization of novel biofabricated structures;
• Novel Bioprinting approaches or platforms;
• In vitro models of functional tissue;
• In silico models of human tissue;
• Sensorized scaffolds;
• 4D printing for bioprinting application.

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Vozzi
Guest Editor

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• bioprinting
• biomaterials
• in vitro 3D bioprinting of functional tissue models
• software modelling
• bioreactors
• in silico cell models
• micro- and nano-fabrication systems or platforms
• sensorized scaffolds